Litchfield enquirer., 1856-07-31
New York Correspondence.
NEW YORK. July 26. l;

< The Coroner's Jury in case of Burke fOully murdered i the store of his. employer, 37S Broadway, gave their verdict on Wednesday, " murdered by an unknown hand" so that the whole affair is yet shrouded in fearful mystery. The adage that murder will out," seems like ly to find an exception, although saI possible means will be used to ferret out the peFpetra- tor. The city has been painfully shocked by this bloody tragedy, and people of tinid nerves take fear at the possibility of the perpetraton of bloody murders in our principal thofonghfares and almost within view of the thousands pass ing, for at no time of the night is Broadway de- serted. Crowds gaze curiously from the strees upon the now dark and silent windows of tho room within which was the fierce and protract- ed death struggle, the cries of the victim if he uttered any as the asSassin's knife fell stroke upon stroke, being drowned by the roar of the street below. Although the struggle must have been long and desperate one, the sound did not even reach the ear of the occupants of the room above, and the murderer after inhictiug some thirty stabs and assuring himself of the death of his victim passed gently out and no trace of him can be found by our most skillful detectives.
 In this connection it is proper to mention that the greater security to life and property pro missed by the vigorous commencement of Mayor Woods administration has not been effected The same inefIiciency which has characterized our police department still continues, and in no equal time within the last twenty years have there occurred more startling crimes
 Not one of the many reforms projected by him has been pushed farther than to gain the cclat of reiormer. Gambling over which he shook his dagger of wrath in noisy parade of zeal, is prevalent ever, and since thes first grand flourish not one arrest has been made.-- i He hurried off a hundred or so of poor street walkers at one grand sweep, which gave a Gno point to a paragraph of city items in the next morning paper, and has since permitted our most throngcd streets to be infested nightly by greater swarlns than ever appeared on them be- fore, while the stars shine screncly on them from the corners often exchanging mods of rccogni- ton with the fair of the frail tribe. And 50 on through all departments of the executive until we have reached such a pass that probably no city in the civilized world is so badly and ex- pcnsivcly governed as New York. The days of chiyalry are gone!
 'The Knights are dust
 ! Their swords arc rust"
 Think of two champions tearing along over seven hundred miles of railroad to find spot whereon to do each his best to kill the other. Why in the good old time the champion would have gone into the ring, there would have been hcrads, and trumpetS, and cloth of gold, and banners, and caparisoued stccds. All the bcau- ,y of the country would have been present with
 bright eyes to raise influence, and adjudge the pr.ze," and the victor knecling at the feet of the fair queen of the lists, would have been crowned with wreath. But now one must
 skulk as much to get chance to shoot his enc my as to get "snifter" under the Maine Law. Those horrid constabIes, those many miles of distance, those lawess mobs-wLy a man if he has pluck can't get fair chance to show it any
 more than could Brooks. We are degenerate surely.