New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-06


tina, clustered around him. police officer who came
there in September and saw this woman stnke him
other officers who came In later who neaId her aseV-
crate that she was his wife by every lie on earth
morally perhaps she aud morally perhaps she ls--
and even their quarTels forced upon the pdoic
through the lynx eyes of these policemen who were
called in And there was litigation between thein'
She sued him, claiming that there had been oteach
OF promise of marriage aud that there had been Sc
ducton Those suits were dated IN October and the
quarrel comes down 10 the very night OF TINS occur
renee when she followed him 10 the door with tue
dreadful threat upon her lips which we shan snow ~
YOU Those suits settled, aud most extraordhafy
papers drawn up aud signed by hm-thls nuhteu
haunted man. by this fend in human shape
papers which YOU would shrink fron-whch
you would sign unless you were convinced that
abe who commanded il was your mortal enemy, un.
less you had upon your soul the dreadful presentleht
which upon him. And they came 70 the house
of an intimate friend OF the family, DIR. Thompson,
and forced their quarreE upon him, she following
him into the house the Doctor will tell you She,
with the sly cunning of her sex, took domestics
into the room next door 10 his and saying 10 them:
Now, listen TO the words that occupy the time be-
tween the Doctor and myself her SPIES she thought
All not 20, thou artful woman turning toward Mrs.
Cunningham who did not look very artful. the
spies Of Justice who will be here to-day 10 tell what
passed between you and that dead manto tell what
passed between them-words loathing that even
The omeses shrsnk in horror back to the kitchen, TO
remember well for future use what they had heard.
And there 10 the house one day he who sits in
Court u man that neither you nor would quarrel
with. The greedy, ustful eyes OF this wOman-ieud
were fastened upon him, and by the evidence in
this ease-inesistble and not to be confuted
he became, in story, the counterpart
of him who had been her paramount ON the story be-
low And she did love him; she did love him, this
man Ecke and she, the mother OF daughters who were
themselves candidates for marriage, fastened her
greedy, lustful eyes upon him. have nothing now
10 say of him: let him be taken of hereafter
But this must not forget IN this case, as step by
step there is progression, that whether she was the
tba nisf in
either case she was alike guilty of the grossest
infdelity in her conduct with him who occu-
pied the apartment adjoining her own. he
had made up his mind that life was 10 him useless so
long as he had this shadow at his side, and he had
made up his mind to let that house, OF which she
the tenant and he the landlord, TO anotherperson And
she heard of it; she saw that which was going ON, and,
gentlemen on the very night before the murder, the
very respectable lady who was 10 have become the
tenant OF that house for tie year commencing last Fri
day. was going through the house, meeting the ser
wants and seeing her and going out, she still, though
he was absent, pursuing him, comes down before one
of these domestcs and says: " Hannah, which was
the name of the cook, what was that woman doing
here -
WHY. madam she was looking through the house."
II. she going to take this house,"
Yes; they've been looking all around in the
kitchen
Yes it looks So
Then she said and the man of the world would not
have said what fell from her lips;
Before tomorrow morning he shall be corpse,
Or hs be h,, and very morning
passionate man. and might not live another day. And
on .this very Friday this supersttous day, the day
before the day which to turn her out Of the house
and to put this other person in there that very
night te deed was done. On the very day that this
newly found tenant had come 10 inspect the house, the
murder is done. The Doctor was regular man; his
outgoings aud incomings were regular she had
highly honorable who had no part nor parcel in
that Household who lived in that third story he who,
occupied with professional and public cares, had
round him. She went to him on this very Friday,
as he was going out, and by nquiring
about his fire gained from him the knowledge that IT
would be midnight before ne returned, aud In the
hearing Of Dr. Thompson, in his hearing she says 10
DIR. Burde:
what time will you return tonight !" m
Her own household she could take care oil. iheIe
her ns whom we woud
except in Court of Justice, Of misprision Of
tire ason in trying to shield their mother There
boy young in years. is true, but at the same time
aitful boy as you ever set your eyes upon There
was the cook who wearied by the tolls Of the day
would sink away into profound forgetulness rs soon
her head touched the pillow; there were the little
boys, who slept in the innocence of childhood. Why
Gentlemen, ill the whole annals of murder you viii
never hnd an opportunity carefully provided for US
the opportunity given by this woman, on this night to
murder her enemy. The upstairs ledger out for all |
night the exact time given from his lips when he
was TO return her family to be taken care of-but,
ali the cook One domestic had gone; there
was only one left in the house, and she
woman on the standard the discrepancy is enor-
nous the very hand Of Providence is in this incident
this lying woman, on the stand, sad " rang the l
bell for the cook to come up into the parlor and the
cook up into the paror and received her orders
for the next day, and dismissed her 20 bed" Why!
see what the cook will say when she comes upon the
stand: - Mistress, you came down into the kitchen
with this paramoar Of yours and-e thing you nsd
although you knew l was the only servant IN the
house, and had double duty to perform Andso on
this Friday night, the lodger out the cook sent up
stairs TO bed the family disposed Of she has this deed
ready. She has once stolen his safe-key; she has
once stolen his pistol; she has dagger of her own
and everything is ready for his coming-and she wno
had always haunted aud hunted him, as you viii re.
member on the testimony when it comes to be offered
before you'll pray your attention to thai
who had watched him on Friday, who had
watched his conversation with Dr. Cox, who VIII be l
upon the stand, and with Dr. BlaisdeD who will also
be upon the stand, watching for bis coming.
Now, shall show to you that the situation of tnat
house utterly excluded the interference OF any outside
person; We shall show you that when the boy came
there in the morning the basement door was locked,
and when be went out Of the yard the egress there
had been shut off; and ON the front door was one of
the most wonderful locks that be found anywhere.
Three Of the lschkeyshe had in his pocket one was In
Mrs Cunninghams posse another IN Snodgrass
another in the dodgers, another with Eckel-maklng
the whole set, and none missing And when ne came
there there was following in his steps-thcy may say
come enemy who could have stabbed himto the heart
and run less risk Of detection in escaping from the
house, with bloody garments and trail behind nun.
He comes i'll alone; his apartments are en-
tirely secluded and locked up; she has the pass
kew and she alone, 10 the front room where his
bedroom was He has the key Of his backroom in
his pocket he puts il in the door, he opens it, he goes
in. The shawl found folded on the sofa and the