The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-28
PROBABLE NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN
THE BURDEl.I MURDER,


The BUkDEl'l MURDER.
The New York Journals have been sur
mising and hinting that son,e fur,b.r discov.
.,;,, ,,,a AZ. 80 n ,,..,.n
~, '"'a0'' NV
nHe'y 10 come ou' oi ''e feoeh' cunningham
farce. New York correspondent Of the
Boston Journal Processes 20 give some of
these n.v disclos,r.s cantio,s,, bov.,,.,
,.o.,,,. H., lii, a.. Jo.,..t
p''''s ."eni WV" '"e ''''"'"''"" ''"' he
uoes not WISH 10 oe he'd accountable Tor
their accuracy. He says;
Not To be held 10 too ripid an orcount for
the full correctness of nil i Va to s,ot.--nn,
willing to be held to strict accuracy. bov.
good authority for saving that ,,robnblv tb.
veilpd mystery of Harvey BurdrIl' murder
will be lifted, and the mystery be dissi,nted
soon; that the darkness of that night of crime
will soon blnZe with the brightness of noon-
day: that public morality and public Justice
will te vindicated by the dark nnd t,rribl.
revelations Of that hour of blood and the
authorities, am informed. have come into
possession of some mcr'y Ndiny develop
nirnts, which will sh ~ ~ K.,rg in such
great crimes, is r,ade il hy the laws
OF God.
Ii will be remembered that no account can
be gathered of The manner or place in which
DR.. Burdel passed his last nipht, from th,
time he took his dinner ut six o'clock, until
when he wis seen to enter his hous. 81 Bond
street, on the night he was murdered. All his
old haunts have been visited, all his old nsso.
ciat, found and examined, ull the usunl
places of resort searched, and vet no one saw
or heard of him after seven o'clock, till he was
seen tp enter his house at eleven o'clock Mt
night. The fact was, he was not then alive;
he hay on his huor manpled and stiffrned
corpse. Hs was killed soon after he entered
his house at seven o'clock that evening. HI.
probable murderer was seen to 90 into ,b,,
mouse before he came from his dinner: in the
closet he waited tor his victim; win, con, ond
shoes off he watched tor the return Of ,h.
subject, with the intention to pnrrot. him. his
accomplice and ACCESSORY wan in ,yo;,inn 4,
the next room. with dnou.r or,nIrod e. y, ;,
struggle, if needn't. hi, diticul, ,o s,r,uoln
stout, athletic man. struuylino far his M.
ynd as tine s,ruuple comes On. iba bl,d. n,
the assassin is freely used with the d.,n.rn.
ton of n novice and of rrv.pye and desn,;r
The inmates of the house were ,v.v wha,
Burdell wus killed. Tn. de.d of hlood ,,,.
done. The clothes are consumed bslor. ,hs
family returned. The .sm.Il nf le,,brrn Tao
tilted to on the trial, is but another of ,he
stories of interested medical men who tnvt
figured in this terrible affair. The mon nj
blood, having done the deed. tnLes tbn cI,,k
and hat of DR.. Burdell, Sins out IN. bn,.I
way, through the lane, into Blepcker street
and by concert and agreement. n, the prop,,
tine-that is, at about II o'cLork At uigbt In,
time of Burdell's usual rrturn-he walks M
Bond strrct-goes boldly M the st,p, of No
81 Bond street, MS the ,iocior-enters so ms I,
attract attention, and the evidence is reoarde,
as complete. He had personated Burdell n
the mock marriage; he had deceived the nmja
BILE, yet credulous and unreliable DIR. Mnryin
lhe clergyman who married the parties; h,
could easily deceive those who saw only hi
form, the well known cloak and hat Mt III,
midnight hour; and when the question wa
asked, "Where was DR.. Burdel between tn
hours of and II that fatal night!" the ans
wer is, ale was n bloody and s,illtned corpse
lying cold in death, aud in his own blood, OF
his office floor, the victim of fourteen stab