The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-02-14
The Bardell NlsrAer.---lmpersAnt Deve-
lopmeal.

The evidence Of John Farrell . shoemaker, .
the most direct and important yet given In u .
Burdetl murder case. He states that on the night
of the MURDER he, at half past 10 O'Clock. was In
B md street. and seated himself on the door step
of DR.. Sempelrs house:
While was sitting there, one man came along
there were two men, one before the other one OF
them came up the stoop and walked 10; the otnet
bassed on; the man was not IN this house moIe
than = minute or q minute and DAN, wnen ne.iu
q cry of murder. l said to myself there IL Muss
| in this house; thought they bad been drinking,
| or something like that; 10 probably halt minute
after the man went In, (and heard MS IetIe.os
| steps) heard the door opened; nes1o no'n'uE
after the cry but something like the founu Oh an
| emntv barrel thrown with its end downwards on
| the floor; thought the man who went 10 nad got
into difficulty With some one sfter ne nso got I'D;
in half a minute or 30 after ttat noise, as say,
a man opened the door and looked out; ne SAID TO
,,e what are Won doing theref" looked at him;
he speke in a very rsugh manner, and was afraid;
| + tbnr oht the man who went ia had ordered him
| 10 nut me off the steps: 1t was not the man who
| went in that opened the door; the man who OPEN
| ed the door was in bis shirt sleeves; l saw his
| ef, arm and shoulder; hs left hand was resting
against the iuside of the door case; am sure be
| had no coat on him; when he spoke to me said
nothing; had my shoe in my band. and walked
off the steps sideways for was bent little, and
sa down on the third stooS below, put on my shoe,
snd went home.
| After giving This evidence, Farrell was carried
up into the roouk where Eckel was, to see il be
could identify him. Several persons were in the
room. The persons la the room arranged them.
selves in semi circle lea wing Ecke at the furthest
end of the line. The witness came slowly along
the front, peerpg into the fare of each individual
as he passed but did not at first pay any partict
lar attention to Eektl; moment sftefward he
turned and looked at EckeI freely Eckel's eye 5
winked necessarily, but he gazed steadily at wit
ness while undergoing this scrutiny The absorbed
attention with which every person in the room
watched this proceeding, was actually painful In
| its intensity. The bystanders scarcely breathed,
and q pin might have been heard to drop. Mr..
Farrell after glapcing at Ecke in an uncertaio,
hestating way, turned twice, evidently struck by
ometbing familiar in Eckels countepa nee, and TIE
third time he looked contirued to gaze. He Put
his hand to his he ad and appeared lost ia thought
for a moment or two-then turned and wake
away.
TIE Coroner-well which is the MANI
Witness-I don't kR0w; dink that is the man,
pointing to Ecke
had scarcely taken his seat before be expressed
dis regret that he had had ything to do with tn
matter.
The Herald commenting upon this evidence,
says:
The testimony of Mr. Farrell is highly impor,
tant In the first place it corroborates the evi.
dence of three other persons to the time of tn
murder. We have now four respectable witness.
es who fix the time at between halfpast ter and
eleven. They all heard the cry of murder. Two
of them saw man answering to the description
| of DR.. Burdell enter the house. Mr.. Farrell, in
addition to this, gives us an account of the blood
| on the stairway and street door. The man who
left bis work uDfieished TO 60 down to the street
door deposited the MARKS on his way, and there is
| a stain of blood on the place where Mr. Farrell
| swears that Eckels hand rested
This positive evidence upseS all the theories
formed upon the supPosition that the murder was
| doae by some person from without the house L.
il, in fact. the only direct evidence against Eckel
| Why the murderer should come down at that
| moment cannot be explained 1t is one of those
| mysterious occurrences, one of those apparently
| trivial circumstances which often give clue to
| crime, however CAREFUL il may have been plan-
ned. Perhaps, in his over anxiety to produce the
impression that the murderer left tbs house he may
have purposely stained the stairway and door case
| with the blood ofthe v etf o,
bliss Isabella Beauford. ssleswoman in 40I Broad
way, testified to LADY sBd gentleman having
in her store, IN the day before the MURDER to look at
| sword csnes:
let Them few, they did not find any to suit
the lady took it in her hand and said the gent
man with her. That she d1 not think it would suit
ricd it against the table, and tried it So (show
ing, and said don't think that will suit" TIT
then described to me the Sind they wanted; they
vents short, sharp and strong they said saia
had nor one CT tie style they wanted but could
get them nade hey SAID they must hsvs 1t
that day. This witness then taken up stairs by
the Coroner and confronted with Mrs. Cunningham
in her return she said the features were very SINH
ar, but she saw the lady in thu store with her
bonnet end in the room up ssirs with out her
bonnet, abe would not hk to swear, positively to
he, the sumo lady he vi tnsss again con
Quoted into the prssence of Mrs. Cunning ham, who
direct ID to pu. her bonnet on; when she return
ed shs said shat the lsdy's dress was diff. bu.
that otherwise shs was the same.
Several of the papers r1dlCUle FsTrelPs eyide
the ground that he 10 dissipated fellow aud that
it cones too late in he dsy for the truth Augusta
and n ellen Cunningham b. h ,ved with such leyity
aF ia reD of hAir
to the Tombs, as 10 shock New York policemen"
ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY.-It has been
briefly mentioned by telegraph that Hosea ]
Gardner, postmaster of bingham, Mass, town
some seventeen miles southwest of Boston. died
at week under rather peculiar circumstances.
and that certain suspicious circumstances had led
to the arrest of his wifi. The Boston Traveller
has the following particulars Of the case:
Ga Tuesday night the mother of Gardner was
watching at the bedside, rs usual when the wife
of NJ Ct told her to go to bed, as there was no
necessity for watch. But although she insisted
strongly upon it, she cid not go. The wife then
put out ali the fires, aud the room growing cold
the old lady was compelled to retire Between
one and two O'Clock in the morning she was called
up by Mr. Gardner, who as taken with vomiting
aud other alarming symptoms which induced her
to send for n physician On arriving he found n :
,fient sit ing up in bed, retching violently, and
complaining Of severe pain in the stomach and
bowels. This was not like common nausea. but
an mex pressible feeling, as Mr. G.. remarked
It is now. for the first time ascer ained that tie
salts he had taken had not operated, or bat v.ry
slightly, although the wife had affirmed to the
The burning sensation in the stoma ch
and bowels was extremely pair fnl. Mr. Gsrdn,
said to his mother II believe my wife has poiso,
ed me, and she will poison you!
Previous to the arrival Of the physc the de- seas
ed had vomteda ousntits of ds~ fl ud. sttsLdsd
with very great distress He then tod mis- mother
to preserve 1t fer the cocters inspect The vie
objected, and notwithstanding the expostulation OF
daug hter and tusband and the ea, nest soli
citations of the mother OF Mr.. who told her that
40 examination of the cont nts of the bowl mieht
throw tome light Upon the case, she emptiea the
contents of it into stop psl exclsmiDg, that if
hs doctor wants It he'll have to dig it out O. that
Mr. q. eonlieued to suffer very ouch through tbs
afternoon of Friday with the symptoms az
above alluded to- and gradually declined until Sun
tay morning about haiti asst one, hen he disd great
distress q
The de ceased had been heard to express the fear
that his wife would destroy him. and OCCASION
nent that give increased force to the snopositien
hat he l,ed been fouly dealt with
THE VIRGINIA VOLCANO II is said that the !
in reference to volcano having recent.
y made its appearance in Pendleton county, Va
On the great Backbone Mountain, is true. The |
Cumberland Telegraph says:
II IL al point on the mountain directly batws,n |
hs heads OF the dry fork of Cheat aud the NH
branch CT ths Potomac riyer at a plS.a krnn,, II