Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-02-11

iano VIII produce third more fodder per acre
If sown with Sorghum than IL sown with Indian
corn. and the Sorghum is twenty-five per cent
more nutritious than the corn. But all that can
be effected this year is to grow supply of seed,
and prove that this plant is valuable both for
Syrup and Fodder. Next year will be soon
enough for most cultivators to think of sowing
for fodder or grinding for sugar.
-One word OF caution to experimenters -
Don't run the thing into the ground. The Sorg.
hum will prove valuable addition to our crops,
if we don't render it odous by some Multicaulis
foolery. But wheat, Indian corn and clover are
not going out of fashion for some years yet.
The New York Murder.
The murder of Burde in New York, in his
own house on Bond st., created much excite
ment at the time Of its occurrence and the tes-.
timony elected before the Coroner's Jury is pub
lished in the New York papers, which are ear
nestly sought after, in SO much that news men
are unable to supply the demand The follow
ing remarks upon the subject VIC cut from the
Tribune of the I'd:
The terrible Bond street tragedy, all the de-
tails of which SO far as they have yet transpr-
ed will be found in another page, affords a new
and horrible proofo the insecurity in which
people live here in New York. Besides the risk.
which numerous recent occurrences show to be
considerable, of being knocked down, robbed
and perhaps murdered in the street, we have
here the case of a man strangled and stabbed in
his own house and in his own room, yet without
any alarm being raised or any decisive clue be.
ing as yet found toward the detection of the
murderer.
But amid all the doubt and uncertainty in
which this case is involved, one thing seems toll.
erably certain and that ola character partially
to reassure the mind of the public. There is
nothing in the circumstances thus far brought
to light which would lead tosthe supposition of
this murder having been committed by common
robbers, and form apart of any vulgar scheme
of plumber. Yet the person or persons by
whom it was committed would seem to have Ia
ken hint from the garroters. The first attempt
appears to have been at strangulation. The
state of the body as described by the doctors,
the fullness and congestion of the head and face,
the protrusion Of the tongue, and the inflated
state of the lungs, taken in connection with the
mark of ligature on the neck 60 to prove a
decided operation of that sort previous. to the
infection Of any wounds. Indeed, the conclu-
sion would be that the unfortunate victim had
first been rendered insensible by strangling, and
then stabbed; but for the dashcs ofblood along
the wall and ON the door of the closet, which
appearance OF having spurted from the wound in
the neck by which the carotid artery was sever
cd, the victim being at the time standing on his
feet between the door of the closet and that of
the room which closely adjoins the entrance
The wound on the wrist would seem to have
been inflicted as the arm was raised by way ofde-.
Tense or to ward Cfi blow, and there are be.
sides other facts which suggest the idea of des-
perate struggle, while tho wounds were intilct-
ed. A probable Conclusion, on the whole,
would seem to be that the original intention had
been to despatch the victim quietly, and possibly
to have afterward deposited the body in the
street to the credit of the garroters; but that
the operation not succeeding, the dagger had
been resorted to, attended with an effusion of
blood which discouraged any attempts to dis
pose of the body.
The particular manner Of the murder is, how
over chiefly of interest from its tendency to fur
nish some clue to the person by whom the act
was committed. The facts developed as to the
personal relations of the parties resident in the
house are of kind to turn attention in that d.
rection. It appears that the house belonged to
DR.. Burdell, and that he used the parlors in his
business as dentist, also the room over the
back parlor as an operating room, in which room
he was found dead, and the front room commu-
nicating with it as sleeping room. Previous
to May or June last, Mrs. Jones acted as house
keeper, at which time she was succeeded by
Mrs. Cunningham 1t appears from Mrs. jones
testimony that Mrs. Cunningham came from Sa
ratoga the autumn previous. On the strength
of a previous acquaintance with DR.. Burdel she
obtained temporary accommodations in the
house, which led to her remaining there as
permanent boarder; and afterward, when Mrs.
Jones was led to take another house, she took
charge for Mr. Burdell, but on what terms or I'M
Jar urhot rro n I'm risnt does not annear While
still boarder in the house, as We understand
the testimony, year ago last Thanksgiving, she
suffered miscarriage, stating to the servants IN
the house, who assisted her on the occasion,
that the paternity OF the child belonged to DR..
Burdell At the time of the murder the inmates
of the house were this lady, who occupied the
room over that in which the Doctor was found
dead, Mr.. John j. Eckel, who occupied the hall
room on the same floor, two grown up daughters
of Mrs. Cunningham, who occupied the front
room, young Mr.. Snodgrass understood to be
engaged to one of the daughters, who occupied
room in the attic, aud q cook. second
servant girl left on Tuesday previous, and
her place seems to have remained unsupplied.
When Mrs. Cunningham first took charge Or.
Burdell had been accustomed to take his meals
in the house, but by September difficulties arose
| between himself aud Mrs. Cunningham, and
| since that time he had eaten elsewhere. The
| difficulties are described by her and others as
| having originated in q charge made oy MN
| against her of purloining note or notes, whicn
note, as she explains it, she had made at ms re-
quest by way OF Offset to = Judgment against q
| brother Of his which the Doctor had purchased,
but which he desired to have stand in her name.
To this charge she replied, as she states, by re-
proaches for his not having fulfilled promise
| of marriage which he had made her, and for his
| having improper women in the house, which lat
4 ter charge he denied. The rerson he gave for
not fulfilling his promise of marriage she prefer
| red not to state. Subsequently however, accor-
| ding to certificate which she produced, they
/ were married on the 2Sth Of October last. It
| does not appear, however, that the existence OF
| such marriage " as made known to anybody
| DR.. Burdell had written agreement with Mrs.
Cunningham TO give up the house on the first OF
Nay next, {when made does not appear The
/ yery day before his death he expressed some
anxiety in regard to this paper, eyincing an
alarm lest if he continued to keep il in the house
i Ii might be purloined from him. Mrs. Cunning
ham was fully identified, by testimony, as the
female party to the marriage celebrated BY the
n Clergyman who signed the certificate. The
identification Of DR.. Burdell IS having been the
n male party was not so complete. The Mr.. Eek
el above mentioned as an inmate Of the house
would seem to have become SO about the time o
the FIRST misunderstanding between Or. Burdel
. and Ars. Cunningham. He appears from tn.
evidence TO have been An object OF jealousy OF
/ the part Of DR.. Burdel. Mr.. Snodgrass appear
s TO have been an inmate in the house for som'
} two monthspast.
!, From the bloody clothes found in q closet u
!. the attic, and from marks Of blood about tn
: door Of an empty room there, used As sort
Z wash-room, the person commitsing the murde
q | would seem TO have ascended to that story
! thing nos likely TO have been done except by
| persoa FAMILIAR with the localities Of the house
) The finding Of dagger said 70 have marks Q