New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-05

90 10 SEQ be-, hem v,cs she nsd % say, aad, u pf
sible, enter ioIo her para and without connh'ng
nimse: 10 anything deliverable or criminal, ethe;
p.or ise or in innroo1.0te 5s..
He sid tha. he would Ike to reflect ppon Il, s7d y
day OF two he called upon and said he was al =
fed, that !. was his dr.yto all ne in the ms5er. }
ten proposed :, him that he should represent 70
Mrs. C1hripghsn ths. he bad lsdy TO be coliIea
whose husband was in California and who was
enceinte through an indiscrstioE which she wac
DESTROYS Of holding frem her husbaud-tbst sne e1-
pected to be confined about the iirst Of August ana
was 70 sail for California in September, ana wou'i
give Up the child and ask no questions toil I'm
that Ms. Cunningham would probably send ior ths
child ard i could De marked in such way tna' "
could be identified and She be detected 10 the very
act of e fictitious delivery.
BE said Cha. he was satisfied that she was very
sbrewd, plotting woman, from his last Conversation
with her and the plan might not work, but he ~oen
do bis best He went TO see her and threw out some
hrts, upon which she told him the whole thing; tina,
she was not in the family way, and he had better go
and see DIR. Cstin. He did so and told him the story
of the California widow; Catlin swallowed 1t.
Almost every day Dr. Uhl would come aid see me
at my house. generally late at night; neither OF US
MENTIONED It to anybody else; il became advisable 10
have the CT ninement hurried; had received an init
nation that possibly the Surrogate might decide the
case by the middle of August, and thought we had
better have it through.
He said / must see to providing the child, and
went to see Mr.. George Kelock, jr, whO as Supenn'
teIdent Of Outdoor Poor in the habit of receiving
foundlipgp. He told me that that source OF supply
was very precarious and in fact he could not furnish
a ca lid without the consent Of Cows. Smith or Towns
end, the Committee on the Bellevue Hospital went
to Washington Smith, and he told me that he would
cautiously sound Warden DAILY, who had charge Of
the Ly inc in Ward. 1t not until the 3Oh OF july
last Thursday that preached the thing to any one
it was on that day that spoke to Messrs. Kelock
and Smith, On Saturday, Gov. Smith saw DAILY. l
went to Smiths house on Sunday.
In the mean time found that it was necessary to
have the cooperation of physician who was not
known in this City. therefore chose Dr. De Ia Mon
tagnie al old friend and classmae of mine andm per-
sonal ply sician
On Sunday night Gov. Smith cav me and told me
that be would give me letter next morning which
would produce everything necessary. He accordingly
gave Inc letter stating that the DIR. who would pre-
sent it was TO be trusted with a child
On monday morning DR.. De la Montagnie and my
self went to Warden DAILY and Informed that two
children had been born during the night; one of the
mothers would not part with her child, but the other
would
We saw Dr. Uhl, who informed Mrs. Cunningham
that the supposed California woman would be in labor
that nights she prepared herself acco dinghy
Unfortunately, DIR. Uhl had located her in Elm
street. and he and myself searched for two hours on
Monday morning, in that street, for furnished apart
ments, without finding any. At last We succeeded in
discovering parlor and bedroom. But they had to
be furnished did MOI dare to trust it to outside par.
ties and go sent cart up to my house and had furn.
ture sent down.
1t then became necessaryto take into my confidence
some Of the police. was not able to Gen. Tall
madee, and understood that Deputy Carpenter was
uuwell. But while thiEking how should find Iuspec-
tors Speght, Diks and Hopkins, of the Twenty.frst,
Fifteenth and Third Wards, net them al three to-
gether in Broadway, and made an appointment with
them at 8 o'clock at the Fifteenth Ward Station
House.
The furniture was got into the room not more than
fifteen minutes before Mrs. Cunningham came into the
street to reconnoiter, she having been told the No.
1870. respectable German named |eieer sells lager
beer there. After her reconnoiteIing, DIR. Dc Ia Mon
tarnie went to Bellevue, got the child with nurse
from the institution and arrived at No 100 Elm stree
shortly after dusk.
1t not being certain whether Mrs. Cunningham would
come herself or send a messenger, that che might
lot want to look into the room, got friend Of DR..
THIS, Dr. William n. Gchrest, druggist, at No. 6?i
Spring street, near by to put Dightcap and lie in
bed and moan as if in all the agones of aterbirth.
had an old shing basket Of my own, with small
pillow in it. ready to put the child in to be given to the
messenger.
When these matters were oil arranged, | returned
to the Station House. met the inspectors and told them
all about it. They then conferred among themselves
and agreed upon their course Speight said he would
SPOT Bond street. Hopkins would spot the alley leading
10 the stable in the rear OF No. 81 Bond street and
muncatpg with the premises, and Diks said he would
take bis station in front of Buttons Theater, where
the food of light thrown over Bond street would
enable him to see what tlapspired there.
They had not been stationed long before Speght
saw woman dressed in dark clothes descend from the
steps of No. 81 Bond street and go to the Bowery.
lie followed her, She hailed Fourth avenue car
and g.t in, and he 80. the platform. lie had no
sooner got on than friend spoke TO him. saying;
"Why that's Mrs. Cunningham, He tried to turn
it off, and said: " oh, no that's not her ;"
At the corner of Broome and Marion streets Mrs.
Cunningham got oh; she had no basket then. Speght
rode ON a few steps and got Of, and followed her.
She went TO No. 100 Elm street, and entered that
house
Meantime had statio1ed Dr Mcptagnie ard Patrol
man Walsh on the other side Of Elm street TO watch.
Mrs. Cunningham went up stairs and looked in.
The apothecary groaned satisfactorily; the nurse was
ready with the baby and the basket the basket was
given her by Dr.. uh with the proper amount of mys-
teIy, and se went down The street is nAirow, was
rather dark in the moonlight, and Drs Walsh and DE
la Monte gn;e in their anxiety, did NOT her come