Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-02-26
Tn Bard ell Murder Case-Far-
rclfS Testimony Proved TFsac.
The New York Tribune of Monday

the Investigation of the murder 0
DR.. Burdell, this apparently intermina
BILE inquisition has at length been brough
to a close. To-day we subjoin the fl
nal proceedings, including the verdict o
the jury. For the present therefore
the case is concluded. That the evi
dencc is not yet sufficiently clear t.
warrant the conviction of any of tn,
implicated parties is very generally con.
ceded; but We understand that the Dis
trict Attorney is in possession Of other
facts which viii tend materially to TN
ravct the mystery which has thus FAR en-
relopcd this foul crime,
The testimony Of Farrell, who saw
Eckcl come to the door after the muir
der is supposed to have been committed
is strongly corroborated, as will be seen
by what follows:
1t was A o'clock when the jury went
out, and during their absence consider
able excitement prevailed in tie room
where the inquest was held, upon what
would be the rendition ofthe jury.
Information was here given to the
Coroner that the witness was present
who saw Farrell standing on the stoop
of the house.
Coroner wish to announce to you,
gcntlcmen-particularly OF the press
that the gentleman has arrived here who
will testify to the jury that he saw the
witness, Farrell, sitting on the steps on
the night of the murder
Captain Dilks-His name is D. G..
Waller. No. 81 Horatio-strect
The witness was conducted up stairs
to the jury and sworn and examined by
them, but 10 reporters were admitted.
TESTIMONY OF D. c. WALLER, NJ. D.,
BEFORE TIE JURY live at No. 81
Horatio-strect; l am a physician; passed
through Bond-strcet on the night of DR..
Burdell's murder; it was Friday night;
it was between half past ten and eleven
o'clock: [ observed Il man sitting on the
steps; l heard a man order him OF, was
at te door; he vas inside the door; L did
not sec him so as to enable ue to know
him again.
After the Jury kaJ.ret'r.d, DIR. C. T.
Woodward WA sworn BY the Coroner
and ent red their room to tcstif; to the
Jurors that he had been handed the
dagger produced in Court during the
day. and which was similar in all re-
sp"cts t. thu enc purchased by Snol-
grass; that it was haAdel to him for tie
p of asccrtaining whether itcould
produce wounds similar to those on the
body of the deceased; that for this ruT-
pose he had tried it on 4 dead body, and
found the wounds produced similar in
all respects, rs well on the body a. or
the clothing. .
Use Ts,Izcs' EnrG7y OF the Dxr-
dell Murder.
The reporter of the New York Tnes.
in Nonday's paper, sums up the cri-
denee before the Coroner, and gives the
following theory Of the crime:
We are to assume that EcISel was the
main actor in tie tragedy. The plan
dated back from the time when Excl
WIS introduced into the house early in
the fail. We are to be!ive that then
GIrs. Cunningham, hopeless OF inducing
.itr. Buraell TO marry her, ana ~inccnsed
1t his CHARGES OF dishonesty and theft.
conceived the idea OF u fictitious mar
and subsequent murder. Inc
marriage rite, constituting Act | of trag-
cir, was effected on the 2Sth OF October,
leaving the house with Dr.. Bar
dell, Mrs. G. ami daughter parted from
him, and were subsequently Joined by
EcIcl, disguised, either at Mrs. Solien-
or elsewhere, and that the three
went together to the clergyman. We
are to believe Miss Augusta Cunning
ham a party TO thus much Of the crime.
If we are convinced of a false marriage,
must likewise be convinced that the
death of DR.. Burdell was designed to
and that that event is but the
complement Of the fraud. The intcn-
ton Of DR.. Burdell to lease his house on
Saturday, to Mrs. Tallisbury, may have
precip;tated the execution of the plot {
on Friday. The intimacy of Mrs. c.
with Eckel is sufficiently established, :
and also that she was alone with bin
times on the fatal day. !
We are to assume, then, that all was j
arranged; that Mrs. c., to attest her in {
rocence, was to have both her daugh- I
.ers sleep with her that night; that
Eckel, while sitting in his bed room in $
his stocking feet, heard DR.. Burdell en- t
or, and slipped out of the room; that
Burdell passed up to his room, en- {
cred, lit his gas, took off his shawl and s
2vershoes, when Eckel knocked at the l
loor. Opening it, he was at once seized ]
~ the throat, so as to stilc any half Il
sound; stabbed rapidly, repeat
,dIy and violently, when he vainly
to release himself or to raise his t.
-oice; and her fe.l forward, face Down t
ward, upon the floor, dead. Eckel then d
instantly retroated down stairs, cropping
lis way in the dark, toward the kitchen, tt
where he might obliterate all stains of u
he crime; on the way, DESTROYS to know tC
whether the first cutlery of his victim had o
.xcited notice in the street, he opened j.
he front door and saw Farrell sitting
IN the step. The impulse to ascertain n
whether he was sitting there as a listener a
vas irresistible, and hence the question, o.
What are you doing here!2' The ira I
es of blood then indicate that he felt n
lis way to the basement stairs, went
Iown, and there probably washed from O
lis person the blood that must have I
,robably been upon it, and burnt up il
he b1ood-stained portions of his dress in u
he fire. This done, he crept back to Q
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