Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-11
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The New York Herald of Sunday contains
resume Of the evidence giving before the Coro.
ner an Saturday. Tho most important develop.
mcnt is the destruction es the will made by DIR.
Enrdrll in behalf of his blood relatives. The
Herald says:
At the commencement Of the session of the in
quest the Misses Cunningham were examined =
They swear positively that the both slept with
their mother on the night oi the mardrr. One
swcars that she Witnessed the marriag" OF her
mother mud DR. Bndcll They heard 10 noise
en the night ot the mur,ler aud describe the pr-
siiun Of affairs the urNi day IN substantially ihs
same terms as ether witnesses. Thu two sons
II Mrs Cunningham, "t the ages al Mn" and
ten wears respectively, wrre also examined 49,
Their evidence : of M particular moment. one
distr, s>cd hv The novelty al his position
that he set up tremendous howling and the eN'
animation was stopped The girls were rather
fppant in their replies and Miss Helen evidently
LOOKED upon the atfalt n very good joke
Altogether however. their testimony Is of u"
gteot value. Ii they know anything abont the
murder they evidently intend Ia koepsit 10 them
selves. DR.. Blai,dcll WIS ngain examined. lilo
testies tint Bufdr made Will just bei"re The
murder. lenving all hl, property Ia his blood re-
atons. This testimony i, oorroborated by thht
Of one of the relatives witness from the birth
place of the Doctor, which he visited in Deeem-
Der.
Rur readers are aware tfut no VIII ms otFh
found, aud that several witnesses testify that
Buriell frequently complained that his private
paPer- were ransacked by MIS- Cunningham
Nj. Mcguire, cousin of Burdell's, ilen,ihes
the revolving pistol fonnd in Mrs. Cunningham's
drawer rs the property If Burdel Mrs. STAINS
bury swcars that on the day of tho murder she
chased an ngre, ment with Butdell for the lease
Of the house ON aud after the first day Of Mny
Next that the papers were to he signed on the
/ Al xl.., b.t. md
upon the stars 10 the conversation between the
Doctor and the tenant in expectancy. Mrs. c.
heard also the conversation between Burlell aud
Rai ,de on the day of the murder, when the
former requested the latter to come and live with
him, because he feared foul plny nj the hands of
persons in the house
All thee facts 90 To show TINT Mrs, Canning
lam had n mol i've 10 injure BnrIell, and there Is
no evidence vet TO show that any one else had
motive One of our cotemporares yesterday en-
ter- into AN elaborate argument To show that the
murder might have been done by some person
from without the house; the premises to sustain
Il at bypoihcslS being tina, some person whom
the Doctor had caused to be committed to prison
bad threatened his life, and that the lock upon
The front hall door was nn ordinary night latch.
which nigh, have been opened wnh my key
In another part of the same paper may be found
the testimony of Dr. Rlnsdeli, who says that
The man referred 10 is still in prison, and that at
ia" mechanlc who Put upon the door "A patent
burglar proof lock, the key to which cannot be
cauutprieittd.
\ new pha@e WAS given to the matter yester-
day, when Mrs Cunningham, Mr. Eckel, Mr..
Snndgnss and the Misses Cunningham were
brought before tho Court Of Common Pleas on
wrs of hdbcaS corpus. 1t was held by the coun
SCI for the parties that they were illegally detoin
ed in custody h., the Coroner. The Court. Jud
ee- Brady aud lngrahan disc nrged the Misses
Cunningham aud MIR. Snndgrass. The Coroner
was allowedta amend bis cpmint,e in the ca.
SIS OF Eckel and Mrs. Cunningham. So far as To
place them in the position Of aecompices in the
murder, WHEN the Court ordered Mr. Eckel into
the custody Of the Warden OF the city prison;
Mrs. Cunningham, by the same order was re
/ turned TO the lnndS of the Coroner, aud she is
now imprisoned in her own house awaiting the
verdict of the jury, which will undoubtedly humid
her aud Mr. Eckel over TO the Grand Inquest for
the county.
This turn of alair> WAS not unexpected. The
seal of tbs, common law Is now placed upon the
hp> of Mrs. Cunningham aud Mr. Eckel. They
caInot be required to reply 10 the questions of
the Coroner; and this, wa presume. was all that
i their counsel hoped tn gain by SUING out the wrts
The inquest, now that lis probuble result has
heea 81 far ante pated, viii undoubtedly be soon
brought IN a eiose.