Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-02-14
The Burdell TRAGEDY.

New ork City, week or two SINCE Is still unra.
yelled. The examination Of wtn s'es was still going
Oh before the Corouer, and the excitement was I'M
abated. Dr.. Bude'rs funeral was attended by an
immense concoursc We have no room for any
portion the evidence in the case The New York
Times inclincs to the opinion that the murder was
committed by some not connected with the
house where Dr. Burdcll resided while the Herald
evidently thinks that Eckel and Mrs. Cunningham
are The guilty parties That paper says:
"The more evidence that is taken the awful
tragedy Bond street. the more clearly Is it seen
that il was the work Of no common hand of no mere
lawlcss vagrant. Though the witnesses whose ties.
tmony is given elsewhere cannot be described as
directly fastening the charge Of murder this I;
that person. yet their evidence goes on the side
TO narrow very matcrially-thc circle within which
the culprit must be sought, and on the other to
lessen the improbability that person in station
where murderers supposed to be uncommon
should have taken the life Of the late Dr. Bnrdc.
There is risk and responsibility in giving expires.
sion, at this early stage in the inquiry, the suSpi.
cons that ferment in the public mind. 1t is possible
that those whom the public eye regards as
guilty may prove simply unfortunate. But we are
bound to say that up to this moment the burden Of
the testimony taken is fiighuily against John J.
Eckvl and Emma Augusta Cunningham.
They may be innoccn and heaven knows we
hope they But il is to say the least an unior.
tuna,c thing tina, Mr. Eckel should have gone out
before breakfast that morning, and should have
deposited in his private desk paper which would
seem to have been p,IIoincd from DR., Burdell 1t
is unfortunate that he should have been on such
terms with the woman Cunningham as to lead the
houScmad to regard her rs an ndlSCrcet mother to
grown up daughters. And it is still more uuiortu.
nate That he should have allowed expressions of i'll
VIII towards the deceased 10 escape him, to which
carcc, As for the unhappy female whom the
public wrath now mpcndS. every circumstance con-
ncctcd with her is unfortunate She had husband
who died suddenly in his chair, leaving policy of
insurance for $4,000 in favor OF his vic. Was hc
poisoned? We must dig his body up. She led a
life after his death which is described in the evidence
OF he witness llldreth n life evidently calculated
t. harden her heart and steel her nerves Her
quaintancc was such as no honest woman would
willingly keep Arrived at a mature ace and not
destitute of those artfll charms or chaimfll arts by
which women in the meridian Of life secure lovers
she met, cnSnarcd, and conquered Dr. Burdcll
Entering his house his mistress She sought to
assert control over him against which the p,sscn
ate and grabbed temper Of The doctor rcbccd lie
gave her money! lie gave her home. lie took
in her daughters He lodged her friend Erkcl
Not contcui with ali this the woman Ginning Iam
insists that lac shall marry her. lie refuses, and
She sues him. Bnrdcll, an angry, but not n persc-
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his own lie declares he has caught her n. IN
sale. The scrva,.t inliscreeiIy wakes At An INTO.
wud noise Eek. aud Mrs. Cunningham lcer at
each o'her across the table AZ they speculate on the
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Yet all these ucoplc 90 on livipy urlcr tbc Same
roof until one night one neighbour su,cilS burning
w'olIen or flannel another hears a Stlyd cry OF
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The whole ALTAR fills the honest mind with disgust
ami loahns. What shall we say of the other ro>-
dents of this i'll latcd house? Of these two girls, Of
whom the elder is said to he - years Of age, and
lady of much hauteur, and Of the Y, uthul SuOd
grass the son of clrrgyman who seemingly got
his board condition of being the cavalier of Mss
Cunningham? How came bcs, people to hear
nothing OF the murdered mans death srn.glc2 OF
course, To suppose that they accOmplccs is
rcpusivc to common sense. but row came they all
to sleep 50 sound that n git? And wha, sort Of a
house waS this, at ali? Are there any more Of the
same kind left, where dSSOuc women try 20 in
vciglc amorDuS bach cIors into marimOny and muir
. r them when they refuse? Can nobody unlightrn
this point
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den, Of spacc I, fine testimony in this case fare rho
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