New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-02-11

The MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN NEW YoRK.-At
latest dates nothing had transpired to indicate with
certainty the perpetrators Of the cruel murder upon
DIR. Burdell in New York, on the night of the 3Oth
ult
1t was shown upon the inquest that Burdel owned
the house in Bond street in which he was murdered
that woman known as Mrs. Cunningham and her
two daughters resided in it, and that several men
roomed or boarded there also An intimacy appears
to have existed between her and DR.. Burdell and
some months previously she had given birth to q
child of which she said he was the father; misun
derstanding existed between them some time before
the murder, and she had been on terms of intimacy
with man named Ezekiel living in the house. On the
morning OF the 3lst the Doctor was found dead il
his room, on the floor, his neck bearing marks Of
strangulation and no less than fifteen stabs having
been inflicted on different parts of his body. The
walls of the room stained in several places with
the blood which had spurted from the victim, the
jugular vein having been severed, and the furniture
bore evidences Of violent struggle having taken
place.
Before the jury of inquest, Mrs Cunningham testi-
fed that she privately married to DR.. Burde in
October last, and produced the marriage certificate
The clergyman who performed the ceremony could
not identify deceased the bridegroom and testified
that when the marriage took place the bridegroom
acted in strange manner, hanging down his head,
giving the responses in embarrassed voice. and ap-
peared to have on false whiskers. The parties had
also requested that the marriage should not be pub
lshed, and had not noticed the fact that the name
was spelled wrong in the certificate. The Doctor
was worth about 800 900, which, in the absence of
will, would revert to Mrs Cunningham at his DEATH
if this marriage could be established The New York
Times of the Sd inst. says:
1t now ntimated will be seen by the testimony
that Burdell and Mrs Cunningham were never mar.
red that Eckel and Mrs. G. were on very intimate
terms and that Eckel personated Burde in the mar.
rage ceremony, and had his name inserted in the
marriage certificate The chambermaid, Mary Donahu
was examined at great length and her testimony,
which was given with great clearness and evident
truthuness related exclusively to the previous rela
tons of the parties, as she left the house on the
Wednesday preceding the murder. She gave Mr..
Burdell very excellent character, saying that he
always came home by 10 O'clock that he was never
intoxicated, had never been known to have any i'm
proper intimacy with any person in the house, but
was quiet and uniformly attentive to his affairs.
She represents him as having been treated with great
rudeness for some weeks past by Mrs. Cunning
ham and Eckel, who were exceedingly intimate
criminally so according to her account and both of
whom had frequently ndulged in ntnlatons that DR..
Burdell was very bad man and ought to be put out
of the way. Eckel of late had assumed to very
undue extent, the oversight of the house, and had
been treated by Mrs. c. the most important person
in it. She slept in the bedroom adjoining and com.
municating with his and would never allow either of
herchildren to sleep with her. except the night of
the murder when both of them did So In the drawer
of bureau which stood in Eckel's room, of which it
seems that Mrs. Cunningham kept the key, were
found yesterday sundry private papers, in the hand
writing of DR.. Burdel, and evidently intended to be
signed by him among them was check drawn and
signed by DR.. B. in Mrs Cunningham's favor, which
had not been presented for payment, and also an
agreement on his part, in consideration of the with
drawal Of certain SUITS that he would always befrend
and protect her family. This would seem somewhat
inconsistent with the notion of their marriage.