The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-02-16
Tho New York Murder.

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Tho New York Murder.
The excitement in New York regarding this
,,rs,erious murder. which had abated, has again
ban .roussd by the testimony Of Farrell. The
.S;,o,. ,f the city have all turned lawyers and
80 Needing through their columns, some for It's
,,,,h ard others for its utter worthltssness. On
,,ur,ss,r. Drs. Main. Knight and Doremus were
.x.,,ned al len 9Th, but their evidence was merely
oo,rohora,iye of that tf DIR. Woodward
n, Wood WIS the next wit ess. He gave as
~, nn,rion that DIR. Burdell would be able TO give
.ha alarm after be WAS stabbed in the neck that
there WAS evidence of his having first been stran-
aIed snd ihst he wounds on the body could have
besn yflc;ed With the dagger found in Mrs. Gun.
nipshsms hnrsau drawer. We quote portion OF
HI. testimony
"i think t.,t there violence about The throst;
I c.nnot cay by what that violence msY have been
rsu,.d unlers 1t was By the han6s; cannot say
Xh.ther straugulst may or may not have hceo
e.ived before h- sta5s were tnfctedi mY theory Is
th,t the frat intims ton te had Of the presence OF
IN. murderer wound in his right shoulder l
IN ink thst he might have easily reached tho door
,tsr the , providing it occurred at the
mace where The chair found the doctor and his
s,shl.ut might have elJsed uroa each other, his
adversary might have had him BY the throat tor q
considerable time; tnoss points Il would b6 impossi-
bls for any enc surgeon = medical man, to intel
ligen,ly determine; symsn csu form just good
opiniou medical man, NY opinion is that one
The report Of the chemists commissioned to sps-
I'VE the various SPOTS cf blood found the premsss
al 81 BEND street was read. The report 10 signed by
Dec .ors Do:rnus, G0urlsy, Nsn Buren and Childs
II was read by Dr. Dorenus, and lsteued to atten.
iiyey
on the dagger ware iron rust, those the towel l.
q rht sown msrke6 suirt, blue end white dress
sheets aso he msitirs OF the attic closet On the
door. knob of ths unoccapisd room IN the attic,
where the articles were found, were al IN m<nstruaI
boad.
The marks on the bin, silk dress and in the email
boor from the psrlJT wsle not hood.
The bi. 0i-staias upon the newspaper found around
the books in Ectefs Ieeretsry. and OIL the butcher
knife from Stanton ct est. by repeated comparisons
with tn the clothing OF deceased, render it
probable that they were not stains of DR.. Burdsips
blood.
The stsins on the door of the room where the de.
ceased louad, the walls leading down stairs
on the trout door also the all the back par
lor door the ti cleth the head of the basement
al on the dour at the loot OF the same, were
The private record Of the Clergyman who married
MTs. Cunnin Cham was pToduced-show1ng g the entry
Of the msrTase TO consist in all respects, with the
gwen
new ELECTED snd the inquest th en- djourned over
saturday, when the coroner will probably make his
charge 10 the jury.
The following dispatch was received in New York:
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. ll.-There Is 8 man named
George 4. swans in the penitentiaIy here, ~ho was
committed for passing counterfeit money.
sNopGRAss.
The II. y Times, of Friday. says
George snodgrass, the hers of the banjo, arrived
at his apartments in the Fifteenth Ward Station
House at o'clock yesterday morning. being sccom.
panied By police 0fhcee. Upon his arrival he
advised to retire and refresh himself He had been
visiting his brother the previous evening, and
tertainips his friends to variety of music on his
inmsTtsl banjo. 1t has been stated that his banjo
tendencies powerful as to eclipse ell his other
emhsrrsaments. and thus eEsble him to look mis-.
fortune the face without fear the consequen-
css of personal responsbiiity He has bean offered
fve dollars by daguerrean artist to sit for his pho
tograph but the figure was too low, and he repulsed
it Mr. Meade. Mr.. =. states, has offered him
twenty collars to sit for the purpose which
offer, it supposed, duly accepted. He 10 bav-
ing high Ilne," and is taking things remarkably
easy.
MRS. CUNNINGHAM
A reporter of the Herald visited Mrs Cunning
ham in prison on Friday. Speaking of the Coro-
neI's brutality, she said:
How cruel he wss to prevent me from getting the
marriage certificate, when, the first examination.
wsnted I, reiresh my memory ss to the name of the
minister who II arrled mt. | can prove that have
always found IL almost impossible to remember
names, tearnestly They can't prove that Was not
married TO Or Burdsl, and can prove that he was
my lawful husbsnd-d.ad or alive, lie my hus-
band went trst to DR. snodkress to marry us, but
could not get him. Or Burdell was my husband,
and God knows that II had not loved him desrly
lover wou have suffered what did, or have gons
through what did. As to my relations wi h Mr.
Cunningham, can prove that the inost slandeIoas
lies have been told about them. l going to pub
lsh ta'ement, and will show that always lived
happily with him. acd that on his death bed hs ad
mit'ed that never caused him q moul-nt If lain
God knows Fl to ia he wife Of DR. Buroel al
he need not have been asf amed to call ms wife. And
thsn TO tulnk of that vile remark OF the juror, day
before Sesterdsy, when Mr.. Douglass sai1 that Mr.
Eckel could not keep Mrs Prosser because she IVES
too expensive" the juror said that Mr. Eckel could
get 1t cheaper here" What remark to be made
by man deput- d to render justice
BY TELEGRAFH.
NtW YORK, Feb. l5-Tbe coroner's jury to.
day rendered verdict pronouneiog that DR.. Bur-
dels death WAS caused by Mrs. Cunningham,
aided by Eekels and Snodgrass, who are implica
ted "a accessory 10 the act.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE Jury in the Burdell
case are expected to give verdict this afternoon
Young Snodgraas has been recognized as the per-
son who purchased dagger the day before the
murder. He has been committed to prison as one
OF the principals.
MADAME IDA PFEIFFER.-Lats accounts from
the Cape of Good Hope state that this celebrated
traveller left Cape Town on the 2U,h of November