Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-08-13

The BURDELL TRAGEDY-A new act in this
long tragedy Of crime and mystery has just been
brought to lieht-a summary Of which we fnd
III the New York papers OF the 4th
AT IA late hour on the night of August Sd,
Mrs. Cunningham was arrested in the 100 ia
nous house, No. 81 Bond street, by u Metropo-
Titan inspector, On charge Of felony in fraud
ulentIy producing an infant which she falsely
pretended to have been born OF herself as the
+ widow Of the late Harvey BurdelI, and to be
The lawful issue OF his body, with The intent oil
lnterceptng the Inheritance OF his property
from the persons legltnatoly entitled Thereto
| Ii VIII be recollected that TN the Sd day oi
July, Judge Dean, acting rs counsel lor Mrs
Cunningham before the Surrogate, intimated
that she was in condition soon to become
mother, and invited the Court to consider this
circumstance in com.ng to IA decision on the
question OF the disposal OF the property of DR..
Durdell. The appearance OF Mrs. Cunningham
soon began to corroborale this intmatlon ot her
counsel, and her expectations were freely com
municated to all who were brought INTO con-
! nection with her
Asew days after the speech OF Judge Dean
was delivered, Mrs. Cunningham sent for her
| lH1 ~ vi huU Huu dLteuuGu her DOTH
before the murder of DR., Burdell and during
the inquest and requested hlm to be prepared
to favor her with his services about the beyin-
ming of August. Dr. Uhl made various maui
ries OF his patient, which were answered in such
Il way DIS to excite suspicion in him that every
thing was not quite IN the matter These sus-
picons were very soon rlpened INTO certaintes,
and DIR Uhl became ST. much concerned about
the matter that he felt it to be his duty to Law
the whole affair before MIR. District ATTORNEY
Hall. Mr. Ila immediately set before Dr. Uhl
bis duty to the community in the premises, and
urged it upon him to lend his efforts to prevent
the consummation Of the felony which he sup
posed to be projected, and to expose the inouit.
Gus designs of the guilty parry. Dr. Uhl, after
some hesitation, accepted this task, and soon
proceeded to ingratiatc himself into the conf
dence Of Mrs. Cunningham. Mrs. CUNNINGHAM
very soon, and very unsuspciously, fell inio the
trap thus laid for her, and admitted that she
meant to impose surreptitouS child upon the
world, and TO re enact upon a narrower STAGE.
the same drama which has been so often nlavpd
the palaces of the Old World. DR.. Uhi con.
scented to aid and abet her in her project and
set about doing so, with no little Ingenuity,
1t appears that newly-born child was nro
cured Mt the Bellevue Hospital and secretly
conveyed to Mrs Cunningham s. where. with
the aid of DR.. CatIin and her maid, the mock
confinement was passed But about midnight
she was interrupted by the officers of Justice
who had been politely awaiting the COMPLETION
Of the business. when the child was taken and
the parties arrested ana locked up. The Chi d
was marked, in two different mainrrs with In.
mar canstic by thr doctor at the II Spisal who
loaned the child, and who at once reco.nized it
and bad il rnturnel tn It's n,nthnr