The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-19
Tho Undiscovered Muraorers.

We regret to see that Messra Wesley Il Com
pany, the patriotic stockholders Of Wall street,
while they claim the most perfect sincerity and
good faith in their recent offer Of o reward Of
five thousand dollars for the discovery of the
murderer or murderers of DR.. Harvey Burdell,
are not willing to give us equal credit for our
offers in the same field. Do they suppose that all
the public spirited men in this city ase located In
Wall street, or that patriotism is exclusively
the property of gamblers IN railway securities or
post Office sitess We think we are entitled to a.
much credit as Wesley & Co. for our liberal Of
fers to stimulate the discovery of the perpetrators
of the bloody deeds which have spotted the his
tory Of our city and State during the past few
years But yeur professional gambler is always
ready 10 back up his sincerity with a wager 30
your professional stockj0bber knows no other
test of good faith than to bind his assertion with
deposit Of money. Mesms. Wesley & Co. are
not exceptions to the rule of the craft. They say
they are ready aud willing to deposit the five
thousand dollars in the Shoe and Leather Bank.
This offer is made in pure WALL street spirit.
Ia that locality, the only test Of sincerity Is
found in stocks, dollars banks-banks, dollars and
stocks Wesley & Co. must not however, imagine
that because we do not operate in fancy stocks,
we have not as much public spirit as they. We
are equally ready and willing to submit to the
financial test. We are ready to deposit the
mountaineering over seventy thousand dol
lars--of the rewards offered by us for the detec-
ton of the pa.ties engaged In several murders as
horrible as that of DR.. Burdell, and including
that crime, in the Boot and Breeches Bank, an in
stitation undoubtedly as good as that patronzed
by Wesley & Co. If Messrs. Wesley & Co. think
that because we are not in the stock jobbing way
we cannot raise the amount, we refer them to
cur bankers in whose hands we have more than
that sum az a surplus fund to meet the demands
caused by the improvements in the newspaper
press, to be coincident with the opening of tele-
graphic communication between Europe and
America
The patriotic stock jobbers above alluded to
are likewise suffering under great mebtal dis
tress, because the very general impression that
was produced at the Coroner's investigation of
tie Burdell murder was not sustained by the
issue Of the late trial That general impression
was that the murder was committed with the
cogbizance Of some of the parties In the house at
the time. When the case came to trial much Of
this evidence was omitted, and we, az well ~ the
whole community, are bound to take the verdict
as it stands, and to pronounce MIRA Cunningham
ON innocent, injured ard much abused woman,
and one who deserves the highest sympathy. We
arc much surprised that our patriotic friends in
Wall street have not circulated subscription
paper to raise funds to reimburse her for the ex-
peDses Of the trial, or at least to present her
with some testimonial showing the change
of public feeling In her case. Such a
co,Kse would be far more solid and appropriate
than oil the long winded datribes that have been
written in her defence Let il 60 on.
In the meantime we hope that all those who
have proper sense of the excellence Of our
laws, and Of the ineficiency Of the officers whose
duty it Is to execute them, will aid and assist all
Of US in our endeavors to find out the criminals
who have so long defed the law-not only in the
Burdell case, but In all the others The good
name Of the State and the city depends upon an
honest and earnest effort to bring the offenders to
the bar Of justice, and 10 see that they have jus
tlce when they get there.
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