The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-08-22
Another Chapter in the Cunnfnsh.m
-ff Affair.
Mrs. Cunningham Asserts her Innocence-Tbe Rahv
The Dsughters-Dr. Uhl-The surrogate's Decision

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The Daughters-Dr UhI-The surrogses pecsioy
MRS. c. ASSERTS HER INNOCENCE.
twill be seen that Mrs. Cunningham de-.
clned, by the advice of her counsel, to ner.
init physical examination by the two pbv.
sicians detailed by the magistrate for the
purpose. At the former examination held
yesterday in her bed room, she affirmed her
perfect innocence of the offence charged nm.
on her, saying that time would show She was
right, but declined answering further ones.
lions. Her commitment to prison will nroh-
ably be signed to-day. OF course the offence
is ballable, and it is within the bounds of
possibility that she may obtain bail. Hw will
perhaps not exceed $4,000 If it be fixed of
an unduly high figure, an application can he
made to the Supreme Court to reduce tho
amount. And if she be unsuccessful in nro.
curing bail, the probability is that the ones.
uon OF her responsibility on the depositions
taken will be tested by preliminary writ of
certiorari. 0A
WHAT WOULD HAVE BECOME OF THE BARy9
1t is supposed that if she had been only
permitted to enjoy the imaginary success Of
her plot TOR twelve hours, the baby would not
have been particularly long-lived; she would
have exhibited it to sufficient number of
witnesses, and then have quietly disposed of
1t. AS heir to the baby, all the property
would then have required to her. As it was.
the poor little thing had pretty narrow es-
cape of its life, notwithstanding the complete-
ness OF the arrangements for, when it was
being taken from her, she squeezed it to her
breast SO affectionately that if two officers
had not seized her arms, the Burdell heir
would have been killed with kindness. In
that event. nice question would have arisen.
whether the District Attorney and the other
complotters had not been accessories to the
child's death, and were not exposed to an in
dctment for infanticide. AS it is. however.
Miss Elizabeth Anne Anderson flor that is
the child's name) is safe and snug in the ma
ternal bosom.
THE DAUGHTERS.
Helen Is bearing mp bravely under the af
Fiction. She is most attentive to her mother.
scarcely ever leaving her, and acting with the
most filial affection. She says that if her
mother were the vileSt of the vile, she is still
her daughter; she loves her, and will not
forsake her, and any offer of that kind can on
ly be taken as an insult but she does not
believe her mother guilty. She thinks her
rather the victim of conspiracy, as she is
given to understand that Catlin was engaged
IN something similar some four years ago. and
alleges that during the examination made of
her person on the inquest that DR.. Uhl, who
assisted in it, did not conduct it in the most
delicate manner.
Georgipna, the youngest, is beautiful
girl, not yet fourteen, but has the appearance
of full grown woman, except her features
which are extremely girlish. Size is COM
pletely bewildered; goes about mechanically,
and seems scarcely to know what is going on
around her. She is very nervous and ap-
pears frightened at everything. Thus matters
stand at present. In few days Mrs. Cum
bingham will be removed to her old apart
ments, and then 81 Bond street will cease
to be an object of curiosity.
Miss Augusta Cunningham seems COM
pletely Frustrated by this new disgrace that
hiss come upon her name-she is the persona
fication of grief and wretchedness. The
slightest allusion to the murder, the marriage
or the birth, she cannot endure Either of
the topics renews her woe. Her sister Hell
en- stated on her examination the other day
that Augusta had been i'll for some weeks
before she left home she mentioned typhHs
fever as the cause of her illness. Her ner
vous system seems overthrown, and she is
really an object OF commiseration. She left
Bond street on Monday afternoon, before the
sham confinement and declares that she will
never return. Filial affection may have in
duced her to cling to her mother, and sup
port her, even to her souls jeopardy but
that was when the rest of the world was ar
rayed against her mother Who can blame
her for that2 But against this new contem-
plated fraud she seems to have determinedly
planted herself, and when her mother per-
sisted in her wicked resolve, she abandoned
her, very properly, to her fate. Augusta
remsins with her aunt, respectable mar
ried lady, in Lexington avenue, but even
there her wretched destiny pursues her, for
her presence in family brings upon it the
very unpleasant regards of the public.
DIR. UHL AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
There seems to be about as much interest
in the discussion as to whether
the course of Mr.. Hall and DR.. Uhl is more
deserving of commentator than it is of rep
rotation as there is in the incidents of the ..
simulated birth. Opinions seems to be pref
ty equally divided, not as to their justifica-
lion in point of law and morals, flor there the
majority is decidedly against them,) but as
to whether they can claim the benefit of the
Jesuitical doctrine that "the end sanctfies
the MEANS" While the whole community is
rejoiced at the exposure of this woman's in
amous fraud, half of it is inclined to think
hat the triumph over would-be criminal is
too dearly bought at the expense of profess
Onal reputation. 1t is understood that the
Academy of Medicine will take up the mat
er at their next meeting in September, when
The doctor will defend his course as we'll as
he can.
Mr.. ECKEL.
Mr.. Eckel, about whom so much interest
gathered during the opening scenes of the
Bdrdell tragedy, is now in the city, pursuing
his ordinary business, and seemingly taking
little interest in the last Developments in this
extraordinary case. But his friends feel as
sured that every suspicion of his completely
in the murder is cleared away by the
recent disclosures. The glaring fraud of the
desperate woman with whose names and
,rimes he had been associated, has turned
speculation into new channel in search of
accessories to the foul deed, Is it at all i'm
probable that before the present investi ration
S concluded, speculation he changed into
certainty on that hand ?
THE SURR0GATE'S DECISION ON MRS. CUNNING
HAMS MARRIAGE.
An impression seems to exist that the de-
,ision of the Surrogate on the question of
rantng administration to Mrs. Cunningham
Ipon the estate of DR.. Burdell may be effect
d by the recent explosion of her plot to
rOduce false heir. 1t is natural enough
hat such an idea should be entertained by
hose who are unacquainted with the rules
'hich govern judicial proceedings, and with
he intelligent, consistent and faithful adher-
nee to those rules which characterize Mr.
bradford. But the truth is that all that farce
t plot and counterplot which has followed
pom the Bond street tragedy is so far as tho
ction of the Surrogate is concerned, as if it
ad never happened. No circumstance of it
J before him. 1t is not in the testimony in
he case on which he has to decide. His
ldgment must be based on the evidence
7hich has been submitted to him through the
orms of judicial proof The only way in
which he would be entitled to consider any
ew fact coming to light since the case was
losed, would be by its regular introduction
fter an application should be made by the
arty interested, and granted by himself, to
pen the case for that purpose This has not
cen done. Indeed, Mr.. Tlden, counsel for