Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-14

obliged to employ assistance. The business has
yet been but partially developed, and the greatest
accumulation will not be reached until the middle
of the second year. that is about the first of Jan.
uary, 1858, as no case can be closed in less than
six months and many require ten or twelve, and
even more There will then be on the docket
from hundred to a hundred and twenty five cases,
WHEN nearly the whole of the Judges time mus,
be required. and the register will have to employ
permanent assistant.
l. is but just to say, here, in view of the oppo-
sition which has been raised to the establishment
of these Courts of Insolvency, that the system
appears to have been very carefully devised, and
that its successful operation is not only most graf
flying to lis supporters, but most satisfactory to
the public. There is but little difference of pin.
ion, in relation to it, among the lawyers of this
county, nine-tenths of whom consider it highly
advantageous to all who may be interested in a
systematic, impartial, and just administration of
the insolvent laws.
THE BURDELL MURDER TRIAL-The trial Of
Mrs Cunningham, for the murder O. DR.. Burde,
has terminated, as our readers are already awaro
in verdict of acquittal. 1t soon became quite
manifest, after the opening speech of the prose
cutting attorney, the evidence fell very far short
Of sustaining the wholesale, confident allegations
made in that speech. And, as the trial progress.
ed very few readers could fail to anticipate either
a disagreement on the part of the Jury, YER
met of acquittal. We annex few paragraphs,
descriptive Of the closing scene =
The Jury returned to their seats. In a moment
the audience became involuntarily silent, and Mr.,
Vanderyoot, the clerk. called the names of the
Jury
VERDICT.
Nh. INSTRUMENTATION of the Jury, have
you agreed on your verdict!
Foreman-We have.
Mr. Bartolf approached Mrs Cunningham, and
directed her to arise. She did so. evincng in the
act a seeming Inconsistencies of what was tran
spring around her; she stood still and motion
less till her eyes, without expression, turned to-
DIS the Jury.
Mr. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. look upon the pris-
oner prisoner, look upon the Jurors. How say
you. gentlemen, do you find Emma Augusta Gun
ningham, otherwise called Burdell, guilty or not
guilty?
The Foreman Tin subdued tone)-Not guilty
The words had hardly been announced before
there was an attempt to applaud the verdict, but
the prompt action of the officers checked this in
appropriate expression of the feeling.
Mrs Cunningham stood for moment entirely
unconscious, but the buzz of satisfaction that
broke the silence, startled her, and she sank into
her chair in a state of partial swoon. Judge Dean
and Mr.. Clinton supported her, and gave her the
assurance that it was ''all right" which was the
first consciousness she had of her acquiital. A
few brief moments passed, when she had suffi.
GENTLY recovered to be conducted with her daugh-
tiers from the court room to the Marine Court
Chamber, where she received the congratulations
of her fIsends and the jury. An hour later, she
and her daughters, accompanied by Isaac Oliver,
were rolling in carriage toward the house, No.
81 Bond street, where they will remain for the
present.
THE SCENE IN THE JURY ROOM.
few moments after retiring, the Jury proceed
ed to take their first ballot. Mr.. Coe, one of the
jury, objected to voting then he stated that on
being examined to his competency to sit in the
case, he had answered the different questions as
his conscience dictated and after he had been
excused from sitting IL the case, and had begun
to state as a reason why his request should be |
granted, that he was an acquaintance of the Cum
bingham family, which fact would place him in |
position where he would be liable to public CEN
surer The Court, however refused to hear his
request, and he was compelled against his will to
take his seat. His anticipations had been real
lied the fact of one of the jury being an ac
quaitance of the family having been alluded to in
the remarks of the counsel, and having been COM
mented upon by some of the public journals in
view OF these facts he declined to vote the first
ballot The propriety Of Mr.. Goes refusal was
discussed for some minutes, after which the other
members of the jury acquiesced, and the ballot
was taken, which stood eleven for acquittal-Mr.
Coe not voting. The second ballot was then
had, Mr.. Coe voting with the Others for an ae-
quittal.