Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-03-05

The ART OF MURDER.--It seems to be n
popular superstition that the perpetrator of
murder most necessarily have some clue to his
detection. Yet ii is by no means so uncom-
mon a thing as is generally supposed, for this
crime to escape detection by the officers OF
justice. The Burdell case looks much If it
might be one ofthis kind. Many of our read
ers may remember a murder committed at the
corner of Broadway and Leonare streets some
years since, on a man named Corlies, If we re-
call the name rightly. All that was known at
the time was the victim was called out Of the
Carlton House bar-room into Broadway, and
soon after was found dead on the pavement,
having been shot. Tho Coroner called his
jury together, and a protracted inquest was
held, but no clue to the author of the murder
was found. Tho jury were obliged to bring in
verdict of murder by hands unknown; nor
to this day, have the authorities been able to
fix the responsibility for Corlies murder upon
any one.
We now propose to state some circumstances
derived from what we deem entirely authentic
sources, in connection with that mysterious as
sassnation, which go to show that, contraryto
the general impression, in the multitude Of
parties to q murder there is safety and also,
murder is sometimes perpetrated in the most
exposed and public places without detection.
The murdered man as we have been given to
beautiful wife Of a wealthy citizen OF N. York
Ia man whose generosity of nature and strong
personal qualities had drawn around him set of
dvotedfliends--m ofthem, like himself in tho
sporting line. The lady, as false as fair, re-
turned the guilty love guilty, and was locked
| up by the husband, whose devotion to her
was such that he could not give her up eyon
after what had passed. He made ovcrtures to
the determined LotharO-iirst by threats which
were unheeded then by bribes, which were
partially successful, so that, on receiving a sum
of money, the seducer promised to leave the
| city for the term of tho lady's natural life.
| A few months saw the money spent and the
man returned, and pacing up and down the
| pavement opposite the lady's place of doten-
| tion, Gas she only went out well attendcd,) ma
king signals, &c., to her; and she, inconsistent
in her infidelty, replying to them with deter
mined purpose to effect her escape in some
way. The husband, still unwilling to abandon
her to herself, renewed his oyertures to the in
| trusive gentleman, and made an agreement to
pay down another certain sum to secure his
| perpetual absence. The latter agreed se-
| cond time to come to an arrangement, but be-
fore the money had been paid backed out OF
the agreement, and utterly refused to make
any promise in the matter. Ho continued his
demonstrations towards the lady, and the con-
| sequence was that he was called ont from the
bar-room of the Carlton House on tho fatal af-
ternoon--it was, we believe, about dusk-and
found some halt dozen men on tho pavement
at tho corner. Which of those six it was that
did the decd, they know, but Csrlies was
shot as he stood among them the six men got
into six cabs which were in waiting, backed up
to the curb and were driven in six different di-
rections, each driver being an accomplish and
50 the guilty Irritation ended.-Ncw York
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