Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-02-19
THE NEW YORK MURDER.

The investigation of the late horrible butch
cry in Bond street, is still continued by the
Coroner A mass of evidence has been taken,
without throwing much light upon the mystery
In the meantime, thousand conjectures are
indulged as to the actors in the horrible drama,
and the probable circumstances attending it.
The Tribune says that the generally received
theory of the murder is, that Mrs Cunningham
had established herself at Dr. Burdell's house,
hoping to entrap him into marriage. Find
ing herself defeated in this object, she induced
her paramour, Eckel, to personate Burdell in
a sham marriage, either with the view of claim
ing her dover, a sum of between $50 900 and
SIC, 900, as BurdelPs widow, in case of his ma
tural death, or with her paramour assassina-
ting him with that express object and that
the fact that Burdell on the day preceding
the night Of his murder, had made lease of
his house, by the signing of which, at the time
appointed on the next day, he would, on the
lst of May next, have disposSessed her and her
family, and thrown them on the world, hasten
ed the catastrophe, and caused it to occur on
the night in question. That the murder was
pcrpetrated by them the instant Burdel enter
ed his rooms that they had not anticipated
any outcry, and that the single and half-stiaed
utterance of the word murder alone revealed
the deed at the time, the victim being nearly
instantly dispatched with fifteen wounds, al
most any one of which was by the physicians
deemed fatal. That the bloody clothes of the
murderers were then burned, which accounts
for the smell of burning wooden perceived by
so many witnesses in Bond street, on the night,
between IL aud 2 o'clock, and that the instru-
ment or instruments with which the deed was
committed, were during the night taken away
from the house and secreted by one of the
murderers, after all evidences of the bloody
deed had been removed from his person
The most important testimony yet elected
is that given by man named Farrell, who
testifes that on the evening of the assassina-
ton, at about | l o'clock, he sat down to rest
on the stoop of No. 81, and Dr. Burdell pass
ed ia and closed the door, and that about a
minute after he heard cry of murder, accom-
panied with some singular noise, and in about
a minute after that a man with his coat off,
and bushy head opened the door and looked
out, and abusing him, grufiy asked him what
he was sitting there for Farrell was asked if
he would know the man who looked out, and
was taken into room in which was quite a
number Of men. After looking round he Sc
lected Eckel, and was certain he was the man
| that looked out.
A lady engaged in q store in Broadway,
testified that Snodgrass came to her store two
or three days btfore the murder and purchased
dagger of peculiar pattern, a similar one
being produced by her, which on examination,
it was found would produce the wounds infic-
ted on the Doctor. She identified Snodgrass
as the person. In consequence of this testimo-
ny be was re-arrested.
On Saturday the examination was concluded
The Coroners Jury then conferred together,
and in short time rendered the following ver-
| d ct -
First-That the deceased, Harvey Burdell,
was found dead at his house. No. 81 Boud-st.,
on the morning of the 3lst of January, 1851.
Second-That his death was caused on the
night of January 30th, by numerous wounds
from some sharp instrument
Third-Tha, the Jury find that Dr. Harvey
Burdell was murdered by Mrs. Emma Angus
ia Cunningham and John j. Eckel, as princi-
pals.
Fourth-That George Vail Snodgrass was
accessory before the fact
Fifth-That Miss Augusta Cunningham and
Miss Helen Cunningham are persons having a
knowledge of the facts, and conceang their
knowledge of them.