Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-02-26
The Burdell Tragedy.

closed on Saturday last, and resulted il
the finding Of the following verdict:
An IsQUIsITIoN.-Taken at the house o
the late Doctor Harvey Burdel, No. 81
Bond street, in the Fifteenth Ward of the
city of New York, in the county of New
York, this l4th day of February, in the yea
of cur Lord enc thousand eight hundred ant
fifty-seven, before Edward D. Connery, o
the city and county aforesaid, on view OF the
body CT the said Harvey BurdelI, living deaC
a: 81, Bond street, aforesaid, and upon the
osths and affirmations of twelve good anC
lawful men of the State OF New York. dulv
chosen and sworn or affirmed and charrel
10 enquire ON behalf OF said people how ant
in what manner the said Harvey Burdel
came to his death, do, upon their oaths and
affirmations, say that the said HErv'y Rur.
dell on the 3Oth day of January, at 81, Bono
street, aforesaid, was felonously murdered
and came TO his death by being stabbed ir
various parts Of his body with a dagger 81
other sharp instrument, and the Jurors be.
lieve from the evidence, and therefore find
tl;at Emma Augusta Cunningham and JOIN
Eckel were principals in the commission
Of said murder; and the jurors aforesaid fur.
ther find that George Vail Snodgrass either
Joined the said Emma Augusta Cunning.
ham and John J. Eckei in the commission
of the said murder. or was accessory thereto
before the fact, counseling, or abetting the
said Emma Augusta Cunningham and John
J. Eckel to commit the said murder; and the
jurors aforesaid further find tkat Augusta
Cunningham and Helen Cunring CHAM, be-
ig in the house, 81, Bond street, a foresaid
where the said murder was committed, have
some knowledge of the facts connected with
the said murder which they have concealed
from The jury, and shat it is the duty Of the
Coroner to hold them for the future action
of thr Grand Jury. In witness whereof
we, the said jurors, as we'll as the Coroner
have to this inquisition SET our hands and
s,als on The day and place aforesaid
This finding we think necessarily follow.
ed the evidence adduced, and we doubt not
accoros with the views of nine-tentbs ot
those who have paid any attention 10 the
case. In addition to the numerous facts
proved as to :he feeling of enmity enter.
tained by the accused against the deceased
their threats, his own expressed fears o
them even on the day preceding the murder
the general bad character of the principal
parties implicated, the benefits to accrue to
Mrs. Cunningham on BurdeIl's death by
means of forged papers, probable sham
marriage, &c, the sending of the servant
girl to bed at ten o'clock, and the almost
impossibilily of the crime having been CON-
mitteG under such circumstances by a sim
gle person or by others than the occupants
Of the house-the most important evidence
adtuced was that of Mr. BROOKS, living di.
recty opposite, who when about getting
into bed in room facing the street was
startled by the cry Of murder, 20 lowed by
sounds Of scuffie and fail; that of Mr..
K 'ss, who abcut the same time saw a man
answering the description of Burdcll enter
the house in which :he crime was perpetra-
ted; after the lapse of moment or two
heard half suppressed cry of murder issue
therefrom; that of Mr. StraDgham, U ho was
passing along the oppos te side of the street
about the same hour, and heard a sharp
etfled cry, like that of a person in agony;
that OF Mr.. Farrell, who claims to have ta-
ken scat on the steps to adjust his shoe
string, while sitting there man answering
to the description of Burdell passed by him
into the house without saying anything,
Immediately after he heard the cry of mur-
der, the scuflie and the fall, and directly
after man IN MS shirt sleeves (whom he
afterwards recognized among a crAwd of
persons as EckeD opened the door and put
ting out his head inquired what he was do
ing there in such savage tones as o frighten
him off; and that of cutlery dealer on
Broadway. who terrified to having sold Snod-
grass dagger the day preceding the mur-
der, the fellow to which was produced and
the wounds on deceased were such as would
have been produced with Just such an in
struneut.
The extent Of the excitement N New
York was great beyond precedent, The
Tribune SAYS:
ave believe that not less than one hun
dred and fifty columns of the Tribune have
been devoted to the evidence and comments
thereon-an amount of space which could
not have been occupied by any other matter
so satisfactorily to our readers. In fact, for
the past fortnight this mysterious murder
has preoccupied the public mind, to tie ex-
clusion of almost every other topic
We are especially reminded of this fact by
noticing ;he careless manner in which the
news of the disastrous freshet around US
involving the destruction of property to the
amount of mi lions of dollars--has been re-
ceived in this CITY; the public heart being
so Interpreted with the sonbre ferocities
of the murder that it had no room for the
entertainment of any other calamity"
The matter has gone before the Grand
Jury for their action, and the Public Ad-
has taken charge of the effects,
real and personal, Of the deceased d.-Dela-
ware Gazetfe.