The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-08-15

An Extra Number. and the causes thereof
Next week an extra number of our paper will be IS
sued. This is caused by the fact that the Town Com
pany who arc DESTROYS Of advancing the sale OF the stock
of the Nininger and ST. Peter Railroad Company have
closed the purchase of a TOWNSHIP on the Minnesota
river, and will commence the publication Of the neces-
sary advertisements in the latter part of next week The
town has not yet been christened, and a variety Of names
have been suggested for it. On Tuesday next a meet
ing of the parties interested will be held in St. Paul,
when all the preliminary arrangements for the sale OF
stock will be made. Public meetings will be held at
specified times at St. Paul, Nininger, St. Anthony.
Glencoe, the new town site, and at various other places,
The terms of sales are these: the lots will be sold at a
few dollars each to those who will take stock in the road.
To make the inducements still greater the stock will be
payable in small monthly installments, so that even the
poorest man can take more or less stock. The Town
Company have bought out not mere wild land or farms,
but an absolute torn site in which lots are already sell
Jig for two hundred dollars each. These same lots will
be offered to stockholders in the Company at five Or ten
dollars each Who will doubt that when such induce
ments are offered the stock will all be sold. Those who
subscribe for lots first will have the first choice, under,
however, certain restrictions as to the amount of stock
to be subs eribed for.
There is no doubt that the grading of the road will
be commenced this fall. We are confident believers
that three months will witness the disposal of the whole
Of the stock. The men engaged have ceased to talk
railroads, and will take to building them.
uxosn
The notorious Mrs. Cunningham, of whom all our read
es have read in connect with the murder OF DIR.
Burdell, IL Bond street, New York, has again thrown
that city into a fever of excitement by the develope-
ment Of Il new and bold maneuver III the complicated
Burdel! murder and pr;lperty Casa plot so audacious
and so deliberately ctrried out that it looks more like
the romantic invention of Il novel writer than the sober
reality Of actual experience.
The history of the transaction is thus summed up =
Mrs. Cunningham made a confdant Of DR. Uni, her
family physician, and requested him to assist her in
carrying out her plan, and promised him liberal pecu-
MARY reward. The Doetor, by the advice OF the District
! Attorney, to whom the scheme on foot was divulged,
pretended to acquiesce with her proposition, and agreed
to make the necessary arrangements for the purpose.
1t was finally arranged that the great event of pro-
ducing an heir for DR.. Bardelvs property should take
! place some time in the week, and to DR.. Url was intrust-
ed the task of hunting up the "lttle stranger" Things
having advanced thus far, DIR. Uhl, accompanied By DR..
De la Montagnie, immediately sailed out in quest of
suitable apartments, of which they could obtain temper
ary occupation. Rooms were met with ut No. l9O Elm
street, and there, it was represented to Mrs. Cunning
ham, resided a married lady, who, during the absence OF
her husband in California, had been rather easy III her
manners, and was about to give birth TIC a child, which
! she, under the circumstances, would be glad to dispose
of. The room was at once neatly furnished with furnl-
ture from the house of the District Attorney. The
rooms were taken possession of by DR.. Montagnie. un
der the name of Karl l.. Herring, to correspond with
the initials upon a trunk purporting to belong t. the
California widow.
All things being ready for action here, and the Belle
vue Hospital furnishing on Monday a fine newborn in
| FAINT. it was resolved by those in the secret to bring nat
tiers to a crisis at once. Mrs. Cunningham was accord
inglv notified that the heir had been born, and couli be
obtained that evening. Upon receiving this information,
Mrs. G. said she would send Il lady (whose name she re-
fused to give to look at the place so as to know where
to 90 at a later hour. DR.. Uhl returned to No. 1870 Elm
etree., aud lnrt watch for tho lady ,uLa IVA ia lie sent
to reconnoiter the premises and in a short time a per-
son made her appearance, passed by and Inspected the
place. That lady, although in the disguise of a Sister
Of Charity, DR.. Uhl recognized as Mrs. Cunningham
herself. As soon as she had left the neighborhood, DIR
Uhl again visited No. 81 Bond street, when Mrs. Cum.
n~ingham called Il lady, whom DR.. Uhl recognized as her
sister (Nirs. Burns into the room, and asked her If she
was ready to go for the child, when Mrs. Barns asked
for the dark dress, and Mrs. Cunningham told her where
it was. 1t was then arranged between Mrs. G, and the
Doctor that he should 90 to No. 1870 Elm street, and
wait at the front hall till the lady to be sent should
come and in order to avoid any mistake III the matter,
the lady was to carry a white handkerchief in her hand.
After waiting about fifteen minutes, the lady appeared
who had previously rcconnOitered the premises, carrying
q white handkerchief in her hand as agreed upon. The
lady wore a long, black dress, and hood or close bonnet,
after the style worn by the Sisters of Charity-her face
being almost covered; but from her manner, form and
general bearing. DR.. Uhl again recognized her to be
none other than Mrs. Cunningham herself. DR.. Uhl
asked her if she had come for the child. She made no
reply, but followed him up stairs, where, in the room
appropriated for her reception, lay snugly ensconced in
bed, with night-cap and other feminine apparel on, a GER
tain wel-known doctor or druggist Of this city, imper-
sonating the dear, sick lady-the California widow-who
had just got through the pain and suffering consequent
upon such an occasion. Mrs. C. got the basket contain
ing the little stranger" and hurriedly left the build
inc. DR.. Uhl then started for home, leaving the parties
to attend to Mrs. C.'s movements outside, which plan of
operation was most e1ectually carried out.
DR.. Uhl had been at home but a brief period, when
he received a summons through Il gentleman Ga strangely
to repair Immediately to No: 81 Bond street, as Mrs.
Burdell was then suffering with labor pains. On arriv-
Quoted to a darkencd room, where Mrs. G. was in bed,
and apparently suffering the pains of labor. DIR. Catlin
and Mrs. Burns, sister of Mrs. Cunningham, were
present. DR.. Catlin brought in a pail containing blood,
with which the sheets were saturated and, in due time,
after considerable groaning and moaning, the expectant
heir was broughtforth and transferred over to the nurse
one Jane Bell, who washed and dressed it, while the doc
tors went through the process of b~andaging the suffer
ing but delighted mother, who took occasion to exclaim,
with much earnestness, that she had put her trust in
God, and in return He had been pleased to favor her.
In regard to this bold undertaking, the Tribune thus
remarks -
Taken in all its circumstances and concomitants, there
is nothing like it in the annals of crime. Here is a
woman, who has for at least three months devoted her.
self to the object of producing a pretended heir to DR..
Burdell in order to obtain the whole Of his property, a
large share of which she had before claimed as his widow.
While imprisoned on a charge of murder she pretends to
be pregnant, and when upon trial causes it to be whis-
pered about the courtroom that such is the fact, thus
creating sympathy in addition to that called forth by the
grouping of her children about her: Before the Surro.
gate the prospective event is artfully introduced and
commented upon by her counsel, and, strange to say, no
lonror oro tbop~ pastorl,v additional noints were sinh.