Smyrna times., 1857-02-11
Correspondence Of The Smyrna Times.
FROM NEW YORK.

ucF coroner OOHHeTyS Examination OF W
WirHesses-FuReraI Of DR.. .BurdeH- Who fc
Suspicion prints to, as the Gully Parties--lir
Ipcidents, DE 1Ae Weather and our Har- 9
Markeis-Ckit. Chat, dc. 70
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. $
New York, Feb. 9th, 1857. c
The horrible and cold-blooded murder of Dr. 4
Harvey Burdel, residing at 81 Bond street,
discovered last Saturday morning has been the
main subject of conversation not only in social I
quarters, but in the workshops, factories and
on 'change,vTthe excitement and interest in-
cfeaslng from day to day, as new evidence is
producea.-As many of, your readers may not
have read an account of this cold .blooded and
desperate murder, immediately in. the city,
about fifteen doors from Broadway, at a time,
too, when the streets are most thronged with
pedestrians, will endeavor in brief to relate
the circumstances attending it. On Saturday
morning, about o'clock, servant boy in the
house 81 Bond street, on going into the room of
Harvey Burdel, the well known Surgeon Dem
tist, found the Doctor lying on the floor, his
person and room covered with blood. The boy
Immediately gave the alarm, and other persons
in the house came TO the scene. DIR. Burdell
was found 10 be dead, and the appearance Of
the body gave rise to a report that he had burst
a blood vessel and perished before he could sum
mon help. This was thdsstory published in the
evening papers of Saturday.
A closer examination of the body, however
disclosed the fact that he had been murdered
There were no less than fifteen sabs in his
neck and breast, made with some narrOw-ba.
ded, sharp instrument; aud, on his neck wSre
signs Of slrangulalion, which was further proved
by the fact that his lungs were full of air, and
his tongue protruded between his teeth One
of the cuts had severed the jugular vein, and
} another nearly separated the vertebre Two oI
the wounds in the breast had penetrated the
heart.
I Of course, an intense excitement was crc-
ated DIR. Burdel was widely known as VIII
; ter upon, and practitioner in dentistry. lie
was about 45 years Of age, of fine personal a p
: pearance and supposed to be wealthy. lie hac
2 his reception rOoms, Office, work.roons am
sleeping apartments ut the house in question
but took his meals at the Metropolitan Hotel
HOlo the Murder ,caS committed --Extrac
d from d CITY paper: "Frnm the topography o
: the rooms, and from all the circumstances at
, tending this mysterious murder. We NAV form
theory of the manner IN which It was commit
ted, although we may not be able to tx upnI
Is the assassin. 1t does not follow that any Of tht
n inmates of the house were the assassns, o
:, c0gnzant of the fact; because it would hav
: been the easiest matter IN the world for per
o SON to enter through the sreet-duor, by a key
/ the duplicate OF that by which the Doctor HIN
self gained admItance; and it would be yer
difficult to fix upon the way in which the dee
Ie was committed, since somebody must testify a
n. what time he ate his supper; and from the al
!, pearance of the undigested food IN the stOna
- he was probably killed hall an hour afterward,
Is From the testimony of the inmates of the house
is it appears they retired to bed about IL O'clocE
" We suppose that the house then became quiet
70 and they must have all fallen suddenly into
!, deep sleep--so deep that the terrible deu II
?" struggle on the floor below, IN a room diTectl
~ under one witness who testItes TO not sleepin
ne very soundiy, did not rouse them. 1t is not
C. be expected they would hear the assassin ente
and, even should he come in boldly, they mtgI
suppose il was the doctor; but, after the dee
was done, it might reasonably be supposed
&c would 60 down stairs hurriedIy, aud make a
lg exit with less regard TO noise than his eutranc
at From indlca tions, there must have been sever
n, struggle between the murdered man and h
. murderers, us the blood was found in dliferel
" parts of his apariment. 1T is evident, also, thu
~ there must have been an attempt at the gdTrt
e. ting powers, for the throat bears v,dent nu RI
- of hgature, aud the face and eyes of havu
. suffered from suiocation. He fell close /
y the door where he was found dead by the bc
We next morning-the gas still burning, the ke
,r- IN the doOr-and yet no one Of all the aRi
passing up or down these stairs all the NOR
ing, within two feet of that murdered body, ha
- discovered il, or any t'uce of the murderer
- not even noticing the smears of blood upon ii
- stairway up and down. To say the least, it
10 one of The most mysterious of all the myster
10 Gus murders of this prolific age of slaughter
Ne and the murder is not the only mystery Il
he secret marriage, and the difficulty OF identi
Jog the murdered man as the married one,
." equally mysterious. Still, it may all be solve
an and this may yet prove another act in the gre
drama of g0rrOtery."
u.s. CORONER CoNNERY's INouEsr.-This ve
~ lacetious gentleman, who learn is gradua
he of printing establishment in this city, and
til Ifishman by birth, has not only disguised Il
lc' WnoIe community win MS mode OF eXamInlI
ah witnesses in this most soIemn aud mporta
49, case, but hus proved himself 10 be totally u
70. hit for the important Office he holds, and, lii
OF Dogberry, is writing himself down an ass.
Suspicion as to the guilty parties points
20. Mrs. Cunningham aud MIR. Eckel, minutes
mo- the house in which DIR. Burdell was murdere
Is. but as yet nothing in evidence has been elicit
ar. to establish their guilt: and many believe tn
ne the assassns will escape punishment. ...'
lo- The remains Of the deceased were inter-
cs in the Grace Church yard on Wednesday ate
!, noon, at o'clock. Just prior to the closing
? the coffin, Mrs. Cunningham (who claims
have been married to him last October) requei
r. ed that she might be permitted to pay her Ia
is- respects to the deceased, which was granite