Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1857-03-26
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very licrntious man !; and had a great
many difficulties in consequence et it;
his nane lis found on the books atsthes
Tombs, in the law courts, and he has
been knownto the head oft the police for
many years. While living in Cham
bers strnet he was sued by disreputa-.
Bile woman for, nonpayment Of money
alleged to be due to her. 5sss s,g
InfS35, or thereabout, Harvey Eur
dell was engaged TO be married to -
respectable young lady, bot her father
permptorily refused to permit the mar
riage, at which Burdell got angry,
struck the father and gave him a black
i eye. Subsequently he was engaged to
be married to another young lady, an
adopted daughter Of worthy lady and
gentleman !; the day and hour was set
| for the wedding, the wedding party as-l
sembled, the bridesmaids and the brlde-l
groom we're present, the clergyman was
ready to perform the ceremony, when,
DIR. Harvey Burdell entered the room
of the old man and told him that before,
he married the girl he wanted check
for 500, 900. The old gentleman told
him that he was marrying his daugh-t
| ter for her money he should have neither
so the wedding was broken up. Snbsc-l
quently the young lady married the
person who was to be groomsman on
the former occasion. He received the
check for $40 900. The check on the
previous occasion was made out for
Burdell, and would have been given
him Immediately atterthe marriage cer-:
emeny was performed !; and when 4-iie.
heard about it he is said to have become
greatly excited, and declared that he
would never get married. SSH
Dr. BnrdeIl had very curious SER
want girl, called Biddy who was with
him five years at 36s Broadway, and
two years at 81 Bond street, during the
whole of which time she never went to
bed, He never furnished her with a
bed Or anything to sleep upon. She,
was poorly clad, and hardly ever had
anything to wear on her feet. He new
er provided her. with anything to eat,
but gave her small weekly salary,
upon which she supported herself, buy
ing her food at the groceries. This is
a specimen Of the doctors pennrious-
ness. The girl could speak four Ian
gnages tluently ly-nainely, the English,
French, German and Spanish. She
had great passion for studying and
learning languages. She was an Irish
girl, and a most faithful servant. She +.
frequently saved the doctor fren being
beaten, for if a fight occurred she would
run between him and his assailant, and
stand there till she stopped the fighting.
She slept sitting on 4 stool in the kltch-
en- below the hall DOORS if any person
rung the bell or entered the house at any
time Of night she would know it and at
tend them. Yet for all theso.s services
she barely received enough pay from
the doctor for her subsistence DIR.
Burdell, as before mentioned, was a
loose character, and consequently SUR
rounded by such. He generally let his
house to persons of bad character.
Mrs. Totten occupied his house IN
Broadway for some time, and he, as
usual, had trouble with her and law
suit.
About three years ago Mr.. Bulin.
whose wife is half sister to DR.. Burdcll,
took the house No. 81 Bond street
they quarreled, the parties moved from
the house, and have never spoken to
Burdeli since. g ha
"A little over year ago, Harvey
Burdcll employed his brother James to
build some houses for him in Herkimer
county, N. Y, and agreed to give him
certain itcrest in them or remunerate.
him for building them, but quarrel
and law suit followed between them.
Dr.. Burdell also had law suit with
Benjamin Il. Mcguire, relative to
whom he sold the office tools, SC. OF
John Burdell, at Union place.
There was wealthy widow lady of
this CITY who used to visit DR.. Bardeli
almost every day for two years. On
one occasion she called on him IN the
afternoon to 20 to the theatre with him
in the evening. On the way 70 the the
atre, she said she would like something
to eat, and entered Thompson's saloon
and called for what she wanted. Dr.
Rurdell refused to call for anything for
himself, saying that he had been to tea.
She told him to call and be decent. he
refused when she called for him. dc
would not eat and on coming back
for her would neither pay for himself
nor her. The doctor is represented by
those intimately acquainted with him TO
have been very peculiar man he
hated children and never had any
pets in his life except some Guiuea pigs.
His brother, Lewis Burdell, Is 10 the luz
natic asylum on BlyckwelPs lsland, hav-i
ing gone mad from the effectsof q nance
less habit. Notlong since paper was