Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-23

Tbs BURDELL MuRDER--The Grand Jury on
Saturday afternoon brought in indictment
against J. J. Fckel, and Mrs E. A. Cunningham
Tor the murder of DR.. Harvey Burdell. Snodgrass
was held to bail in $500 witness, and the
daughters we're discharged. The New York Tn
bune of Saturday. says:
1.-The whereabouts of DR.. Bur6ell at 10 l .
o'clock on the night of the murder, is now
ascertained to have been at the corner of
Broadway and Bond street. A private watch.
man testifies that at that hour he shook hands
with him there.
we hear that DR.. Psrmaly, dentist, No. 30
Bond street, on the night of the murder was
twice in the street-once about IA o clock
and a second time between 10 and IL O. clock
with little dog of his, that is something of
game-dog. On the second time. returning
home about IL o'clock, as he thinks, he smet
something as of wool burning and being pc
cuiarly sensitive about fire, he was hurrying
to his own house to ascertain if the smell
came from that quarter. His dog. however,
would not follow him, but obstiRa.eiy persisted
Ia s'a fling aud smelling at the door of No 81
Bond street uhe Burdell house) from ohsnce
he had to take him 6y force and his arms. DIR.
Parmaly then examined his own domicil, to
see it there WIS any fire. but finding none
went to bed, in chamber oppos te where
Mrs. Cunningham's room is now known TO be.
In that room. he DR., Parmaly) had often
seen man and woman, now known by him
to be Mrs. Cunningham. and Mr.. Eckel, but
not then so kHown-who, from their intima
cy. he had no doubt were man and WIFE, On
this particular night there were persons in
that room, and strange and peculiar light,
strange aud peculiar from its huttering and
peculiar character, now being brilliant, as if
something were thrown on to burn, and then
darkening. or nearly dark, as if the fire had
been exunguished. The light was not that of
a candle. or of gas, but as OF paper, or some
thing as luminous,
DIR. Parmaly declined going before the cor
oner, because Of the peculiar mode that func-
tionary had Of doing business; and as the
testimony before the Coroner was enough to
commit Mrs. Cunningham and Mr. Eckel, he
reserved what he had to say for the grand
jury, the only body that could ''indet."
In the report of DR.. Parmaly we may not be
at all accurate, as we do not have this informa-
Ton from him, nor from the person who heard
him say all this. but from third person, who
received 1t from the second person who did
hear it."
The BURDELL CAsE.-Dr. E. U. Spicer.
the former business partner of DIR. Burdell,
on Friday made an affidavit, IN which among
other things bearing towards Mrs Cunning
ham, he swears that Dr. Burdell acknowledg-
ed to him in letter that he was married to
Mrs. Cunningham. DR.. Spicer was in at
tendance on the jury of inquest, but the Cor
oner refused to examine him.
The Albany Knickerbocker states that
Farrell, whose testimony tended SO strongly in
pointing the finger of guilt at Eckel, as the
murderer of DR.. Burdell, was some four years
ago a resident of that city. He was subse-
quently arrested for fraudulently voting, but
was admitted to bail. which he forfeited and
fed the city. These facts. if maintained, will
materially affect his ciedlbility as a witness.