Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-01
,,,s,le Developments in the Burdell
 Murder

The New York journals have been surmising
 ! b;oring that some further discoveries re-
 "" .,;rr the murder of Dr. Burdell are likely
 oome out of the recent Cunningham farce. A " ,. York correspondent of the Boston Journal > r...es to give some of these new disclosures, fantionsly, however, preceding them with the ,elaration that he does not wish to be held l .,.auntable for their accuracy. He says:
 Not to be held to too rigid an account for the
 Il correctness of all have to state--not will
 10 10 be held to strict accuracy, have good
 ,horty for saying that probably the yelled
 rs.ery of Harvey Burdel's murder will be
 fsl and the mystery dssipated soon; that
 darkness of that night of crime will soon
 ze with the brightness of monday; that i 5lc morality and public justice will be vin-
 sted by the dark and terrible revelations of
 # hour of blood; and the authorities. am II 6rmed, have come into the possession of
 me most startling developments, which will
 5w that secrecy in such great crimes is made
 rno,sible by the laws of God.
 It will be remembered that no account can
 ga hered of the manner or place in which
 !. Burdell passed his last night, from the time
 2 took his dinner, at six o'clock, when he was cen to enter his house, 3l Bond Street, on the ,ht he was murdered. All his old haunts ave been visited all his old associates found ni examined all the usual places of resort sarched yet no one saw or heard of him after syen o'clock, till he was seen to enter his
 house at eleven o'clock at night The fact was,
 e was not then alive; he lay on bis floor a nangled and stifened corpse He was killed .oon after he entered his house at seven o'clock
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 % into that house before he came from his 51ner; in the closet he waited for his victim: alh coat and shoes off he watched for the rs.arn of the subject, with the intention to gar re him; his accomplice and accessory was in uitng in the next room with dagger prepared fr struggle, if needfu. It is difficult to naugle a stout, athletic man, struggling for l8 life, and as the struggle comes on, the blade f the assassin is freely used with the despera- ron ofa novice and of revenge and despair
 The inmates of the house were away when Burdell was killed The deed of blood was done. The clothes are consumed before the family returned. The "smell of leather" -.,tihed to on the trial, is but another of the gures of interested medical men who have i ured in this terrible affair." The man of hood, having done the deed, takes the cloak ni hat of Dr. Burdell slips out the back way through the lane into Bleecker street. and by concert and agreement, at the proper time hat is about 1 o'clock at night, the time of 3ardelrs usual rcturn--he walks up Bond .tfeet-goes boldly up the steps of No. 3l Bond treet, as the doctor-enterS so as to attract at. auton, aud the evidence is regarded as com lete. He had perSonated Burdel at the mock marriage; he had deceived the amiable, vet rtdulouS and unreliable Dr. Marvin, the cler- 1mAn who married the parties; he could easily eceiye those who saw only his form, the we'll nown cloak and hat, at the midnight hour; d when the question was asked: "Where I> Dr. Burdell between the hours of and II lat fatal nght?" the answer is, q" He was body and stitt'ened corpse, lying cold in death, -d in his own blood, on his office floor, the ltim of fourteen stabs, by an excited, furious rd maddened hand" And when it was said bat he :" was seen to enter his own house | II o'clock" that fatal night, through his ont door--hiS answer is, his hat cane and oak went in on the person of the assassin" ut Burdell was cold in death, in that room lng before that hour
 The bloody deed done-the clothes burned ie bloody stains washed out as far as possible le door locked and all is still-when the men rho occupied the rooms, chambers and upper art of the house came in at ten or eleven or weye, and found all still, and swear that no oise confusion, cry, or smell of burning cloth ame 10 their notice that night after they came i. All this was part of well consummated ran but one that Is destined, I believe, to an arly and complete exposure. When the sense if il>ice is relieved - the peonla Saapo to breathe more freel ly-public security and con- ilence is revived. Men feel that they may not be hewu down in cold blood, in the heart of this great city, at their own firesides, and the murderer not only go unhung but reap golden harvest in defiance of law, from the work of blood and death. Such l understand to be the nature of some of the developments about to trauspre.