New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-03

N his he To c0mpneSte VIC use>s<i e><e nrAe, "
pears thas upte very late perisd, cay within week
Of bis death he hsd been very snxpus 70 get this fam
y OF, Of b. house, Snd hsd hnsly succeeded IN get
ting The vsnAn to N-n IN agreement to fcrego what
she claimed TO hayea verbal agreement for the house
9 second year-&nd % oct N hay.
The Monday before HE death the Doctor eonErs;u-
lated himself to friend that be bad finally got 81 his
dficutiee with that troublesome ~sCan settled, and
that he should get nd Of her forever. Tie smother
friend he expressed fears about the safety Of this IN
strumtnt in his non chest 4 par Of the dlihcul'y
that be congratulated himself upon hsvins settled snd
included in this final release suit that she hsd
commenced against him IN October for 8 bresch Of
promise OF marriage which he ssid with q strong
word, be made. Moreover, he repeated to sew
ersl friends tha; he woud not marry any woman and
last Of all earth Ms. Cunningham. He WAS equally
bitter sganst her daughters, against whom be used
voids not 10 be repeated here. He wass man Of
some~ha; violent temper, and apt 70 speak what he
thought. OF course his friends are very emphatic in
their declarations that he never could have married
Ms Cunningham, aud that the whole affair was
fsud-s plot With some one to represent himself a. Dr.
Burden 90 as TO enable her 10 clsitn portion Of his
property as his widow and that the suit for breach Of
promise was all q sham, touching this end i. By it
money could not be wruDg from hin by WAY Of settle
ment.
tits little curi.us that neither the minister nor the
witnesses can identify the man to whom N b Gun
inghsm was married as DR.. Burden.
Beside the Doctor, Mrs Cunningham snd her two
grown UP daughters and two boys of 10 IL years,
there was serv ant girl and two young men, either as
boarders, or " friends Of the family. One OF these
Young men, a smoothfaced youth, thu wild sou of
respectable mnnttr, testified that he not paying
boarder, but had been invited by Mrs Cunningham to
make the house his home, ana had done 50 from some
time before Christmas 1t is evident that this youth is
very much enamored Of one of the Cunningham girls,
and scandal says if there Is not secret marriage be-
tween them there ought TO be. A free supply OF her
toilet articles and NrmeRts found in his bedroom Is
thought TO afford evidence in this respect This young
man is clerk in q downtown store. lie may probably
have no knowledge Of come family secrets IN the
house; though does appear singular that be should
not he testified that the secret Of the marriage
had been conhded to him. Ii he is criminal he s no.
vice.
The other man, who is placed By some Of the wit
nesses in some eqivocal positions, is more advanced
in years, so much go indeed as TO show very con-
siderable degree of badness, when without his wig
ard if not old niquiy. il Is no. because his a'so-
Citations both male and female, have not been OF the
kind 10 initiate him thereto. His female cores
pondence found IN his trunk is most scandsous.
few months ago, when he used to be in the habit OF
visiting a certsin Broadway restaurant in company
with woman from Georgia, his hair and whiskers
were thin and light colored. The man that was
married 10 Mrs Cunningham had dark wlsskers;
and some of Mr. Eckers former acquaintance are sur
priced TO find that his turned dark about
that time. This so changed his appearance
that the waiter who used TO attend hun at the
restaurant, was surprised to find that the mas
ter Of ceremonies at Mrs. CunniDghams great party
on January H. should ,arn out to be the Mr.. Ecke he
formerly knew. The supplies, it seems, for this party
from this same restaurant and have not yet been
paid fothe lady promising that when her rents came
in, from the LIST TO the 10th of February, she would
have plenty Of money IL is said that these rents are
as my thcal the hundred thousand dollars worth OF
property which the same woman represented herself
10 Dr. Burden to be worth. This Mr.. Eckel seems to
have been, If nothing more, veey proper companion
for that class Of men abou; town OF whom Dr. Tnrssher
Lyons WIS a living example. His position In this fam
lily is Dot exactly defined but il certainly appears to
have been free and easy one.
These persons constituted the family, though il ap-
pesrs tba. the Hon. Daniel Umann had room in
the house but be cannot of course, be pected to
throw any light upon the subject Now, were any Of
these parties the perpetrators or accessories OF thus
murder and, if 80, what was the object II appears
that, whether any Of them were at enmity with DR..
Burdell or not, he looked upon them with contempt,
10 gay the least. On the other hand judging from the
threats made, that If be interfered with the party
given bis pariors, against his viii, and, "a he al
legged to diseputsble character the several prnci-
pals OF the house would have hm arrested and taken
10 the Police Station and confined there was anything
but good stste Of feeling toward him. These feel
ipgs of bitter enmty independent Of getting posses
zion Of h. property, might be sufficient inducement
for unprincipled people to take fellow-creatures
Efs, particularly if it could be done in a quiet way
with the gauote, 30 that bis body could
be hung up and represented az that of
suicide Ii this vas the intent, the unexpected
resistance and overpowerng of the gsoter, a. to
require a resort to the dagger, frustrated the plso
Now the ASSASSIN, instead OF quietly and noiselessly
dspsiching his victim 10 the use of the dagger has
covered himself with blood. Where are these bloody
garments II suit Of clothes ,uch as graced either
Of the managers Of that party missing Is alleged,
it vii Be easy 70 establish that fact II the smell Of
burning voolen that disturbed two of the near
peighbors Of The house where this murder was com
mi.ted came from the burning Of these Bloody gar
ments s i; not possible to ascertain where they
burned and by whom Where the ashes OF the
su,pecied fire. ssd where the chemist With hs tests
for .aIely they will tel the difference between WOODEN
cloth and anthracite coal And If the cry Of murder
came from DR. Burden sc loud tbs, It was heard
acro,s The street did in that bOuse where the
deed vas dsne hear Il
Bat finally, the deed was MOI done BY inmates OF