Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-07

TO pity was their soTrowful cond ition their anna.
rent observation-disclosures. II was with difficulty
that at any time they could refrain from bursting
into tears. The traces of care and suffering were
craven on their countenances. Augusta (who has
been staying i'm Lexington avenue, and not in the
country, aswas asserted, ) buried her face in the
sofa, and wept bitterly. Helen, though for a
ness, after her evidence was concluded, and she
had signed her testimony, burst into violent 1T
Of sobbng and shook .convulsively. Augusta $
eyes, while giving her evidence, were red with
weeping; but she answered the Justices interrog-
atories with frmness. She complained OF the
shock which her nervous system had undergone,
and said she had begged her mother not to speak
Whereas she formerly manifested extreme hardi-
hood and hauteur, she is at the present moment
completely Frustrated and unnerved, giving an.
:wers TO the various questions propounded her
Ia slow and unwilling manner. -.
The officers who had her in charge Yesterday
remarked this change, and one and all sympa-
thized with her in her evident mental agony. IL
was stated py some parties protesting to be well
informed that she had opposed her mothers
course ever since the conclusion of the trial and
to an oficer, who proposed TO lead her TO her
mother and sisters, she replied that she desired to
return to her auuts In Lexington avenue, for tina,
she would never enter the house, 81 Bond street
again, so long as she lived.
The new developments in the Burdell case are
likely to lead TO some new inQuiries-at least q
some new suspicions-as to the previous history
of that remarkable affair. Hitherto IL has beer
assumed by many persons that the failure to iden.
tify Eckel as the party married to Mrs. Cunning.
ham tends strongly to prove the reality Of he
marriage with DIR. Burdell Recent occurrence.
will perhaps lead TO the suspicion that Mrs. Gun
ningham might have been assisted In that matte
from another quarter, and possibly may ever
point suspicion TO new parties as Implicated ia
the murder. II is by no means Impossible tha
the whole mystery may yet be unraveled.
The Times says:
1T has been suggested that the plot was check
ed too soon, but the authorities satisfied that
by morning Mrs. Cunning ham would have found
she was sold, and destroyed the evidence and
perhaps the child. Dr. Catlins house was watch.
ed; her own house was watched; Bond street was
appriZed that something suspicious was going
on; the child was pretty old; the marks were
coming out, and these facts must have warned hel
of her situation. The life of the child too was
in peril, for. on the first nimation OF it, being
false case, II is not improbable that Mrs G. would
have destroyed IL. Indeed, her doctors whisper
that, after having been sufficiently shown around
to her friends, IL was TO follow its supposed papa
to Greenwood as speedily possible.
1--WE understand that the authorities did no
anticipate being able to prove the full crime but
would rest on that section Of the statute which
says that II any person attempts to commit an OF.
fence prohibited by law, and in the attempt shall
do any act toward the offence and shall be inter
cepted, he shall suffer half punishment