New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-21
UNPUBLISHED CRIMES.

There is peculiar feature ia our criminal his
tory which reflects anything but credit upon the
administration OF justice in thus city. We refer to
the number of murderers and other feons who es.
cape altogether alter the preparation of the most
daring crimes. A glance OF a few of the many in
stances Of this kind may not be uniutegesting or
u1iDstructiye. To 60 back to the great excite
ment concerning the mysterious disappearance and
murder, nearly twenty years ago, of Mary c.
Rogers, "the beautiful cigar girl" would make
our record too long. But passing by this, the
Polly Bodine affair, and the notorious case
OF the assassination of Mr. CorlieS, in open day,
on the corner of Broadway and 1t Onard street
the criminal escaping with entire impuot,-
We come to a period within more recent recollec-
ton.
1t is Just four years ago this week that some per-
sons entered the store on the southeast corner of
White street and Broadway, and brutaLy butch
cred the porter, Bartholomew Burke, literally
carving him TO pieces. Not the slightest clue to
the perpetrators of the assassination has ever been
made public.
There were four or five other mysterious muir
ders in the city before the close of that year, which
were never punished.
In 1857 the mortality records show over sixty
murders or homicides, many of which were COM
mitted with impunity.
William Dunn was killed by slung-shot, corner
of Broadway and Twenty-seyenth street. Three
men examined and discharged puoished.
Robert 2. Albee of Massachusetts, was licked to
death in an Diversified saloon the murderer
escaping
The my steriOus murder OF DIR. Harvey Burdell,
at No. 81 Bond street, occurred in 1857; the
particulars are so well known that we need only
refer to it,
Officer Hardenbrook of the Ninth Ward was
stabbed while in the performance Of duty. He
died, and no arrests were made.
John Sweeney of No. as Frankfort street was
beaten to death in the street-by whom was never
known.
Found Drowned" covers from 20 TO 80 un-
doubted murders every year. We note three-a
well known thief shot in boat, probably by his
fellow thieves; an unknown man, undoubtedly
robbed, beaten until insensible, aud thrown into
the East River prostitute found in the North
River, who had evidently been murdered on the
land.
Samuel Rensdcn was fatally stabbed in Five
Points dance house-by whom il unknown.
The celebrated negro murder case is the next in
the dark catalogue. Francis Salters a quiet,
coloIed map, was watching an alteration in
Thomas street between two young men, named
Drake and Duffy, who were refused admittance to
vile house. Without the slightest proyocation
ope of them, as is supposed, deliberately shot
Salters, when they leaped il 10 wagon and drove
off. No arrests were made; il is said that poliIi-
cal influences shielded the suspected men.
A peaceable German citizen Of the Seventh
Ward was shot dead in the course of trfng riot.
The notorious Cancemi murder occurred as the
next exciting criminal event.
Augustus T. Van Lew, welkno and re-
spected citizen, was found dead at the corner OF
Canal and Mercer streets. He had been knocked
down and robbed. No arrests were ever made.
John Rylabd was found dead in an open lot at
Yakyille. He had marks of violence, indicating
murder; but DO one was accused.
Robert Boyd was shot by burglars in his grocery
in West Eighteenth street.
Theodore L. Tompkins Of Hobohen was beaten