The New York herald., 1870-07-30

| A murder as mysterious as that cause
ceSf6re, the assassination of DR.. Burdel
wears ago, occurred within the hours OF mid
night on Thursday and six o'clock yesterday
morning, in the residence of the victim in West
Twenty third street. 1t happened, too, in q
populous neighborhood, directly opposite the
Fifth Avenue Hotel and in the vicinity of many
other hotels and fashionable restaurants. It
was not lonely district not in the depopulated
suburbs, nor on some desolate heath, where
we often hear of dark deeds Of this kind being
done out of sound Of human ears. There
were at least three persons besides the mur-
dcred man ia the house-his two sons and
servant--but the first intimation they had of
the tragedy was finding the mangled body in
the morning. This case of brutal murder
attracts more attention from the fact that the
victim was Mr.. Benjamin Nathan, brother
in-law CT Judge Cardozo, and gentleman
highly respected in the community, who for
years has held prominent position in the
Stock Board, who has amassed considerable
wealth, and whose charities-expended prin-
cipally among that persuasion of which he
was a much honored member-have been
always liberal.
II is said that the police have little or no
clue to the perpetrators of the murder. We
cannot think so. Brief as the time has been
since the crime was committed many facts have
been elected which should put sharp detectives
on the track. That the deed was done by bur-
glars may be assumed from the blowing up of
the safe and the abstraction of the valuable
watch and diamonds That life was ex-
tinguished by blows from blunt weapon, and
that probably the iron hammer or "dog"
found on the floor, the condition of the body
shows. That Mr.. Nathan did not surrender
his life without struggle is clear from two
facts. He was found upon the floor in the mid
die of the room, and therefore was not taken
by surprise, and his right hand was terribly
mutilated by blows, evidently received in
attempting to protect his head.
So much for the testimony indoors. The
outside clue as to the departure of the mur-
| derer from the house is said to be statement
of boarder in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, that at
five o'clock in the morning Of yesterday he
saw man leave Mr.. Nathan's dwelling by
! the front door. This man must have been con-
cealed in the house. Clearly he was not
resident; for the two junior Nathans were the
only living male parties in the dwelling at that
hour. Another voluntary witness states that
while returning from the Hoffman House, at
half-past one, he saw two men on the stoop of
Mr. Nathan's house, but he could not identify
them. This probably proves little, as it was q
stormy night In all this there seem to be
some links that may be woven into chain Of
evidence leading to detection. The detectives
have an additional stimulus to activity in this
terrible business by the offer of ten thousand
dollars reward from the Stock Exchange. The
burglar craft cannot well outbd this. There
will no doubt be further reward offered
by the Mayor for the detection Of the crimi-
mails, all of which viii put the police in good
humor for their work.
| 1t is evident that the torrent of crime and
bloodshed in this city has not been stemm cd
Is law too slow or justice too lenient, tha
peaceful citizens must be not only exposed t.
the violence of the armed rowdy on the
streets, but that even the sacred precincts o
their sleeping chamber can be invaded by the
murderer2 We are not surprised that this
shocking event has created sensation O
horror and fear throughout the entire com
rnunity. People feel that we live in the mids
OF terrible class Of lawless rufians, at whose
hands no mans life is safe from hour to hour.
The saleswOmen's Movement.
| The movement recently inaugnrated in fayO