Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-03-03
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The following story is now told as
a sequel to the noted BurdeIl muir
der of many years ago - =
Capt. William Hyde started in
life as clerk many years ago, in
what was then humble little to-
bacco store in New York city. He
fell inpIovo With New York girl,
and was engaged to be married TO
her bat she Tilted him, and the dis
consulate boy left the city, and for
a number of years was believed to
be dead. His cruel sweetheart had
married a Mr.. Cunningham, a name
that WILDE forever associated With
one ofthe most mysterious murders
ever recorded in the annals Of crime
She became, in short, the, Mrs Cum
ningham in whose house in Bond
street DR.. BurdeH was murdered, and
who was tried for the crime and &C.
quilted. 70 s4ss. .sI
Young Hyde shipped aboard a
whaler bound for the Pacific, served
his time, engaged in thepearl fishery
in the gulf of California, and at last
settled in the old town Of Loreto,
the ancient capital Of the Californias,
when be married q native woman,
who died soon afterwafd. About
this time he discovered q copper
mine in the highs mountain knowias
Ia Gigaata, just back of LoFeto,
and for time busied himself ID de-
yeIopiRg It's RESOURCES. He might
have been working there still, bat
for an unfortunate and no less SIM
gular circumstance that again chang
ed the currentof his life, and again
sent him a wsndefer out into the
wide world. ..T,-- q
At the close of the, trial of Mrs.
Cunningham, she disappeared from
New York, and various we're the spr-
mises in regard to her aboats. She
was frequently seen, accerdinglto
the.reports, in "a dozen places atethe
same time but could never be fnIly
identified and her death was so Of
ten announced that many people be.
gan to doubt whstherlshe, ever had
an existence. The truth is th$t,
taking son and daughter with her,
she went to Lower California, aud
at Loreto met Capt. Hyde. The in.
timacy Of byeone years was renewed,
and in due time they were married,
The marriage proved an unhappy
lone, and poor Capt. Hyde fed to an
other part of the State, leaving his
mine in charge Of a superintendent,
Mexican. Shortly after the old
mans disappearance his wife ran
away with the superiutedents and
sold the mine for large sum. The
company who bought it having fail
ed to comply With the Mexican min
4 ing laws, the property was conhscat.
ed by the State. Mrs. Cunningham e
children then made a demand for It.
It was transferred TO them and is
row in their possession. The son and
daughter still reside at Loreto, q
miserable o6t-of.the- way place of less
than q hundred Inhabitants. Il WIS
sHee, however, q large city, but wa.
destroyed lbv an eafthquake mahy
years ago. There are several fac
ruins in and about the place that
4 prove it TO have been st one time
lordly city. u
4 Young Cunningham supports hin
self and bis sister By working q small
rancho. She lives in the village with
her child. She was never married
and in the haggard woman Of thirty
five, old long before her time, ther,
is no trace Of the beautiful yonts
/ girl who played so conspicuous pdr
in the great mystery of a few year
ago. The old man gained scantI
subsistence by teaching here ah.