The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-03-02
An Ord-TIme MYSTERY.

The following story Is n Nv told as
sequel to- the noted Bardell murder oi
many years ago
Capt. William Hyde started in life
as clerk many years age, In what
was then q humble little tOblcco
store in New York city. He fell in
love with New York girl, and was
engaged TO be married to her; but she
left the city, and for q number OF
years was believed to be dead. His
cruel sweetheart had married q Mr..
| Cunningham, s name that will be
forever associated with one OF the
most mysterious murders ever record
ed in the annals of crime. Shs be-
came, in short, the Mrs. Cunningham
in whose house in Bond street DR..
Burdell was murdered, and who was
tried for the crime aud acquitted
Young Hyde shipped aboard whal-
er bound for the Pacific, served his
time, engaged in the pearl fishery in
the gulf OF California, and at last set
! tied in the old town of LSreto, the
ancient capital of the Californias,
when he married a native woman,
who died soon afterwarc. About
this time he discovered q copper mine
in the high mountain known as 'La
Giganta,| - just back OF Goreto, and for
a time busied himself in developing
its resources. He might have been
working there still, but for an anfor-
tunate and no less singular circum.
stance that again changed the current
of his life, and again sent him a wAu-
derer out into the wide world.
At the close of the trial Of Mrs.
Cunningham, she disappeared from
New York, and various were the sur
mises in regard to her 'abouts. She
was frequently seen, according T.. the
reports, in q dozen places at the same
time, but could never be fully identi-
fled and her death was 50 often an
nounced that many people began to
doubt whether she ever had an ex-
istence. The truth is that, taking q
son and daughser with her, she went
to Lower California, and at Llreto
met Capt. Hyde. The intimacy OF
bygone years was renewed, and in
due time they were married. The
marriage proved an unhappy one,
and poor Capt. Hyde fled to another
part Of the State, leaving his mine in
charge of q superintendent, q Mexi-
can. Shortly after the old mans dis
appearance his wife ran away with
the superintendent, and sold the mine
for large sum. The company who
bought it having failed to comply
with the Mexican mining laws, the
property was confscated by the State.
Mrs. Cuningham's children then
made demand for it. It was trans
ferred to them and is now in their
possession. The son and daughter
still reside at Loreto, miserable out
of-the-way place Of less than a hun
dred inhabitants. 1t was once, how
ever, a large city, but was destroyed
by an earthquake many years ago.
There are several fiue ruins in aud
about the place that prove it to have
been at one time q lOrdly city.
Young Cunningham Rupp )rts him.
self and his sitter By working q small
rancho. She lives in the village
with her child. She was never mar
ried, and in the haggari woman oI
thirty-five, old long before her time
there is no trace Of ths beautiful
young girl who played so conspicuous
q part in the great mystery OF a few
wears ago. The old man gained 8
seanty subsistence by teaching here
and there, and finally settled al
Purissima, a small village above
Magdalena bay, near the outer coast
4 Here he died. When last heard from
Mrs. Cunningham was living In lux
ury in California.