Connecticut western news., 1876-02-11
An Old.Time Mystery.


 The following story is now told as 6 sequel to the noted Burden murder oi many years ago:
 Capt. William Hyde started in life as clerk many years ago, in what was then humble little tobacco store in New city. He fell in lovn with New York girl, and was engaged to be married to her; but she tilted him, and the dis consolate boy left the city, and for a number of years was believed to be dead. His cruel sweetheart had mar ried MT. Cunningham, 8 name that will be forever associated with one of the most mysterious murders ever recorded in the annals of crime. She became, in short, the Mrs. Cunningham in whose house in Bond street Dr. Burden was murdered, and who was tried for the crime and acquitted.
 Young Hyde shipped aboard whaler bound for the Pacific, served his time, engaged in the pearl fishery in the gulf of California, and at last settled in the old town of Loreto, the ancient capital of the Californias, when he married @ native woman, who died soon afterward. About this time he discovered copper mine in the high mountain known as "La Gganta just back of Loreto, and for time busted himself in developing it's resources. He might have been working there still, but for an un- fortunate and no less singular circum- stance that again changed the current of his lie, and again sent him wanderer out into the wide world.
 At the close of the rial of Mrs. Gun ningham, she disappeared from New York, and various were the surmises in regard to her abouts. She was frequent ly seen, according to the reports, in & dozen places at the same time, but could never be fully identified and her death was so often announced that many peo- pie began to doubt whether she ever had son and daughter with her, she went 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 @ superintendent, a Mexican. Shortly after the old mans disappearance 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. Cunningham's children then made de- mand for it. It was transferred to them and is now in their possession. The son and daughter still reside at Loreto, a miserable out-of -the-way place of less than hundred inhabitants. It was once, however, 8 large city, but was de- stroyed by an earthquake many years ago. There are several fine ruins in and about the place that prove it to have been at one time a lordly city.
 Young Cunningham supports himself and his sister by working small ranche. She lives in the village with her child. She was never married, and in the hag- gard woman of thirty-five, old long be- fore her time. there is no trace of the beautiful young girl who played so con- spicuous part in the great mystery of a few years ago. The old man gained 0 scanty subsistence by teaching here and there, and finally settled at Purissima, a small village above Magdalena bay, near the outer coast. Here he died. When last heard from Mrs. Cunningham was living in luxury in California.