Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-06-21

VI VI DI oaum ay, nedI inc Oh New YORK hospital.
She was remarkable fer her beauty, and her
pretty lace proved powerful attraction IN the
young men OF the period. On Sunday morn.
Ing June ~, ls42 she left her mothers house in
Nassau sIreet, Tor the purpose OF spending the
day at the house OF relative She was to
return In the evening, but did not This, how
ever, excited no suspicion. because the night
was stormy and wet, and it was supposed She
would .rematn at her relatives all night It
was When she failed to appear next day that
ne, .rlenas became alarmed, and Immediately
1Qst1luted inquiries. Thea 1t was discovered
that she had not been at her friends house. All
trace OF the poor girl was lost from the time She
ielt ner mothers house that Sunday morning.
But three weeks after the tide threw up the
dead body On the bank OF the river at Weehaw
Ken. n piece OF lace wound tightly around the
meek showed that she had been strangled
Tnat the girl had been grossly outraged was "a
PLAINLY dlscoveraole as the manner of her
death. Who did it has never been discovered
S enc %en. , out mat Sunday morning; her dead
DSuy was found three weeks after, and that is
al that could be ascertaiued Where She Went
who met her, where the murder was done NOT
tne nlOot Visilant search could ever ascertain
an llDpenetraoie mystery surrounds the whole
case.
The Burden murder was one which excited
tne community lot less than those spoken OF:
but though the woman vino was tried for the
murder escaped conviction, public opinion re-
NAMED liked that IL was q failure Of iusrjaa
DT. Harvey BuIdel was a middle aged man, a
dentist, IN good practice He lived at No AZ
Fond street, and In his room In that house he
was murdered On the night OF January 80 TS5-
lit Hau loU II 0a!U SltH MS murderer, His body
was found with many desperate stab wounds
upon II; the walls were spotted with the blood
which had spurted from them; the disorder of
the furniture showed how the man had sfrIg-
Sied Tor lie. IL Was SUrIDiSed from the position
IN Wnich the body was found, and from the
place OF the wounds, that the murderer had
Knocked at the door OF the Doctors rom a al
upon his opening 1t, had seized him py the
throat, ana In quick, fierce struggle stabbed
him repeatedly with short broad bladed knife
The WOUNDS showed that it must have been a
powerful hand which dealt the blows for the
Knife had been struck into the handle ana anv
or the numerous wounds would have cansad
death. Mrs. Cunningham, who kept the honsa
John Z. Eckel, a boarder, and her confidant ana
another boarder named Snodyr were arrest
cd, bat they were not convicted. It was Thought
that In the legal proceedings both tn the
corohers inquest, which laste1 many
days, and In the subsequent trial OF Mrs Gun
bingham, the officers OF the law blundered
lIexcGsably. Mrs. Cunningham Claimed to nave
Deen secretly married TO the Doctor That their
relations had been intimate, and that she had
trledto persuade him to recognize her as his wife
ana that they were On exceedingly bad terms
ara mad had legal troubles over the AFFAIR was
proved The theory or the crime was that the
woman and Eckel had planned the murder with
Inc Idea that she should, after the death of the
DOCTOR, Claim her widows dover In his estate
winch was valued at $l00,0o0. She did make
such claim after her acquittal on the trial for
tne Diunoer1ng or otherwise OF the law officers
all the accused parties escaped CONVICTION. hnt
u MAS asked, II these people did not commit the the