Show THE r I 1 CLEAR tilt the murderer of dr burdell at last discovered BBS MING 1111 TO BE tw two tears after the 1 death ef of that ladr the ui zeal borderer lor derer li Is bis dis to veried 3 F r chronicle service I 1 YORK june 21 hidden behind the name of her husband there lived for several years in california Coh Coli fornia the woman oman alio ito has borne for or over twenty eire ears the charge of having baying committed one the mod most horrible murders ever c committed in new york and that one which ha has certainly produced prod iced moat most profound sensation of any spy which ever here that womac ie to known ti tie is world over a as a mrs cuningham the mur derer darer of 0 dr burdell who in 1867 was found one morning in bis his office with lia lis heal lead beaten to a baly an ant I 1 a ligature about lis neck mra mrs cuningham hid had been his mistress but was in fact his wife at the time of Sur dells death lie ile was rich and it was supposed that she had murdered him to obtain his hie estate by proving the marriage before the courts A prea preat her lier named snoda grass a wai was arrested with her and loth were acquitted at the first trial she had been marie marie ma rie rie i a eresly er etly and had never let the marriage be known at dr Bur burdella dells request but after her acquittal she went sent ack to live in her 0 old house and to k Bur burdelas dells alisme and raid paid ehe she waa was to live down the charges then mad a claim to the estate and the district attorney took tills this as proof of her motive motile and ae as a consequence of thie this act mrs cunningham was re imprisoned in the tombs and refused bill though the case nas was clearly a b is hie one her daughters charig to h her lr they were w ere at a the prison gates gate long li before fore they were opened in the morning at length through the interposition of matthew hale lisle smith their la a syer ef ebo sho was released on bail the case gradually dropped out of court aire mrs burden burdel 1 lived in new york for some time and finally married and went to california to live about two to years ago she returned to brooklyn where ehe site died at the house of her niece not long ago an anold old lady bent down over the tomb in greenwood and reid read the name on it suddenly elie she drew back in horror exclaiming as she raised her hands there lies the murderer of dr burdell but the old lady was wrong the murderer is now known to be a brutal criminal named george A isio Situ imone mons who was born in temp eton massachusetts and who nearly fifteen ers oars aio was hung in new jersey Jer he was known as the scarred gant and was bung hung under the name of charles lewis lawis for the murder of a man named kowan of princeton two pieces of evidence of the murder of dr bardell were uever never accounted for a shirt marked J ketchum and a bloody finger mark W with ith a vacant place in it sh showing 0 i 9 that the finger was scarred s simmons i m had lived near burdelas Bur dells as J ketchum and be lie had bad a big finger w lich was cut ent across with an awful I 1 scar car |