Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: February 19, 1870 The Burke Mystery -- Shufflin Arrested. On Wednesday last Emanuel SHUFFLIN was arrested upon the affidavit of Walker BENNETT, of Jackson, charged with having murdered Walter N. BURKE, on the night of January 3d. Bennett is a brother-in-law of Burke's. The body of the murdered man has not yet been found, and a strange mystery still hangs over the affair. Few facts have been elicited, except the statements of Shufflin himself, and those of his wife, who is under recognizance, as an accomplice. Shufflin was lodged in jail. His examination was set for yesterday afternoon, but the attorneys for the defendant being employed at Court, it was adjourned until Monday next, at 9 o'clock A. M. From statements made, it is probable the missing man was struck with a poker, and not a slung shot. We learn that a woman, living at that time upon a canal boat, at that point, states that late at night Shufflin came to the boat with a poker and flat iron in his hand, saying that he had had a fuss with a man, and he guessed he had gone into the river. He enquired for a lantern to see to pull him out. The examination will, perhaps, develop new facts.