Litchfield enquirer., 1850-09-05

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 The wish of the prisoner, as expressed, the evening before, both to Sheriff Eve leth and Dr. Putnam, was that the exe- cution might be as prompt as possible saying that he would be ready at any moment after 8 o'clock, This request the Sheriff observed so far as the con venience and decorum of the occasion would allow.
 The body was taken to the house of Mrs. Webster in Cambridge last night.- The funeral will take place early to-m nor row morning, the services being perform ed at the house by the Rev. Dr. Walker. THE TROY MURDER AND SUICIDE. w The Albany State Register has been favored by an acquaintance of Cald- well with the following statement, which somewhat mitigates the depravity, or at least the wantonness of the late homicide and suicide at Troy:
 DEAR STR Tho extraordinary excite ment arising from the melancholy mur- der and suicide at Troy, renders the public anxious to know all the particu> lars concerning it, and do not know that it would be doing any one injustice, but would rather be the source of quiet> ing the excitement and putting stop to the many irrelevant stories circulated, concerning this tragic and awful occur renee, to disclose them.
 William A. Caldwell has been per- sonal acquaintance of the writer, for some fifteen years, interrupted only by an absence of nine months at Auburn, and three years cruise as supercargo, on board merchantmen to China &c. He arrived at New York, from the cruise early in summer. Previous to his leav> ing this Continent, (some years previous) he was engaged to be married to the lady who resigned herself to the horrid death with which we are all familiar. There was considerable opposition to the match, which delayed the consummation of their desires. While absent to China, and other parts of the world, the lady, now no more, became acquainted with gentleman by the name of Knapp, and her friends importuned her to accept his honorable proposals of marriage, to which at length she reluctantly yielded her assent, and they were married, and had one child, which died early in May, and just previous to Caldwell's return.
 Caldwell had sailed nearly around the world, and as he neared his native shores, the most prominent thoughts that swelled his bosom, was the certainty, as he SUD- posed, of again clasping his Louisia to his heart; but he returned only to find the object dearer to him than life, the wife of another. The iron entered his soul i; he wandered about nearly distracted j; but his reason came to him, and he re- solved to shake it off. In the mean time he found that she desired to see him i; she, the wife of another, requested an interview. But their meeting is not to be described. The years of absence that had passed only had bound them together more strongly, if possible than before they met as they should not have done-as lovers. Caldwell's better reason at first did not allow him to think of the future as she thought, and it doubtless would have passed by, and let only despair fastened in their hearts i; but they loved, and madly and the for> mer associations of youth came up before them more freshly at the thought of a final separation. She did not wish to live without him, and told him she could not, and that 1t was her determination to remain with him, notwithstanding she was the wife of another. Caldwell was too passionate and rash to resist that, and it was talked over that they should meet again.
 He parted with her to visit his friends in Whitehall, and went on board the evening boat for Albany. After the
 boat was under way, and while he was
 walking the deck, to his utter astonish-
 ment, she appeared before him. The
 thought at once pierced him that she had indeed abandoned her home, and re. solved, regardless of the tremendous f consequences, to share his fate; and her words shortly corroborated what . had passed like lightning through hi, } soul They immediately proceeded tc
 his state room, and there they resolved f in the face of all the terrible circumstan ] ces around them, to never part again They did not part; but arrived at Alba , ny, and took lodgings at the Delaval . House. He left her there, and made hi 2 contemplated visit to Whitehall, and re Q turned in about ten days, she in tn
 mean time receiving her meals in he e room, according to his suggestion, in or e der to avoid observation.
 ,r He returned and took rooms with he o at the American Hotel, where he wrot D. the published letter to the editor of re Whitehall paper. He remained at tn