Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04
THE TROY SUICIDE.

We published brief statement of this mysterious
tragedy in our last. The subjoined communications
explanatory of the affair, is taken from the Albany
Register, and is said to be from reliable source
The following devoopements in relation to that unhappy
affair are communicated by gentleman residing IN 'hs
city. a
DEAR SlR-The extraordinary excite ment arising from
the melancholy murder and suicide at Troy, renders the
public anxious know all the particulars in relation 10 II
and do not know that it would be doing any person nJus
tce but would rather be the fqueing the excite
ment and putting stop the many irrelevant stories cir
cuated concerning this tragic and awful occurrence to aS
close them.
VIM A. Calwe has been personal acquaintance of the
writer for fifteen years interrupted only by an absence
of nine months at Auburne and three years Use as s-
percargo board merchant man 10 china, &C. lie az
rived at New York. from that cruise in early summer
Previous to his leaving this continent, (some years pev
he was engaged be married to the lady VINO resign
ed herself 10 the horrd death with which we are all tamil
Jar There considerable opposition TO the match
DELAYED the consummaon of their DESIRES While absent 10
China and other parts Of the world the lady, now no more,
became acquainted with gentleman by the name OF Knapp
and her friends mporuned her accept his honorable pro-
posas for marriage, to which at length she reluctantly
Welded her assent and they married. and have 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 hat
swelled his bosom the certainty, as ne supposed OF
again caspng his Louisa 10 lis heart but ne returned only
To find the object dearer him than life, the wife OF anOt-
er The iron entered his soul he wandered about nearly
distracted but his better to him, and he re-
solved to shake off, In the time, he found that she
desired to see him she the wife of another requested an
interview. They met at last but their meeting is not to
he described The years ofabsence that had passed. only
had bound them together strongly fpossbe, than
beme they met as they should not have doneas lovers
Caldwes better reason at first did not allow him 10 think
of the future as she thought and it doubtless would have
passed by and left only despair fastened in their healts but
hey loved and mady and the former associations OF youth
came up before them freshly at the thought oil nai
separaon She did not wish live without him, and told
him thai she could nos and that it her determination 10
remain with him. Notwithstanding she the wife of an
other Caldwell was loo passionate and rash to resist that
and it was talked over, that they should meet again.
He par,ed with her to visit his friends in Whitehall, and
went on board the evening boat for Albany Alter the boat
was under way and while he was walking the deck to his
utter astonshmen she appeared before him. The thought
at once pierced him. that she had indeed abandoned her
home and resolved regardless of all the tremendous conse-
ouences 10 share his fate and her words shortly cooboa-
ted what had passed like lightning through his SOUL They
Immediately proceeded 10 his staeroom and there they re-
solved in the face of all the terrible circumstances around
them never to part again. They did not part but arrived
at Albany and took lodgings at the Deavan House. He
left her there and made his contemplated visit to White
hall and returned in about ten daysshe in the mean time
ceyng her meals in her according to his
order to avoid observation. He returned and took rooms
with her at the American Hotel where he wrote the pub
sbed letter to The editor of Whitehall paper he remain
ed at the American few days. but too pub
lie place. and engaged lodgings at private house in Jay
street where he remained about week then took the
eastern cars and went to Wamstown and was surprised
and pursued by some he remarked in Troy that he had
whipped Two consabes and escaped the particulars of which
will soon appear He escaped in one horse carriage, and
arrived at the ST. Charles Hotel, Tuesday morning, about
four o'clock And the sequel now before the world They
there resolved to diewilh his hands he opened the
portals of eternity They both passed to the undiscovered
country from whence traveller has returned The pages
of romance can scarcely produce parallel or description
fraught with such startling and awful circumsancesas rep
resented in the truths of this case.