Washington telegraph., 1850-09-25
1QA BIBLE TRAGEDY AT TROY

HQARIBLE TRAGEDY AT TROY
/, Albany State Register has been
favored by an acquaintance of Caldwell
with the following statement, which
fomev hat mitigates the depravity, or at
least tee Wantonness of the late homi
tide and suicide at Troy.
Det1r Slr-The extraordinary excite
nent 2rising from the melancholy muir
fer and suicide al Troy, renders the pub
ic anxious to know all the particulars in
elausn to il, and do not know that it
Woui be doing any person ali injustice,
put would rather Je the source of quiet
ing the exciient,t.t and putting stop to
tie many irr,A at stories circulated,
AsaScei mug &C ~.--.-l- ap,r,i --~.,r-
race, 10 disclose them.
William A. Caldwell has been a per-
sqal acquaintance of the writer, for
sone fifteen years, interrupted only by an
asence of nine months at Auburn, and
hree years cruise as supercargo, on
borda merchantmen to China, &c. He
arrived at New York, from that cruise,
ineaiiy summer. Previous to his leav-
in, tbs Continent, (some years previous, J
hdw;s engaged to be married to the la
dy who resigned herself to the horrid
dath with Which we are all familiar
TIere was considerable opposition to the
mitch, which delayed the consumation
ofItheir desires. While absent to China
aid Dther parts of the world, the lady,
noW no more, became acquainted with a
gentleman by the name of Knapp, and
her friends importuned her to accept his
honorable proposals for marriage, to
which at length she reluctantly yielded
| her assent, and they were married, and
have had one child, which died early in
May, aud just previous 10 Caldwell's re-
| tu:n.
| Caldwell had sailed nearly around the
world, and as he neared his native shores,
the most prominent thoughts that SWELL
ed his bosom, was the certainty, as he
supposed, of again clasping his Louisa to
his heart; but he returned only to find the
Object dearer to him than life, the wife
of:nother. The iron entered his soul;
| he wandered about nearly distracted; but
! hisbettter reason came to him, and he re-
solved to shake it off. In the meantime
he found tha: she desired to see him; she,
the wife of another, requested All inter
| view. Bat their meeting is not to be de-
scnbed. The years of absence that had
passed, had only 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 fu-
ture as she thought, and it doubtless
would have passed by, and left only des-
| pair fastened in their hearts; bu; they
| loved, and madly; and the former asso-
Citations OF youth came up before them
more freshly at the thought of final sepa-
ration. She did not wish to live without
him, and told him that she could not,
and that it was her determinatio to re-
main wnh 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
| waking the deck, to his utter astonish.
| melt, she appeared before him. The
| thought at once pierced him that she
Mad indeed abandoned her home, and re.
solved. regardless of the tremendous con-
Huences, to share his fate; and her words
Shortly corroborated what had passed
like Lightning through his soul. They
Immediately proceeded to his state room,
hnd there they resolved, in the face of all
Ehe terrible circumstances around them,
To never part again. They did not part;
but arrived at Albany, and took lodging
At the Delevan House. He left her
here. and made his contemplated visit
% Whitehall, and returned in about ten
|iays, she in the meantime receiving her
meals in her room, according to his sng-
lyeston, in order to avoid observation.
He returned and took rooms with her
lat the American Hotel, where he wrote
|she published letter to the editor of a
Whitehall paper He remained at the
american a few days, but though it was
90 public place, and engaged lodgings
private house in Jay street, where
e remained about one week; then took
he Eastern cars and went to Williams
own, and was surprised and pursued by
ome one, as he remarked in Troy, that
Ie had whipped two constabIes and es-
aped, the particulars Of which will soon
appear. He escaped in one-horse car
iage, and arrived at the St. Charles Ho-
| Ell Tuesday morning about 4 o'clock.
Ind the sequel is now before the world.
| They there resolved TO die-with his own
land he opened the portals of eternity.
they both passed to the undiscovered
,ountry, from whence no traveller has re-
urned. The pages of romance can
carcely produce the parallel, or descrip.
ton fraught with such startling and aw.
fill circumstances, as represented in the
ruths of this case.
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