The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

The Tragedy at Troy, New York.
The motives which prompted the per-
pesTaiioh ofthe horfid deed Of which the
81. Charles Hotel, Troy was recently the
scene, have not till now been fully brought
70 light Astatement which we copy be-
low, from the Albany Register, witten BY
npeFsondl friend Of CaIdwell's, lifts the
veil and discloses much, in. the previous
relations Of ihe guilty and unfortunate pair,
which dispels great deal Of the mystery
thai at first enwrapped the motives which
could mutually lead TO so terrible ter
mination Of their lives. That record reads
an awful lesson to the transgressor.
The Suicide. William A. Caldwell has
been personal acquaintance Of the wri.
ter, for some fifteen years, interrupted on.
ly by an absence of nine months at Au-
burn, and three years cruise as super
cargo, on board a merchantmen to China,
&c. He arrived ut New York, from TINT
cruise, in early summer. Previous to his
leaving this continent, (some years previ.
ous,) he was engaged to be married 10 the
lady who resigned herself to the horrid
death with which we are oil familinr.--
There was considerable opposition to the
match, which Delayed the consumation ol
their desire. While absent to China, and
other parts Of the world, the lady now nc
more, became acquainted with gentle.
man by thename Of Knapp, and her friends
importuned her to accept his honorable pro.
posal Of marriage, to which at length she
reluctantly yielded her assent, and they
were married, and have had one child
which died early in May, and just previous
to CaIdwell's return.
Caldwell had sailed nearly around the
world, and as he neared his native shores,
the most prominent thought that swelled
his bosom. was the certainty, as he sup
posed, of again clasping his Louisa to his
heart; but he returned only to find the OBJ
ject dearer to him than life, the wife Of
another. The iron entered his soul; he
wandered about nearly distracted; but his
better reason came to him, and he resolved
to shake it off. In the meantime, he
found that she had desired to see him; she
the wife Of another requested an interview.
They met at last but their meeting is not
to be described. The years of absence
that had passed only bound them together
more strongly, if possible, than before /;
they met as they should not have dome
rs lovers. Caldwell's better reason OF
first did not allow him to think of the fu.
ture as she thought, md It doubtless would
have posed by, and left only depair fas-
teneo in their heOrts; but they loved and
madly; and the former associations Of
youth came up before them more freshly
at the thought Of q final separation. She
did not wish 10 live without him and told
him she could not, and that il was her
determination to remain with him, not.
wllhstanding she wasahe wife of another,
Caldwell was Too passionate and rash to
resist that, and it was talked over that
they sould meet again.
He parted with her to visit his friends
in Whitehall and went on board the even
ing boat for Albany. After the boat was
under way, and while he was walking the
deck, to his utter astonishment, she up.
peared before him. The thought at once
pierced him, that she had indeed abandoned
her home, and resolved, regardless of the
tremendous consequences, to share his fate;
and her words shortly corroborated what
had passed, like lightning through bis soul.
They Immediately proceeded to his state
room, and there they resolved in the face
of oil the terrible consequences around
them, to never part again. They did not
part; but arrived ut Albany, and took
lodgings at the Deleyan House. He left
herthere, and made his contemplated visit
TO Whitehall, and returned in about ten
days. she in the meantime, receiving her
meals in her room, according to his sug.
gestion, in order to avoid observation. He
returned undtook rooms with her ut the
American Hotel, where he wrote the pub
lished letter TO the editor Of the Whitehall
paper; he remained at the American u
few days but thought it was too public a
place, and engaged lodgings at q private
house in Jay street, where he remained
about one week; then took the eastern
cars and went 10 Williamstown, and was
surprised and pursued by some one, as he
remarked in Troy, that he had whipped
two constables and escaped, the particu-
lars Of which will soon appear. He
ascnDed in n one horra rn rr;ona onJ -.
rived at the St. Charles Hotel, Tuesday
morning, about four o'clock. They there
resolved to die-with his own hand he
opened the portals of eternity. They
both passed to the undiscovered country,
from whence no traveller has returned.
The pages Of romance can scarcely produce
q parallel, or description fraught with
such startling and awful circumstances as
represented in the truths of this case.
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