, 1859-10-15

Hof,nss, Of Troy, fornd IN Chicago.


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Most Of our readers will remember the case
Of William Holmes, the wifs deserter aud Spsr-
itualist, of Troy, n. T., and the more readily in
that from the circumstances of his flight, tho
affair had 4 wide circulation through the news
paper press. Hc will tc best recalled as the
man, who, having previously closed up his bus
ness afFaia for flight, asked his fanily to car
riage RI; and taking in the three children. sud
denly drove of, leaving lis wife alone and pen
niless, The woe stricken woman hss since that
time been in weary .of her lost ones less
ANXIOUS "e Gnu nns hope ana 1eei iot the reeo'-
cry Of the 1aise'hea7ted scounafel 1hah Oh 3ne
innocent children "ho caaeo nef mo1nef.
The case deserves kotne attention no" tnat
The quest has terminated In nnaing 1he tug1tlse
in this city, where tho same WAS yesterday oe'
fore Judge Goodrich in The Superior Court.
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preaching when thcF arc TO i've is In uaaef ons
1oo1 Us husoapu "nu "t'e' ano s''s A'e
weighed down in view Of The prospect Subse-
4uent letters speal Of their incongenial'ty Of
temper, that the matrimonial bondage ex1Auns
between them during the last sixteen years. mas
been the worst of bondage, hnal'y urging sep
arasion, and proposing terms, oac Of them beng
signed, II am your husband-by statute law"
These letters throughout furnish abundant
proof of the fidelity and rectitude Of the wrong
ed wife, and the cowardly rillaiuy Of the hus-
band, lie began to urge that divorce be sought.
That tbey might not live together again. Tia.
she WIS not his "aflinity." and thus throughout
the too common and peculiar vocabulary OF the
false hearted epouses in these times, hc rang the
changes. aiming ut a purpose, anl coyeting a
deed be shraok from, under its true nnmc.
Act;np by adyice Of her counsel, tho wife who
Ind io;aed tile tickle scamp ut their old home in
Troy. did nothing, acreed TO. nothing and took
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shining. their separation Their residence in
Be1oit torethcr. extended up TO the summer or
carly in tho fall in 1858. The unhappy house.
hold were reunited in Troy, n. y, in April Of
the present year, and thus matters continued for
scnc months.
About tue middle Of July, Aolmes Drought
about The denouemcnt which nus oeeo'he "'ae'5
nssociated with his name, On Monday, the
1s,b. tie family, the father, mother aud three
Charlton. Ssratoca county, A few days Inter,
Holmes drore up to the door in n carriage, and
proroscd to taEe ride with his family.
So carelcss'y, and with so little apparent pre-
meditation wns this done, that it all appeared
but plan Of and for tue hour. The ehiidren
were liflcd in; The mother was about to folio"
| them, when Holmes Suddenly drove oil. Eren
/ then the aspects Of tue atair seemed not other
wise, eyeu to her, most interested, and certainly
not to the bystanders. than as cruel. though
un,mportant triains With the feelings OF a vile
his conduct towards hcr had all too openly IN
dicated ho lightly loved.
Hours elapsed before 1t broke upon the m'rt
-rs 4 11G hat hA u