Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-28

cite suspicion. Even this might have been
avoided had not her last husband been
James F. Caldwell, the noted sporting man
and starter at the Guttenburg On. j. race
track.
In view ct the fact that the lady had had
"career," and that she died after a few
hours illness, her mother, her sisters and
Starter Cald' ell decided to have her buried
as quietly as possible ''to avoid unpleasant
notoriety," they said. They could not we'll
have taken q more unwise course, as their
aWfully mysterious ways set many tongues
to wagging, set all the sensational reporters
to interviewing, drew out all her past his
tory and created 40 times as much ''un-
pleasant notoriety" as if she had been
buried from the New York city hall with
half a dozen brass bands in attendance.
And this is generally the result when peo-
pie are extra nice without wisdom to carry
it through. She died a natural death. OF
that there seems to be no doubt, and that
is some comfort to her friends
Her maiden name was Annie Louise
ChurchiH, and at the age of IS she mar
ried William Campbell, the millionaire
wall paper manufacturer of New York
len years or so later she brought suit for a
divorce, and though Mr.. Cambell swore
that she had hit him forCibly wi h a poker
and otherwise conducted herself with more
vigor than affection she got the divorce
with an order for $50 per week alimony.
And that alimony he had to pay to the day
OF her death, though it now appears that
she had married twice in the meantime
The first time was in Italy to one DR..
Cacace, and her attorney, the noted Abe
Hummel, declares that he has heard of no
divorce from the marriage. Nevertheless
she returned to New York as Mrs Camp
bell and brought Il lot of valuable pic
lures, some Of which, after getting them in
some manner through the custom house,
she stored at a warehouse in James F.
CaldwelPs name, others in some safe de-
posit vaults under her own name of Cacace
One day she went to dinner party,
where she met Charles H. Traitteur, a spe-
clal treasury agent. Traitteur and Mrs
Cacace became great friends, and Traitteur
wrote passionate letters to her. Afterward
he secured a catalogue of the paintings
mentioned, and the pictures were seized
Last January Mrs. Campbell-Cacace, as she
then called herself, had Traitteur arrested
on charges Of blackmail and extortion. The
grand jury recently dismissed the charge.
Last January he seized large consign-
ment of bric-a-brac and 4S oil paintings,
and she put a sort of circular letter in the
papers denouncing him. Her next appear
ance was as mistress of a very handsome
4story brownstone front ct 341 West Fifty
seventh street, which Starter Caldwell had
bought and fitted up for her. Early in
April they had a house warming and a
great feast. She was taken suddenly i'll at
dinner and died before morning-of oedema
of the glottis, her physician said. Then her
friends came forward with the statement
that she had been divorced from DR.. Cacace
and married to Caldwell. His friends then
pointed out the residence of another Mrs.
Caldwell, who had always passed as his
wife, and there was fine to do.
Mr.. Caldwell refuses to talk-''by advice
of my lawyers" he says. The first Mrs.
Caldwell refuses to talk-''by advice of
friends" The beautiful and adventurous
and oft married woman is dead at the age
of 38-a natural death, all the doctors say.
And so there really seems no way for the
public to get at the facts.