The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-21
IRATE FATHER IN
THE GRAPE ARBOR
WITH LOADED GUN
AND PROCEEDED TO PUMP COLD
LEAD INTO THE SIGH
ING LOVER.
WHO WAS A MARRIED Man
School Teacher Wooed His sixteen
Year-old Pupil By Means Of Sc
eret code-"Darlins" and Angel
Child" He Called Her-Now in Jail

COLUMDCS, Ind, May 15.-Charles
w Caldwell. the lawyer-school-teach-
er who has been trying to Gust Secre-
tary of State Knox, is in bad way
for he is in the county jail here with
a thirty-eight calibre revolver bullet
in his right thigh and charged with
attempting to abduct 16-year-old Belah
Remy, daughter of Augustus Remy,
merchant and member of the school
board of Elizabethtown, six miles
south of here, where he recently
taught school and where Belah Remy
was his pupil
The bullet was fired with eight 9TH
ers by Augustus Remy, who had inter-
cepted one of the letters written to his
daughter by Caldwell and asking her
to meet him in a grape arbor IN the
rear of her home Friday night. Remy
was also at the trysting place, but
when he fred the shots at Caldwell
he did not know that he had hit MIN.
Oficers and bloodhounds followed
Caldwell all night, but did not catch
him. This morning he was seen cool
" standing in front of his law office
here by Sheriff Cox, who, going to him,
told him that officers and bloodhounds
had searched for him all night. Cald-
well yawned and indifferently replied:
"Is that so? They must have had an
exciting time"
Later Caldwell was arrested and on
his way to the jail it was noticed that
he limped badly, but as he denied
knowing anything of the shooting 1t
was presumed that he was sore from
much running. When searched at the
iail there was found on the person OF
Caldwell the complaint which he had
written against Secretary Of State
Knox and also a lumber of letters
from Miss Remy. Their correspon-
dence was carried on by means OF
code, which the girl explained to her
father. In their correspondence the
words darling and angel child" oc-
Cured frequently.
That the girl loves her teacher is
shown by the following remark she
made when her father shot at him:
Il wish it were you that was shot
instead of Charlie"
The girl told her father that Remy
told her he was not legally married to
his present wife; that it was a sham
marriage and he would marry her as
soon as she was graduated. The
girls 14-year-old sister Helen is said
to have helped in the love-making by
carrying notes, etc, for them.
Remy filed two surety of the peace
affdavits against Caldwell today In
magistrates court, in the first OF
which he alleged he feared personal
bodily harm from Caldwell, and in the
second he alleged that he feared Cald-
well would abduct his daughters, Be-
lah and Helen.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to
the charges and his trial was set for
today. A diamond ring and a dia-
mond necklace which had been given
to the girl by Caldwell were turned
over to Sheriff Cox today by the girls
father The girl said that Caldwell
began making love to her while she
was his pupil, and that she had learned
to love him very dearly and would
have eloped with him had not their
plans been frustrated. Caldwell, who
is 40 years of age, is a son OF the
Judge of the Circuit Court of Coles
county, III.
The Girls Statement.
The Remy girl was closely ques-
toned by Sheriff Cox and others. She
admitted being in love with Caldwell
and told straight story of CaldwelIs
attentions. She said he sent her
clandestine notes and gifts and had
visited her since last March. She was
0fm Ill ueI uSuldl hOWS'SAb - "AA1
wrong-doing, and said that he was just
so good to her she could not help low
ing him. She showed diamond ring,
several pieces of jewelry, books, music
and other gifts made to her by Cald-
well.
The young girl is bright and has al
IInr
mother has been dead since she was
a babe, and Mr.. Remy has a second
wife The girl says she was aided In
seeing Caldwell by younger sister,
Helen, and a friend Myrtle Pottorn,
who were in sympathy with the love
affair and helped in arranging the
visits.