The Sun. — 1867-07-11 (London, England)

THE MURDER AT ALBANY.  The following account was given by the New York Tribune as General Cole's version to his intimate friends of the troubles that led to his encounter with Mr. Hiscock :--" Fifteen years ago Dr. Cole married Miss Barto of Trumansburg, New York, daughter of the late Judge Barto. It was a love match, and for 12 years their home was the scene of unalloyed happiness. Within two or three years, however, the husband had noticed that his wife was at times moody and unhappy. He could not account for it. He had sent his wife $15,000 during the war, and she now possesses $lO,OOO in her own right, left to her by her father's will. He consulted her friends and his, but could arrive at no conclusion. He was compelled by his duties to reside at or near New York, and he determined to bring his wife to Brooklyn, where she might be near her sister, and there he engaged and furnished rooms. Meanwhile he visited Syracuse and met Mr. Hiscock in the street. Mr. H. asked him, ' Why, general, when did you come ? When shall you go away ?" He thought the latter question a singular one, and then at once remembering that the same question had been asked him on several previous occasions, said nothing, but looked his questioner full in the face, and Mr. Hiscock turned away downcast, and without a word. Returning to Brooklyn, brooding over the matter, he wrote to a cousin of his wife's, with whom she resided, asking if there had ever been any rumour in Syracuse prejudicial to his wife. The reply came, ' There is room for the gravest suspicion.' Almost frenzied, he hastened to Syracuse, and there, when he questioned  her, his wife fell on her knees and confessed that a criminal intercourse had existed between herself and Mr. Hiscock for nearly three years. it made him almost crazy, to u•ie his own words. All day on Thursday he stayed in the house, lest he should meet Hiscock in the street and kill him. On  the day of the murder, with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Cuyler, he started for Brooklyn. They were necessarily compelled to stop at Albany, and while there he thought he should be happier if it were settled in some way, and was off his mind.' He sent for his brother-in-law, Mr. Barto, a member of the Constitutional Convention, and asked him to go with him- to see Mr. Hiscock, pledging his word that he would not take his life, but would only " make him get down on his kness and beg like a dog for it." This Mr. Barto refused  to do, and said that he had no advice to give in the matter. It should be stated here that Mr. Barto and General Cole have not been friendly ever since the latter took a commission in the first of General Butler's coloured cavalry regiments. Thus left to himself, the frenzied man started for Stanwix Hall, intending to go quietly in by the side entrance, inquire the number of Iliscock's room, and go up to  it. But as he went in he saw the seducer of his wife before him, a frenzy seized him, and without a moment's thought he fired. Although -the act was not premeditated, he thinks it was justifiable, and expresses no remorse for it. _ _  His wife is now in Albany and administers to his wants, visiting him daily. lie professes to consider her a guilty woman, but not as guilty as the man he shot. The prejudicial features of the case are the statement written by himself as above, the letter written by his wife at his dictation, the manner in which he approached his victim, and his false statements as to the cause of his action, made upon the spot and immediately afterward. For he now confesses that there was no violence used, and that this plea was gotten up by him for the purpose of shielding his wife and children. On the other hand, there is no doubt but that his able counsel (lir. Hadley and General Butler, the latter of whom is the prisoner's warm friend), will make the most of his terrible provocation, and the undeniably brilliant war record of General Cole.