The Morristown Gazette

A dispatch of the 4th to the Atlanta Constitution says a man named Caldwell, living near Americus, Ga., killed his wife, three children and his wife's sister with a smoothing iron. Two children were at school, one in the field, and one little one ran under the house and escaped. The murderer then jumped into a well, but failing to materially injure himself, he crawled out, and going to the top of his dwelling house he jumped off. He was picked up insensible by negroes, who had been attracted by his cries and gesticulations while on the house top. Recovering in a short time, Caldwell sent the negroes for some neighbors, then going to the gin-house he climbed to the top and threw himself headlong to the ground, instantly killing himself.