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ORRIN DE WOLF. Bel

“ gelf, and by the sheriff and jailer aa witnesses, and after-
wards laid before the attorney. The defendant was told that
his confession could be of no advantage to him as it exhibited
no proof against others whom it implicated. The prisoner
further stated thet that part of his confession relating to
Mrs, Stiles, was not true, he admitted the illicit intercourse
and said that Stiles was a diseased and intemperate man and
that his wife wished him dead; that he had procured poison
for her to administer to him, which she was afraid to do; and
that afterwards he had agreed at her solicitations to give
Stiles the poison himself, that he procured arsenic for that
purpose, having been told by Mrs. Stiles to mix it with hot
sling before administering it to the deceased. Under all
these eireumstances therefore the paper containing the con-
fession is competent evidence.

Now, gentlemen, the question for you to determine is how
far all the circumstances in this case taken in connection
with the confession itself go to establish the proof of a mur-
der committed by the hands of the prisoner, although he
states in the confession that the act was not done by himself
but by another; yet the jury are to take it as it is, rejecting
what seems to be untrue or uncorroborated and receiving aa
evidence what appears to be substantiated by the testimony
which has been introduced.

Now, coming back to the question, whether this crime was
caused by external influences, slight or considerablet If you
are satisfied that those influences were used by the defend-
ant, then he is guilty of the charge; if not, he is not guilty.
If this death was cansed by violence on the part of De Wolf,
then it is a homicide.

Now, gentlemen of the jury, was there a motivet This
depends on evidence, partly coming from his confession,
partly from other evidence. Although the confession does not
admit that he did it, it does admit that he procured it to be
done. The guilt would be the same as if the crime had been
eommitted by his own hand, he being present, aiding and
abetting. In making a confession he might have supposed

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