596 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

564 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

to induce the wife of Stiles to screen herself, or to escape.
This, therefore, is a strong point. With these views you will
take this important case and after a careful investigation
render such a verdict as it requires. It is important that
the laws should be administered aceording to the principles
of Justice and Truth, that the guilty may not escape, and
the innocent shall not sniffer. If the law accomplish that, it
is a perfect law. Yon will therefore, carefully consider the
evidence which has been laid before you in this cause, in
order that yon may do justice to the defendant and to the
country.
THE VERDICT AND SENTENCE.

‘The case was submitted to the jury at 7 o’clock in the
evening and at 10 they came into court with a verdict of
Guilty. The Court then adjourned to Friday morning at 8
o'clock, June 13. The prisoner was placed at the bar. Ths
Cmer Jusrice addressed him in a forcible and feeling manner
for 20 minutes, and at its close pronounced the solemn sen-
tence of the Court, which was ‘‘that you, Orrin De Wolf, be
taken to the prison from whence you came, from thence to be
removed at such time as the executive may direct, to the
place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck
‘until you are dead, and may God in his infinite goodness have
merey on your soul.’’

THE CONFESSION AND COMMUTATION.

I, Orrin De Wolf, now in confinement in the jeil in the County
of Worcester, on the charge of having committed the murder of
William Stiles, would represent that in November last I boarded
in said Stiles’ family, that on the night of the town meeting in
November, Stiles told his wife to get into bed with me I had
already gone to bed, that she at first refused, but afterwards she
complied, I told her that I had a bad disease, but we had carnal
knowledge of each other after that night. We, all three, slept to-
gether frequently. I went to the employ of Whipple on the 12th
December, and boarded with him, About a week after, I first had
intereourse with Stiles’ wife, she communicated ta Stiles, that she
had caught the disease, he then charged me with having communi-
eated the disease to his wife and said I must get her cured, or he
would make a difficulty about it. I went to Dr, Sargent and told