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THE TRIAL OF ORRIN DE WOLF FOR THE MUR-
DER OF WILLIAM STILES, WORCES-
TER, MASSACHUSETTS, 1845.

THE NARRATIVE.

William Stiles, a deformed and feeble man, married to a
good-looking wife, was lazy and given to intemperance. He
had a small property whieh on account of his habits had
been placed in the hands of trustees and it would go to his
wife at his death, She was not fond of him and told this
more than once to a boarder named De Wolf. One night
Stiles proposed to the boarder that they should go for a
spree and the latter hired a sleigh and they drove together
to a tavern in the country where Stiles got very drunk
‘When they returned to the livery-stable, De Wolf told the
people there that Stiles was dead drank and they helped to
carry him upstairs, When a physician was called be pro-
nounced him dead. On the theory that De Wolf had stran-
gled him in the sleigh, he was tried and convicted of murder.

THE TRIAL?

In the Supreme Judicial Court, Worcester, Massachusetts,
June, 1845.

Hon. Lemurn Suaw,? Chief Justice.
Hon. SamvEL Wiz,’ dudges.
Hon. Caartes A. Dewey,‘

1 Bibliography. *Wurning to the Young. Trial’of Orrin De Wolf,
for the murder of Wm. Stiles, at Worcester, January 14, 1845.
Including his confession, showing the natural results of intem-
nerance and licentiousness. Worcester: Published by Thomas
Drew, Jr, 136 Hanover Street, Boston, 1845.”

* Soe 1’Am, St. Tr, 443,

*See 4 Am. St. Tr. 99.

“See 4 Am. St, Tr, 99,

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