579 Sheet – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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ORRIN DE WOLF

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If he was, I didn’t think he would be hurt. After a while, he said he could tell me more about it if I would promise to say nothing about it. He asked if I thought he would be clear if he could tell who did murder him. I told him I could tell nothing about it without knowing what he could tell, but I should advise him not to say anything that would convict himself in any way whatsoever. I told him that if he was perfectly innocent and could bring light to who did do it, I thought it was his duty to do so, and it would be a benefit to him. He wanted to know if he told me these things, whether I would have to state them if I was called in court. I told him that if I promised not to state anything, I thought the court would not compel me to state them.

He said that she can get out of the way, for if she doesn’t, they will have her. Now, if you know where she is, you be sure to help her out of the way. Tell her to leave her things and to have you see to them and to keep my things with hers. And if I don’t get out, do what she has a mind to with them. But I don’t want to have her brought to trouble, and if she doesn’t get secreted, they will have her. Tell her not to think anything about her property but to save her own life, for she can get her things some way, but to get out of the way. They tell me that there is but one thing that will save my neck: only to tell the whole story, for they could prove that she and I were knowing to it. And if I do, I want her to get out of the way first. But I shan’t own anything yet. I can’t write any more, for I haven’t got any paper, so good-bye, Orrin De Wolf.

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Worcester, February 23rd, 1845

Mr. Warren, Sir:

I take my pen in hand to write a few lines to let you know that I am in trouble, and I want you to come and see me, for I don’t know that I ever shall see you if you don’t come. I have got into the County House, and I don’t know that I shall be able to get out very soon, but I hope I shall by the mercy of God. For I was flattered up to it, although I didn’t kill him, but I was to blame about it. For I told the one that did do it that I wished he had liquor enough to down him and kill him, and I was owing him fifty dollars at that time. And I said that I wouldn’t grudge that if anyone would kill him, and she was—

And I don’t think I shall get off without going to the gallows or to State Prison, but I hope that I shall be prepared for it, let it come as it will.

I hope that you will come and see me if you can. You must give my love to all the folks up there. I am well at this time, and I hope that you are all well. And I want you to tell ——— that I send my love to him, and be careful what company he gets into, for if he doesn’t, he will come where I have come, to the gallows. But I am not so much to blame as some others are. But I shall tell the whole of it, and if they think that I ought to be hung, they will do it. But come and see me if you can. Good-bye, this from

Orrin De Wolf,

Chatman Warren.

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