The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-07-03
BRANDON, Thursday, July 3, 1916.

i The third count charged that De WoI
procured and persuaded Stiles 10 drink
pint Of gin by which he became sick ant
dls;empered, and afterwards on the sam
day. put handkerchief about the neck O
the said Stiles and choked and slranglet
him, of which sickness and distemper Sc
caused, and Of said choking and stran Cling
Stiles then and there died, and so, the SAID
De Wolf did kill and murder the said
Stiles, against the peace SC.
II uppeared from the evidence on the
part OF the prosecution, that De Wolf, the
prisoner, boarded in the family of Stiles,
the deceased, from April 1874 to some
time ia November following that, while
there, an improper and guilty intimacy
took place between the prisoner and Stiles
wife, with tho connivance, as it appeared
of Stiles. [S!i'es, it is understood was in
duced thereto by appliances to his cupidi>
". These facts of themselves show the
depraved moral character OF all the par
ties. Stiles was SO years old, hump
backed, and addicted 10 habits of Intern
perance. His wife was about % years
old. She married s lies when in her 10th
year, and has one child, now near six
years of age. She says she married Stiles
"to spite her friends" and because he had
about $500 in money, which 10 her was
great mount, being of INDECENT paren
!age. She is represented 10 be an arlfuI
woman, and her character, always bad,
has become more degraded than ever, since
her husbands death. De Wolf is about
20 years old, short, and thick set foil face.
ed, h'rd Complex on, with rather mild
'counlenance, but with what the phrenoIo>
eisls would call shockiogly bad head. -
There does moi seem 10 be any very marks
ed deficiency in The perceptve organs, but
The reflective are very small. The moral
Developments are also small while the
selfish propersilies ale so foil as to give
unusual breadth in the head. Hei repu.ed
10 be Of rather weak inlellec,,and his hab.
its have been Iicentious in renar ka bic
degree for one SO young.l
While boarding at Stiles, De Wolf
managed 10 get into his debt, to the amour,
OF about $50, which Stiles was never able
to get Of him. This, with some other
matters of difference between them led to
his changing his boarding place. They,
however, so far made Up their differences
that they continued to associate together,
and, on the l4.b Of January las, the day
on which the murder was charged 10 have
been committed, they agreed to 60 tog ether
on spree. De VOLTS business was ten
ding a stable, at Whipple's. on Thomas
Street, directly in the rear Of the Eagle
Hotel. He look horse and sIeigh about
6 o'clock, aud iakiug Stiles with him,
wen, TO Bartett'S tavern, about miles
from Town on the West Boylston road,
where they procured aud drank some
liquor, They then went 10 Cob'eigh's.
IA house Of some notoriely, situated in the
extreme north part Of the town. where
they drank twice. They then returned
TO Town and arrived at Whipple's Stable
about 10 o'clock. De Wolf went into
the Eagle H,,el to get the Stable key and
lantern, of Samuel Stone, the person in
whose charge he left the stable while he
was gone. He told him that he had go
old Stiles drunk in the sleigh, ana wanted
him 10 help get him into The stable. Ee
answered that he could not go then, bu
would come 10 few minutes. De VOL
hen went out and obtained assistance
from young man named Baldwin who
had charge of the Stable of!he Eagle Ho'
tel, Immediately adjoining. After S,ile!
was taken from the sleigh, De Wolf car
ried him, alone, up stairs into a room usrt
as an Office and harness room, and laiC
him on cot bedstead on which some buf
falo skins were spr-ad. Stiles was at thi
time, in state OF drunken nsensibii,y
and, so remained without speaking I'll
Baldwin lcf, which was in about FIVE min
u'es. Stiles appeared to have vomited il
the sleigh, but did not after he was laker
out. About the time Baldwin left, Stone
came into the stable and found Stiles lying
on his back on the bed with buffalo Skin
rolled up, under his head. d. Wolf wa!
sitting on a chair. In about 10 minute:
Stiles spoke aud complained that his hand,
were cold and he wanted his mittens on
De Wolf put them 90, for him. He soor
after said he wanted to 60 home. D.
| Wolf told him to be quiet and perhaps ht
would feel better, and he would carry
him home by and by. Stiles then com
planned that he was lnisused and had los
money. De Wolf said, "you have no
lost any by me have you,' and Stiles an
swered yes, you have cheated me out o
a good DEAL" While this conversation
was going on, Stiles still desiring TO b.
carried home, he would raise himself hal
way up, in the bed, but would fall bacl
again. S one staid about halt an hou
and then went into the house add went t
bed, leaving De Wolf alone with Stiles.
Abou! half past 10 o'clock, as near a
the Witnesses could recollect, DE- WoI
came to the bar.room of the Eagle Hole