The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-08
THE MURDER CONFESSION FALSE-THE
ENTIRE STORYA EARRLGA TLdN -


In the daily papers of Wednesday morning there
appeared an article, purporting to be the confes
sion of negro who had died, named George Orem
in which it was asserted that Orem acknowledged
that he mul dered the negro King, and that Cyphus
who was hung for the crime, was an innocent man
For the purpose of determining the truth of the
matter, our reporter has thoroughly investigated
all the clrcum stances connected with the death q
Orem, and the conclusion arrived at is that the
story OF the confession is false in every particular
Inc confession originated with negro nsmed
Charles Anderson, alias lobe Anderson who is in
the employ of Edward O'Donavan, ESQ, wholesale
liquor dealer, or Franklin, between Eutaw and
Howard streets. ~
This negro lobe told the story to his master on
Monday morning last, to the following effect =.
| de was at the house of Orem on SUNDAY last. and
as ne and the dying man were intimate friends. hf
was slttng at the bedside with Orems hand clasped
| witnln ms own. A moment before he died. he
turned TO lobe and said Globe, it was me who
Killed Bill King. 1 stabbed him with a butcher
knile. lobe asserts that as the last word came
~ Om orem llpS ne fell back on the bed, and died
on questioning lobe, he said that there were some
eight or ten persons present, but could not give
the name OF single individual. Those present
were both male and female, and yet he did NOT
hnoW one OF them. Nor could he give any in
! formation which would tend to the discovery nj
those who had heard the confession. In response
| 10 question as to what hour Orem died. he said
between too and three o'clock on Sunday afternoon
ne afterwards said that he not sure of the hour
was some time between ten O'Clock in the
| m1SrIninS ana four O'Clock in the evening
rms story proved, on investigation to he ent;ra
iaise, and the facts as elected are as follows
orem had been sick of consumption for fourteen
IL nor S Up 10 within few weeks past he lived
III oaran Ann street, No. l22, from whence he
moved into Wagon alley, and occupied a houce
TWO doors from that which King lived in when he
was murdered. His health continued to decline,
anu On iast week ne grew much worse, and it be-
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| MS room constantly. 0rem was a member of a
| society styled the 'Good Samaritans." and his
r ,a;,"a administered to his wants and
waited on him in his last hours. ~
| On Saturday night last Isaac Down, ard II;
(hegroes), members of the Good Samaritan Soo;a
", sat up with him, and were the only maIes nraS
ent when Orem died, which took place at fftesr
minutes OF hve O'Clock on Sunday morning, which
was lime hours at least earlier than the hour given
pY Iooe Anderson, of the mans death Tbera
were several negresses present at the time of b;S
death, among whom was his wife and a girl namad
Emma Steele, who had been his nurse for several
uays. Al these parties state positively and une-
quivocaiiy that Orem made no confession; that he
Gled easily and did not appear troubled in mind
Iney state further that the negro Anderson
was not present when Orem died, nor do thew
5ehe'e mat he was at the house during Sun
Wy. Inc negro lobe accompanied the reporter to
"dgon aiiey yesterday morning, where he was
confronted with the other witnesses and he was
unable 10 make the slightest defence for his state
ent' LUG ouiy plea ne offered was that the ne
groes were mistaken about the hour at which ()rem
olea, ana that when they thought he was dead. he
was only IN trance, and that when he fTohal
caed IN the afternoon, Orem came m lis seoses
probable story. The negro Downs lives ;n's;hestor
sliey, near George street, and works for Masses
smith Nicodemus, Baltimore street. naar psn.
ana has good character for trutbfulness aa,
other witnesses live in Wagon alley and sarah ann
street. There is no doubt but that the s.orn n ~
the confession is an entire fabrication. '' Vi
When the story of the confession was rspor,oa
to Marshal Kane, he forbid the publicity until The
matter was further investigated, but the negro
told 1t to numbers of persons and it was thus spread
abroad. ~ '"0
SEVERELY BURNr.-Y esterday morning about 10
O'Clock, woman named Ruth Ann Allen, sister-in-
law of Thomas b. Davis, Jantor of the CITY Hall.
was severely injured by accidentally falling into
fireplace, as seriously to endanger her ife She
mas been living with Mr.. Davis for some few DAYS,
and Yesterday morning she was engaged miro ming
sbne clothes, when on approaching the fire place,
the was seized with epileptic fit and fell into
one IRE r. She was almost instantly discovered by
mon y, .ne family and alarm given, when young
anna mamea Theodore Crockett ran to her assist
Gray anu teTe the clothes from her body Doctors
u.s;o anu bradford were called in,land,on exami
h hs.on found that her arms, legs and portions of
ns' 00ay were dreadfully burnt, The assh in some