The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-09-10
HON|EFOLKS
TELL STAR
OF WOLFF
Wasn't Vicious, Say South
Park Neighbors, lust
Mischievous

| Park Neighbors, lust
Mischievous
what h the truth about Roy
woiff. anyway,
What sort OF . lad n this whom
they want 10 hang down there In
California,
Is this young bcy-he vfIi be
~ next Wcdnesday--one Of thors
misan cwvpos who seem 20 b born
bad and 10 grow steadily more
criminal. morn hardened. morn BE-
nightod AZ they approach maturity
or n he Just . boy whos en-
ers3ee we're directed wrongly. whose
iiss has been moulded By improper
envirunment,
A star reporter jvurneyed out
20 South Park today and talked
With some Of the FOLKS out thsrv
Who were neiKhbos 70 Roy wolff
and knsw him ~ . rrUwtng boy.
THEY KNOW MIN
Al.s1OST A. a SON
5Aesv are two persoos n esuth
Park Who know Roy Woiff better.
perhaps. than any oos elsa ouasde
os the family.
rnsy sss John Green. 1853 rnistis
ss-. ana nr& u Bsci, isos ssusts
cru ~
Green ksepa . nst1s store right
scrors from the school house- The
Triangle grocery. u Ia called. John
| has lived In the community for
ncariy 10 years. and for three
. yearx wAs aimort next door neigh.
bor 20 the Wolff family. He talked
as ne and his son waited on Gus.
TONERS
Tea dsa~ied oresn. a. ne wrap
p~d up package Of sugar. Il reckon
I did know Roy. Knew him pretty
we'll. in fact
He seemed somewhat amused. ~
tho there were an implied doubt OF
knowledge OF the boy.
FILL or OLD NICK.
LIKE ALL HEALTHY KIDS
WAS he rcaiiy bad, Well. he was
fun Of mischief--had jusf . biz Of the
old Nick In him. guess--but land.
no more than any other healthy
younwone. He was always up 10
some trick or other. but don't know
as that VIVA his fault especially.
You see.- John was very much
In earnest. and left q couple Of Gus
toners waiting. while he leaned
across the counter to lend cmphasis
to this. He never really had
chance. Not that IL was any fault
Of his parents. They sent him TO
| school and did their best for him.
But the poor mother had q large
family on her hsnd~-thcre wcre l,
or - OF thcm--and the father was
busy making a living. and when Roy
ran away from tho school room he
didn't get the discipline he ought to
have had Al Icast." he hastily ad.
ded, that Ia tho way II seems to
me-.
So Roy. II appears. fen IN with
the tough gang OF the ncighborhood
And he grew up that way.
DELIVERED GROCERIES
ON BICYCLE
"sce that two-story ersy house
over there7" John Green pointed To
q building couple OF blocks away.
The VOLTS lived there until the
father swapped his wood and coal
yard for a ranch over at Yakima
about four years ago and they moved
away. For three years lived In
the next house to them but one.
That little one there. on the left.
when my son was at Camp
Lewis hired Roy 10 deliver grocer.
les for me on a bicycle. He used TO
work around like that good deal
So you see, I know him pretty we'll
Il never would have thought he
was the Kind OF q boy to commit
murder, lie must have been out OF
his senses. He killed a man. though.
and should not be frced--but he Ger.
tainly should not hang. That would
be a crime"
As Green turned TO his neglected
customers. who had been listening
with interest. one Of them spoke up.
WOMAN SPEAKS GOOD
WORD FOR HIM
II can tell you something about
that hoy"
II vas Mrs. Buck She In a little
gra f0haired. swcct-faced woman. and
she was eager to say good word
for Roy Woiff.
Are you nm Odd Fellow she said.
"Oh. reporter for The Star.
thought you might h- an Odd Eel
low. because Roy was one. you know.
and ! think they are trying to help
him.
know that boy Well. ! guess.
do. Know him and hts mother ever
since he WIS little fellow In long
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