194 Page – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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162 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

He was afterwards tried and acquitted. He was taken back to Leavenworth, where he attempted to desert a second time.

THE EXECUTION

Mr. Clark Brown of Union, Mo., who has compiled a History of Franklin County, writes: "There is no local newspaper giving an account of the hanging of Worrell. However, I have the report of eyewitnesses. After the conviction in our circuit court, he was taken to St. Louis for safekeeping. Sheriff R. R. Jones assigned the duty to Deputy Sheriff Amos W. Maupin. George Holtgriewe, who is still living, says that as a livery boy, he drove Maupin and his prisoner to Washington, a distance of ten miles, to take the train to St. Louis. An ordinary two-seated spring wagon was used; he sat on the front seat alone, and Maupin and the prisoner sat on the back. Both were dressed in ordinary costume, but Worrell had a light duster thrown over his lap to conceal his handcuffs. No one meeting them would have suspected that they were carrying a criminal condemned to death. Holtgriewe says that when Maupin brought him from St. Louis to be hanged, they came the same way. He draws a contrast between this old-time sheriff's officer bringing a murderer to his death and the large number of detectives and special officers which are now considered necessary to take a convict or suspected murderer from place to place. Worrell knew that any attempt to escape meant instant death and that Maupin was a quick, accurate shot, fearless and cool."

Worrell was executed in June 1857 by hanging in an open field in Union in the presence of 1,000 people, his parents standing at the foot of the gallows as the drop fell. ("Bench and Bar of Mo." (Bay) pp.)

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