Bibb County GaArchives News.....The Woolfolk Tragedy August 12 1887
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The Georgia Enterprise
  One night last week Capt. Richard Woolfolk, of Bibb county, his wife and six
children and an old lady by the name of Mrs. Tempe West, were brutally murdered
in the home of Capt. Woolfolk. The murderer did his bloody work with an ax. A
son of Capt. Woolfolk, by his first wife, is in the Atlanta jail, charged with
the crime.

The Georgia Enterprise, Sept. 23, 1887
The Woolfolk Tragedy
  There has been some important evidence gathered by the Woolfolk's young and 
timeless attorney, in the last few days, that may clear young Woolfolk, who is
now in the Atlanta jail from the heinous crime charged to him. As the tragedy
was so generally discussed throughout this county, we will give our readers a 
part of what Col. Walker has done for his client. He claims that he has now 
found the real murderers of the Woolfolk household, and says that an escaped ex-
convict, by the name of Jack Debose, who is now confined in the Canton jail, 
and two or three others whom he knows, committed the horrible and bloody 
murder. Debose, along with the others whose names he does not give, were seen 
in the neighborhood of the Woolfolk place the night the crime was committed, 
and Debose has acknowledged to Col. Walker that he knows who did the killing, 
and offered to inform him provided he would let him go free. But the young 
attorney claims that Debose was the party who used the ax with which the parties
were killed, while the others are only accomplices, and also that he has now 
gathered evidence enough to convict them all. We have never believed that young
Woolfolk was guilty, but hope whoever is, will be brought to justice for a more 
horrible or bloodier crime was never committed in this country than that of the 
wholesale slaughter of the Woolfolk family.

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