Bibb-Houston County GaArchives News.....TOM WOOLFOLK HUNG November 4 1890
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of November 4, 1890
TOM WOOLFOLK HUNG

He dies protesting his innocence to the last

Tom Woolfolk, the wholesale murderer of Bibb County, was hung at Perry, 
Georgia, last Wednesday.

The story of the Woolfolk murder is known throughout our country to be one of 
the most brutal and bloodiest tragedies ever committed in the annals of 
Georgia’s history  From the time of his arrest to the moment of his execution 
he claimed that he was an innocent man.  Whether he was innocent or not he and 
his Maker only knows, but the general opinion of all who heard of the testimony 
in the case is that he was surely guilty.  On the day before his execution he 
made the following statement which was read on the scaffold just before the 
drop fell:

I, Thomas G. Woolfolk, realizing the existence of an infinite, wise and holy 
God, so as to meet Him, knowing all that I have ever done, and fully 
understanding that I must stand before the judgment bar of God, and that 
today , in a few hours, I shall be called into His presence, do solemnly 
declare my innocence, and I leave as my last declaration that I did not take 
the life of my father, or any member of his family, or have any knowledge of 
the person or persons who did the murderous deed.

Thomas G. Woolfolk





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