The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-11-01
LINCOLN'S SENSATION.
The Mysterious Murder Of Fora
Burns, ut Lincoln, iii.
History Of the Crime, and the Efforts TO
Discover It, Author.
from the Chicago Daily News.

Mazura, or Zora nurns, the hrutally and
mysterousy murdered sersant-virl, who was
found dead in lame about mile ana 4 half
north OF Lincoln, ILL.,. nes. II, was more come
IL and better dressed than the ordinary run
Of her class. Her home WAS In 1t. Elmo,
Fayette county, ILL.,, AMI She nrst went To
Lincoln last spring. She was there cmplosed
rs n servant in the house OF urrn \. Carlen
tA'. Il prominent grain dealer OF that place,
man OF high standing and irrcproachahlc
reputation. Mrs. Dukes. II sister of FORA,
lived in Lincoln. and IN her house tho
murdered girl found i hoac from The mid
die of June. when she lett the Carpenter
place. until August. when her sister departed
FOR Dakota Territory. From that time 10
Ocf. l.. Fora Is supposed To have lived with
her father at ST. Ema. and had not been seen
In Lincoln, or thcrcahoats. TN the atose
date, early in the morning, She arrived NJ
Lincoln and registered N the Lincoln house
In the afternoon She had TN interview with
Carpenter nj his Office, lasting about half an
hour. After eating her supper she wen, out
on the street for an hour ur more, but suisse
qucntly returned, and after paying her hotel
hill departed and waS seen no more until her
body was found rs described. The throat
was horribly cut from car to ear, a irightlu
cash over the left eye. and II hrnse over the
right eye were the several marks uf violence
On her person. Her hair MAS full ot hurrs
and weeds though her clothing was clean
and fresh. She would have become Il mother
In four or i've months. No abortion had
been attempted however. No .lcw or trace
OF the Ierpctrator Of this horrible crime WAS
discovered except the trs>h tracks OF buggy
wheels in the lane. her saehcl and wraps
were also missing. II first two hackmen
and two other young men who were
thought to have been anduly intimate with
Fora were suspected of hcing connected with
the crime Investigation soon sustained the
L..
tracks referred To. suspicion then attached
itself To Orrin Carpenter. who claimed that
Xora had only seen him iorten or fifteen min
ntes OH saturday to inquire after her sister,
Mrs. Dukes whom he tGarpenter) had assist
ell with money tS.ol 10 sa 10 Dakota; that he
had written no letters indicating criminal it,
timacy with the girl, and that he could prove
an alihi. Tho inquest WAS heg,m Oct. l.,
when ul the evidence In the handsof the po-
lice pointed toward Carpenter as the murder
or. His intimacy with /nra WAS proven on
Oct. IL aud IN, andhc himself made damaging
admissions as ta letters written 10 hcr.M hia
witnesses testified 10 having seen him driving
In the direction Of the lame Oh sunday night.
In the letters HI urges Lora at different times
tn marry u young nian named tuhbage or
T. N. Dukes, a brother nj her sisters hns-
band to both OF whom she is reported en-
PACED, and warns her against letting Mrs.
Carpenter know OF the correspondence. IL. IL.
Hurns, father OF Iora. @ass she was 10 have
married II. NJ Dukes uet. 80. Carpenter was
arrested on the Goth inst. charged with the
murder. Ii was shown that he had been seen
driving near Harrisburg the Monday
morning following the night OF the muir
der at $3.50 o'clock. and stains resembling
those OF blood were found on the buggy,
whip and harness. These have been given
Prot Gilbert Wheeler, OF Chicago, to chem
iealls analyxc. II was al>a shown that he
nittie presents Ia the murdered girl Reports
fr4fn p.s,fia and Decatur that Carmen
ter had visited those places in company with
xara. registering AT the hotels IA "orin 4.
Carpenter and daughter" The detectives
have not yet found uns trace of the Nali>a
and wraps Of the murdered girl. Carpenter
Is IL years old, and is il tnan of quiet speech
and deliberate manner. He has a wife ana
two daughters. lie says he viii clearly es-
tablish his innocence,