The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-11

| wealthy at the time OF his death. A three
year-old daughter. the only issue OF the
unhappy marriage, is left an orphan
HOW THE WORK WAS DONE.
81. Louis, Mo, Aug 1O-A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Grays. Ark. says:
At midnight a mob composed OF thre<
hundred citizens visited the Monroe
county jail at Clarendon. took therefrom
four colored prisoners charged with the
murder OF John T. Orr. and lynched them.
| The mob was most orderly one. not a
! word being unnecessarily spoken and not
a shot being fred. They marched TO the
| jail and demanded the keys OF Deputy
Sheriff Frank Midwee. who was In charge.
! He a first refused thedr demands, but sec
| ing their earnes tnesS. turned over 10 them
! the keys. A committee of the mob went
inside the Jail and brought out the prison
ers. Name Castle, Saunders, Dennis Ric-
ord and the negro cook. Rilla Weaver.
They were taken 20 the old mill near the
river. few hundred yards from the Jail.
strung UP. and this placard attached to
| their dead bodies: This is the penalty
/ for murder and rape"
John T. Orr. the victim. was prominent
! business and social leader. He was the
most popular man in this section and was
I not known to nave any enemies. He car
ried life insurance to the extent of IS. 900.
Mrs Orr. seeing that she would meet
her death at the hands OF the law, pre-
ferred another route. and accordingly took
poison. She died late yesterday afternoon
In the jail Before she lapsed into IN
consciousness she willed all her property
to her three-year-old daughter. Neva,
and placed it in trust with the Clarendon
Lodge knights of Pythias, OF which 9ler
dead husband was prominent member.
Orr was married to the woman in 1880
while she was attending school in Kansas.
Her name was Mabel Earnez Barker. and
her father lives at Waupon. Wis.
STILL ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
st. Louis. Mo. Aug ia special 10 the
Post-Dispatch from Clarendon. Ark. says:
About midnight last night mob of about
two hundred men visited the county jail
and took out the four negroes implicated
in the assassination Of John T. Orr. on the
night of July 80. and hanged them to- the
tramway OF the Halpern saw mill. which
stands about a hundred yards in the rear
Of the fail.
The four men hanged were:
WILL SANDERS the one WHO fred the
shot that killed Mr. Orr.
RIDLA WEAVER. the mother Of San
ders and cook in the Orr household
DENNIS RECORD. the 'Floo-doo doctor
and con1urer." who tried to poison Orr
with boiled snake heads
NAME CASTLE. who volunteered 70
90 the Job and transferred IL 70 Sanders.
Miss Rachael Morris, accused OF being
an accessory. and Susie Jacobs. a negro
woman accessory. have skipped out. and
their whereabouts are unknown 70 the Of
fioers. Had they been In Jail they would
have undoubtedly gone with the rest last
night.
Mrs. Orr, wife OF the murdered man.
was IN TIE corridor OF ne 1al Iast night
whom the mob entered. She had taken
something with suicidal intentions. ard
DR.. P. z. Thomas. VINO was called 70 care
for her. says she Will die.
The leaders Of the mob examined Mrs.
Orr critically and passed Der. but many %
them favored taking Ger with the rest
Her death seems TO be but matter OF a
few hours. II ssle RECEIVERS II Is stated tsaat
the mob VIII hang her.
There is no doubt that the report that
Mrs Orr would certainly die moved che
populace 10 the lynching last night Torss
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