The Monticellonian., 1898-08-19
FOUR NEGROES LYNoHED.
Implicated in the Murder of John T. Orr, a Prominent Merchant
 of Clarendon.
MURDERED MAYS WIFE SUICIDES IN JAIL.
One of the Most DiaboIicaI Crimes Ever Planned By Human Beings - As the Guilty Wife Lay Dying on Prison Cot Sine Gives the Full Details of the Hor- fible Deed.

lpiE negroes, three men and one woman, were taken from jail at Clarendon and lynched for complicity in the murder of John T. Orr, who was aSsassinated ou the night of July 30 At the time the mob was engaged in it's work Mrs Orr, wife of the murdered man, lay dead in cell of the county jail having taken her own life by swallowing poison. The names of those who perished at the hands of indignant citizens were Win Sanders, Manse Castle, Dennis Ricard and Rilla Weaver Orr was promin- ent hardware merchant, and considered wealthy. On the night of July 50, while sitting at his dining-room table drink ing glass of lemonade, an assassin crept up to c window and fired load of buckshet into his back, He died the following day. Bloodhounds were put on the trail, but on account of hard rain just after the murder were unable to track the assassin. The people were very indignant, and declared that swift punishment should be the fate of those guilty of the crime when captured. It was rumored about that Mrs. Orr knew more of her husbands death than she had told, and after an inquest last ing several days the coroner's jury re- turned q verdict charging Mrs. Orr with being the instigator of the crime, and Will Sanders with firing the fatal shot. Manse Castle, Dennis Ricard and Rilla Weaver were charged with being ac- cessories before the fact, and also Susie Jacobs and Miss Rachel Morris, young lady friend of Mrs. Orr, with accessory after the fact Miss Morris and Susie Jacobs, the latter Q negress, are the only ones charged with any knowledge of the deed alive and their whereabouts are unknown at Clarendon. When ar rested Castle made confession in which he said the negro woman lynched told him Mrs Orr wanted her husband put out of the way and would pay $200 to have him killed. Castle agreed to the proposition, but says he changed his mind and got Will Sanders to do the killing. Ricard was with Sanders and Castle whe II the murder was committed. The negro women were employed as servants about the Orr home, and it was brought out at the inquest that they acted as agents of Mrs Orr in securing some one to murder her hus- band.
 After being placed in jail Mrs J. T. Orr told all the particulars connected with the killing. She said on July she tried to poison her husband, and that the negro Rieard procured some snake heads, which she boiled in her hus- bands coffee and gave to him This Il l. I. II. vomited it and soon recovered. She also stated that on the night of the murder Dennis Rieard, Manse Castle and Will Sanders were concealed in the room adjoining the dining-room, with the shot gun which Manse had procured, and Ricard was to shoot Orr as he ate his supper. The shot was not fired, however. After supper her hus- band kissed her good-by and told her he was going to choir practice, and for her to go to bed and get q good sleep When Orr had left the house she went to find why Ricard had not killed him. The man said he could not make the gun work. She then gave him Orr's own gun and told him her husband would go to a certain place in the din ing room upon his return to drink lemonade, and pointed out the spot where he must stand in order to get fair shot. She then rolled up the cur tain over fhe window and pinned it up with a hat pin, so as to give the negro m unobstructed view. She then lay down on the bed in her own room, with her little daughter, without re- moving her clothes, and calmly awaited the return of her husband to his doom
 Manse Castle. when being led from the jail, talked freely to the mob, and just before he was strung mp said Mrs. Orr made me drunk and then asked me to get a gun and kill Mir Orr She promised me S200 insurance money. l got the gun and put it in the servants house and told Mrs. Orr where to find it; 1 told her that 1 could not kill Nr Orr, as he was my friend. l ought to die; we all ought to die, for we are all guilty. Will Sanders killed Mir. Orr: he told me he did the following morning Miss Rachael Morris, the young lady friend of Mrs. Orr, testified at the in- quest that Mrs Orr had been trying to get some one to kill her husband.
 On hearing what Miss Morris had testified, Mrs. Orr said she had tried to get her to e.se her husband ground glass, saying that it would kill dog. and she presumed that 1t would kill Mir Orr; that she and Rachael were to take trip to New York city on Mr Orr's insurance money, and that Miss Morris was continually deyising and suggesting methods for killing Mr, Orr.
 Orr married his wife in small Wis consin town in ls90, and moved to Car endou shortly thereafter. They moved in the best of society. and appeared to be devoted to each other.
 To Operate Lead and Zinc mes.
 fhe Wainwright Zine and Lead Co.,, capital stock sao.090, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state The company is composed of St Louis capitalists, and propose to mine for lead and zine in the northern part of this state where they have con siderable property.
 Positions For Printers.
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