Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-08-11
TRAGIC DENOUEMENT
Five Negroes Linched; a Wo-
man Commits Suicide.
THE SEQUEL TO A MURDER
Nss'ssl""tion Of .Inhn T. Orr
wiz" I" prink Poison. ia.
''"'es i" the Grim. Hung
by Mob.
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LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Aug. 1O-F,,..
negroes are hanging from the limbs ~
trees near the railroad track ana -.
w." OIL '"hn I. Orr is dead In her
o'' ms IS The tragic denouemenr of
the assassination of John II Orr
"ea'.hS merchant at Clarendon a few
nights ago. Tire wife died from, a aass
VI poison. administered while rho
."S. hrf associates in crime wer.
strung np by Il mob of citizens
me lynched are AIanse Casr,e nep
ms Richard, Rilla Weaver Susia IT,
obs and Will Saunders
-. itiiuniEht a mob composed OF 200
citizens visited the Monroe county tail
at Clarendon, took therefrom the pris-
o"ers charged with the murder Of Orr
anu iynched them. The mob was a
most orderly one. not Il word being nm
necessarily spoken and not q shot being
llred. i'hey marched to the jail and de-
handed the keys of Deputy Sheriff
FRANK Ailwce. who was in charge He
at hrst refused their demands, but see
ihS their earncStnesS turned over to
them the keys. \ committee Of the
mop Went inside the Jail and brought
OUT the PRISONERS and hanged them to
'he tranway of 4 Halpern saw mill
which stands about 100 yards in the
rear of the Jail.
VIII Saunders was the one who fired
the. shot that killed Mr.. Orr
Miss Rachel Morris. accused Of being
an accessory before the fact has dis
appeared and her wherea bouts are un-
Known to the officers.
a piacard bearing these words was
attached to the bodies: This is the
l't,nalty for murder and rape"
fhe negroes remained where they
were hung until . p NJ today. Great
-iIAl,-t. I'll iSt,.
seem to endorse the iynching and many
OF them are open in their expressions
81 satisfaction over the death Of Dennis
licard, whose arts of hoo doo'' and
con1uring made him an object OF dread
to them.
While the five bodies swung in the
early morning breeze, the body Of the.
widow OF the murdered man lay dead
in her cell in the county JAN with only
the soft sweet voice or 4 three year-old
child to break the midnight silence of
the gloomy cell. as the innocent little
tot vainiy cried for mamma.
Somewhere Il young woman. once
prominent in Clarendon society Is a
fugitive from justice. hunted by the Of
tcers of the law, charged with murder.
Her name is Miss Rachel Morris and
she is the only survivor Of the coterie
OF seven named in the coroners YER
diet as being responsible for the tragic:
death of John Il. Orr.
Mrs orr died by her own hand. Az
ter completely breaking down and
making u partial confession in some
way she obtained a quantity of poison
and took the dose about o'clock Mon
day afternoon. She never regained con-
seriousness.
Last Saturday night John T. Orr was
assassinated while making a glass of
lemonade He had just returned from
eha si..a l,ix Is
ganst. The crime was shrouded in
mystery until Miss Morris told some
body that she knew who fired the shot.
After 4 coroners inquest extending
over two days Il verdict was rendered
charging Mrs. Orr. the murdered mans
wife. with being the instigator of the
crime. Miss Rachel Morris, Manse Cas-
tie, VIII Saunders Dennis Ricard, Rilla
Weaver and Susie Jacobs the five last
named negroes, were charged with COM
plicity in the crime. After the arrest
of Mrs. Orr and the five negroes Mrs.
Orr made confession. She admitted
that she had said to her cook that she
wished her husband dead and that she
would be willing to give 5000 to any
body to kill him. But she said this was
uttered while in lit OF anger and that
she was innocent Of any criminal In
tentions%.s
Mrs. Orr. seeing that she would meet
death at the hands of the law. prefer
red another route and consequently
took poison She died late yesterday
afternoon in the Jail. Just before she
lapsed into Inconsistencies she willed
all Of her property to. her four-year-old
daughter, Neva and placed it in trust
with the Clarendon Lodge, Knights OF
PythiaS. of which her dead HUSBAND
was Il prominent member.
John Orr was Several years ago the
,,Io. and in 1890 was manager