The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-11
LYYourNG OF FOUR NEGROES.
Accused of Murder in Clarendon,
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Ark.
 St. Louis, Aug. 1O.-A special to the Post-Dispatch from Clarendon, Arkan- sas, says: About midnight last night q 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 30, and hanged them to the tramway of the Halpern sawmill which stands about one hundred yards in the rear of the jail. The four hanged were VIII Sanders, the one who fired the shot that killed Mr. Orr; Rilla Weaver, the mother of Sanders and cook in the orr household; Dennis Record, the "hoodoo' 1 doctor and conjurer, who tried to pols- on Orr with boiled snake heads, and Manse Castle, who volunteered to do the job and then transferred 1t to San ders.
 Miss Rachael Morris, accused of be- ing an accessory before the act, and Susie Jacobs, a negro woman, accessory after the act, have skipped out and
 
 officers. Had they been in the jail they would have undoubtedly gone with the | rest last night. Mrs. Orr, wife of the murdered man, was in the corridor of the jail last night when the mob enter l ed. She had taken poison with suicidal l intentions and Dr. P. E. Thomas, who was called to care for her, says that | she will die. The leaders of the mob | examined Mrs. Orr critically and passed her, but many of them favored taking her with the rest. Her death seems to be but matter of few hours. If she recovers it is stated that the mob will | hang her.
 l There is no doubt that the report that Mrs. Orr would certainly die moved the ! populace to the lynching last night. Three previous attempts had been made | and each time the crowd dispersed on | the promise of the officers to rush the | trial without change of venue or any | delay in the proceedings whatever. Last night only the jailer and two dep- | uties, R. F. Milwee and A. F. Howard, were at the jail it being felt that the law would be allowed to take it's course. MT. Milwee made an earnest effort to ] plCNClll lllC HUI HUH lhhlli6o lilo Pllo ] oners, going so far as to give out the i statement that he had twenty five guards behind him and would certainly order them to fire should an attempt be made to enter the jail The crowd hesitated moment, parleyed short while and then forced the outer door. MT. Milwee seeing that further resist ance would be useless, turned the keys over and unlocked the combination doors to the cells.
 The negroes were hanged from the elevated tramway of the Halpern saw | mill, where they remained until a. m. to-day. The coored citizens seem to endorse the lynching and many of them are open in their expressions of satis- | faction over the death of Dennis Rec- ord, whose arts of hoodoo and conjur- ing made him an object of dread and | fear to them. It appears from letters l received by Mrs. Orr, in the name of her cook, Rilla Weaver, through whom all the correspondence was conducted, that Mrs. Orr and Rachael Morris were to remain here until MT. Orr's insur- ance money was collected and then go to New York, where they were to meet | t"p illNll tilid Apl III q lHScttli iIil ny. Mrs. Orr was also in correspond ence with other men. This letter came in the mail to-day from Caldwell, O.:
 Dear Lorilla-Inclosed you will find i q picture of nle as l was on the second day of August. 1898. Another matter has been brought to my attention since l wrote you last, and that is that our | common pleas court convenes on Sep | tember 5, and I hardly see how I can l get away in the month of September. Perhaps it would suit you to defer un- til October. Let me hear from you in 1 regard to the matter. However, if you cannot defer it until October, I think I can arrange matters all right, but if 1t would be more convenient for you to defer it until October could stay with you longer, as I would have all my court affairs attended to for the Sep tember term. Trusting that you will be pleased with Opie's real kid mayor, I am still yours,
 Arthur o. Archer"
 This letter is accompanied by a pho- tograph of the real kid mayor en- dorsed on the back. Arthur to Loril- la." It must be understood that Loril- la is the negro woman who cooked for the Orrs. Apparently Mrs. Orr carried on correspondence in Lorilla's name Mrs. Orr was admitted to the first homes of the town, given prominent place in church work and every consid- eration generally accorded good people The people are sorry that so fearful Ia crime was enacted here and that such violent measures were adopted tC avenge it, but all are agreed that the guilty have been found.
 Caldwell, O., Aug. 10.-Arthur O Archer mentioned in the press dispatch as the writer of the letter to Mrs. Orr at Clarendon, Arkansas, is the mayor of this town and a prominent member of the Noble county bar. He is about twenty-three years of age.
 List of Patents
 Issued from the United States Patent , Office, Tuesday August g. 1898, for the state of Connecticut, furnished us from the office of Earle & Seymour, solici : | tors of natents S6S Chanel street Now