The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-11
Details of the Tragedy at Clarendon,
Arkansas.
MAY LYNCH MRS. ORR
WHY SHE PLANNED. HER HUS-
BANDS DEATH.
Intended to Join Man at New York
and Start a Theatrical Company
Also In Correspondence With the
Mayor of Caldwell, Ohio, But He
Denies It.

ST. Louis, Aug 10.-A special to the
Post Dispatch from Clarendon. Ark,
says: About midnight last nights a
mob of about 260 men visited the coun-
| ty Jail and took out the four negroes
T. Orr on the night of July 80. and
hanged them to the tramway of the
Halpern saw MILL which stands about
100 yards in the rear of the jail.
The four persons hanged were Will
| 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 conjurer'' who tried to poison
Orr with boiled snakeheads, and Manse
Castle, who volunteered to do the job
and transferred it to Sanders.
Mrs. Rachel Morris, accused of being
an accessory before the fact, and Susie
Jacobs, a negro woman accessory after
the fact, have skipped out, and their
whereabouts are unknown. Had they
been in Jail they would have undoubt-
eddy 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 entered. She had
been taking something with suicidal in
tentions, and DR.. Thomas, who was
called to care for her, says 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 a few hours If she RECEIVERS
it is stated that the mob will hang
her
There is no doubt that the report that
Mrs. Orr would certainly die moved the
populace to the lynching last night.
Three previous demonstrations were
made, and each time the crowd dis
persed on the promise of the officers to
rush the trial without a change of
venue or any delay in the proceedings
whatever. 1t was even said that a le-
gal execution would be had during the
week.
A DETERMINED MOB.
Last night only the jailer and two
deputies, r. F. Milwe and A. E. How
ard, were at the Jail, it being felt that
the law would be allowed to take its
course. Mr.. Milwe made an earnest
effort to prevent the mob from taking
his prisoners, going so far as to give
out the statement that he had % guards
behind him, and would certainly order
them to fire should an attempt at
forcing the door be made. The crowd
hesitated a moment, parleyed short
while, and then forced the outer door.
Mr. Milwe, seeing further resistance
would be useless, turned over the keys
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. |
today.
Great crowds viewed the grewsome |
sight of a woman and three men dang |
ling six feet from the ground, with |
tongues protruding and ropes cutting |
deep into their necks. The negroes
seem to endorse the lynching, and |
many of them are open in their ex- [
pressions of satisfaction over the death |
of Dennis Record, whose arts of hoo
dooing and conjuring made him an OBJ
ject of dread and fear among them.
MRS. ORR'S PLANS.
1t appears from letters received by
Mrs Orr in the name of her cook. Rilla
Weaver, through whom all the cores
pondence was conducted, that Mrs. Orr
and Rachel Morris were to remain here
until Mr.. Orr'S insurance money was
collected and then go to New York.
where they were to meet two men and
form theatrical company. Mrs. Orr
vas also in correspondence with anoth-
r man. as was seen from the following
etter received this morning:
Caldwell, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1S9S-Dear
Lorilla: Enclosed you will find a pic
ure of me. as L was on the End day
If August. $685. Another matter has
been brought to my attention since 1
wrote you last and that is that our
common pleas court convenes on Sep
ember 5, and l hardly see how l can
ret away in the month of September
it would suit you to defer I'M
il October Let me hear from you in
egard to the matter. However, if you
annot defer it until October 1 think
can arrange matters all right, but If
t would be more convenient for you to
efer it until October could stay long
+ with you. as l would have all my
curt affairs attended for the SeDtem-
er term.
Trusting that you will be pleased
nth Opie's Real Kid Mayor" L am
till yours,
"ARTHUR o. ARCHER"
This letter is accompanied by pho
0 of Real Kid Mayor" endorsed on :
he back Arthur to Lorilla.''
1t must be understood that Lorilla
the negro woman who cooked for the
IRIS and apparently Mrs. Orr received
in Lorilla's name.
This woman was admitted to the first
ONES of the town. given a prominent
lace in church work and shown every 7
generally accorded good J
eople The people all are agreed that
ne guilty have been found and that 7
ley deserved the end they met. =
Mrs. Orr was Miss Mabel Parker, for
lerly Of Wisconsin.
A coroner's jury was empaneled to- :
ay and rendered verdict that the de-
eased were killed by unknown parties.
ARCHER'S DENIAL.
Caldwell, Ohio. Aug. 1O.-Arthur o.
rcher. mentioned in the press dis
atches as the writer of the letter to
RS. Orr, at Clarendon, Ark, is the
ayor of this town and prominent
ember of the Noble county bar He
about % years of age. The cores
1ndent of the Associated Press in this
ty visited Mayor A. o. Archer tonight
nd requested him to make state G
ent regarding the letter he is said to g
ave written to Lorilla Weaver for
RS. Orr at Clarendon. Ark, to which
: replied that he knew nothing what I =
Ter about the affair referred to, and 1
lat he is not in any way connected
it'll the same. never having heard of