The Atlanta constitution., 1898-08-15
FIVE hYpCHED;;
ONE SUICIDED
Kansas Mob Strings Up Negro Muir
derers of Joseph I. Orr.
HIS WIFE PLANNED THE DEED
When the Woman Found That Her
Diabolical Crime Was known She
Killed Herself.

Little Rock, Ark, August 10.-Five ne
groes are hanging from the limbs of trees
near the railroad track and the widow OF
John r. Orr is dead In her cell,
This is the tragic denouement OF the
assassination of John T. Orr. a wealthy
merchant at Clarendon few nights ago.
The wife died from dose OF poison, self
administered, while the negroes, her as
sociates in crime, were strung up by
mob of citizens.
The report of the lynching was received
here at an early hour this morning after
telegraphic communication had suspended
for the night, and tho only authentic de-
tails OF the affair come from raliroau
telegraph operator at Clarendon. VINO saw
the lynching
Four bodies two women and two men
are hanging from the limb Of tree Not
far from his Office and few PAGES away
bangles the body Of another negro woman
former cook in the orr household.
Miss Morris, the Jewess implicated In the
assassination was not hanged. she having
disappeared last night.
The lynched are:
MANI CASTLE.
DENNIS RECORD.
RTLLA WEAVER.
SUSIE JACOBS.
WILL SAUNDERS.
Last Saturday night John r. Orr was as
sassnated while making glass of lemon
ade. He had just returned from Christs
church, where his wife organist.
The affair was shrOudcd in mystery
until Miss Morris told somebody that she
knew who fired the shot.
A coroner's inquest resulted In the arrest
of the five negroes and Mrs. Orr and
that the wife had hired the negroes to do
the murder
Orr'a life was insured for 5000 and 1t
developed at the inquest that Orr and his
wife lived unhappiy Mr. Orr was formerly
theatrical man. In 1880 the couple eloped
TO a summer resort in Wisconsin and were
where Orr prospered in business and was
considered wealthy at the tlmo of his
death.
Mrs. Orr Made a Confession.
Little Rock, Ark, August 10-The FIVE
negroes who were Iyuched at Clarendon
last night remained hanging from the beam
In the sa wmill untn O'Clock this morning
Al midnight the mob, composed Of 800 cit
izens. visited the Monroe county jail took
therefrom the people charged with the muir
der of Orr ana lynchcd them. Inc mob
WAS an orderly one. not word being un-
necessarily spoken ana not q shot being
fired. They marched 10 the jail and de
L
Milwee, who was in charge. He al first
refused their demands hut seeing their
earncStncSS turned over the keys.
A committee of the mob went inside the
jail and brought out the prisoners and
hanged them to the tramway of the Hal
perm sawnill which stands about one hun
dred yards in the rear OF the Jail.
WIN Sanders was the one that fired the
81 y that 1rlled = ,RUa WeaEc@ W. the
mother Of Sanders u4d cook IN the Orr
household, Dennis Rtcar2 was the 'hoo-
doc doctor ana conjurer,' Who tried to
poison Orr with boiled snake heads and
Manse Castle volunteered to do the job, but
transferred 1t to Sanders. Miss Rachel
Morris, accused Of being an &cCcSsOr be
fore the fact. has disappeared and her
Whereabouts are unknown to the officers.
A placard bearing these words was at
tached to the bodies:
This is the penalty for murder and
rape"
Great Crowds View the Bodies.
Great crowds viewed the sight this morn
ing. Tho negroes seem 10 indorse tho
lynching and many Of them are open IN
their expressions OF satisfaction over the
death of Dennis Ricard. whose arts of hoo
doc and conjurIng made him an object of
dread 10 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 jail, with only the soft, sweet
voice of her f0ur-y -y9ar-old child to break
the midnight silence of the gloomy cell as
the innocent little tot vainly cried for
mamma.
Somewhere Miss Morris. young woman
once prominent IN Clarendon society, Is
a fugitive from justice hunted by the Of
dcers of tho law. charged with murder,
She is tho only survivor OF the coterie OF
seven named in the coroner's verdict as
being responsible for the tragic death OK
John r. OFT.
Mrs. orr died by her own hand After
completely breaking down and making a
partial confession. IN some way she OBJ
tanned quantity OF poison and took the
dose about o'clock Monday afternoon.
She never regained consciousness,
Last Saturday night John Il. Orr was
essassinated while making a glass of lem
onade. He had just returned from choir
practice whore his wife was organist.
The crime was shrouded In mystery until
Miss Morris told somebody that she knew
who fired the shot.
After a coroner's inquest extending over
two days a verdict was rendered charging
Mrs. Orr. the murdered mans wife, with
being the instigator OF the crime Miss
Rachel Morris, MauSe Castle, VIII san
ders. Dennis Ricard. Rilla Weaver and
Susie Jacobs, the tive last named negroes,
were charged with completely in the crime.
Mrs. Orr Made Confession.
After the arrest or MIS-. OTr ana tl5 UNb
negroes Mrs Orr made confession. She
admitted that she wished her husband
dead, and that she would be willing to
give 5000 to anybody to kill him. But she
said this was uttered while in Il fit of an
ger and sAat she was innocent OF amy
criminal intention Her husband abused
her. she said, and once struck her and
che being OF high temper herself, some
times said things i'm anger that she did not
mean
Mrs. Orr seeing that she would meet
death at tho hands of the law, preferred
another route ana consequently took poi
son She died yesterday afternoon in the
tail Just before she lapsed into uncoa-
sciousness She wiled all of her property
to her four-year-old daughter. NeVa, and
placed 1t In trust with the Clarendon
lodge knights of Pythias. of which her
dead husband had been prominent mem
Der.
John Orr was several years ago a theatr!-
cal man and III 1890 manager OF q thea
ter In some Wisconsin town. There he met
and married his wife, The marriage
clandestine and the brides parents Welc
bitterly opposed to it. The OrrS lived hap
ply but a short time. Orr prospcred AND
was considered wealthy at the time of his
death His life was insured for 5000.
1t appears from letters received Oy Mrs.
Orr In the name of her cook. Rl.la Weaver.
through whom all the correspondence was
Mar