The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-01-07
MURDEROUS ATTACK
Mrs. Orr, Near Charlotte, Dasgefass-
ly Slot Ia Hef 0wa lone
ROBBERY TIE OBJECT OF ASSAULT
Masked Man Eutered Tier Room On
Broad Daylight and Shot the Lady
With Tier Husbands Pistol.

| Charlotte. SpecIal.-Mrs. ]. G.. A.
Orr Was sho, down and desperately
wounded at her residence on the Sugar
Creek road Tuesday morning at 10: Is
O'Clock by masked negro. who pill
laged the house and then leisu.ely
took his departure. MIRA orr's eondi-
ton is critical. but II is now thought
she may recover. Armed posses are
still in pursuit OF the negro who is
supposed TO have fed In the direction
OF Derita
At the time she was shot Mrs. Orr
was alone In the house. which il only
two and a half miles north of town
and is close to a main throughfarc.
Her husband had just started to town.
She accompanied him to the gate. and
| then walked back TO the house. She
locked the front door and entered her
| bedroom. AS she shut her bedroom
door and turned, she faced a negro.
who stepped hurriedly out OF the din
| ingroom, threw a chair cushion In Mrs
| Orrs face and then fired
Mrs. Orr fell on her back, stunned
| from the shock. For a moment her
senses deserted her. When conscious
| ness returned she saw that the negro
was still in her room. He threw into
the fire the pistol he had used. 1t was
| weapon that belonged to Mr.. Orr.
and had been lying on a table in Mrs.
Orr's bedroom and it was at once ap-
parent that the intruder had been in
Mrs Orr's room while she went out
side with her husband. and that his
plan to shoot was a part OF premedi-
tation.
Without any evidence of hurry, the
negro ransacked the house. He search
ed every part of the bedroom; took
therefrom a purse containing between
81 and $S in silver, and other articles.
Going through other rooms he gathered
together pre- ctically all the silverware
in the residence, and put 1t in sack.
This he carried out into the yard and
concealed in nearby shrubbery. He
also found and hid in the bushes 20
pounds of -four, which he took from a
full sack OF -four; ham; suit OF
clothes Of Mr.. Orr's; wrap belonging
to Mrs. Orr, and a number of other
household things. All these he tucked
away under the bushes. Three trips
he made into .he house, passing Mrs.
Orr's PROSTATE form each time. and
three times he deposited the stolen
goods in the hiding-place. Then he
emptied the purse and threw 1t on top
of the household stuff.
In all the time that he was in the
house the negro spoke no word to Mrs.
Orr, nor did she make speech, though
full consciousness had returned to her.
All the while he kept the mask-a
green mask, Mrs. Orr says-over his
face. But with all his GOODNESS and
carefulness the negro overlooked
gold watch and over $500 that were in
the house.
Finally the negro departed. For three
hours-until Ills o'clock in the after
ncon-Mrs. Orr lay on the floor. She
made no motion except to reach back
once and pull her shawl under her
head. She Suffered a great deal. The
fire died down.
When Mr.. Orr returned to his home
his badly wounded wife related her
experience to him. Police and pny-
sicians were Immediately summoned
and responded promptly. Mrs. Orr
was in a dangerous condition. The
stolen goods, with the exception OF the
money-about $3.00-weTe found
piled in the shrubbery. and no trail
Of the perpetrators OF the dastardly
crime could be found. The opinion
is that two negroes were the culprits.
All efforts to catch the criminals had
proved futile up to Wednesday morn
ing