The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15
FORMER EDITOR IF DOUGLAS DISPATCH
 MURDERED IN STREET IF THIS CITY

charge of the box office provided Dorr
 did not settle with him according to
 his (Allenders) terms. After Allen der left the theatre building in the afternoon Dorr went to Sheriff Patty and told him that Allender was liable to come to the theatre that evening and cause trouble as he had threaten ed, and that he wanted the sheriff there at that time to put him out.
 Sheriff Patty and Deputy Keppler both were on hand when the show opened Tuesday night. True to his promise Allender put in an appearance and wanted to seize the box office He was elected from the place by Sheriff Patty and Deputy Keppler. Sheriff Patty took Allender down the | street and remained with him for an hour. He searched him for weapon but found none. He advised Allen der to go home and if Dorr owed him any money there would be no trouble in collecting it in the usual way. AL lender finally promised the Sheriff that he would not molest Dorr and agreed to go home, which he did, but he went home with the intention of waylaying Dorr and killing him as he came from the theatre.
 In a statement to the Copper Era Mrs. Dorr said that she had the hope that by talking with Allender she could persuade him not to shoot. That she tried to temporize him as long as she could until MT. Dorr saw that AL lender was determined to shoot and then he brushed her to one side just as Allender fired the gun.
 Henry Hamburg, a mining man of Cochise county, and one of the highly respected citizens of that county, ar rived in Clifton Thursday afternoon. He is the father of Mrs. Dorr. Up on his arrival funeral arrangements were decided upon. The funeral ser vices over the body of Franklin B Dorr were held at Pascoe's Undertak- ing Parlor Friday afternoon, Rev. Curry H. Love preaching the sermon The pail bearers were W. J. Riley, of the First National Bank, R. H. Todd, of the Gila Valley Bank, Hon.
 
 S. N. Ward, Duncan McNeil.
 MT. Hamburg, accompanied by his daughter, expects to leave for Bisbee on Sunday morning. .,e Bisbee, Arizona, Nov. 15th-(SpeciaD
 News of the tragedy at Clifton that resulted in the death of Franklin E
  was engaged in the practice of law .csed a profound shock to his many friends here. -ss
 Sorrow at the tragic death of Mir Dorr was mixed with sympathy ex- pressed for his wife, who was form erly Miss Hamburg, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Henry Hamburg, of Ham, burg, Arizona, the camp of the Hart ford Arizona mining company, to whom he was married about a year and a half ago.
 Shortly prior to leaving Bisbee for Clifton MT. Dorr gave much of his time and attention to the management of the Orpheum theatre, in which he acquired an interest. He found the work fascinating and when he moved to Clifton he again entered that busi- ness.
 When only the bare facts of the tragedy were known here, those who commented upon it expressed wonder hat man whose nature was so pre- peaceable should come to 'uch violent end.
 He was one of the most democratic if men and his friendships entered all lasses of society. He was as gener- us with his purse as he was with his ympathy and he extended both free y, the former many times to his own inconvenience. His office in the Med govich building was the mecca of hose in trouble and in need The ruest tribute paid to Franklin B. )orr was uttered by friend yester- ay who remarked: He would go the init for his friends" and the west nows no higher enconium.
 CIassmate of LaFoIIette
 As lawyer MT. Dorr was well quipped. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and later ttended the Harvard law school Ia le Wisconsin University he was assmate of Senator Robert La Fol tte. '; A
 For time during his residence in isbee MT. Dorr was a member of the w firm of Flannigan, Williams and