Died in custody
Name not reported
She was the wife of John T. Orr, a merchant in Clarendon, Arkansas, and had been organist at the choir practice her husband attended before he was shot. According to a August 1898 newspaper account, she was found dead in her cell after taking poison, and the account described her death as suicide. Her husband had been shot days earlier, and a coroner's inquest followed. The newspaper account does not establish how the shooting happened.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. A 1898 newspaper account says the woman took poison in her cell.
Reported by: news reports.