John C. Orrick's Escape

Title

John C. Orrick's Escape

Source Type

Newspaper

Publisher

The Alabama Beacon

Publication Place

Greensboro, Alabama

Publication Date

June 22,1867

Transcript

John C. Orrick’s Escape.—Besides holding [the absurd] opinion that the citizens of Greensboro generally had some agency in the killing [of Alex] Webb, the colored people were greatly [incensed] against the whites because Orrick [escaped]. Now, during our residence in [Greensboro], extending through a period of [thirty] years, there have been quite a [number] of murders—probably a dozen or [more]—some of them of a most shocking char[acter]—and, if our memory serves us correct[ly] [that] at one instance was the murderer ar[rested] soon after the occurrence. And in that [case] the murderer was so drunk when he per[petrated] the crime, that he scarcely knew what [he was] doing, and made no effort to escape.—[The] arresting of a bold and determined man, [armed], who has committed a murder, [and] who knows that his life would be greatly [endangered], if not certainly forfeited, by al[lowing] himself to be taken, is an extremely [hazardous] business, which few men care to en[gage] in. John C. Orrick was one of the [bold]est and most desperate men, when aroused, [to be] met with anywhere, and we doubt if fifty men, summoned indiscriminately, could [have] taken him alive.

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