Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — OSTRACIZED AND BANISHED. [ARTICLE]

OSTRACIZED AND BANISHED.

Tbe Alleged Murderer of Zora Burns a Homeless Wanderer. [Lincoln (Ill.) Dispatch ] This week will see Orrin A. Carpenter, the once wealthy and highly respected citizen of Lincoln, a homeless wanderer. He has sold his property in this city and closed out his business, and is going no one knows whither. He is the first man who was ever banished from the State of Illinois by a mass convention of the people. His ostracism has been complete. He goes because he cannot live here. No one will buy anything of him or sell him anything. No one will speak to him on the street or elsewhere. His wife and his beautiful daughters are served in the same way. Friends and fellow church members, who have known them all and been associated with them in many good works for years past, treat them as strangers. The feeling is unanimous; the ostracism universal. In spite at Carpenter’s acquittal of the murder of Zora Burns, his former housemaid, the belief in his guilt is general. The circumstantial evidence, which was strong and in some respects damning at thp trial, has been made more so since then by fresh discoveries, and no one in Lincoln doubts his guilt fora moment.