Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — OSTRACIZED AND BANISHED. [ARTICLE]

OSTRACIZED AND BANISHED.

The Alleged Murderer of Zorn Burns a Homeless Wanderer. s [Lincoln (Ill.) Dispatch.] This week will see Orrin A. Carpenter, the once wealthy and highly respected citizen of Limibin, 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 gobs 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 of Carpenter’s acqnittal of the murder of Zora Burns, his former housemaid, the belief in his guilt is general. The circumstantial evidence, whieh was strong and id some respects damning at the trial, has been made more so since then by fresh diseoveries, and no one in Lincoln doubts his guilt fora moment.