N.C. Orr Killed by Train; Rites in City Set.
VINITA, Jan. 9.—Leory Blaney, undersheriff of Craig county,
said Sunday night N.C. Orr, 50 years old, former prominent
Tulsa tax attorney, who was a patient at the Eastern
Oklahoma hospital here, stepped in front of a passenger
train and was killed instantly near here Sunday afternoon.
Blaney said trainmen told him they sighted Orr walking along
the right of way, eight miles north of Vinita, and he threw
himself across the tracks.
Blaney said Orr had been permitted liberty of the hospital
grounds. He was committed late in 1936.
Surviving are a widow, a son, John K. Orr, also of Tulsa,
and the mother and several brothers at Dallas, Texas.
Orr came to Oklahoma in 1906 and later became law clerk and
assistant to Chief Justice Turner of Oklahoma’s finest
supreme court.
He was an organizer of the Young Men’s Democratic club here
about 27 years ago. It was the first in the nation. He moved
to Tulsa in 1923 and was associated with the Tom James Oil
Co., a subsidiary of the Marland Oil Co.
Funeral services will be conducted in Oklahoma City by the
Street and Draper funeral home.
From The Oklahoma, 1/10/1938
Donated by:
Emily Jordan
