Roscoe Orr, traveling salesman for Penick-Hughes Co., of Stamford, who was last heard of alive on Nov 8th, when he left Clipper in Kent county for Dickens City, was found this week in a canyon seven or eight miles this side of Dickens City, dead.
From information received here it seems that his team ran away and ran off an embankment, throwing the buggy on top of Roscoe. The horses were found several miles from the scene with parts of the harness on them. Roscoe was an intimate acquaintance of the News representative and was a young man of sterling integrity, reliable and trustworthy in every respect, and this deplorable occurrence will be learned of with deepest regret by all who knew him. His body had been in the canyon eight or ten days when it was found. His brother, Walter Orr, is assistant cashier in the First National Bank of Stamford.
The Albany News, Albany, Tex., Nov 25, 1904
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