Charlotte, Sept. 29—Joe Eckles Orr, chief of detectives of the Charlotte police force, died this afternoon at a Salisbury hospital. His death was caused by internal injuries received yesterday when a high powered police car answering a “riot call” to High Point in connection with the police convention there, overturned near China Grove.
Little hope was being entertained by hospital attaches at Salisbury late tonight for the recovery of J. M. Bhyers, another Charlotte policeman, who was seriously injured in Tuesday’s tragedy. Byers was reported as being “very low” and his chances for recovery were said to be slim. He has a fractured skull.
H. M. Joyner, the third Charlotte officer injured in the crash, was reported as being “about the same.” Joyner is suffering from an injury to his back. He is not believed to be fatally hurt.
Chief Orr was conscious until the end. He died while hospital attaches were preparing to turn him over on his back to relieve an intense chest pain the chief had complained of sinc the tragedy.
Unfortunate circumstances prevented Mrs. Orr, the widow, from being at the bedside of her husband when he died. She was in Salisbury yesterday morning, but returned about noon when she was informed that Chief Orr was “practically out of danger.”
She was in Charlotte when the death of Chief Orr occurred at 3 p.m., but immediately returned to Salisbury. Other members of Chief Orr’s family were in Charlotte wiehn he died it was said.
The body of the dead chief arrived in Charlotte tonight.
Chief Orr was the son of the late Joe L. Orr, for 40 years a member of the Charlotte police department, and at the time of his death in 1906, its chief.
Editor’s Note: The newspaper headline said he died in a Charlotte hospital, but the article said he was in a Salisbury hospital.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Record, Sept. 30, 1926
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