The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01
BLOODY WORK BY A BOARDER.
CRAzED ny DRINK AND JEALOUSY
HE TAKES THREE LIVES.

Two of His Victims the Aged Couple
who Ran the BOarding-HOuse-Th
Third Their Daushter-in-LaNv's
sister-His Unrequited Love For
the GrandchiId of the Old Couple
at the Bottom of the Triple Crime.
a WOmnn's Bravery AIS That Pre-
vented Further BIOodshed.
Atlanta, Ca, Dec. S.-Edward C. Flana-
gan, an employee of the Standard Oil Com
pany, attempted to exterminate the Allen
family at Poplar Springs, DeKalb coun-
ty tonight and did kill three members.
His victims were Dixon e. Allen and
wife, both more than 20 years of age,
and Miss Ruth Slack.
Flanagan seems to have been in love
with Leila Allen, the 1l-year-old
granddaughter of Dixon Allen. The old
couples married son, G. W. Allen and his
wife and two children, lived with them in
neat little cottage, four miles from the
city limits.
Flanagan had been boarding with them
for six months. His actions to-day were
alarm. 1t was noticed though that he was
anxious to get the members of the family
to leave the house.
Late in the afternoon he returned and
when supper was announced he ate with
the family. When he had finished he
asked Mrs G. W. Allen to give him a
drink of water. She left the room to get
it, Her husband was standing by the
table talking to his father. Flanagan
went to his own room, and returning In
a moment, thrust pistol through a por-
| there close to the sons head and fired AL
| len lodged and the ball struck him in the
back of the head. He fell to the floor.
Flanagan stepped over his body and
knocked the lamp from the table with a
| wave of his pistol. This left the room In
total darkness. Old Mrs Allen. Miss Slack,
| who was a sister of the younger Mrs. AL
| len and the children, ran into another
| room in terror.
Flanagan clubbed the elder Allen with
| his pistol and killed him with a few blows.
Then he strode quickly to the room
| where the women were screaming and be-
| gan firing on them.
| Grandmother Allen was shot through the
| body twice and killed.
| Miss Slack was shot through the pack
and mortally Wounded.
At this moment, the daughter-in-law,
| who had gone for the water, returned and
rushed into the room where she heard the
| firing. She found that Flanagan was try
| ing to kill Leila, her daughter. She struck
| the pistol and then clinched with the MUIR
| derer He struggled and she held to him
! until he had dragged her out doors.
| There she. by almost superhuman
strength, threw him to the ground. Flan'
agan fought like madman, and tried his
| best to shoot her. She succeeded in pre-
| venting him from firing a minute or more.
! BY this time her husband had recovered
| consciousness, and he ran out to his wife 9
| rescue. Together they were able to held
| Flanagan and disarm him. Mrs. Allen
/ then called help and when neighbors ar
| rived Allen was holding the murderer on
| the ground.
| Flanagan was bound with ropes and
| held under Sheriff Austin of DeKalb coun-
| ty arrived In the meantime large crowd
| had assembled and they talked of lynchina
| Flanagan. The sheriff did not wait to give
| them an opportunity, but Immediately
| hurried the prisoner off and brought him
into the city, where he was placed in the
| county Jail.
| Flanagan would not talk, except to say
| that he was drunk. A bottle of whisky
| and S535 were found in his pockets. He
| had evidently prepared himself for flight
| Flanagan came to Atlanta from Louis
| Vile, KY, last spring. He was car
| penter by trade but of late had some con-
| nection with the Standard Oil Company.
| Miss Slack, who died about midnight
was from Birmingham She was to be
/ married next week.
| G. w. Allen, who was not dangerously
| wounded, Is a contractor. He thinks that
| Flanagan was in love with his daughter
Leila and wanted to kill the entire family
| because he could not marry the child.
| Flanagan retained Judge Hillyer to de-
| fend him. The attorney had an interview
| with the prisoner at the Jail tonight, but
| refused to talk and asked the Jailor not to
! allow any one to Gee Flanagan.
TOANEn COUNTY FUNDS TO A NEGRO