The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-29
FLANAGAN is TO BE HANGED.
VERDICT OF GUILTY REACHED
SOON AFTER MIDNIGHT.

Flanagan Hears the Announcement
of the Finding and the Sentence
Without Betrayal of EmOtlOn-MO-
ton for New Trial to BE Heard
June 1I-Junc "a the Date Fixed
for the Execution.
Atlanta, Ca, May ga verdict of guilty
was returned this morning by the jury in
the Flanagan murder case, and the noted
prisoner was at once sentenced by Judge
John S. Gambler to be hanged on June a.
A motion for new trial was presented
but this was set for hearing Oh June il,
Of the court unless, Of course. the new
trial is granted It is not believed that
the case VIII be again carried TO the Su-
preme Court though the Governor may be
asked to commune the sentence to life i'm
prisonmert
The motion for a new trial is based upon
common grounds and does not involve any
matter which would be likely to secure in
PREVENTION by the Supreme Court
The verdict was rendered Immediately
upon the opening of court at Decatur this
morning, the jury having been out all
night 1t was reached some time after
midnight, as al that hour judge Gambler
asked if there was any probability Of an
agreement, and being told that there was
not left the court room for his bed
There were few people in the court room
when the verdict was announced and SEN
tence pronounced
Flanagan sat apparently unmoved by the
reading of the verdict but when he stood
up to receive the death sentence, despite
the plea of insanity which has successfully
Kept him from the gallows for eighteen
months, he realized the gravity of his sit
uation, though his feelings did not betray
MN INTO any expression or emotion what
ever He received the sentence with per-
feet silence and bowed head and when it
was pronounced sank back into his seat
with the air of a man who realizes that
death is almost upon him.
"A rev minutes later when Solicitor Kim
sey presented the order for the Judge to
sign committing Flanagan to DeKalb
county jail the prisoner arose and made a
pathetic appeal to be allowed to return to
fuIton county jail, where ne has spent
most or the time since he was first arrest
co. having been brought here to escape
mob violence.
have but few days to live" ne said
10 Judge Gambler in a resigned tone, land
want to ask your honor to let me be TAX
en- back TO Fulton county Jail l have
some friends there and it is more com
Portable there than in the Decatur ian
Chaplain Stephenson has been visiting me
there, too, and he can't come down here
every day TO see me, and need him now
more than ever, so l beg your honor to
send me back to Atlanta"
Judge Gambler granted the prisoners re-
quest, and he was at once recommitted to
tulton county jail 10 remain there until
the day of his execution, when ne is 70
be taken to Decatur and hanged in pri-
Vate
The story of Flanagan's double crime is
Wen known to the newspaper reading
public. His victims were Mrs George AL
len and Miss Ruth Slack who lived at a
little station called Poplar Springs in De-
! kalb county. lie shot both with pistol
and attempted at the same time to KIN
George Allen ana his wife Flanagan
claimed to be infatuated with the 11-year-
old niece OF George Allen and wanted to
eXterminatc her family because he thought
she was mistreated by her father. On ac-
count of this alleged infatuation for the
child his attorneys claimed that Flanagan
has peculiar type of insanity known as
paranola' This was his third trial.