The age-herald., 1900-03-07
EDWARD FLANAGAN
 DIES IN PRISON
Remarkable Fatalities Have Fol-
 lowed the Famous Case.
WAS HE REALLY INSANE !?
be Settled by Physicians Who Will Examine the Mur-
 derers Brain

Atlanta, Ga, March 6-Edward Flana- gan, the man who murdered Miss Ruth Slack and Mrs. Martha Alien at Poplar Springs New Years eve. 1896, gave Dix on Allen a wound which subsequently, caused his death and attempted the life of George w. Allen died in a cell at the De- Kalb county jail at Decatur this morning. A post mortem examination will be held, and the brain that has puzzled so many experts will reveal its true condition. MT. George c. Spence, who, with Colonel Dan W. Rountree, has been active in MT Flana- gans defense, said today:
 "I think Flanagans death was directly due to the manner in which he was kept while incarcerated. While I visited him several days ago, I found him in an open cell. with no provision for a fire and on a mattress that had not been cleaned in a long time. MT. Rountree and I immediate ly presented a petition to Judge Candler asking that the prisoner be removed and given proper attention. The judge passed an order providing for such comforts as were possible, but refused to allow him to be removed from the jai.''
 Setting aside the crime for which the prisoner was put in jail the case of Elan agan is remarkable by reason of the many trials convictions and death sentences which have fallen to him, and the attend ant train of fatalities which has seemingly followed those interested in the matter.
 Colonel William c. Glenn, with whom Colonel Rountree was associated in the trial, died it is said, from overwork in the case. While in charge of the case Colonel Glenn summoned experts on insanity from all parts of the country ito testify.
 During one of the trials Julius Moyse, the Mississippan, who recently imperson- ated Captain Clark of the Oregon and mar ried a young Ohio woman in New Orleans, represented himself as an expert on para noia, the disease with which Flanagan was believed to be affected. Moyse was dis missed one hour after he began to cross examine Flanagan in open court. Thomas Dobbs, Adam Gresham and Gus Taliferro, Flanagans fellow workers and witnesses in the case, are dead-two of them having been killed 1t is said, in a wreck. W. R. Harwell, of Cartersville, with whom Flan- agan boarded at one time, has been dead two years. Among the first physicians who visited Flanagan after the murders was Dr. Hugh Hagan, a prominent local doctor and club member. He was stricken with lapopplexy and died suddenly in 1898. Dr. Harry Huzza, connected with the case, was injured on train last year en route to New York and died in a hospital there Harry Gilman, a reporter who wrote the first story of the murder for a local paper, died soon after. Several months ago the mother of one of the jurors was declared insane. She was followed to the asylum soon after by the son stricken with the idea that he had wronged Flanagan.
 Sentenced t , Death Three Times
 Judge John s. Candler has three times passed the sentence of death on Flanagan. The case has been In all the counts of the state, and a suspension of sentence was had in January, 1899. on account of the prisoners weakened condition.
 Flanagan came from Raymore, Tenn, and at the time of ais arrest was in the em- pioy of the Standard Oil company. He was 45 years of age. His enmity toward irhe Aiken family was aroused by tine de fusion that they were trying ito separa te him from the 9-year-oid daughter of George W. Allen. Flanagan made three attempts to escape from the Decatur jail. On one of these occasions gpe seized the jailor's baby and he.d it up in frorit of him to prevent the father. from shooting He was seized, however before he got out of the corridor. Six weeks ago he made his last attempt to gain his liberty, but was seri- ously wounded by shot fired by one of the attendants. This put (him to bed At one time the prisoner tried to commit sui eide by drinking kerosene.
 The belief is general that Flanagan has always been insane, yet many believe that the escaped the gallows by feigning that his mind was unbalanced.
 
 SHIPMENT OF DEAD BODIES