Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-06

EIOIN u MIS- ANAeANtAN -NNA+N-~-
is charged with completely in the
murder of her husband, Fred Fland-
ers. in Covena. Emanuel County
three years ago.
1t is the story of a woman with
drawn from the world, daring prose-
cution because she sees in court
trial the only answer which she may
make to the charges of murder ald
more. but always refused the op-
portunity to defend her name by a
mysterious agency which has kept
her from trial time after time through
three long years.
\ quiet, quaint little cottage on a
hill overlooking the town Of Barlow,
in Jefferson County, has its green
blinds always closed. And in its
darkened rooms the woman to-day
is awaiting trial, and daring the pros
,eutors to grant her trial-unafraid.
she saws. of the results. She is be
mind the closed green shutters, fighting
out her destiny alone against the
movers on whom she can not pre-
vail TO grant her a trial.
Mrs. Flanders was indicted n
Emanuel County in June, 1910, 'of
completely with DR.. w. j. McNausa-
ton i'm poisoning her husband. The
mysterious agency which she can
not understand. and which has caused
her trial to be postponed time after
time. is embodied i'm the minds Of
MANY people as the work OF a pow
erful faction i'm Emanuel County,
which is bent on seeing DR.. Nc
Naughton hanged.
He Charges Conspiracy.
DR.. McNaughton. in his cell IN inc
Savannah Jail. under sentence OF
death is frank to say that a con-
spiracv against him exists, con-
spiracy in which the woman is the
Mrs. Flanders and McNaughtcG
were indicted together. McNaugA-
ton. in 1910. was tried and con-
demned to die. The womans tIlal
has never been held.
In the course of the McNaughton
trial, charges were made against her
the gravest charges that can be
made against a woman and a VIE 49,
charges of which she NehemenilF
protests her innoCence-andn no chance
has been granted her to answer them,
through all the three years OF walt
ing,
E1Nc times llEL hAHE AltA' ~
called in the Emanuel courts, ana
ZACH time hrs. Flanders has gone
eagerly to Swainsboro to brand false
the charges in court OF justice.
Each time by some power th't
seems TO her mysterious the case
has been postponed, and she has gone
back TO the darkened house ana 20
The waiting and the sense OF I'M
potency.
Douements Mrs. Flanders aoee NO.
attempt TO explain.
Saws Only. 81 Don't Know"
81 DON'T know" she says. with the
note Of hopelessness. Il have heard
lots of things. / reckon l must have
enemies .
Meanwhile. Or. McNaughton Is
held I'm the Chatham County Jai az
savannah under sentence OF death
his suit lost i'm every court Inc
ealIows appears very near 20 )r. NC
[aughtou to-day unless evidence IS
prnduced in the trial Of Mrs. Flanders
which will prove his sentence unWa'-
Tauted.
In the trial of DR.. McNaughton
the prosecution sought 10 set up an
undue intimacy between the man ana
the woman as the motive for poison
ing Fred Flanders; human nature.
unfortunately. is so made as TO he
prone to accept readily oreaths i
scandal Mrs. Flanders realized TINS
and. without the opportunity TO an
aver the charges against her name
she went to the shattered cottage
where her father took her in, without
question. .... A.
Flanders said. is tormenting. Tie
Thought comes through long nights
that are sleepless and torturlng. III
comes to her i'm the darkened rooms
and its force does not lessen, she
said. with the three years That nave
PASSED since the death of her nus
band.
Mrs. Flanders dares the prosecA-
tors ..,, -,.-
Let them give me trial she
said "That is all l. want, Ny con-
science is clear. and L want "a chan b.
10 tell the truth. 1t has not been
told Yet
Il have heard that my ease wou..
be mol pressed or dropped. she Nri-
on. Il don't want il that way
want to be heard. If J am not, iliS
stain viii stay with me until ] die.
II is awful"
Nusingly. Mrs. FLINDERS 'fcsp.-
almost without being questioned. m
to her narrative cf the case from
the first
4 had a good husband she said.
He was poor. and we were poor to-
gether. but il didn't matter. lie was
good and tender, through all the foui
teen years that We were married.
Even in the dimness of the house
with the green blinds Mrs. Flanders
wears black for the death of the man
whom she is accused Of having helped
TO poison.
DIR. McNaughtou boarded with us
otter his wife died He and my hus-
band were the best friends in the
world.
IF DR. McNaughton did anything
to hurt my husband. l don't know IT,
They say he killed my husband
because he loved me. If he loved me
he kept it to himself mighty Well
Speaks Little Of McNaughton.
She would not talk about d.
AIcNaughtcn long. however. except Co
deny that her relations with him were
other than those which naturally
would obtain with her boarder and
with her husbands physician.
He treated Fred during his ILL.,
ness ami watched him carefully she
said. NY uncle. d. Green Bel
uaItai ora Fred. too. HuI he and d.
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