The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-01-24
WINS MURDER
CASE REVERSED
Supreme Court RemandS Sen
SationaI Murder Case to
Lower Court.
KILLED SOLDIER HERE
Cook and Haney Cases Also
Sent Back for New
Trials.

The case of Joe j. WINS convicted
\ In the Hamiltol county criminal
N court in 1918 for The murder of Sergt
". w. Flanagan and sentenced to
Serve from two to ten years for vol
untary manslaughter, was reversed
Saturday by the supreme court, sit
/, ting at Nashville, and remanded to
the lower court for a new trial.
WINS was charged with the killing
of Flanagan in the soft drink stand
+. of George Dell on Market street. The
killing, it is charged, grew out of i'll
feeling which existed between the
city detective department, of which
WINS was the secretary and the pro-
Vost guards under Capt. Kenneth
Kern. The reversal of the Ivins
case undoubtedly means that it will
never be tried again, as the witnesses
were mostly in the army and it is
doubtful if they could ever be gotten
together again.
The killing Of Flanagan by WINS
was one of the most sensational af-
fairs of its character that ever oc-
CURED here. III feeling had existed
between the city detective depart
ment and the provost guards on ac-
count of a statement which it is
charged was made by Sam Jones,
former proprietor of the Beavers
club and now serving a sentence in
Y the Atlanta federal prison. The pro-
4 vost guards were having a great
deal of trouble on account of SOL
diers getting drunk in the Beavers
club and Capt. Kern made a raid on
the club and arrested Jones and his
employees. 1t y~as THEN, it was
charged, that Jones told Kern he
could not put him in JAIL as he
4 as.A l,I =
+ detective department.
This is said to have added fuel to
4 tn flames, and after several minor
conflicts between the city detective
department and the provost guards,
Wins, who was secretary of the de-
tectiNe department, and Scrgt. Flan-
nlgan, soldier at Fort Oglethorpe,
met in the soft drink stand of George
Delk. a fow drinks were taken to-
Eether, when an argument arose
about the provost guards and it is
charged that Ivins plainly expressed
his opinion of them. One word
brought on another and WINS and
Flannigan went together, with the
result that WINS killed the soldier.
WINS claimed that after talking with
Flanagan for awhile he learned that
ne was soldier wanted by the de-
tective department for rObbing a
woman at the Read house. He Is
SAID to have then tried to arrest
Flannigan, but Flanniean. who was n
powerful man, resisted and Ivins
claimed he-kiled him in self defense.
The state, however, charged that the
murder was premeditated and was
the result of an argument caused bV !
drinking ANA i'll feeling between the |
detective department and the provost
guards.
Bass interviewed.
The night of the killing of FIanni- |
gan, after Chief of Police w. II. |
Hackett had arrested Ivins, it is /
charged Chlct of Detectives Robert |
J.. Bass arrived and demanded that |
WINS be turned over to him. This |
was refused and trouble was at this |
point narrowly averted between the |
heads OF the detective and police de- /
partmcnts. lyins was tried in the
criminal court and convicted Of vol |
uhtarN mansIaughter. He appealed |
the case to the supreme court ana |
Saturday the states highest tribunal |
reversed the case and rcmandeJ it |
for rctrial Nins was rcprescnte1 Inv
W. II. Cummings.
The supreme court also reversed .
the case OF Henry a. Cook, charged .
Wlth the murder OF Tom Nann. Cook
had been going to see the divorced
wife of Nann and one night while
he was at the house calling on Mrs
Nann her former husband came in
ana the trouble resulted. Cook was
trlcd and convicted Of voluntary
mahsIaughtor and sentenced to serve
from Two to ten Years. He was rep
The ease Of the state against WI.
lev IfauoN was also rCvcNs,1 I,. ~ |