Flinn, Ed. R.

Passed: 1904-09-28

Age: 20

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1904-09-30

Information: KNIFED TO DEATH- E. R. FLINN DISEMBOWELED BY L. A. SANDS, AND DIES TWENTY-FOUR HOURS LATER-SANDS IN JAIL.  There are two more heart-broken Grant district mothers, two more fathers with bowed heads, one young man consigned to the grave and another to a felon's cell.  W. P. Kerwood made a political speech at Mountain Flower school house, which is on the ridge between the Sandy and Pond creek, Tuesday night.  Ed. R. Flinn and Linsley A. Sands engaged in a fisticuff.  Sands disemboweled Flinn with a knife.  Skilful surgeons were secured the next day and sewed up the wounds.  Efforts were unavailing, however, and death resulted at 8 Wednesday night.       The victim of the deadly knife was the youngest son of W. F. (""Cap"") Flinn and was twenty years old.  He was buried at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon.  The slayer is twenty-five years old and a son of Hiram Sands.  He went to 'Squire Archer's the night of the tragedy to surrender himself, but was not taken into custody until Thursday forenoon, when he was arrested at home on his return from a squirrel hunt, by Sheriff Rhodes, on a warrant issuded by 'Squire Keller, and was brought to jail last night.  He is reticent about the facts leading to his act, but expresses confidence in his acquittal.  He was indicted at the August term, 1902, for carrying weapons, but the indictment was nollied two terms later.  The animosity between the two young men was not political, though Flinns are Democrats and Sandses Republicans, and is said to be of two or three years' standing.  Sheriff Rhodes was told in the neighborhood yesterday that it was caused by rivalry for the affections of a young lady, but Sands denies this and says that his brother and young Flinn had trouble on a former occasion and he had proposed to see fair play, but is very guarded in his talk.