• She left Willis for the German she said, and I believe it, so she could once more have a home for her sisters to come to.36, p 7; line 279

• Fladung is one of the largest contractors. He is a German and about forty years of age. Police Sergeant Williams [said he] has little hopes of his recovery.
Fladung was booked at the Central Station on a charge [of] murder. In conversation with Police Surgeon Wittman he said that his wife had shot him and then shot herself. He further charged her with having struck him with a bottle last Saturday.1979

• Murder and Suicide.
San Francisco, May 19.––Edward Fladung, a German laborer, 35 years of age, shot and instantly killed his wife, May, aged 34 years, this evening. He then shot himself, inflicting a wound that will probably prove fatal. From a letter found on Fladung it appears that he and his wife had a quarrel Saturday, and that this morning she sent him a letter, saying that she meant to leave him and move with her furniture to 326 Ellis street. Fladung went to that address in a rage, and the tragedy ensued.1999

• WHO FIRED THE SHOTS?
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Did Mrs. Fladung Shoot Her Husband and Kill Herself?
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ONE PHYSICIAN SWEARS SHE DID.
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Clearing Away the Mystery Surrounding a Tragedy Enacted in an Ellis-Street Residence – Footprints in Blood
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Witnesses with theories, a blood-stained pair of shoes, the translation of a letter which had been found torn in a hundred pieces, and Dr. Frederick W. Von Buelow were the central figures in the examination of Edward Fladung, charged with the murder of his wife, before Judge Rix in Police Court No. 1 yesterday afternoon.
From the time Edward Fladung, while stretched on the operating table at the City Receiving Hospital, gasped, “My wife shot me; I forgive her,” up to the present, theories of the tragedy which occurred on the 19th of May last, resulting in the death of Mrs. May Fladung and the almost fatal wounding of Edward Fladung, her husband, have been formed…2002

• FLADUNG ON TRIAL
Edward Fladung is on trial before a jury and Judge Shafter charged with the murder of his wife on May 19th last at their lodging on Eddy street. They had been married less than one year and quarreled continually. Much of the testimony in the hearing of the case before the Coroner and the Police Magistrate went to show Fladung was very intemperate and abused his wife cruelly. It also appeared that she had lived many years before meeting Fladung as the wife of a gambler.1965

• HE DID NOT KILL HER
Edward Fladung Declared Guiltless of His Wife’s Death
The Jury Out But A Moment
The jury before whom Edward Fladung has been on trial for the murder of his wife, Mary Fladung, yesterday afternoon acquitted him on the first ballot, not being absent from the courtroom more than five minutes.
The chief interest of the day centered in the testimony of the defendant himself, who related in an apparently frank way the circumstances leading up to the moment of the tragedy. He described at length the first accidental meeting in Los Angeles, their hasty marriage, and the quarrels which almost immediately ensued between them owing to her tendency to drink and to keep improper hours.
On one occasion, when he refused to get her some cigarettes at night, she scratched his face and he kicked her out of doors.
The witness then, with some appearance of emotion, described the events of the fatal 19th of May.
“I had intended going to San Rafael that day,” he said, “but missed the boat, and returned to our room at 508 Eddy street. My wife was not there, so I went out to lunch, and returned at 4 o’clock. I found she had been back in my absence and left behind her a handkerchief, four cartridges and a note. I went after her to 326 Ellis street, where I knew she had wanted to take rooms. In fact, we had quarreled about it before.
“Why,” I asked her, when we met, ‘have you come here?’
“She answered, “I don’t care for you.”
“Then I remembered she had taken my pistol away with her and I asked:
“Why did you take my pistol out of my pocket?”
“As I spoke I placed my hat on a chair, and it fell to the floor. I stooped down to pick it up and as I did so I heard her say: “Here is your pistol.”
“The next instant there was a shot, and after that I remember nothing more until I regained consciousness and found myself in the hospital.”
Mrs. Carrie Taylor, Mrs. Louise Taylor and Mrs. Phoebe Coffin testified to the drunkenness and violent temper of the deceased.
The defendant showed no emotion when acquitted, but quietly thanked the jury, as did the counsel, George Knight. Judge Shafter also seemed very well satisfied with the verdict.2003

• Could not find in 1870, 1900, 1910; Ancestry.com, 9 Mar 2005.