The Macon Daily Telegraph, Georgia
10 July 1906
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DEATH OF A. A. WHEELER SHROUDED IN MYSTERY
Authorities of Street Car Company and Others Unable to Account for Death of Crump's Park Gardener, Unless it Was Suicide -- Funeral This Morning.
Funeral services over the body of A. A. Wheeler, the Crump's Park gardener, whose tragic death under the wheels of a trolley car Sunday night, will probably remain one of the unsolved mysteries in the history of the city, will be held this morning.
The rites will be said at 9:30 o'clock at Hart's mortuary, on Mulberry street, Rev. William Bohler Walker will officiate. The interment will be in Rose Hill cemetery.
The services were set at the request of Mr. Wheeler's only sister, Mrs. J. B. Stuart, of Danville, Ala. No response to the numerous telegrams was received until a late hour yesterday. Mrs. Stuart will not be present at the funeral.
Though more than 24 hours have elapsed since the tragedy, no definite solution of the manner in which he became entangled under the wheels of the car has been expounded. It has been clearly shown that the unfortunate man had recovered from an exhaustive illness only a short time, and that he was in an unresisting mental and physical condition. The manner in which he could have placed his body under the fourth set of trucks, without attracting attention remains in as deep shadow as hundreds of other cases that have baffled the authorities.
Mr. Wheeler was known to have suffered of deafness. He was also thought to have been mentally unbalanced, due to serious illness about a month ago. For several nights before his life was crushed out, he was often noticed in his favorite garden, surrounded by the moving cars, caressing his best loved flowers.
In an interview given out yesterday, Manager T. J. Nyban, of the Macon Railway and Light Company, stated that he had spent the greater portion of the day investigaing the matter, but had arrived at no satisfactory conclusion as to how the tragedy occurred.
Rose Hill Cemetery; Macon, Georgia Blog
