The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-12-05
Death of the Victim of Saturday
Nights ARRAY al il:25
O'clock Sunday
Evening.
The Buriei Yesterday Afternoon
The Murderer Gives Him
self up to the Officers.
An Interview VITA the Prisoner at
the City JsiI-His Version
of the ARRAY.

the htdiIh iedulDg INTO the gambling room
ed OF Clark Burns, on Fifth street, bstwee
&c Shawnee aud Delaware streets, died at hi
residence on IVES, Cherokee street betxse
= Tenth and Eleventh streets, Sunday NIGH
at ll:23 O'Clock, about twenty four hour
= alter receiving his wound He was con
scIous until within few moments of hi
: death, and was able 10 converse with tbos
around him until about half an hour be
fore he died. He apparently was in grea
pain, although hi great nerve. and stron,
Will served 10 suppr s. outward Indication
Of suffering He was surrounded bv hi
a. family al the time he died
= GAVE HIMSELF Up.
Sunday afternoon Mr. Michael Rogers CAV.
information 10 officer Yerkes as TO the
: whereabouts Of Mullane, and the Office,
- proceeding TO the place, secured his man.
G Nullane wanted to give himself up, and
y MIR. Rogers, therefore, made his hiding
n place known The arrest was effected about
: O'clock in the evening. He had
: Eothing TO say and was Immediately ,akeu
down stairs and locked up. He had been
secreted m the northwestern portion of the
city, but exactly where il not known.
waiting until the excitement
ing himself The reason ascribed for bis
: sending Tor an officer, instead Of coming to
headquarters 10 give himself I'D was that
he wanted the protection Of the notice
when going to the station.
THE FUNERAL
The burial of the victim took place YES
terday afternoon at o'clock from the fam
lily Residence and was very largely attended.
the cortege being over two squares in length.
and including large number of private
carriages. Owing to the short notice given
Of the burial many were not informed who
other Sise should have gore The members
OF The police force, his old comrades, were
present, and accompanied the remains to
the cemetery, several acting "a pail bearers.
At two O'Clock the procession moved from
the residence to the Cathedral where after
the services, it proceeded TO the Catholic
Cemetery, where the remains were Inferred.
MCLLASEs STORY.
The murderer, young Mullane, vas in |
terviewed Yesterday morning by represeu-
tatIye OF The TINES, to whom he talked |
quite freely, and gave, without hesitation. |
his version OF the affair He said that |
when he came into the gambling room Ma
lone was seated at the hazard table, play
ing, and as be came up TO the table to see
ihe play Malone locked up and applied 10
him an opprobriOus epithet He replied.
and just then Burns, the proprietor Of the
house, came up and said he didn't want anv
irss IN his pl ace. Nulane replying that he
didn't intend 90 have any there He saws
he was afraid Of Malone, knowing that be
carried weapons, and went 10 the lunch ia
bic IN the room and secured T. e knife which
was used 10 cut the bread with. to defend
himself in case he was attacked He then
went To the door, when he turned and beck
oned TO one Of the men in the room TO come
out. just at this time
MALONE PASSED OUT OF THE DOOR,
MullaGe standing aside TO let him 90 by. {
ven Malone seized him by the throat,
forced HIM up sgainst the wall. calling him
as lot a b-h. Muilane then drew the :
knife, MT, as he lays, with the inten-
ton Of killing MaloIe, but simply TO 8
stag HIM" a. he called il, to force him | !
TO let go. Af'er the stsbbing he ran down
stairs and WHEN on the sidewalk he was
si.zed by Officer Cunningham. Malone
followed him down saying Il am cut" He .
Then dropped the knife on the sidewalk, and l
the officer releasing his hold on him he ran
uy stsirs again, through the keno room and
down the back stairs, He refused 10 tell =
where he had been secreted from the time y
the cutting took place until he gave him I
self up To the officer. He claims 10 have a
done the stabbing in self defense, and said >
that
HE DiDS MEAN TO KILL MALONE. n
He said he was sorry Malone was dead, but I
he did not think he'd hang for killing him. =
lie said that the statement in the paper of
Sunday morning that he was in the habit
OF carrying concealed weapons was not so,
as he hadn't carried either pistol or a
knife for year. He said the PRINCIPAL Z
one he was sorry for was his father. who n
ras over ninety years of age; be didn't care a
20 much for himself, but he was afraid Of s'
he effect the affair would have on him. =
" hen sPeakIngof his father the tears came 81
INTO Mu!lane's eyes, the only sign OF emotion :.
ne displayed during the interview, although a
he WAS rather inclined to be nervous *
while all the the trying TO appear cool .,
md collected lie had COPY Of Sunday
LINES in the cell, and when he az
'eierred 10 the account of the afiray con- >,
aimed therein, said II was not the corr.c. II
me. -
He WAS VERY PALE, a.
nd was evidently laboring under great p
citation. In appearance, Mullane is ra- <
her tall and slender, with a slight beard az
nd moustache of recent growth, large ewes Ell
nd halting and constrained manner of
peech, not the result of any impediment,
ut a natural halt He is about twenty 4,
our years of age, and of late has been en- d
aged in tending bar at the Uncle Toms fe
jabin" saloon on Shawnee ST., between 9TH ~
treet and Broadway, owned by Thomas b,
Ass, who stabbed and killed his son-in-law,
-phraim Russell, in September last, and
hose trial comes off at this present term OF
he District Court. T,
THE AFFAIR OF THANKSGIVING DAY.
Mullane, in the interview, referred to the Sc
lords which had passed between himself Of
Id Malone, on Thanksgiving day, at the BIZ
orner OF Fifth and Shawnee streets. Ma 20
Dne was in conversation with chief of Do 30 80
ice Moonlight and one or two others, when
lullane came up and stood at some dis M
ince from them. Malone, seeing him. on on
nrned TO the chief and asked him why he pa
idn't run in" such thieves and loafers, vi
nd INDUCED in some uncomplimentary "'
emarks TO Mullane and several others
'hom he mentioned Mullane, hearing or
hat Was said, replied that he wasn't eith.r TN
lcafer or a thief, and that whoever SAID Pr
D was a Cd id liar Malone said he pc
ouldnt afford to pay S. in the police court e y.
'r knocking an, body down, and there the
latter ended. There was considerable ill
,eiing existing between Malone and Null
Inc.
POOR NAT MALONE. W.
"Poor Mat; its too bad" was the gener- S;.
sentiment yesterday, when the news of III
is death spread through the city. There -
Ias not man. woman, or child in the ci,y w y.
I Leavenworth who didn't know him. and az
nth the exception OF those of a certain W
lass, many OF whom had At one time or ~
mother felt the weight of his hand while 49,,
n officer and in the discharge of his duty he a.,
'as liked by everyone. From his long as M
ociation of twenty-one years with the po- -,
ce force OF the city, he had come 10 be re- +;
ognized As one OF the institutions of the M
,~n. and while the rouge may have dread N,
q to met his gaze, no honest man WAS ever n,
fraid to meet him. In courage lion fac
,g anything and everything at all times, q.
. won a repu alton for bravery ca
lualled BY that OF no man in this section, He
nd many were the frontiersmen, fresh from IN, m
he wilds of the west and al its dangers, sic
no never finched at the smoking mouth ne
the pistol or the glittering blade Of the W.
nife, who soon learned that Mats word pa
rs law and that he would enforce. what CO.
yer the risk, the law which be, as sn Of S S,,,
Ger. had sworn to defend. 1t vas rarely lea
lat prisoner, whoever he might be, ever 40
ruggled or showed fight when Mats vice "a
Ike grasp had its hold upon him, and if he
tempted any Of his nonsense with him
at did NOT hesit a 70 10 convince hin, If The