Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-14
PAT MUILEN'S DEATH.
The COroners Jury tays He Wa
Killed In Self.Defense.


Killed In SeIf.Defense.
The Coroner held an inquest yesterday
evening on the body of Pat Mullen, who
was stabbed on the day of the last mu.
nicipal election, the 3rd of this month,
by D. G. Carrington, and who died early
yesterday morning. Darlington has been
held in the meantime on the charge OF
an assault to murder. The result OF the
verdict of the Coroner's jury will proba-
bly, be to free him from further prosecu-
ltion.
The principal witness at the in.
quest was Oliver P. Harris, clerk,
who testified as follows; 1 was at
the polls near the corner of Davis and
Rose streets from IL O'Clock in the
morning until in the afternoon. I saw
Mullen talking to a man by the name of
McNally on the corner near the Demo-
cratic ticket table. He pulled pair of
brass knuckles out of his pocket and
put them on his hand under his coat.
Then he called McNally some obscene
names, and the latter turned and went
away. Some man whose name do not
know came up and tried to quiet Mullen
down. He was very drunk.
"Some time later saw Mullen knock
ing some one against buggy wheel,
striking him first with one hand
and then with the other. At last the other
fell and struck sideways with
a knife in his left hand. do not know
whether it was there or not that Mullen
was cut, as was clear across the street
from them. Mullen ran across the street
and tried to shake the knuckles off his
hand, but could not and had to take his
other hand to pull them off. l heard
him say, "I've done fellow up" and
some one standing near said, "You had
better get" He did not say
that he was hurt but ran
down the street. Presently he
stopped, and lifting up his vest cried out,
l am cut Then be sat down on the
fence. The other man also ran away,
but was afterwards arrested"
Mr.. Harris was asked as to whether
he had offered any of this testimony,
which seemed to bear very strongly on
the question of self-defense, in Justice
Austin's court, and he replied that
though he had been summoned as wit.
ness, he had not been examined. He
testified also to the fact that when Car
rington stood up his face was covered
with blood.
DR.. ]. j. Still testified that he had been
called to treat Mullen, bnt had found it
difficult to do anything with him as he
ugly about having any operation per-
formed on the wound. He was in a fair
way to recover when he insisted a few
days ago upon getting out of bed and
and getting drink of cold water at a
faucet in the yard.
DR.. MCGOWAN, who made the autopsy,
testified that death had resulted from
strangulation of portion of the small
intestine in a wound of the obdomen
made by cutting instruments. $.
w. II. Murray, shoemaker, testified
that he was at the polls and saw the end
of the affray when Darlington and Mul-
len ran off in different directions.
He saw the officer catch Darlington
on Alameda street and saw him
throw knife under house. The dc.
ceased was drunk at the time the fight
took place.
The jury brought in verdict that the
man Mullen came to his death from a
knife wound in the abdomen inflicted
with a knife and that the said wound
was inflicted by man named Caring
ton in self-defense.
Darlington comes from Texas where
his father, D. @. Darlington, Sr., has
been several times a member of the
Legislature and is now serving in that
capacitv