The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-17
TIE BULLS CASE.
The Strange Adventures of the
Defendant.
SPIRITED AWAY IN A CARRIAGE
Turner Acts the Part of Western YigiIante
and is Determined to Have Justice
at All Hazards.

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to THE HERALD. The Washington cor
respondent of the New York Herald tele-
graphs that paper the following interesting
story: A double team containing three
dust begrimed men drove rapidly up to the
Ashton house, No. 313 Pennsylvania
avenue, about o'clock this evening, and
the trio entered the house hurried,y. The
men were Robert c. Bulliss, of New York
city, and his attorneys, Webb and Barker.
Bulls is the inventor of a chemical motor
to take the place of steam, and represents
several parties in New York, including
Judge Stavine. He claims that the New
York Central and other railroads are ex
perimenting with his motor with view of
adopting it. Upon his arrival at the Ash
ton house he related his rather sensational
experience since last Thursday, .when he
was arrested on a requisition from Gov
ernor Thomas, of Utah, charging that
under false pretenses he had OBJ
tanned a certain sum of money from
citizens of Salt Lake city, including
$3.50 from William Francis, to be used in
developing the motor which the governor
claims is a myth. After Bulliss' arrest,
Judge Bingham decided that the requisi-
tor papers were correct and remanded
Bulliss to the custody of Hugh Turner,
rough and ready gold miner. The latter
had the prisoner incarcerated in police
station No. 6. In the meantime Webb and
Barker, counsel for Bulliss applied for
writ of habeas corpus on the ground that
he was the victim of conspiracy at the
hands of Turner and others. The writ
was issued and made returnable forthwith.
Upon learning of this acuion on the part of
the court, Turner, the miner, armed him
self in true western fashion, with a brace
OF revolvers, and spirited Bulliss to Alex
andria, Virginia, where he was held in
police station cell until Thursday morning.
The next move Turner made was to hire
close carriage and by roundabout way the
prisoner was brought back to Washington
and locked up in station Number 4. After
few hours stay there another close car
riage was brought into requisition and Bull
lis, was taken quickly to Brooks sta
ton on the Baltimore s. Ohio
railroad and here the hackman
r>flsed to go further although threatened
beyond the limits of the District of Column
bia, but this did not work. Bulliss was next
hustled on a train and taken to the Rock
vile, Maryland, Jail, where, in the alb
sence OF the iailer, his wife agreed to hold
Bulliss for Acting Constable Turner Upon
the arrival of the jailer he consulted the
states attorney for the Rockville district
and the latter informed him that Bulliss
was Illegally held. The cell door was
thrown open and Bulliss given his freedom
In the meantime Turner and his
companion had returned to Washing
ton to re-consult the attorney general
in reference to funds for Bulliss transpor-
tation.
The inventor upon his release made
tracks away from Rockville, fearing to
again encounter the armed and somewhat
fierce westerners. He spent Friday night
and the greater part of the day in the
woods, wandering about, until footsore,
hungry, dusty and thirsty he reached
! small Maryland town known as Olney,
where good Samaritan met him and com
municated with his lawyers here. The lat
ter procured a carriage, with two fast
horses this morning, and drove with all speed
to Olney, where they met the Samaritan
and was guided to Bullis'retreatin the dense
underground. The badly frightened in
ventor was then brought back to this city
post haste, and is now III the hands of
friends, waiting until Tuesday, when he
| will appear before Judge Bingham and
answer the writ of habeas corpus.
Turner and his companion are keeping
shady, as they had learned that
Bulliss' attorneys arc preparing to
proceed against them on these charges,
| viz, kidnapping. contempt of court,
and threats. The latter, it is alleged, were
made by Turner, who, Bulliss claims, said
that If Utah justice was not severe enough
he (Turner) would handle the prisoner
personally, and that once in Utah he would
never see his friends in New York and
| Washington again. Bulls communicated
tonight with his lawyer in New York,
Judge Slavin, and the latter is expected to
| arrive at once.