The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-02
HELD FOR DAMAGES.
UNEXPECTED ARRESTS PREVENT
THREE MEN FROM GOING NORTH.
Accidental Shooting Last Week the
Cause-Brcsher of the injured
Man said 10 Have Demanded $500
From MuiiiGan-Failing to Get IL,
He Causes Warrants to BE Issued.

The second chapter OF the accidental
shooting which took place az the Eureka
snspender factory on Cherry street, be-
tween Second and Third avenues. on the
evening OF August =. was enacted last
evening al the gangplank OF the steamer
Utopia, when an officer arrested E. j.
Butterfield. ". ". Woods and e j.
Muliigan on a warrant charging them
with carrying concealed weapons.
The three men arrested were taken 10
police headquarters by Patrolman Stew
art and subsequently released on $40 cash
bail each. They were greatly annoyed at
the occurrence. and, while they do no; say
so, undoubtedly think that they have been
subjected 10 a species of persecution in
stead of prosecution.
ON the evening of August . Butterield
/ Woods and MulEgan were in the Eureka
suspender factory having some holsters
ntted TO their revoivers. One of the re-
volvers was dropped 10 the floor, and
Mulligan picked Il up. Accidentally IL
was discharged, the ball passing through
the fieshy part OF Timothy II. Hollis arm.
The shooting caused considerable excite
ment bat when il became known that
there was not a bloodthirsty villain and a
beautiful maiden in the case, public inter
est and gossip fell like an overdone real
estate boom. Holt was removed TO his
/ home in North Seattle, and at last ac-
The cause of the arrests last night can
be traced hack to the incident at the sus-
pender factory, and If the statement of
r. j. Mulligan is correct, he has been
called upon by a brother OF the injured
man to put UP $500 in cash for the injury
inflicted accidentally.
Mulligan has the appearance of
straightforward ahove-board sort of
man, and in his talk expresses profound
regret that the shooting took place. He
says that he was not only willing, but
anxious to do all he could after the affair
for Mr. Holt, but when 1t came TO pay
ing $500 he simply could not do it.
IF I were financially able to give Mr..
Holt $500 said Mr.. Mulligan, Ito CON-
pensate him for loss of time and injuries
inflicted accidentally at my hands, /
would not hesitate moment In fact,
money. but could not do it. telegraphed
/ TO my relatives in New York city, but
| they could not help me out
| From the first I have tried TO do all
in my power for Mr.. Holt. but his brother
/ has insisted on cash payment, and told
/ me that no sum less than $500 would be
/ accepted. He understood that / could not
4 give that amount, and had not only me,
but Mr.. Butterield and Mr.. Wood ar
rested this evening as we were taking
/ the Utopia for Alaska. We are charged
with carrying concealed weapons, but
do not exactly understand the case.
/ When we. went to the suspender factory
to have the reyolvers fitted, we took the
reyolvers at the request or suggestion OF
the people at the factory. As a matter
of fact. Holt dropped the revolver on the
floor and / picked IL up. Not being ac-
quainted with the mechanism of self
cocker, / accidentally discharged it."
+ The case was finally practically settled
last night, when the steamer Utopia sailed
with Butterfield Woods and Mulligan Null
ligan had hard time of it, and had to put
up so at police headquarters. whereas But
terfeld and Woods only put up so each
Mulligan did not hesitate to talk about the
case when he reached the water front He
said he was almost inclined TO give up his
trip and fight the case. He declared that
he was being held up. When asked why
he had to put up $50. he said that he was
told that SO of 1t would be forfeited to the
city as bail money, and that $40 was for an
unpaid doctors bill
A reporter learned at police headoua r.
tiers last night that 1t was true Mulligan
had deposited $50. as against SO each for
his friends, before he was released. II ap-
pears that according to Mufngan's under
standing the only way he could get away
on the boat was by putting up the money
TO settle the Doctors bill. He had to get a
friend in Louch. Augustine & Co.'S to nut
up ali the money he had and one of his
other friends pawned his watch to make
up the $50.