The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-04
The Mortally Wounded Man
Refused to. Tell Who Fired SSSS
the Fatal Shot. 3s3l
FOUR IN DlssIPATlNG G; 5l.3
AL GONE B UT ONE
No Living Evidences Against tie:
self-Accused Man, and ss8I!
Declares That IL Does lNo g5
Fear y -TTrial, -T';l, ,sAas as II Ca11#s8S
Il sfy An Court [,I.l. 5s5..
Wassin8 Self-Defensc.

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4 SUFFOLK. VA, Feb. 81 Travel B worm
and world tired I, nftera sevente veal M
Eof fugitaton, Richard NIullen's crines
hung heavily on hlssmind, and to-da3- sSjllss
made q full confession of%the partts1iH3
took in a Kentucky II ira gedy. thereby
clearing up a .1nountain Inys terry
Leen, placed, notwtihstandin there,s sswerog
several arrests. and despite the 9 activitys
%o. detectives. s Since being X a fugitive
Mullen Has wandered over America frpnls
coast to coast and several times has
crossed tho Atlantic. Mullen never was
r,e, who are prominent in Kentucky a
know the reason for. his strategi gics moves
though hei has once visited his former
home during the st seventeen years
The trngedy to- day wa 81 nfirmed by
il. o. Stockwell. schet o f Ice In Catf7s
Elettsburg, Ky. the scene of he e shoot
ing. Ia ID
5.,,s ,5s THE BisELF-A GcusElp 81: ss
Rlchard Null len,i h WHO IN 10 s " forty three
ny The Times Dispatch scorrespo ponuentsSitls
?the best cell iii Mans emo md .eo UNITY jnll
y bout $3.50 10 clock one sum it16rf epenitisa
in front of the most prominent hotel4 m
,Catletts sburg, Thomas Carlisle was Isl hot
down In the streets N o. one save The
assassin saw him fall and no one saw
8~ho fired the tai shot. Sgi sisfs.:
III The nearest person to the spot, Mullen
says, 3 was a .elady, sitting IN a idOor.H
way. She inquired what the mat tters,vtfs
and Mullen told her he guessed the boys
were Just having a. good time. a party
of sports and men about town had been
carousing; a pistol shot was not tfan Sun-s
usual thing. In the dim light, environlng
the. tragic spot, the lady did not srecoE-A
rize Mullen. i}s
Three days later, Mullen was In Tex
as. He did not know for q, year whether
Carlisle was living or dead. Two s}0rs
three men, who had been Carlisle COM
'panions during the evening. were taken
In custody, but nothing came Of IT. Cas-
iisle fingered ten days or there ea'bouts,5
and. though he krie ew Who fired the deatr$
shot. he never would divulge the name
of his assassin. ss s# 81 S4ss
WE'RE WARM RIENDs.
Carlisle and Mullen were warm frlendY,S
but both were high strung and resent
ful, and they had the Kentucky knacS
for gun hardness. Mullen says there
were four men In tho dissipattng pa rtyisSg
cl, tho fatal day, and he IS the only su Er-s
vivor. Y. 5sss ss5sA
Mullen said one died a. natural DEATH
and the fourth was killed near ] ohIs-'83 VI
town, Pa, about tho tima OF McI<inle..l3sg
nssa ssinatio Mullen wa s arrested here
for drunkenness, and lie told Police sChiek "
Bripkley that he was a murderer. t.s sj#8
Little Credencs was given his story
first but Mayor Eley communicat ed vi tlhs
tho authorities at Catlettsburg. and hafaf
the answer to-day, which Nerifled "a NJ ul-88 NJ
lens statement, t$ s354.sS at#
Chief Stockwell says there is no living
evidence against Mullen beyond his CIVIL
statement, Mullen SAYS le Is wea ~ 2 rs
wandering and aims to go TO his .Aeii-f
lucky home, the location Of which u Ia
would not reveal beyond snyn. II t{tWas:8
not C'atlettsburg. 5tS
HAS NO FEAR.
He does not fear criminal prosecuti Obs
FOR il he ia arrested, Mullen claims that
he can establish tsclf-defonse. III ouRlli8
friends, Mullen ana Carlisle had been
on the outs for a while. Carlisle had
Threatened him and was advancing upon
him when killed. Carlisle some time pres
yiousy lad knocked down Mullen during
a siege OF debanohery, and Mullen warm
ed him that he would buy n gun Wlth
which to kill him, Mullen saw that tro1l- "
BILE was immident that evening" and wasl
on his way. 10 catcl u Tram ~ " ~ sf
leave Carlisle when the fatal encounter
came about. Mullen refuses to- repeal
the name of any person connected With
the affair save himseil and his Yirtlni,ss
IIe has two sisters and a brothcr whose
families are in good circumstances,
Mullen. since leaving homo, has earned IN
money painting signs and doing electrical
work, IIe also was furnished funds py
relat atiyes who We're ignorant % his rea-
son for self exile. s. "