The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-02
DENVER ASSAULT
| RICH MILL OWNER ASSAULTED
BY PROMINENT LAWYER.
QUARREL OVER TELEPHONE
Tyson S. Dimes. One Of the stratton
Estate Executors. Attacks }. X.
Mullen, Millionaire Flour Mill
Owner, in His Own House,


DenVer.-Attacked in the library OF
his own home at Ninth and Pennsyl-
vania avenues. Sunday afternoon, j.
K Mullen. the millionaire milling man,
was Struck several times with dog
wnip by tyson s. Dimes, knocked to
the hoor and Mr.. Mullen. 1t is alleged.
was Threatened with death by MIR.
Dimes, who carried large-callbre re-
volver. Mr.. Mullen swore out a war
rant Charging Mr.. Dimes with assault
to kill
Mr.. Dimes is a man six feet tall and
OF great strength. He is compare
lively. Young man. Mr.. Mullen is in
his sixueth year and is short, being
but nNe ieet eight inches tall.
AS reported in the News, the cause
OF the assault was an alleged insult Of
fered TO Miss Virginia Dimes. daughter
of the assailant OF the millionaire. over,
Telephone. Mr.. Dimes and Mr.. Null
len are OH a two-party line. The lat
ter attempted TO use the telephone
shortly after ~ o'clock Sunday noon to
call physician In an urgent case. but
found 1t busy. According to his state
ment he waited thirty-two minutes,
during all of which time Miss Dimes
kept up her conversation with young
man. He at length requested her to al
low him to use the telephone for
few minutes. explaining that 1t was
matter Of life and death that physi-
clan be called. Mr.. Mullen claims that
Miss Dimes answered him imperti-
rently and told him not to butt in
He replied that he would hold the
line until she allowed him to use 1t.
Courtland Dimes, Mr.. Dimes second
son, interefered and told Mr.. Mullen
that he talked like the colored coach
man, and Mr. Mullen said that no lady
would hold the telephone under the cir
rumstances that Miss Dimes insisted
on Keeping up her conversation.
AS result Courtland Dimes and a
friend, Mr.. Woods. left the Dimes res
idence at the corner of Colfax avenue
and Vine street. and went to the Mul-
len home. They demanded to see Mr..
Mullen, the affair was talked over and
the two young men started away ap-
rarently satisfied of the trivial charac-
ter OF the controversy.
Hardly had they left the Mullen resi-
dence when Dyson Dimes appeared on
the scene. He carried a dog whip
used in the Dimes stables for keeping
the hounds In leash. and walked into
the hall of the Mullen residence and
demanded to see Mr.. Mullen.
Mrs. Mullen and her daughters asked
Mr.. Dimes to step into the drawing
room. He saw Mr.. Mullen and went
to meet him, demanding in strident
tones whether he had said that Miss
Virginia Dimes was no lady. Mr.. Null
len replied that II Mr.. Dimes would
calm himself and be seated he would
talk the matter over with him and ex-
Hl in, ING vyh he
sation had been.
MIR. Dimes again demanded to know
II Mr.. Mullen had said that his daugh-
ter was not lady. Without waiting for
a reply, 1t is charged, he advanced
upon the aged man in whose house he
was and struck at him with the heavy
dog whip.
The thud OF the blow seemed to in
furiate Mr.. Dimes the more, while Mr..
Mullen was too astonished to defend
himself. Mr.. Dimes knocked his vic
tim down efd knelt on him, striking
him in the face with his fists and
breaking his glasses.
By this time Mrs. Mullen and her
daughters, frightened nearly to death.
attempted to drag Mr.. Dimes from their
father. In the melee a revolver either
fell from Dimes pocket or was dropped
by him. He picked it up Immediately
and waved 1t around the room. The
women screamed and Mrs. Mullen i'm
plored Dimes not to kill her husband,
telling him that a man was dying in
the room above. Dimes is said to have
replied that he did not give a - If
there were four dead in the house.
However. the infuriated lawyer took
his revolver and whip and left the
tr,r, TO hfr do nr,r
Mr.. Mullen Immediately consulted
with his attorney, Frank Goudy, and
had warrant drawn for Mr.. Dimes ar
rest, charging him with assault with
intent to kill. The warrant was
sworn to by Mr. Mullen in Magistrate
Carlon's Court and was served by Con-
stable Edward W. Phillips at a late
hour Sunday night on Mr.. Dimes, who
gave bail for his appearance before
Magistrate Carlon.
]. K. Mullen Is president of the Colo
rado Milling and Elevator Company
and general manager of the Hungarian
Mills Company He has been prom
inent citizen of Denver for thirty-five
years and has borne a spotless repu-
tation both for business integrity and
for his honor as an old-school gentle
man. He lives in a magnificent resi-
dence at 500 Pennsylvania avenue. He
has a family OF five daughters.
His assailant, Attorney Tyson 8.
Dimes, Is one Of the most prominent
lawyers for Denver. He was for years
in the law Office of C. J. Hughes, Jr,
but attained an independent position
from his appointment as one of the ex-
ecutors of the will OF Winfield s. STRAIT
ton, the Colorado Springs multimil-
lionaire. He made large fortune out
of the fees attendant upon the legal
work of the Stratton estate and since
then his rise has been rapid until he
now is regarded as one of the most
prominent lawyers in the West.
Miss Virginia Dimes, his daughter, Is
a beautiful girl and is popular in the
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