The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
DOUBT IS CAST ON HENRY KING STORY Officers Says He Had to Shoot
 His Prisoner AND THEN BURIED REMAINS Negro Captured In Tampa Was Thought to Be Man Who Killed
 Policeman Mullen Four
 Years Ago.
AND THEN BURIED REMAINS

The following telegram was received by Chief Wier yesterday afternoon from R. c. Jackson. jailor at the county jail at Tampa, Fla, who had the supposed Henry King in his charge bringing him to Birmingham for Identification:
 Jacksonville, Fla, August 25, 1907. W. D. Wier. Chief of Police, Birming-
 ham. Ala:
 Had to kill King on way last night Wire me at Tampa in regard to reward
 R. c. JACKSON.
 Chief Wier then teegraphed Jackson to have the remains sent on to Birming- ham for Identification and received an answer stating that the body had already been buried This, of course leaves the officers here somewhat In the dark, as no reward can be paid until it is shown that the man killed was Henry King. The quick burial has aroused the suspicious of the police department
 It Is concluded by the authorities that Henry King either made some attack on the officer in charge or else made an at tempt to escape from the train on which he was being brought to Birmingham to be identified as the negro who killed Pa trolman James II. Mullin In September, 1903, in one way or the other giving the deputy cause to Kill him.
 The negro who was in custody was caught several days ago by the authori- ties in Tampa. 1t being said that he was turned up by one of his fellow crimin als with whom he was running. It is evident that the negro who told on King had some knowledge of the crime which had been committed in Birmingham, and he claims to have been a witness of the murder. He told one of the officers at Tampa that King was the man wanted here for murder and the negro was i'm mediately arrested and the police depart ment here was wired of the arrest.
 A photograph of the negro was sent to Chief Wier which bears a striking resem- blanee to the Henry King who Is wanted here. An old negro woman living in Buzzard Roost, where the murder took place. and who claims to have known King testified to the fact that the photo graph sent from Tampa was the picture of the man wanted
 MT. Jackson, the officer in charge of King, Is supposed to have left Tampa with the negro on Saturday and was 23o miles this side of Tampa when the negro took action which warranted the officer shooting him. It Is concluded by Chief Wier that King maoe some attack on MT. Jackson or else made a dash for lib- erty, and the deputy shot him, inficting a fatal wound
 The reward offered for the arrest and conviction of King was $500. The state offered $200 for his conviction the city of Birmingham offered s200 and the police department of Birmingham offered $10o for his capture, dead or alive, If the negro who was killed on the train is the King wanted here the police department for the arrest of the murderer What action will be taken in reference to the other rewards is not yet known.
 The murder of Patrolman J. H. Mullin took place at about 7:30 o'clock on Sun day evening, September 27. 1908, and was an exceedingly bold and hazardous one, King had been arrested in house on Twenty-seventh street, in Buzzard Roost, for an assault upon a negro woman. He was being brought out to be put into the patrol wagon when he drew pistol and fatally shot Officer Mullln. Hs then ran off and made good his escape. He was accompanied at the time of the shooting by negro who claimed to be his brother
 Henry King was probably one of the most desperate negroes with whom the police have ever had any dealing. He was arrested and sent to Coalburg on a long sentence, but later escaped from the mines, and was being looked for at the time he shot Patrolman Mullin.