Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-15
Murder Case StareS
Burly Assailant
in Face
One Victim Is Expected
to Succumb to
Injuries
Water Works Man Interferes with
Teamster Who Is BrutalIy As.
sauIting Another and
Is Laid Out

Hammered and kicked into insensi-
bility beaten into a sodden mass Of
inert blood and bone, Patrick Conley,
an employe of the city water works,
was taken to the city receiving hospital
last night, the victim of a rage of
madness that swept over and possessed
negro who for a moment imagined
that Conley stood between him and a
blood lust victim against whom he was
directing all Of his primeval and saw
age force.
William Mullen, the negro, was taken
to the city prison but a few minutes
later than the victim Of his rage, and
there when he was being searched by
the police, he stated: 81 done hit that
man cause he interfered with my busi-
ness and 1 don't care what I done to
him.
In a small cot bed in the Sisters
hospital, to which institution he was
removed, Patrick Conley is gasping out
his life. In the big tank at the city
Jail Mullen, black. smug and compla-
cent, is thinking of the beating he gave
that presumtuous white man who
dared Interfere with him and his legiti-
mate prey in a quarrel
Does Not Know Danger
There is no thought on the part of
the negro that the victim of his savage
blows is at the portals of death. He is
not aware that the blow he delivered
and of which he boasts, which laid Pat
Conley low ON the ground at Second and
A 1o, 10 CT, re oil 20 In
jury which will in the end take the life
of Conley, the physicians say. Igno-
rant of the fact that he has injured a
man unto death Mullen sits compla-
cent in his cell at the city prison and
SAYS to himself: "I'll get out in the
morning for three spot
The story is this. William Mullen is
a teamster employed by the Pioneer
Truck company. Late yesterday after
noon, with a big two-horse load OF
box lumber he was making his way
along Alameda street. When near Sec
ond street and without his knowing 1T
some of the bundles of box lumber tum-
bled off the wagon.
He drove half block before he dis
covered it. In the meantime Charles
Schofield, who is the crossing watch
man for the Southern Pacific company
at that point, had seen the lost bundles
street and picked them up, as they OBJ
structed the railroad track, and then
he had called to the driver that he had
dropped a package or two.
Strikes Down Two Men
Mullen, in charge of the wagon,
drove his team almost to First street
before he stopped. Then he came back
and demanded to know why Scho-
field had pulled off his bundles of
boards. witnesses heard the follow
ing conversations:
s'They fell off, man; what's eatin'
you?" was the. answer.
you're a liar, you - - - -.
You know you pulled them off to make
something out of them," was the saw
age reply.
"Go to Ill., was the deliberate re-
ply of Schofield, and the next moment
q heavy weight descended upon his
head and he fell in the middle of the
street.
He had gone down beneath savage
blow from a cobble stone in the hands
of the negro. Then as he lay pros
trate he declares Mullen kicked him
in the ribs and the head and in the
back, and as he was repeating his
kicks in the head Pat Conley came
along
- Yer, yer, sup tHnIb now 'AI' - ~.
a man when he's down.,
yelled Conley, and he took a swift
step forward.
"Git to - out of here; you amt
got no business buttin' in here" was
fhe savage reply of Mullen, and he
the cobble stone into the face
of Conley.
The water works man went down. 1t
was like the impact of a catapult. [
He fell like a shot. His head hit
stone in the middle of the
street, and all was black.
Death Expected
There was no recognition in the
eyes of Conley as his friend Frank
Armstrong begged him to speak to
him in the city receiving hospital.
''The man has conclusion of the brain
and it is probable that his skull is
stated the surgeon in
charge.
That is the reason Patrick Conley
could not answer his friends appeal
for information. The unconscious man
was later removed to the Sisters hos
pital. There he is now, lowering be-
tween life and death. William Mullen
was arrested by the police and taken
to the central police station. He is
held without bail, and If Pat Conley's
life spark goes out at the Sisters hos
pital the charge of murder will be
placed against his name.
Schofield was taken to his home, |
where. his injuries We're dressed. His