The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-25
HlGHWAYMAN
SHOT IN DENVER
KILLED BY POLICEMAN IN HEART
OF CITY WHILE RESISTING
ARREST.
MRADE ESCAPES
NOTEBOOK SHOWS INDICATIONS
OF PLAN TO ROB WALSH
RESIDENCE.

Denver.-The Times Thursday night
Gays:
In the killing of fleeing highway
man this morning by patrolman, VOL
hurst, the country home of Thomas F.
Walsh, probably was prevented from
being looted. Indeed, the police be-
lieve that Alice Roosevelt Longworth
was one of those whom the desperate
planned to rob- This belief is based on
notebook found on the dead mans
person. In this book are the names OF
the guests of the Washes during the
Democratic convention.
Copious memoranda also had been
made of the addresses of wealthy Den
yer men and their night habits. These
notes, the police feel certain, were to
guide the man and his companion, who
escaped during the shooting. in their
robberies That the memoranda had
borne fruit was shown, the police say,
in holdup last night by the man who
was shot.
Frank Campbell, policeman on Lar
inner street, was the slayer. William
McMulkin, a crook of national noto-
riety, was the victim. The shooting
took place at Eighteenth and Law
ing was accidental. Death was al
most instantaneous.
McMulkin was shot while resisting
arrest. When Campbell attempted to
take him into custody he ran. Camp
bell pulled a gun to frighten him.
McMulkin ran on. The policeman or
dered him to stop and started to fire
into the ground Just then Campbell
c II a
jecting across the sidewalk, the re-
volver shot up and the bullet was dis
charged into the fleeing mans shoul-
der.
McMulkin was carried into the Key
stone livery stable and died few mo-
ments later.
The police are positive that McMul-
kin was crook. He was about to be
arrested on a charge of bold holdup
of F. l.. Everett of 1900 East ColfaX
avenue.
Everett identified McMulkin unhesi-
tatingly The dead man was also
identified as a man who robbed the
home of H. C. Abbott, 1900 Downing
avenue, of SIPS, few nights ago.
Entries in McMulkins diary show
that he started to work at Wolhurst
June Both and he was employed in the
kitchen. His diary speaks of banquets
and distinguished visitors. The police
are practically certain that the dead
man was being used as tool to se-
cure information which would enable
the gang to loot Wolhurst at its leis-
sure.
McMulkin's home was in Ports
mouth, New Hampshire. This address
is borne out by a diary found in his
pocket, in which he said that he had
left Portsmouth about three years and
4 half ago.
The diary shows that he wandered
around various eastern cities, coming
to Colorado about three months ago.
For several weeks he was employed at
the Phipps sanitarium at Montclair,
according to the diary. On June 18th
he went to work at st. Lukes hospI-
tai, remaining for about two weeks. On
June goth the diary says:
Il went to work for Millionaire
Walsh. 1t Is a peach of a place out
here. Mayor Speer and a lot of big
bugs from Denver were out and one
of them gave me a bottle of cham
pagne."
Aside from being positively identi-
fled by F. l.. Everett as one of the
men who held him up McMulkin was
identified by both Mr. and Mrs H. c..
Abbott, 1000 Downing street.
The Abbotts declared that the dead
man, with his pal, appeared at their
home about 9 o'clock last Monday
morning. While McMulllin stood at a
| side door and kept Mrs. Abbott en-
gagged in conversation the other fel.
low entered the house through the
front door, rifled a bureau drawer and
stole $125 in cash and check for
$40.