The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1910-07-28
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spite is back OF the warrant" said
Sheriff Meredith to the Palladium.
Yesterdays chase OF McMuiiin by
Sheriff Meredith. Chief OF Police Cor
mon, Officers vogelsong and Weston.
burg, Frank Newman and q Palladium
representative in q Palladium motor
car came near ending in injury or
death when an advance was made on
McMullin's supposed hiding place in
the northern end Of Fayetts county.
Had 1t not been for Ttce Hollings-
worth, McMullin's father-in-Iaw who
had been picked up on the road and
deputized by Sheriff Meredith. 1t is be-
lieved Elihu Hollingsworth would
have opened fire with a shot gun.
Furnishes Young Son.
The report that McMullin had beaten
his crippled daughter was found to be
wrong after investigation. The child
whipped was a boy OF about six years
Of age. -s ,....
McMullin is believed to be hiding in
the woods on the Lambert farm near
his relatives home.
OSASAS NASA SuASAo . pOoSC "a CCNSL
left Richmond yesterday afternoon a
warrant was sworn out by Prosecutor
Ladd for McMullin's arrest.
That a minister of the gospel and
his aversion to white trash" is re.
sponsible for the wild exchange OF
shots. the bounding Of father
through woods and fields and the depu.
tizing Of over fifty man hunters. is
the opinion Of many Of Dublin's resi-
dents.
According to about twelve of Dub.
Inns property owners Alvernis Need
ham. a Christian preacher belonging
to the Campbellite church, who lives
within q hundred yards of McMullin's
home has been desirous for sometime
of getting McMullin to move.
The warrant to which Needham
swore in Justice Bowmaster's court
charges that McMullin inhumanely
beat his child. The mother Of the boy
stated to the Palladium yesterday af
ternoon that the lad needed . whip
ping. and that she did not believe he,
husband overdid the chastisement.
Sympathy for Fugitive.
mo later than Tuesday afternoon,
says Mrs. McMullin that preacher ire
ferring to Rev. Needham) came to the
fence and said abusive things to me
and made insinuations against the
children. They had taken q few plums
which had fallen to the grass near the
fence. He said then he wished We
would move away
Bert Hiatt, for whom McMullin
worked. said to the Palladium, INC
Mullin Is more to be sympathized with
than prosecuted. The man has had q
hard time of it. He and mis- wife are
the parents of seven children. Tho
man has told me time and again thai
the only way he could get through life
was with trouble and that he'd have
to bear it. He said that at night af
ter a hard days work he would re
turn home tired and hungry and thai
there would be trouble. Not long age
the boy threw q stone through tn
glass front of a motor car. McMul
lin whipped the lad for the offense
McMullin is a good worker SO far a.
l know, and he has been with me fol
years. He will not seek trouble
Following the notification Of the
man hunt at Dublin yesterday the Pal
ladium secured a motor car and on the
way picking up Sheriff Meredith, Pros
ecuting Attorney Ladd, Chief of Po
lice Gormon, Omcers vogelsong ant
Westenburg and Frank Newman
dashed for the riot zone at Dublin. A
Cambridge City Marshal Dan Drische
with a deputy was picked up and tn.
run for Dublin continued.
Pursuit Of McMuIlIn.
At Dublin 1t was learned that Nc
Mullin was believed to be at the home
Of his father-in-law, at the Lamber
farm, four and half miles south o
Dublin. Sheriff Meredith. Chief Cor
mon, Bert Hiatt and William Sullivan
| mail carrier on Dublin rural route No
1, and representative Of the Palla
dium we're sworn in and armed b.
Sheriff Meredith. The Palladium mo
tor carried the squad to the south. Or
the road Tice Hollingsworth, father
in-law Of McMullin. was seen.
Hollingsworth denied that he hat
seen his relative. but admitted thu
wife and seven children had arrived IL
the morning telling them Emanuel hat
been in trouble and that the law wa.
| "shootin' and chasin' him."
/ II allow" said the old Kentuckial
hill man, that Mac will come snoopin
| in haro tnp30ht h,,% 7 craor - Nod