Weekly journal-miner., 1918-09-11
ID OFFER. REWARD
 FOR BANDIT
STATE MAY ALSO POST SUM FOR THE TAKING, DEAD OR ALIVE OF MUIR DERER OF JAMES w.. MULLICAN.
(From Saturdays Daily)

,pai county will in all probability at meeting to be held here on Monday morning offer a reward of S250 for the captureof the Mexican bandit who on Thursday shot and killed James Mullican in his camp east of Dewey. The reward will probably stand for the bringing in of the Mexi- can either dead or alive.
 Last night Undersheriff J. H.. Robinson got into long distance tele- phone communication with Governor Hunt at Phoenix, and suggested that the executive also post reward for the apprehension of the murderer. Governor Hunt informed Mir. Robin son that the matter would be taken rup the first thing this morning, and that in all probability he would issue a proclamation offering a suitable compensation to anyone who would capture or kill the outlaw.
 Undersheriff Robinson Is inclined to believe that the fugitive Mexican is a member of the band of bootleg ger outlaws with which the officers had a gun battle west of Jerome sev- eral weeks ago. At that time Robin son. Tom Marks and another deputy exchanged about 90 shots with at least two men who were attempting to bring to Jerome nearly 200 pints of liquor. The booze together with five pack animals was captured and one of the alleged importers of the liquor was also arrested.
 Coroner Makes Report. Coroner George w. Hance, who conducted the inquest over the re- mains of Mullican, yesterday sent to the board of supervisors the follow ing official report of the facts and findings:
 Camp Verde, Ariz.. Sept. 6. 1918, "To the Board of Supervisors,'
 Prescott Arizona,
 Dear Sirs: In the matter of the killing of James w. Mullican, be- tween Cherry Creek Wash and Snid- CTS Camp on the Cherry Creek Grade, the man, tall, dark Mexican came to the camp during the night and either picketed his pony or hob bled him near the Muilican camp and between daylight and sunrise Ar. Muilican got out of bed and put on his clothes at that time the Mexi- can came to him and asked to buy some lunch or grub. Mullican told him he did not have anything to sell but would give him his breakfast, and told his two sons Carl and Frank aged IA and 12, years respectively to get up and fix the breakfast. and he would go get the mules. He picked LID his 30-30 Winchester and started down the road in an easterly direc- ton and the Mexican led his horse to the place where he slept and put on the saddle and rolled up a small pistol in a striped calico shirt and then put the shirt inside a dove-coior- ed rain coat and tied them on the saddle. He started down the road in the direction Mullican had gone, and the bows stated in about ten minutes they heard seven or eight shots. Ar ter waiting several minutes they started down the road the way their father had gone to get some water and help to bring the stock, two mules anl two horses, to camp. They found their father dead in the road rcrhaps half a mile east of their camp. They returned to camp and later John Boyer, the mail carrier, on his way to Dewey, found MT Multi can and came back to Camp Verde and reported the matter. Later Frank Dickinson. the man who killed the slayer of Jim Lowry, went and brought the boys to the town and in hunting for tracks and the way the murderer went, found the coat, shirt and pistol. The pistol is .32 cali brc Smith & Wcsson, old pistol, but not the pistol or gun used in the kill ing of Mullican.
 | summoned coroncr's jury, held an inquest and brought the remains to Camp Verde and am having coffin made and will bury him at Clear Creek cemetery today. The team and Sc head oi cattle is in his sons name. The son IS a soldier in the United States army now in France. The son also owns homestead in the Mogol- lon mountains near the Apache Maid Mountain.
 There was no robbery as there was Sl4.20 on the person of MT. Mulli- can. The money will have to be used to care for the boys until they are provided for.
 The above facts as to the Mexican staying in camp come from the state ment of the boys 10 the inquest jury. The father of the boys did not know the Mexican was in or near their camp until they got up in the morn ing. as ;hey were getting mp they saw him coming 10 their camp on foot Mir. AIullican was shot once and only once. The shot hit him in