New-York tribune., 1920-03-13
u. S. Agent Held
FOrHOnicidein
Whisky Hunt
Assistant District Attorney,
OpposingP Parole, SaysEvi.
dence Shows Officer Shot
Chauffeur Without Cause
Bail Fixed at $4,000
Women Declare Auto Driver
Met Death While Hands
Were Raised Above Head

Stewart Nelson McMullin, revenue
agent, who shot and killed Henry Carl
ton, chauffeur and an alleged boot
logger, in a whisky hunt late Thursday
night, was held in $4,000 bail yester-
day by Magistrate Harris on charge
OF homicide. This was furnished later
oy a surety company and he was re-
leased. His hearing will take place
next Monday.
DR.. Charles Norris, Chief Medical Ex-
aminer, following an autopsy performed
yesterday. announced Carlton had died
from "a contact wound" behind the left
ear. That indicates, it was pointed out,
the man was shot from behind, and
that the muzzle Of the pistol was so
close to the flesh the flame Of the ex-
plosion scared his skin.
McMullin has testified Carlton drew
knife "and lunged at me, and 1 fred
to protect myself" John F. Joyce, AS
sistant District Attorney, yho prose-
cuted the case before Magistrate Har-
ris, has said no knife was found in the
apartment where the shooting took
place, although careful search was
made.
In opposing a request that McMullin
be paroled in the custody Of his chief,
James j. Shevlin, Mr.. Joyce declared the
state had evidence to show Carlton
had been shot without cause.
Mrs. Anna Carini and Malvina Carini,
wife and daughter Of Carlo Carini, in
whose fiat at 234 East Seventy-sixth
Street the shooting occurred, told stories
at complete variance with that related
by McCullin the night Of the raid, Mr..
the case would be prosecuted the same
as any other homicide case.
Women Tell of Shooting
According to Mr.. Joyce, Mrs. Carini
and her daughter declared no word had
been said at the Carini fat about Nc
Mullin or anybody else being q gov
ernment agent. II am told that dur
ing part Of the time McMullin was
holding Malvina and Mrs. Carini on
the fire escape at the point Of re-
volver and he himself was on the fire
escape" said Mr.. Joyce. "The women
by William D. Yaselli, one Of the
agents, and that Yaselli pulled his re-
volyer and pointed it at Carlton, who
thereupon threw up his hands. NAL
vina says she rushed to the fire escape,
followed by her mother, and that she
picked up the money as she ran.
"The girl says she and her mother
were followed by McMullin," Mr..
Joyce continued, "who pointed his
gun at them and made her give up the
money: After her father and Yaselli
started downstairs, she declared,
Carlton started walking toward the
window leading to the fire escape. on
which she, her mother and McMullin
were standing. Carlton had his
hands above his head, the girl said,
Driver of Taxi Held
William D. Yaselli, revenue agent
who accompanied McMullin to the
Carini fiat, said he was not in the
room when the shooting occurred.
Federal attorneys who had an
nounced they would defend McMullin
on the ground that ha shot in self
defense while in the performance Of
make any statements to Mr.. joyce.
Carlo Carini, occupant of the fat
where Carlton was killed, was held
yesterday afternoon In $4,000 bail by
United States Commissioner Hitch
| cock on a charge Of conspiracy To
evade the prohibition act. BENJAMIN
Golossky, chauffeur, of 126 East
119th Street, who is alleged to have
driven the taxicab In which Carlton and
the revenue agents rode to the Carini
nat, and who is said to have helped
put the liquor into the machine. was
also held in $4,000 bail on the same