New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
US. Dry Agent
Is Indicted for
Cartons Death
Effort May Be Made to
Have McMullin Tried
i'll Federal Court for
Murder, Says Attorney
Refuses to Identify Photo
Prisoner Declines to Talk
When Questioned About
Robbery and Sing Sing


Stewart NJ. McMullin, prohibition
enforcement officer on the staff of Fed.
Sral Agent James S. Shcvlin, was
locked UP in the Tombs late yesterday
him with the murder of Edward Carl
ton, chauffeur and alleged violator o1
9he liquor law.
After the prisoner was taken to the
Eombs, Assistant United States Attor-
ncy James ]. Joyce, appearing as coun-
sci for McMullin, went before Judge
James T. Malone in General Sessions
and asked that he be admitted to bail
The request was denied
Judge Malone had earlier in the day
following the action of the grand jury
in finding an Indictment against him
on the charge of first degree murder
The warrant was served on the prohi-
biton agent as he was being arraigned
before Magistrate Charles A. Harris in
the Yorkville court on q homicide
charge in connection with the shooting
OF Carlton.
Assistant District Attorney William
O'Shaughnessy informed Judge Harris
of the murder indictment and the
prisoner was Immediately turned over
to Detective Skelly, who escorted him
TO the Tombs.
Refuses to Identify Photograph
Before McMullin was locked up he
was taken to the homicide bureau in
the Criminal Courts Building, where
Assistant District Attorney John f.
Joyce showed him photograph Of a
man named John Conway, who. ac-
chester County, pleaded guilty to a
charge of second degree robbery and
was sentenced by Judge Platt in White
Plains on July 25, 1913. to spend from
six to nine years in Sing Sing Prison.
There was said to be a striking re-
semblance between the accused proh-
bition agent and the cN-convict shown
in the photograph.
as that your picturc?" Mr.. Joyce
asked.
McMullin looked at the photo. but
refused to answer. He also declined
10 reply when asked whether McMulln
was his right name
Assistant United States Attorney
Joyce, who had accompanied the pris-
oner to the Homicide Bureau an
nounced that McMulin would refuse to
answer any questions
The Federal attorney indicated that
an effort might be made to have Nc
Mullin brought to trial in the Federal
courts. He gave it as his opinion that
Federal employee charged with a
crime in the performance Of his duty
has right to ask that his trial be
conducted under Federal jurisdiction
In District Attorney Swann's office it
was said there was no chance of any
action OF this kind being taken in Nc
Mullins case.
Charges Presented to Grand Jury
The charges against the prohibition
agent were presented to the grand jury
yesterday by Assistant District Attor-
neys Joyce and Ryttcnberg. The wit
ncsses called were Benjamin Golofsky,
Il chaufteur; Policemen Neville and
Reynolds of the East Sixty seventh
Skelly of Police Headquarters; Assist
ant County Medical Examiner Benia-
min Schwartz. Carlo Carini. of 234
East Seventy-sixth Street, his wife,
Anna, and his daughter, Malvina.
1t was in raid on the home of
Carlo Carini on last Thursday night
that the shooting of Carlton occurred.
Carini and Golofsky are under $4,000
bail each on charge of violating the
J
taken yesterday to the Criminal Courts
Building under guard of Federal Of
ficers.
McMulin asserted that he shot
Carlton when the latter attacked him
with knife after he had placed him
under arrest in the Carini fiat. Wit
nesses said that the chauffeur was not
resisting arrest and had his hands
above his head when the fatal shot
was fired. The autopsy performed by
Medical Examiner Schwartz showed
that Carlton had been shot in the back
of the head.
Seek Proof of the Past
Assistant District Attorney Joyce
said there was no doubt in his mind
that John Conway and Stewart M. Nc
Muilin were one and the same person.
Steps to obtain additional proof of
this are now being taken.
Official records in the District At
torney's office in White Plains show
that John Conway and Charles Collins
were indicted in Westchester County
for first degree robbery on July Is,
1918. The two men. it is charged. en-
tered the railroad station at Pelham
Manor and with drawn revolvers
robbed the agent of money in excess
of $50.
When McMulln made out his appli-
cation Tor appointment as prohibition
eenforccment officer he said he was born
IN henderson, Ky. He is married and
has been living at Wallick's Hotel.
Forty-third Street and Broadway. His
quarters there cost him $29 a week
and the salary paid him by the In
terna1 Revenue norort,,o,,t -; =, ron