The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-12
Mullins IS HELD
| FOR DUKE DEATH
Testifies He Fired Shot
Relieving Other Man
Was RObber
.OtNIES WIFE'S STORY
Mains Mrs. Duke Failed to
Say Man in Taxi Behind
Was Her Husband

conflicting testimony marked the
.,,,rustion Of the hearing In
an,,y court Tuesday of the muir
| l.. proliminary OF A. c. Mullins, In
.,,,oction with the fatal woundlng
-, frank Duke on North Main street
y, tho nirht Of December 10. and al
,he conclusion of the case Judge w.
u Williams committed Mullins to
| No c,un,v iail without bail for trial
\ 1bo charge before district court.
|Ms, case against Glen Larkins,
4 ',"icab driver, in whose car Mullins,
NJ. Dukc and Mrs. Ira Dalton were
Sing At the time Mullins fired the
.,yoivor shot at second taXiCab In
,hjrb Duke was riding, was dis
,,iss,1 by the county attorney Tues
day morning.
Mrs. Duke In her testimony Mon
i,v and Larkins, on the witness
s.,nd Yesterday, testified that both
,be witnesses and Mullins knew
hat Duke was In the taNicab which
,ououed the party of four from "A
negro "choc" joint northeast OF the
i,y onto the pavement on North
v,in. Mullins, yesterday morning
drnicd this, and was positive that
,,hsn the second taxi followed the
uvt from a point near the road
/ b1sc. he and the other three pas
sonrers Of the leading car believed
,bey we're being followed by hi
Iackers aud that Mullins did not fire
n The second car until the latter
auto had crowded the other into
,bc curh. and u man. later identi-
fed az Duke. made an attempt to
stem on the running board of Lar
kns' car. Mullins admitted he fired
,he one shot, but stated that he did
u under the belief that the man
,ater Identified as Duke, was rob-
her and not the husband OF his
companion in the taxi.
Mrs. Dalton, formerly the wife
OF Harry Latkman, son or Tor
mer sheriff of San Francisco
county, Cal, one o& the passengers
with Mullins. also denied positively
that either Mrs. Duke or Larkins
made any statement indicating that
one Of the men in the pursuing
motor car was Frank Duke, and this
witness was certain that the first in
tlmation she had OF this fact was
Immediately after the shot was
fired. when she claims Mrs. Duke
exclaimed MY God, maybe that
was Frank in that car" Mullins also
claims that Mrs. Duke made this
statement. and he testified that even
al the time he did not know the per-
son to whom Mrs. Duke referred
until some time later.
While Mrs. Duke and Larkins ad-
mitted that the four. Immediately
after the shooting, had framed a
story to the effect that IL any diff
ficulties arose over the shooting all
four were to tell the same story to
the effect that all in Larkins. car
believed they were about to be held
up and robbed by the unknown oc-
cupants of the second taXicab and
that Mullins fired the shot at time
when he believed ne and his COM
panions were about to be robbed.
Mullins testified that az the car in
which he was riding was crowded
into the curb in the 1900 block on
North Main street, and had slowed
down TO about five miles an hour, a
man, whom he believed to be a hi
!acker, opened the front door OF
the second car and shouted, stop
or will kill you" This statement.
accredited to Duke. was the reason
Mullins fired the shot, according to
the statements Of the latter.