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St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 26.-
Zach Mulhall, cattle king of Oklahoma, and former live stock agent of the Frisco Railway, was found guilty of assault without malice upon the person of Ernest Morgan, 18 years old, and his punishment was fixed at three years in the penitentiary. Mulhall, who is a cattle king of the Southwest, a Wild West Show owner and one of the most picturesque personages known to St. Louisans, heard the verdict with surprise. The case grew out of the wounding of Morgan, an inncoent bystander, during a fight between Mulhall and Frank Reed, a cowboy, at the exit of Cummins' Wild West Show on the World's Fair Pike June 18, 1904.

Motions for arrest of judgment and a new trial were immediately filed. Mulhall gave $2,500 bond with Charles Lemp as security. No date was set for argument of the motions of passage of sentence on the prisoner. The verdict was a surprise to both the defense and the State. Mulhall said: "There was too much Texas in it," referring to the fact that his chief witnesses were Texas men who were with him at the time of the shooting.