HAS HOST OF FRIENDS
Man Behind Gun a Wealthy Oklahoman
and an Acquaintance of Roosevelt
Special Dispatch to The Call.
ST. LOUIS, June 20.-
Colonel Zach Mulhall, the wealthy cattleman, who shot three men on the "Pike" at the World's Fair Saturday night, was
released to-day on bonds of $20,000. Colonel Edward Butler was his surety. This caused some surprise, as it had been
decided to hold Mulhall pending the outcome of the wounded men's injuries.
"There's only one thing I am sorry for," declared Mulhall to-day, "and that is that this innocent boy got hurt.
Whose bullet it was I don't know, but I do know there were several in the crowd who were popping at me."
Nearly 200 friends of COlonel Mulhall called on him to-day and about seventy telegrams expressing sympathy were received
from various parts of the country.
The colonel is an old friend of President Roosevelt, but he refused to say whether he had received any message from
teh President. The shooting was the culmination of a dispute between Mulhall and Reed that started some time ago, when Reed
objected to the amount of feed given to the colonel's horses, which were a part of the Wild West show.
One of the attractions of the show is Lucille Mulhall, the colonel's daughter, who recently won a $10,000 prize for being the
champion steer roper of the world.
Colonel is one of the best-known men in the Southwest. He has been in the cattle businee since he was a boy and owns a ranch of six
thousand acres near Mulhall, O. T., which was named after him. He has frequently been urged to become a candidate for Governor.
Lucille Mulhall is 19 years old and won her title of champion steer roper in South McAlester, I. T. She once
gave a performance before President Roosevelt in Cheyenne, Wyo., when she tied a steer in twenty-eight seconds.