A Result of the Fight June 18 on the Pike at the World's Fiar
Mulhall a Well Known Oklahoma Cattleman St. Louis, Jan. 26.-
The jury which tried Zach Mulhall, general live stock agent of the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, a cattleman in the Southwest, charged with assault with intent to kill Ernest Morgan, found him guilty, and assessed his punishment at three years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. The verdict was found last night and sealed. It was opened and read to-day in Judge Foster's division of the circuit court.

When the verdict was read Mulhall straightened up suddenly, his smile gone and surprise on his face. Then he leaned far back in his chair, took his fireless cigar from the table and began nervously to chew it. Presently he leaned forward and spoke in a whisper to his attorney. A moment later he arose from his chair and began to walk nervously across the door, his hands thrust into his pockets and his head bent in deep thought. He was asked what he thought of the verdict. His reply was a shrug of the shoulders.

"It was quite a surprise, was it not?" he was asked.

"Rather," he replied.

"What do you think influenced the jury?"

"Too much Texas, I guess," he replied.

"In what way?"

"My chief witnesses were friends from Texas who were not here."

After the amount of his new bond had been fixed and friends had signed it Mulhall left the court room.

Ernest Morgan, 18 years old, was shot while watching a fight between Mulhall and Frank Reed, a cowboy employed at the Wild West show upon the World's fair pike, the night of June 18.

Mulhall was on the stand for more than two hours yesterday. He said he shot Morgan while defending his daughters, Miss Lucille and Miss Mildred Mulhall, from a crowd of Indians that swarmed around them attracted by the shooting between him and Reed. Reed was shot twice, but brought no action against Mulhall. Mulhall says Morgan was wounded by accident as it was merely his intention to halt the Indians, and keep them away from his daughters.