Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Milford Times December 27, 1879 A sad tragedy happened at the foot of Butler street, Port Huron, on the morning of the 20th, between one and two o'clock, in which JAMES D. MULLIGAN, who keeps a liquor store on the dock, shot and instantly killed CHARLES M. HOWARD, aged twenty-four, belonging to one of the first families of the city. He was out with a young man names CHARLES FOX, of Flint, and, becoming hungry, they started in search of some place where they could get a lunch. They tried to get into a restaurant on Huron avenue, but failed to gain admittance. They went down But- ler street, and, seeing a light up-stairs over MULLIGAN'S store, HOWARD ascended the stairs which ran up the outside of the building. He knocked on the door, and MULLIGAN, who was sitting up with a sick wife and children, told him if he did not go away he would blow his brains out. He descended the stairs to where FOX was standing, and said: "It's no use, I can't get in there." There was a light in the Albion House, across the road, and they started to go over. When they were about half-way across the street, FOX says, he heard a window or door open, and an instant later the discharge of a revolver. At the same time HOWARD, who had locked arms with FOX exclaimed, "My God CHARLIE, I'm shot!" and dropped to the ground a corpse. MULLIGAN says he supposed they were burglars, and to scare them discharged his revolver, as he supposed in the air. The ball entered the back of HOWARD'S head and passed out of his mouth, severing the spinal column, killing him almost instantly. MULLIGAN was arrested for murder and lodged in jail to await examination. The city is in a wild state of excitement, and great sympathy is felt for the HOWARD family. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheboygan Democrat May 4, 1882 An Ex-Cheboygander Comes to Grief Most of our old citizens will remember JAMES MULLIGAN, who used to have a bakery here, and all who keep posted will remember his removal to Port Huron, and the subse- quent accounts of the murder a year or so ago by him of a young blood of that place, and the son of one of the leading citizens, who called at his place, in the we' sma' hours after a jamboree, for some refresh- ments, and was shot by MILLIGAN in the back while going down stairs, after having ap- parently failed to arouse the proprietor, MULLIGAN got clear of this murder by the aid of shrewd lawyers and a claim of shoot- ing to scare, and accidentally killing. Now comes the report that MILLIGAN, having removed to Chicago from Port Huron, is to be hanged June 2nd for another murder committed there. The general opinion is that he should have been hanged for the Port Huron murder. ==========================================================================