00:00Mullinax held in Fagan Case, Atlanta Constitution, Monday, April 28, 1913.
00:07Page 1. Former streetcar conductor arrested as he leaves the home of his sweetheart on Bellwood
00:12Avenue. As he was leaving the home of his sweetheart, Miss Pearl Robertson, on Bellwood
00:17Avenue early last night, Arthur Mullinax, a strikingly handsome youth, was arrested by
00:21Detective Rosser and carried to police headquarters. He is being detained under
00:26suspicion of having been implicated in the slaying of Mary Fagan. E.R. Sentell, a resident
00:32of 82 Davis Street, came to the office of Detective Chief Lanford Sunday afternoon, and was closeted
00:38with that official for considerable while. When he left the office it was learned that
00:42he had told the chief he had seen Mullinax and the dead girl together shortly after midnight
00:46Sunday. Sentell's story, according to the detectives, was that as he was walking along Forsyth Street
00:52about 12.30 o'clock Sunday morning, he encountered Mullinax and Miss Fagan walking slowly across
00:58Hunter Street in the direction of the pencil factory in which she was killed. He recognized
01:03both, he said, as they crossed under the street lamps. Mullinax given third degree. Chief Lanford
01:08also declares that he has other information to the effect that Mullinax was seen with Miss
01:13Fagan in the vicinity of the National Factory near midnight. Mullinax was brought immediately
01:17to headquarters, and at nine o'clock was subjected to a rigid third degree in the office of Chief
01:22Lanford. First he was quizzed by the detective chief by Chief Beavers, then by a number of detectives
01:28acquainted with the mysterious tragedy. He told a straightforward story throughout, however,
01:33maintaining that he had spent the early part of Saturday night in company with Miss Robertson,
01:38the woman whose home he had just left when arrested, and that they had come uptown to a theatre.
01:43He and Miss Robertson returned to her home before 10.30 o'clock, he declared, following which time
01:48he went to his boarding place at 60 Poplar Street, retiring for the night. He knew nothing of the
01:54murder, he asserted, until reading of it in the Constitution's extra Sunday morning. He also stoutly
02:00maintained that he was not intimately acquainted with the dead girl, that he had never been introduced
02:05to her, and had spoken to her only once during his life. Several words missing who talked with him
02:10at police station, Mullinax told a story coinciding with the one he told the detectives. He had not
02:16been uptown after 10.30 o'clock Saturday night, he said, but upon leaving the home of Miss Robertson,
02:22he had gone to his own residence. She was Sleeping Beauty. The only time he had ever been in Miss
02:28Fagan's
02:28company, he stated, was last Christmas, when she played a role in a holiday entertainment given in
02:33the Jefferson Street Church on Jefferson Street. He also took part in the performance. The girl played
02:39Sleeping Beauty. He was favorably impressed with her looks. She was a judge, the most beautiful girl
02:44of the neighborhood, and was a favorite among her friends. I couldn't keep my eyes off her,
02:49he said. She noticed it, and while I was standing near her, she remarked that I looked good with my
02:54face blacked. I played a blackface part. I turned to her and replied that I'd keep my face blacked all
03:00the time then. That was all we said. I was never with her after that. Mullinax is an ex-streetcar
03:06conductor. He was working as substitute conductor on the English Avenue Beltline, which traverses the
03:11part of town in which the slain girl lived with her parents. Detectives aver that they have evidence
03:16to the effect that he was well acquainted with Miss Fagan, and that they were good friends during
03:21his streetcar career. Also, that they were often seen talking together as she would have been
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