JUD MULLINO
Arizona Republican Newspaper
March 30, 1905

Fred Hicklin is  under sentence of the killing of Jud Mullino 
in Yavapai County last summer.  Hicklin and his sister Florence 
Hicklin were both indicted for the killing of Mullino who had 
been the lover of Miss Hicklin and with whom Hicklin had no 
acquaintance.  The trial of the case perhaps did not bring 
out all the facts but it appears from the evidence that on 
the morning of the killing Miss Hicklin at the breakfast 
table said that Mullino had insulted her in the course of 
a walk the day before.  Soon after breakfast looking out 
of the window she saw Mullino and two other men approaching 
on horse back and told her brother who armed himself with a 
Winchester and shot Mullino from his horse.  In his testimony 
he said that having the gun in his hand he called to Mullino 
and asked him why he had insulted his sister.  Mullino made 
no reply but threw his hand behind him and then Hicklin 
fired.  This plea of self defense was disregarded, the 
court yesterday holding properly so.


Jud Mullino
Arizona Republican Newspaper
July 17, 1904

Prescott: The jury in the case of Florence Hicklin, 
accused of complicity in the murder of Jud Mullino who 
was shot by her brother, Fred, in the latter part of 
June, returned a verdict of manslaughter.  The verdict 
returned a few days ago in the trial of Fred Hicklin 
found him guilty of murder in the second degree.  
Mullino was an intimate friend of Florence Hicklin 
and it was supposed they were to be married.  The 
night before the killing they were out together and 
the girl had reported to the family that Mullino had 
attempted an assault upon her and she escaped by 
telling him friends were approaching.  The next day 
while Mullino and two friends were riding by the 
Hicklin residence, Fred Hicklin came out of the house 
and killed him, the sister following and covering the 
other two men with a shotgun.  Fred Hicklin's defense 
was insanity.