National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

Officer Rank: Deputy Marshal

Memorial Panel: 13-E: 8

Department: U.S. Marshals Service

End of Watch: December 25, 1908

Cause: SHOT

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Description: Deputy Marshal Mullins was shot and killed while trying to quell an uprising of striking miners. The miners were upset about a restraining order placed on them by a judge. Marshal Mullins and six other marshals were attempting to remove miners who were barricaded in a hotel when the miners opened fire upon the marshals. Marshal Mullins was shot and killed in the gunfire. The hotel was burned in the process and three miners also died.