Gerald King Mulholland
Victoria, BC / Nov. 10, 1970
Gerald King Mulholland, 37, the father of seven children, drove part time for C&C taxi. He was a sailor from the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt and was well known locally as an athlete.
On the night of November 10, 1970, Mulholland was found dead at the wheel of his taxi in the James Bay area of Victoria. Police found a small wound in the back of his neck. An autopsy determined that he had been stabbed with a sharp instrument that pierced an artery and caused him to bleed to death.
On November 12 the Victoria Police Commission offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderers. C&C Taxi added $300 to the fund. Soon afterward police arrested three men aged 18, 19 and 20 and charged them with non-capital murder, but would not say if the reward had led to the arrests.
Two of the accused were sailors from CFB Esquimalt but were apparently unacquainted with Mulholland. The third man was unemployed and lived in the Oak Bay area of Victoria. The motive for the attack on Mulholland was robbery.
On Nov. 18 Mulholland was buried in Hatley Memorial Gardens. The mile-long funeral procession included 42 cabs -- almost half the Victoria taxi fleet -- and carried an estimated 300 mourners.
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