Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-01
How a Story Grows.

The San Francisco Aryonam has thu
following apt illustration of how a very
small matter sometimes becomes magni
fed in going the rounds of the press:
Judge Ferral, of the City Crimina
Court, going to his home in the outskirts
OF the city, at late hour Of the night
fired his pistol in the air to aid in the ar
rest of an individual fleeing from a po-
lice ofiicer.-Sntur,iay 4sgondot.
Judge Ferral, of the Criminal Court
while passing ON his way from his Office
to his residence one evening last week,
saw afugitive endeavoring TO escapefrom
justice; whereupOn, drawing his pistol
he fired two balls at him. The prisone,
was arrested by police officer in thu
vicinity, and remanded to custody
Sunday Chronicle.
Judge Robert Ferral, Presiding jus.
tice of the First Criminal Court, one day
last week, seeing a person pass hastily
along the street, and thinking he recog.
nized in him an offender against the law,
demanded him to stop; and, upon re-
fusal, the Judge drew his revolver and
fired upon the fugitive. He fell at the
first shot, slightly wounded, and was re-
manded to the County Mondsy
Erening Bulletin.
The Hon. Robert Ferral, Presiding
Justice of one of our leading tribunals,
one day last week, meeting 4 gentle
man passing along on one of our most
crowded thoroughfares,d drew his revolv-
err and commenced firing upon him. The
person was greatly alarmed and at
tempted to escape, but the Judge with
fatal aim brought him down with So
we're if not fatal wound. He was taken
to drug store, and thence removed to
the County Jail, where it was found
that this inexcusable and dastardly at
tack had been made upon him in the
mistaken belief chat he was an escaped
criminal.-Tuesday Morning Call.
Judge Ferral, of the Supreme Court,
Francisco, at the corner of Montgomery
and Kearney Streets, in the midst of a
dense crowd of women and children,
drew a revolver and commenced firing
upon gentleman standing in the door
of bookstore. Before the gentleman
could escape, he was perforated with
balls. He was taken to the nearest
drugstore, where seven physicians en-
tracted the balls; but, before.their re-
searches were over, the man had breath
ed the last. He was taken to the Morgue,
country clergyman, in San Francisco
for the purpose of purchasing books for
Sunday-school library. He leaves q
wife and seven children in dependent
condition. No motive is assigned for
the crime.-St. Andreas Gazette.
The Hon. Robert Ferral, Chief-Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of California,
has again perpetrated one of those
wantOn and inexcusable Outrages that
have now for so many years disgraced
the administration of justice in the bar
barOus frontier State of California. The
Judge, armed with a navy-revolyer, at
midday, on the corner of two of
the most crowded thoroughfares of the
city, without the slightest warning, and
for some fancied injury he had received
from a very worthy country clergyman,
began to fire upon him. The clergy
man fell at the first discharge of the
pistol, fatally wounded by ball in the
jeff ear. The Judge, now crazed with
passion, continued to discharge his
weapon Unfortunately at the crowd.
Seven ladies and nine children were IA
tally injured; fourteen or fifteen other
persons were wounded. The Judge
then took his own life with bowie
knife. 1t is supposed that he was crazy
with drink, as he has been confined sew
eral times in the Inebriate Asylum for
delirium tremens.-NeU York Herald.
The Hon. Robert Ferral, Chief-Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of the United
States, position analogous to that of
Lord High Chancellor of England, has