Sharp County record., 1877-09-14
How a Story Grows.
Incident

The san Francisco HfGuWW has tba
following apt illustration Of how a yerv W
small matter sometimes becomes magat III
lied I'm going the rounds of the pless: It
Judge Ferral, of the City Criminal 81
Court, going to his home IN the out,5irts ~
of the city, at Il late hour of the might T'
fired his pistol in the air to aid in thear. :.
rest Of an individual fleeing from a DO. ~
lice eotlicer-S0tUrtoy ArgoRau = !,
Judge Ferral, of the Criminal Comt y
while passing on his way from his office =,
10 his residence one evening las, week. =,
sawafugitiye endeavoring to eScapeirom r
Justice; whereupOn, drawing his pistol A
he fired two balls at him. The prisoner II
was arrested by police officer in the
vicinity, and remanded to custody n
SUNDAY CbrOHicie. q
Judge Robert Ferral, Presiding JUS i
tice of the First Criminal Court, one day r
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; aud, upon re- .
iusal, the Judge drew his revolver and ,
fired upon the fugitive. He fell at the y
first shot, slightly wounded, and was re- .
manded to the County Jail.-Nonday
Evening Bulletin,
The Hon. Robert FerTal, Presiding
Justice of one Of our leading tribunals,
one day last week, meeting gentle
man passing along on one Of our most
crowded thorOughiares, drew his Tevoly-
er ana commenced firing upon him. The
person was greatly alarmed and at
tempted to escape, but the Judge with
fatal aim brought him down with 2 Sc
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 aud daStardlv at
tack had been made upon him in the
mistaken belief that he was an escaped
criminal.-TueSday Morning CaU.
Judge Ferral, Of the Supreme Court,
about noon, one day last week, in san
Francisco, at the corner OF Montgomery
and Kearney Streets, in the midst Of a
dense crowd Of women aud children,
drew a revolver aud commenced firing
upon a 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 ey-
tracted the balls; but, before their re.
searches We're over, the man had breath
ed Jhe laSI. He was taken 70 the MOrgue,
where it was discovered IhaC he was a
county clergyman, in San Francisco
for the purpose Of purchasing books for
a Sunday-school library. He leaves q
wife and seven children in a dependent
condition. No motive IS assigned for
the crimes AnGreaS Gazeje.
The Hon. Robert FerraI, Chiel-Jus-
tice Of the Supreme Court Of California,
has again perperated one Of those
Wanton and ineXcusable oulrages that
have now for 50 many years disgraced
the administration of justice in the bar
barOus frontier State of California. The
Judge, armed with navy-revolver, at
midday, on the corner Of two of
the most crowded thOroughfares Of the
city, without the slightest warning, aud
for some fancied injury he had received
from 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 indiscriminately 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 a 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.-Ne2O York Herald.
The Hon. Robert FerraI, Chief-Jus-
tice Of the Supreme Court Of the United
States, position analogous to that of
Lord High Chancellor Of England, has
perpetrated one Of those Offenses so emf
nently characteristic Of American civ
iliZatiOn. We call attention to it as an
average example Of the mode of admin
istering Justice in the United States of
America. California IS one OF the Wild
frontier States, located somewhere be-
tween the Gulf of Mexico and BehriDg
Straits. The City Of San Francisco, its
capital, is a hOurishing town, whose
population is composed largely Of say
age Indians, freed slaves, and despera-
does, fugitive from Australia and BoS-
ton. On the Fourth of July, when a
large crowd Of persons had assembled
before the doors Of the State Capitol,
where the Governor was delivering an
oration, the Chief-Justice stepped up to
the Bishop Of the Diocese and, without
the slightest provocation, shot him dead
with a revolver, and then commenced
an indisciminate slaughter Of men, ,wom-
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