The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-25
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while passing on his way from ms
residence one evening last week, saw q
fugitive endeavoring to escape from
justice, whereupon, drawing his pistol,
he fired two balls at him. The prisoner
was arrested by a police officer in the
vicinity, and remanded to custody
Sunday Chronicle. 49,. ..=@
Judge Robert Ferral, Presiding JUS
tice of the First Criminal Court, one day
last week, seeing person pass hastily
along the street, and thinking he recog-
nized in him an offender of the law, COM
manded him to stop; and upon REFUSAL,
the Judge drew his revolver and fired up
on the fugitive. He fell at the first shot,
slightly wounded, and was remanded to
the County Jail.--Mondoy EUens'g Bu]-
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The Hon. Robert Ferral, Presiding
Justice of one of our leading tribunals,
one day last week, meeting a gentleman
PASSING along one of our most crowded
thoroughfares, drew his revolver and
commenced firing on him. The person
was greatly alarmed and attempted to
escape, but the Judge with fatal aim
brought him down with severe If not
mortal wound. He was taken to drug
store. and thence to the County Jail,
where it was found that this inexcusable
and dastardly attack had been made up
on him in the mistaken belief that he
was an escaped criminal.-Tuesday Morn-
ing Call.
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 q
dense crowd of women and children,
drew revolver and commencen firing
upon a gentleman in the door OF book
store. Before the gentleman could es-
cape he was perforated with balls. He
was taken to the nearest drugstore, where
seven physicians. extracted the balls but
before their researches we're over, the
man had breathed his last. He was taken
to the Morgue, where it was discovered
that he was country clergyman, IN San
Francisco for the purpose of purchasing
books for Sunday school library. He
leaves a wife and seven children in de-
pendent condition. No motive is assigned
for the crime.--San Andrass Gazette.
The Hon. Robert Ferral, Chief JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of California,
has perpetrated one of those wanton and
Inaccessible outrages that have now for
so many wears disgraced the administra-
ton of Justice in the barbarous frontier
State of California The Judge, armed
with navy revolver, at midday, on the
corner of two Of the most crowded thor
oughfares of the city, without the slight
est warning, and for some fancled injury
he had received from a very worthy
country clergyman, began to fire upon
him. The clergyman fell at the first dis
charge of the pistol, fatally wounded by
ball in the left ear. The Judge, now
crazed with passion, continued to dis
charge his weapon indiscriminately at
the crowd. Seven ladies and nine child
rem were fatally wounded; fourteen or
fifteen other persons we're wounded. The
Judge then took his own life with a
bowieknife. It is supposed that he was
crazy with drink, as he has been confined
several times in the inebriate Asylum for
delirium tremens.-Neu York Herald.
The Hon. Robert Farral, Chief Justice
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 eminently charac,
teristic of American civilization. We cal
attention to it as an average example Of
the mode Of administering justice in the
United States Of America. California is
one of the wild frontier States, located
somewhere between the Gulf Of Mexico
and Behring Straits. The City of Sa1
Francisco, its capital, is fourishing town
whose population is composed largely O.
savage Indians, freed slyaes, and despera
does, fugitives from Australia and Boston
On the Fourth Of July, when large crowt
of persons assembled before the doors O.
the State Capitol, where the Governo
was delivering an Grafton, the Chief Jus
tice stepped mp to the Bishop Of the Dio
cese and, without the slightest provo
cation, shot him dead with revolver
and then commenced an indiscriminat
slaughter of men, women and children
This led to general engagement be
tween the whites and blacks, which wa
finally put down by regiment of horse
guards from a neighboring English col
cny, but not until many lives had bee
sacrificed. This incident is but one in
thousand of like significance occurrin
among our American cousins, all tendin
to illustrate that Republican Governmer
is failure. Nothing can be m ore re
prehensible than for the Judges Of til
higher courts to indulge in the labit {
of carrying concealed weapons, an
shooting people as mere pastime viii
on drunken frolic. The observation
of General Grant, and the attention pal
to him while in England, will doubtle
in time lead to the establishment of
Government monarchical in form, Gel
eral Grant being the first of dynast
He will probably be declared King VI
DEF the title of Ulysses the First.-Londe
Times.
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