River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-09-26
now 1T GROWS.

Judge Ferral, of the City Criminal
Court, going to bis home on the outskirts
Of the city, at a late hour of the night
fred his pistol in the air to aid in the
arrest of an individual fleeing from a
police Enthusiastically ArgOnaut
Judge Ferral of the Criminal Court,
while passing on his way from his
residence one evening last week, saw
fugitive endeavoring to escape from
justice, whereupon, drawing his pistol,
he fired two balls at him. The prisoner
was arrested by police officer in the
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 of the law, com
manded him TO stop; and upon REFUSAL,
the Judge drew his revolver and fired up
on the fugitive. He fell a. the first shot,
slightly wounded, and was remanded to
the County Jail -H0nday Eoeaing But-
,etin.
The Hon. Robert Ferral, Presiding
Justice of one of our leading tribunals,
one day last week, meeting 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 a severe ii not
mortal wouad. 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 il the mistaken belief that he
was an escaped enthusiastically Horn
ing CAL.
Judge Fcrral, 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 d
dense crowd of women and children,
drew q revolver and commencen firing
upon gentleman in the door of a 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 were over, the
man had breathed his last. He was taken
to the Morgue, where it was discovered
that he was a country clergyman, IN San
Francisco for the purpose of purchasing
books for Sunday school library He
leaves wife and seven children in a de
pendent condition No motive is assigned
for the crime--Saa Aadrass Gazette.
The Hon. Robert Fcrral Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of California,
has perpetrated one of those wanton and
inexcusibe outrages that have now for
so many wears disgraced the adminlstra-
ton of justice in the barbarous frontier
State of California. The Judge, armed |
with a navy revolver, at midday, on the |
corner of two of the most crowded thor |
oughtares of the city, without the slight
est warning, aud for some fancled injury |
he hal received from very worthy
country clergyman, began to fire upon
him. The Clergyman fell at the first dis |
charge of the pistol, fatally wounded by |
a ball in the left ear. The Judge, now |
crazed with passion, continued TO dis |
charge his weapon Unfortunately at
the crowd. Seven ladies and nine child |
rem were fatally wounded; fourteen or
fifteen other persons were wounded. The |
Judge then took his own life with q
BOWEL knife. 1t is supposed that he was
crazy with drink, as ne has been confined |
several times in the inebriate Asylum for
delirium tremens.-NeO York Herald.
The Hon Robert Farral, Chief Justice !
of the Supreme Court of the United States |
a position analogous to that OF Lord High |
Chancellor of England, has perpetrated |
one of those offenses so eminently charac- /
teristic of American civilization. We call /
attention to it rs 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 Cuff OF Mexico |
and Behring Straits The City of San |
Francisco, its capital, is flourishing town,
whose population is composed largely OF
savage Indians, freed silva s, and despera-
does, fugitives from Australia and Boston. |
On the Fourth ofJuly, when large crowd |
of persons assembled before the doors of |
the State Capitol, where the Governor
was delivering an Grafton, the Chief JUS |
tee stepped mp to the Bishop of the Dio-
cese and, without the slightest provo |
cation, shot him dead with a revolver,
and then commenced an indiscrim-uate |
slaughter of men. women and children |
This led to a general engagement be
tween the whites and blacks, which was
AHdlIJ pun uoMh ny d IVY 'illObt ~ iA"A'S /
guards from neighboring English col /
CDy, but not until many lives had been
sacrificed. This incident Is but one in a
thousand of like significance occurring |
among our American cousins, all tending |
TO illustrate that Republican Government |
is failure. Nothing can be nore re
prehensible than for the Judges of the
higher courts TO indulge in the habit OF
of carving concealed weapons, and |
shooting people as mere pastime while
on drunken frolic. The observations |
of General Grant and the attention paid |
TO him while in England, will doubtless
in time lead to the establishment of a
Government monarchical in form, Gen
eral Grant being the first of a dynasty |
He will probably be declared King un
dc. the title OF Ulysses the First.--L0ndon
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