Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-22
HOY 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,
fired his pistol in the air to aid in the
arrest Of an individual fleeing from
police officer.--Soturdoy Argonaut.
Judge Ferrdl, Of the Criminal Court,
while passing on his way from his
residence one evening last week, saw q
fugitive endeavoring to escape from
Justice, whereupon, drawing his pistol,
he fred 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; ard upon REFUSAL,
the Judge drew his revolver and fired up
on the fugitive He fell at tie first shot,
slightly wounded, and was reman9ed to
the County Jail --Afonday Eoening Bu1-
let5@.
The Hon. Robert FerraI, Presiding
Justice Of one of our leading tribunals,
one Gay last week, meeting q 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 q severe il not a
mortal wouad. He was taken to a 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 Norm
ing Gull.
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 a revolver and commencen firing
j, upon gentleman in the door of book
store. Before the gentleman could es-
cape he 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 de-
g pendent condition No motive is assigned
: for the crime--San Andrass Gazette.
8 The Hon. Robert Ferral, Chief JUS
e tice of the Supreme Court of California,
has perpetrated one of those wanton and
e inexcusible outrages that have now for
. so many years disgraced the administra-
|, ton of justice in the barbarous frontier
{: State of California The Judge, armed
4 with navy revolver, at midday, on the
q corner of two of the most crowded thor
: oughfares of the city, without the slight
e est warning, and for some fancled injury
r he had received from very worthy
S country clergyman, began to fire upon
!. him. The Clergyman fell at the first dis
:, charge of the pistol, fatally wounded by
i ball in the left ear. The Judge, now
t crazed with passion, continued to dis
0 charge his weapon indiscriminately at
l the crowd. Seven ladies and nine child
rem were fatally wounded; fourteen or
i fifteen other persons were wounded. The
t Judge then took his own life with a
l knife. It is supposed that he was
: crazy with drink, as he has been confined
, several times in the inebriate Asylum for
delirium tremens.-Ney York Herald.
The Hon. Robert Farral, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States.
a position analogous to that of Lord High
t Chancellor Of England, has perpetrated
q one of those otfenses so eminently charac-
teristic Of American civilization. We call
+ attention to it as an average example of
3 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 San
Francisco, its capital, is 1ourishing town,
whose population is composed largely of
savage Indians, freed sIvaes, 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 oration the Chief j us
tee stepped mp to the Bishop of the Do
cese and, without the slightest provo
cation, shot him dead with a revolver,
and then commenced an indiscrim: nate
, slaughter of men. women and children.
This led to a general engagement be,
$ tween the whites and blacks, which was
nnally put down by regiment OIL horse
/ guards from neighboring English col
] ony, but not until many lives had been
f sacrificed. This incident is but one in a
t thousand of like significance occurring
{ among our American cousins, all tending
to Illustrate that Republican Government
is a failure. Nothing can be more re-
prehensible than for the judges of the
higher courts to indulge in the habit Of
of carrying 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 dynasty.
He will probably be declared King I'M
del the title of Ulysses the First.-London
Times.
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