Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-12
DR.. KALLooH's LAST OUTRAGE.

We can recall nothing to compare in in
science and improperly with the substance
Of DR.. Kalloch's pulpit prelude " of last
Sunday evening. On that occasion he
stated that his son was to be brought up
for trial the following day, for the murder
of Charles De Young, before Judge Free
lon. He intimatcd the probability that in
consequence of the Sherif7s notorious
friendship for the defendant, and the
partiality with which the latter had been
treated by him while in Jail, the Court
might refuse to allow him to summon
jury, and might employ an elisor for that
purpose, in which event DR.. Kalloch init
mated that the Judge "would do it in
defiance of law, in defiance of pre-
"cedent, in defiance OF Christian
"decency and courtesy" And he
proceeded in covert but thinly
disguised manner, to the effect, prscti-
cally, that unless Judge freedom allowed
Sheriff Desmond to serve young Kalloch
with his friendship in choosing jury as
he has served him during his residence in
JAIL. some terrible vengeance would fall
upon the Court, and not impossibly upon
the city His actual words, as reported
by the Chronicle, were as follows: 81
don't know what I should do. l don't
know whether there are people enough
in San Francisco that would defend me if
I" should undertake to do it, but know
THAT l would call upon the intelligent,
"unbought, unsolicited and uncorruptible
'poople of San Francisco to stand by me
against any such attempt; and if they
"would not stand by me you may build my
funeral pyre at the corners of your
streets and place me upon it, and Repub-
lican machine politicians may light the
torch and burn me up, and the rest of
"you may take care of the conse-
"quences." 1t appears to US that DR..
Kalloch has in these utterances been
guilty of so fragrant contempt of Court
that no hesitation ought to be had in pro-
ceeding against him. His attack upon
Judge freedom is atrocious. It can be
characterized in no other terms than
az lawless, rufhanly attempt to brow
beat and intimidate the Court in advance.
and its manifest object was to secure ad-
vantages for his son which, from the means
used to obtain them, must be assumed to
be illegitimate. He sets out by adm itting
that the Sheriff had shown most unwar
rantable discrimination in the treatment OF
this particular criminal. His own state
ments indicate that good ground exists for
suspecting that officer OF partiality which
might well disqualify him for sammoning
the jury. And having made this confession.
the preacher proceeds to threaten and
abuse the Judge, if he does not re-
frain from using his just endeavors to
secure a fair trial. SO audacious
and shameless an attempt to bully Court
has perhaps never been heard of since
California was State. Certainly no such
piece of brutal improperly has ever before
emanated from a pulpit. 1t is amazing
that such man as DR.. Kalioch should be
able to keep congregation. 1t must be
remarkable body OF people, judging from
the character of its pastor and the char.
acter of his discourses. This brutal out
rage, however, should not be suffered to
40 unpublished. No man should be allowed
thus to assail the Courts in the discharge
of their duty. 1t is time that Kalloch and
his disreputable. lawless followers were
taught o lesson in civilization, and no
better opportunity than the present is
likely tskcur.