The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
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 The news coming several weeks ago from Detroit, Mich, that Judge treoerlPh Bloman had died, fell upon an lgIoia"' and at first unresponsive public Nho was Judge Frederick Bloman? Three dovs later thousands knew his life story
 Frederick Bloman, 13 years oid' Hitter ate red headed and undersigned, rescued ,yaif and an eX-incorrigible, was 1udse Of the citizens court of the Ford hepup- lie for Boys at Detroit Four years ago he was consorting with hoboes and peg oi,.s food for them He was dlrtN, swearing. tobacco chewing imp. with no recollection of home, or a mother hiiu with no respect for any living thlhs' fe' al his death a judge of Michigan SUI prcme court travelled 100 miles 10 atteha the funeral, the probate court or wayne county adjourned over two days in ms horor leaders of bar and bench held raeeting to pronounce his euogies, ana men and women of distinction gathered round his bier in the nave of St Paul cathedral.
 Ford Republic. the superintendent or which is Homer T. Lane, is home TOT wayward boys It is greatly similar III it's principles of reformation to the bet ter known George Julllpi IsNPupiiN' W a time after Fred Bloman was brought there the habits of his former life made him one of the most unmanageable boys in the republic He had been taken by the police from a band of gypsies and IS said to have been one Of the most 1onl r1outhed youngsters whom the authorities had ever discovered.
 To cause self respect, a proper regard for others, to grow in such a soil seemed
 o,1- Wet Rlnn1a < rcformation after he came to the repub- lie, though gradual, was sure. He was slow to show the qualities that were in him. A strong, almost grotesque sense of humor which strangely enough smacked of none of the Yulgarity of his former habits of mind won him ultimate popularity After three years residence the boys elected him judge of their citi- zens court for a term of six months. Al the end of that period he was reelected. No one had ever administered justice in the little republic with such firmness. fairness and good will. When Fred's sec ond term was drawing to a close his fel- low citizens had no thought but to re- eiect him. But Fred lay in the hospital with a fatal illness. Realizing that he could not serve them again, yet willing that another should wear his title the citizens created the position of associate judge and to that office elected one of their number.
 On the bench young Bloman displayed ingenuity, tact, and ability in handling his fellow citizens. A lad charged with punching another in the Kitchen de- tended himself by saying he had punched the other, not in the kitchen, but in the stomach. Instantly the judge retorted that his sonach was his liichen because he kept his chuck" there Later he de- clared that he would put a stop to the punching in the kitchen" and Kicking in the basement that had ben going on recently His resourcefulness in the face of dilemmas was marked. A convicted cu- prlt was once sentenced by him to cor poral punishment at the hands of Super iptendent Lane. It was contrary to the snrerintendent's notion of things to chas- tise his boys. So he begged off on some pretext The little judge faced q crisis in bis administration. To allow the guilty lad to go unpunshed would weaken his Influence among the unruly element. Both