SHOTS FIRED ACROSS CROWDED COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 233, 20 June 1918, Page 5

SHOTS FIRED ACROSS CROWDED COURT

kinema thrills outdone at SAN I'RANCISG'O. There was a dramatio finish at Sa Jfrancwco to the trial of 32 persons \vh were ohaiiged with conspiring for revolt ™ tt 15 I ? dia - defendant shot 1 at other dead, and was himself immediate! Boot dead by a United States court niai ■ehal )n court. Both dead men wer '-Hindus.' 1 After pr'oceediiigs, which began as lon ..ago.as November 30, the District Attoi Jiey made his closing address, and it onl ' remained for Judge Vanflaet to nddres the juay. Jhe Judge announced a slior interval. The court -was crowded. Oi one side sat the. defendants in a cluster and on the other side of the "ourt wa the jury-box. The whole body of per sons present, -visitors, officials, lav,-yew andjnryment wero 021 the move whci the Judge left the bench. Suddenly a Hindu defendant,' Ean Chandra, rose to cross the >ooro. An other defendant, Bam Singh, rose imnie diately, took a revolver from his cloth ing, and began firing. Ram Chandri staggered forward, and fell down befori the Tvitues3-sfcand, with 0110 bullet in liii heart and two others in his body. Between him and the murderer on the other side of the court was a press 0' moving people when the firing began. Th court room was in confusion. Spectators defendants, counsel, and others darted fo cover, overturning chairs r.nd tables ii their flight; Soldiers and a body of mar ehaJs rushed to all the. exits .with drawl revolvers. ■ • One man remained cool, United State: Marehal James Holohan, a man of hug< ' stature with a great reputation as a re volver shot, who had .throughout th< hearing been by the side of tho jury- ■ box. At the first shot, Holohan, quicli as lightning, drew hi 3 revolver, elevat.ee ■his arm above his head to clear th( people in between, and fired at ."Ran: Singh. ' The .bullet broke Singh's' neck killing him instantly. A quarrel about property to be uset for the proposed Indian revolution it 'Bupposed to nave been the origin of the shooting.