Show NOT TOO HASTY Naturally the friends of Judge TBRRT its it-s presumed the man had friendswill criticise and condemn Deputy Marshal NAGLE and charge him with undue haste in shooting the judge It will be urged by some that the officer should have merely restrained TERRT and others will say that NAGLE ought not to have shot until it was manifest that TERUV was bent on killing FIELD and that a bullet was the only thing that would prevent him The great majority jority of the people however will say that STAGLE did exactly right and will applaud and expeditious action If the officer had waited until TERRT had knifed Judge I FIELD there would have been no occasion for shooting to have shot then would bave been little less than murder TrUltY had 3 made threats against FIELD and the well known character of the man was a guarantee guaran-tee that he would endeavor to put these threats into execution Because of the danger Deputy NAGLE was assaigned to the special duty of protecting the associate justice and in affording that protection he acted tho part of an efficient vigilant officer offi-cer who understood what must be done and how to do it If he were not to shoot un dar the circumstances then why was he there The danger which he was charged to guard against was certainly as imminent as it could well be To have permitted it togo to-go any further would have shown the in competency the deputy and proven that in his selection his superiors were mistaken We do not apprehend that NAGLE will be seriously annoyed on account of the affair Ho will have to go through the form of a trial and TERRYS friends may try to make things unpleasant for him but his conviction convic-tion of murder is improbable Californians Califor-nians generally will applaud him for ridding the state of one of its ugliest characters |