A Father Arrives After a Policeman Is Shot
The father of a young clerk accused of shooting a Seattle policeman comes to town, hires counsel, and blames liquor for his son's fall.
Rev. Canon Good, for twenty years pastor of St. Paul's parish at Nanaimo, B.C., and father of Harry Good, the young clerk who shot policeman Glass last Sunday night, is in the city in the interest of his son. Mr. Good is an elderly gentleman and is highly thought of by his parishioners. He says the young man has had the very best of raising and must have drank to do such a thing. He has counsel for his son, and will remain in the city until the case is decided.
“He says the young man has had the very best of raising and must have drank to do such a thing.”
A century later, the aftermath of a police shooting is still a public reckoning, and families still sit in courtrooms defending sons. This item also shows how briefly such a shooting could enter the paper: the crime arrives here only through a father's visit.
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