Nearly a Homicide.
On Sunday last Julius Lang aged 16 years and several other boys were playing ball at Green’s farm, when several Swede boys came along, and one of them said to the players: “You fellows don’t know how to play ball.” This with other remarks so exasperated the temper of Lang that he turned to one of the boys who was playing ball and asked him for his pistol, saying he would shoot some of the Swedes. The boy refused to let Lang have it, but he being much the stoutest, took the weapon by force, and then turning on the Swede boys shot Edward Hogan, lodging about a dozen small bird shot in his breast and stomach, one shot entering just above the abdomen was at first supposed to be dangerous, but nothing serious will occur from the wounds.
Lang was brought before Justice Fleischman on Tuesday, and after a hearing was committed to the County jail in default of $300 bail to appear at the next term of the District Court.
Duluth Minnesotian, September 12, 1874 as featured in Coffee Made Her Insane
