April 23, 1918. In the "Fanciest Court In America," guns blazed as the Fraz Bopp-Wilhelm von Brincken trial was wrapping up in Courtroom 1 of the SF federal courthouse. (Bopp, The German consul general in SF stood accused of conspiring to move guns into India for the attempted overthrow of its English overlord.)
Ram Singh, defendant turned government witness, shot and killed co-defendant Ram Chandra. A U.S. Marshall in the back of the room, James Holohan, leapt atop a nearby seat, firing and killing Singh. When the smoke cleared, the glass mosaic pattern immediately in front of the judges' bench bore the damage of an errant bullet. Italian craftsman had originally designed the mosaic; it looks like a bailiff crudely tried to repair it. The amateur fix might've been intentional. See below.
(The round colored glass design in center of photo shows crude repairs to the bullet damage.)
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