The Chief Justice

The Chief Justice by Karl Emil Franzos is about the troubles of Chief Justice von Sendlingen of Vienna, who finds out that a dear, past friend has been convicted of child murder. Excerpt: «In the Higher Court of Bolosch, an important Germano-Slavonic town of northern Austria, there sat as Chief Justice some thirty years ago, one of the bravest and best of those men on whom true justice might hopefully rely in that sorely tried land. Charles Victor, Baron von Sendlingen, as he may be called in this record of his fate, was the last descendant of a very ancient and meritorious race which could trace its origin to a collateral branch of the Franconian Emperors…»