The first recall of a judge under California’s new law took place on
April 22 and was accomplished by the women voters of San Francisco. When
a police magistrate, C. L. Weller, reduced the bail set by another
police judge in the case of a prisoner accused of attacking a young
girl, and the prisoner at once fled when released on bail, the women of
the city secured 10,000 names to petition for recall. In the recall
election Judge Weller was opposed by Wiley F. Crist, who is said to be
an enthusiastic young lawyer of strong reform tendencies. Mr. Crist won
by a margin of only a few hundred votes in a total of 61,000.