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House, could be satisfied by the sound of the booming voice that Billie
was exhorting the jury.
As indicated, like all of his predecessors save Grant C.C.J., he served only
briefly as Vancouver County Court judge. In 1917, he departed, for an
unsuccessful attempt to return to politics. Further election attempts also
failed.51
In 1913, the growing City of Vancouver received its third sitting County
Court judge. Samuel Davies Schultz (1913 to 1917), a native of Victoria, was
the first Jewish judge appointed in Canada. In addition to his reputation as
a barrister and a legal writer, he was a renaissance man. In university, and
throughout his life, Schultz was a prodigious athlete, in lacrosse, rowing and
tennis. He was a star pitcher in baseball, regularly leading university and
legal teams to victory over American teams, and pitching the first no-hitter
in British Columbia. He was also an accomplished musician and composer;
his most popular composition was “The Charge at Dawn”, a march dedicated
to Canadian soldiers who died in the Boer War Battle of Paardeberg.
He served as vice-president of Congregation Emanu-El, and was an active
defender of Jewish civil rights. He was also an enthusiastic proponent of
the monarchy and Empire, and delivered at the synagogue a noted oration
marking the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.52
Unfortunately, Schultz C.C.J. followed Cane C.C.J. in being cut down too
young, at age 51: he died suddenly while playing tennis at his Lonsdale
home in North Vancouver. His son, William Arthur Schultz, later served
on the County Court from 1958 to 1975, becoming its senior judge, before
serving on the British Columbia Supreme Court until his death in 1978.
Schultz was succeeded by Hugh St. Quentin Cayley (1917 to 1933). A
native of Toronto, he worked as a journalist in New York City, and then in
the Northwest Territories, when that geographical designation included the
future Alberta and Saskatchewan. In that capacity he purchased and
expanded the Calgary Herald newspaper. He also served briefly, in 1893, as
the Attorney General and premier of the territory. The hamlet of Cayley,
Alberta is named for him.53 After being ousted from government, Cayley
practised law in Vancouver until his appointment to the bench in 1917. He
served 15 years on the County Court, rising to senior judge. When he
reached compulsory retirement age in 1933, the government made an
exception, and asked him to serve longer until a successor could be
named.54
Henry Dwight Ruggles (1917 to 1933) was named to the County Court in
Vancouver at the same time as Cayley C.C.J.; he died in office of a heart
attack just a few months after his colleague retired. Born in Annapolis