 The lenient sentence was met with outrage in the city . Newspapers inveighed against the decision and residents held " indignation meetings " to agitate against it . Within days , upon the urging of Mayor Somers the district attorney scrambled to find new charges to file against Linderfelt and ordered his arrest in Boston . But Linderfelt had already left Boston and was sighted in England later that month . Poole wrote " They let him off without punishment , and are now chasing him around the world to arrest him for another trial . " 
