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former," and says: "He had a keen intellect that never leaned to tech nicality, a dignity and courtesy that no untoward incident could disturb and a readiness to listen that was all the more noteworthy because of his own economy in words."
Hallett, Judge Moses, died April 25,
in Denver in his seventy-ninth year.
He was born in Galena, Ill., and was
admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1858.
He went to Colorado in 1860 and was
a member of the Territorial Council,
1863-65; Chief Justice, 1866-76, and
District Judge, 1877-1906.
Henderson, John Brooks, formerly
United States Senator from Missouri,
and author of the Thirteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States, died at Washington, April 12,
aged 86. Born in Virginia, he went
to Missouri as a boy, became a school
teacher and studied for the bar. After
his admission he was elected to the state
legislature and originated many of the
Missouri railroad and banking laws.
He was one of the Republican Senators
voting for the acquittal of President
Andrew Johnson. A few months later
the Missouri legislature refused to re-elect him to the Senate.
Keener, William Albert, LL.D., formerly Justice of the New York Supreme
Court, Story Professor of Law at Harvard, and later Dean and Kent Professor
in Columbia Law School, died in New York, April 22, aged 57. He was born
at Augusta, Ga., and was graduated
from Harvard Law School in 1887. At
Columbia he lectured chiefly on equity
and corporations. He was the author
of a "Treatise on Quasi-Contracts"
and editor of "Cases on Contracts,"
"Cases on Quasi-Contracts," "Cases
on Corporations" and "Cases on Equity
Jurisdiction." He was active in the
practice of law at 115 Broadway.
Llandaff, Lord (Henry Matthews),
who acquired a commanding position
in the English courts as an alert and
eloquent advocate, before he joined
Lord Salisbury's administration as Home
Secretary in 1886, died in London, Apr.
3. He was born in Ceylon in 1826, educated in France and at the University
of London, and called to the bar at Lin
coln's Inn in 1850. He took silk in 1868
and entered Parliament in the same year.
As a barrister he appeared in many
causes célèbres, including the Tichborne
civil trial. He was a man of rare social
and conversational gifts, and of extensive knowledge of foreign systems of law.
Magill, Edward W., Judge of Common
Pleas Court No. 1, in Philadelphia, died
Apr. 20, at the age of 55. He received
his legal education at the University of
Pennsylvania law school, and had no
political backing in his candidacy for
the bench, receiving the appointment on
his merits as a lawyer.
McWhorter, Henry C., for eighteen
years Justice of the Supreme Court of
Appeals of West Virginia, and long Chief
Justice of that Court, died at Charles
ton, W. Va., Apr. 15.
Read, John R., member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional convention of 1872, and former United States Attorney and Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, died May 2 at the age of 70. He was known as one of the leading Democrats of Pennsylvania and had taken a prominent part in national conventions of the party.
Tuck, William Henry, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, died Apr. 8 at St. John, aged 83.
