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Necrology— The Bench Judge W. G. Crowley of Smithville, Tenn., died September 10, at the age of eighty-three. He held the position of Chancellor of the Fifth Division of Tennessee for nineteen years.

home at Grafton, West Virginia, September 11. He was sixty years old. In 1892 he was elected to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals for a twelve-year term as a Demo crat. In 1906 he was defeated as Democratic candidate for Congress.

Judge H. H. Wallace of the forty-seventh judicial district, Texas, died September 13, at Tascosa, Texas. He was the youngest district judge in Texas at the time of his appointment.

Samuel Gustine Thompson, a prominent member of the Philadelphia bar, once for a short time Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died September 10 at Narrafansett Pier, R. I., at the age of seventy-two. fe was the son of James Thompson, late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania, and was a native of Franklin, Penn.

Judge Henry W. Seney of Toledo, Ohio, died September 2 at the age of sixty-two years. Judge Seney had been twice elected circuit judge in the third judicial district of Ohio, resigning in 1895. Judge Benton G. Young of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas died suddenly at Marion, Ohio, August 31. He was serving his second term on the bench, and was said to be one of the most learned jurists in Ohio. Judge Joseph Frease, who was one of the oldest members of the Ohio bar, died at Can ton, O., September 3, at the age of eighty-two. He was Prosecuting Attorney and later Common Pleas Judge of Stark county. Judge Warren T. Sexton of the Superior Court of Butte County, Cal., died suddenly September 14. He was one of the best known attorneys in northern California. He was twice elected district attorney of Butte county. He was forty-eight years old. Gen. James Shackelford, for four years United States Judge for the District of Okla homa and Indian Territory, from 1889 to 1893, died September 7 at Port Huron, Mich. He was born July 7, 1827, at Danville, Ken tucky, and was a brave officer in both the Mexican and Civil Wars. Judge C. H. Grote, county judge in Juneau County, Wisconsin, for twenty years, died September 10, at Mauston, Wis. He came to this country from Germany in 1857. He retired from the bench in 1890, and had reached the age of eighty years at the time of his death. Judge A. W. Patrick died in New Phila delphia, O., September 26. He was eighty years old. He was county prosecuting attor ney of Franklin county probate judge and state senator. He also was delegate to the national Democratic convention in 1900 and received the Ohio indorsement for vice-president. For half a century he was a leading lawyer in Tuscarawas county. Judge M. H. Dent, formerly of the West Virginia Supreme Court bench, died at his

Judge Harvey B. Shiveley, one of the best known jurists in Indiana, died at Wabash, Ind., September 10. He was born in Preble County, Ohio. He was elected to the state legislature in 1882, and was elected judge of the Wabash Circuit Court in 1890, and again in 1896. During the twelve years of his ser vice he never had a decision reversed by the Supreme Court until near the close of his last term. Judge Joseph Sydney Turner, Chairman of the Georgia Prison Commission, former legis lator and ex-judge of the county court of Putnam, Ga., died at his home in Eatonton, Ga., September 29. As a young man he taught in the Eatonton Academy and educated him self at the Law School of the State University at Athens, Ga. He rapidly won laurels at the Bar, and when appointed Judge of Put nam County was the youngest county judge in Georgia. Judge William L. Norwood, one of the most widely known jurists in North Carolina, died at his home in Waynesville September 26. He was born in Asheville in 1841. At an early age his family moved to Waynesville. In 1896 he was elected judge of the Superior Court of Haywood county and held that office for six years, resigning in 1902. He was one of the most popular members of the North Carolina Bar Association, and was regarded as a learned member of the profession. Hon. Conway Whittle Sams, Associate Justice of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Md., for many years secretary, and then president, of the Maryland Bar Association, died September 5 in Atlantic City. Judge Sams was an expert on taxation, being for merly President of the Appeal Tax Court and the author of a system of revision and equalization of assessments which put a stop to the lax methods prevailing before his elevation to the bench. Born in South Caro lina in 1862, he had shown himself one of the most versatile members of the Maryland bar. Judge Martin F. Morris, former Chief Jus tice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, died in Washington September