The Legal World lecture at Calvary Baptist Church, Providence, R. 1., November 17. Judge Leander Stillwell of Erie, Kan.,' has been selected for appointment as first deputy commissioner of pensions, to succeed James L. Davenport, elevated to the com missionership. Judge Robert O. Harris of the Superior Court of Massachusetts addressed the twen tieth Century Club of Boston November 21, on "The Responsibility of Society Toward the Discharged Prisoner." Harrin n Putnam of Brooklyn was recently appointed by Gov. Hughes to be ustice of the Supreme Court for the Second udicial District, to fill the vacancy caused
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The Connecticut State Bar Association in tends to give a complimentary banquet in New Haven on the evening of February 7 to Chief Justice Baldwin, who retires from
the Supreme Court on February 5; to Jud e Hall, of the Supreme Court, who takes t e
pllgce of Chief Justice; and to Judge Silas J. binson, who fills the vacancy. Leave of absence has been granted by the University of Missouri to ‘Ridge John D. Lawson, dean of the Law epartment, to visit Europe and the Orient for the purpose of studying the conditions surroundin s the enforcement of the criminal laws. e will specially look into the reasons why the procedure in criminal cases is so much slower here than in England. He will be gone a year.
y the resignation of Mr. Gaynor. udge Henry J. Wells of Cambrid e, Mass, ce ebrated hisei hty-sixthbirthda ovember 16. Jud e We was born in harlestown, Mass rn 1 23. He studied law in San Francisco, was admitted to the bar and finally became
a judge.
As a tribute to Hon. James Tyndale Mitchell, retiring Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Allegheny County Bar Association held a banquet at the Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa., October 28. D. T. Osborn acted as toastmaster, and the speakers included iustice D. Newlin Fell, who succeeds Chief ustice Mitchell, George B. Godon, Wooda N.
Chief ustice L. A. Emery of the Supreme Court 0 Maine described the courts of England, from his observations made abroad
arr, udge John D. Shafer and A. 0' rien.
last summer, before the students of the Uni rsrersit of Maine School of Law, November an 16.
Judge Charles F. Amidon of the United States District Court for North Dakota, in an
Charles
address in Fargo, N. D., Nov. 30, advocated
Judge Thomas N. Allen of Olympia, Wash., has put into book form his recollections of a Kentucky village and its inhabitants. The Tacoma Ledger says of "The Chronicles of Oldfields": "Kentuckians may well be roud of his s pathetic description of life uring ante-be um days." The Connecticut Probate Assembly met November 10 at Hartford and listened to a paper read by Jud e L. P. Waldo Marvin of Hartford, on " e Relative Ri ht of a Husband and Wife in Estate of ecedent, when Married Prior to June 22, 1849, and
to April 20, 1877." Charles F. Jenney of Hyde Park, Mass, has been appointed to the place on the Superior Court bench made vacant by the death of Judge Robert R. Bishop of Newton. Mr. Jenney was formerly a member of the Massachusetts senate, and has been a lecturer
the execution, by humane methods, of the professional criminal and the hopelessly in sane. He took the position that it costs as much to keep a man in the penitentiary as it does to keep and educate a man in a univer sity and that well-behaved young men should not be deprived of an education by the ex penditure of ublic money to keep an unre deemable ba man under lock and key. Hon. William H. Pope, who was recently appointed by President Taft Chief Justice of t e Supreme Court in the territory of New Mexico, spent his boyhood in Atlanta, Ga. Being graduated from the University of Georgia at the head of his class, he began the practice of law in Atlanta. His successful career, however, was interrupted by ill-health, and under the advice of a physician he went to New Mexico. Here he received first one honor and then another, at length going to the Philippines as Judge of the urt of irst Instance.
aligstéhe Boston University Law School since
Chief Justice Farmer of the Supreme Court of Illinois says that the law's dela, of which President Taft spoke forcibly awhi e ago,admits is "more thanbeen real.’"palpable While he thatimagina there riiave instances of
unreasonable
delay,"
he
still
contends that the courts have given prompt attention to thousands of cases.
Governor Hughes of New York has ap inted Edward B. Whitne of New York ity to take the place of ustice Henry A. Gildersleeve of the Su reme Court, who re cently resi ed. Mr. hitney is a son of Prof. Wil 1am Dwight Whitne of Yale University. He was born in ew Haven Conn., August 16, 1857, and was graduated
from Yale in 1878. He was Columbia Law School in 1
duated from 0. Governor
