The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
TWO FAMOUS LAWYERS.
Anecdotes of Judge TsDey-Cause or Mstt
Carpenters Death.

Anecdotes of Judge TaDey-Cause or Matt
Carpenters Death.
cleveland Leader.
Apropos Of Chief Justice Waite's sickness
judge Ranney, of Cleveland, tells the fol
loving story Of his great predecessor, Chief
Justice fancy. Saws he:
Judge fancy lived 10 the age of e'gh "
seven, and ne seemed al his lie TO be h4qg-
ing on the verge Of the grave. For long
time before Andrew Jackson appointed MIN
Secretary OF the Treasury aud got him 20 re-
move the deposits from the United states
Bank, fancy was one of the leading lawyers
of Maryland. Luther Martin and William
PiDkney were for a time his Chief competi-
tors: but they died, leaving him at the head
Of the bar.
"At this time man who had q cbaucery
suit, which had been a long time ip the
courts and babe fair to become second Jarn-
dye VS.. JarDdyce, was looking for new
lawyer to take up mis- case. He had en-
plOyed both Martin and Piukey, and one af.
ter the other they had died on his hands,
leaving his case still unsettled. He was rec
commended to engage fancy, and with this
view he called upon him. de entered the
Office, took look at the emacatei form aud
graveyard air of the great LAWYER, and then
with grunt of disgust, he turned upon his
heel and went out OF the door without say
ing word. Give that man my case? be
said to the first friend ne met. L would as
soon give 1t to a corpse. He will die inside
OF two months But fancy did not die, aud
he doubtless survided the above prophet by
full generation"
killed Matt Carpenter, the greatest lawyer
the Northwest has ever known, and one that
made as much at the practice as Roscoe
Conkling does to-day. Senator Carpenter
had strong constitution to begin WITH"
said bis law partner not long ago, "but 1t
Al.
year before he died his physician
told him he could not live over
that time. Senator Csrpa inter- accepted this
conclusion as final, bat he said nothing to
his family. He went about his business as
usual, and ell through that year in which
he was waiting for death he put his affairs
in The most careful order. He studied his
case as carefully as the practiced physician,
but could find nothing to assure him OF any
hope. and each day hs would say. pointing
to tie calen dar as he did so, Il see l have
Just so many more days to live He was at
the Office several days before he died and
he was perfectly we'll aware that mas end
his family his real condition, and at the
time he expected to die he quietly passed
away.
1t was night work ana tie dirsegsrd OF the
laws Of health which killed Matt Carpenter
1t was his custom, 1t is said, to 10 all OF his
study at night AT II o'clock be would be-
gin with strong cigar and bottle of VINE,
and would work on by the aid of these st N
ul8nts until J. At this time he would change
from wine TO brandy, and would keep his
intellect Up 10 its full working power by
taking sips of old HeDnessy up until 1
O'Clock. As the summer sun began to peep
into the Windows ofhis study he would drop
work and 90 off to bed. He would then sleep
sboCt five hours. when he would arise as
fresh as his fellows who had put in the whole
night. For twenty years OF active life his
constitution stood this strata without fail
IL z. II then began TO droop, aud at last it
feii 10 pieces all at once, like the old mans
shay