The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-10
CHRIsTIANCY's LATTER DAYS.
The Great Jurist Leaves a Criticism OF
the BIB e for His Monument

The Great Jurist Leaves a Criticism OF
the Bib.e for His Monument.
Ex-senator Isaac P. Christiancy, one of the
greatest iurists America has produced. died on
Monday at Lansing, Mich. in poverty. HIS de-
cis.ons while on the supreme bench of Mtchi-
gan are in every lawyers Office. As a senator
be look leading rank from the first Day of his
term. How the Old scho ar of 65 years became
infatuated with Lilly Lugenoeel, treasury
Gle x, and married her, and afterward made
bargain with Zach Chandler. by which he was
10 leave the Senate and accept the mission 10
Peru, is story familiar TO nearly every one.
The closing years of his life are sketched By the
Chicago Tribune as follows:
when be resi- ned ana came home TO pre-
pare for MS trip 10 Peru his pretty young bride
accompanied MIN 10 Michigan aud spent sew
erai months here. She was unfortunate enough
10 incur the hatred OF the JUICES sons al the
outset lis related that on one occasion two of
them met her in the hall of ner husbands
house, and, grasping her arms, forcibly de-
tanned her for twenty minutes, while they
graveiy debated whether they should cut off her
head with an ak shoot her. she was III for
Gays after with nervous pEostratlon. she ac-
companiet Judge Cnrisiisncy to Peru, and not
long afterwards young lieutenant. to whom
she had been devoted IN the old treasury days,
followed her. The weak woman had tired of
the dignity and responsibility OF her social posi-
ton, and the lieutenant was soon installed as
favorite. By and by their daring escapades
reached the ears Of the minister. with evidence
too strong to be shattered. They reached the
ears OF eli me world, too. and when ne returned
TO Washington the judge applied for a divorce
on the ground OF infdeity.
"The faiIhiess wife made no objection, and
after the granting OF the divorce went to
Brooklyn. AT .er brief carcer her mind gave
way under the use OF narcotics, and four years
ago she died suddenly, a compete mental
wreck.
"W hen Judge Christisncy returned from Peru
an aged ana wealthy Peruvian lady acc M
panied him and was mis- guest at bis Lansing
hume for ,everai weeks. While on their way
from Washington her diamonds, valued at si5,-
600, which mad Deen Entrusted 10 mis- care by the
lady, were mysterious stolen from him at
New forS hotel. No breath OF suspicion ever
connected the judge with the singular disap-
pe.rance Oh the jewels, but the f,ppaat para
graphs in the newspapers, coupied with the
scandal regarding his wife, at oncs drove him
from public lie into permanent retirement.
During the last few years he has broken down
rapidly physically, and the bowed, tott-ring
old hgure bore little outer resemblance to the
wise ana bonored statesman and clever diplo-
mat oil decade OF years ago. His last days
have been passed almost in JveTtY, bat he has
resolutely kept up the payments On a large
amount of insurance, witch will be sufficient
tn pay ali Indebtedness man of unusual
abil ~ he has spent much OF mis- time in his
study since his retirement, and In addition to
preparing biography of himself he has de-
voted the hours largely TO an elaborate criticism
Oh the Bible. This work is practically COM
pet-d and will be publ sned by the family. 1t
is said that IL will make one OF the greatest of
sensations in religious circles. Though an out
and-out Agnostic there Is nothing IngersolIian
in mis- way of handling the su, ject He has
weighed the evidence pro and con as though he
were still sitting upon the bench, and all the
merciless scrutiny of the judge has byen
brought to bear in disseeting the sacred vol
ume bit by bit II will prove a singular menu-
ment TO a singular man, one whose brilliant
MONDAY is ending in so dismal night because
his sensitive soul shrank into 70 uutary obscur-
ity on account of the notorety oae woman's
faithlessness brought upon him."