The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-20
A BRIGHT MIND WRECKED.
Ex-Judge Walker Locked Up for Drunk
enness-His Distinguished Family.

Judge Walker-Drunk-P Probably in
sane-Lawyer" is what the clerk at police
headquarters wrote on the register when
Officer Metford led in a Keeling individual
the wreck of a once tine gentleman.
Judge p. ]. Walker is pretty generally
known to the Seattle legal fraternity, and
of late could at all times be seen at the
police court, where he was regular at
tendant, generally ''officing" in the court
room. His days of usefulness seem num-
bered. Though but IS years of age, he has
had an interesting life-has sat on the
bench of a supreme court and was hon
ored by his associates. The wine cup has
done its deadly work and has wrecked the
life and mind of brilliant man.
In his calmer moments. when not under
the in.iuenee of liquor, Judge Walker is
very entertaining. He is well versed i'm
the classics and is good conversatiolanist.
lie is familiar with every class of society;
has been the proud partner of bellies in the
ball rooms of the metropolis but in later
years has fallen to the opposite extreme.
Few men have been gifted with a
brighter mind and few have had more ia
yorable opportunities. Slender and erect,
with pair of keen eyes that peer from un-
der mass of prematurely gray locks. he
creates the impression of broken down
gentleman.
Yesterday he was booked for drunken
ness, but il is not often that he is locked
up. The police know him and seldom
modest him, even when he is incapable of
taking care of himself.
Judge Walker comes of good family, and
has an exceptionally interesting past He
was born in Florida, where his aged
father still resides. He received his edtIca-
ton at the University of Virginia. and
when the war of the rebellion broke out
he enlisted as a private in the Southern
army. At the battle of Melbourne Hill
he was shot in the head, and he has never
fully recovered from the effects of the
wound. After the war, he Went to Texas,
ana was elected judge of the supreme
SQUIRT at FL Paso and was later appointed
prosecuting attorney of district in New
Mexico. Twelve years ago he came TO the
Coast, and by specializing in Ceur Il Alene
mining stocks made $1,000. Going 10 San
francisco be lost his money, and came to
Seattle, where he has resided almost
eleven years.
David ;. Walker, Judge Walkers father.
is probably the best known man in Florida
today. He Is a years of age. and has.
within few years. retired from active
politics. He has served his state in several
high offices, and for long time was chief
justice David Walker, jr., who died at
his fathers Southern home less than 1--WE
months ago, was a younger brother of
Judge Walker, and at the time of his death
was attorney general of Florida.
Senator Wilkinson Call, now United
States senator from Florida, is the adonted
brother OF Judge Walker.
Entertaining as he is-equallv compe-
tent to converse intelligentlv on classi-
cal and modern subjects. Judge. Walker
hnds ready audience AT most any Mace
where liquor Is sold. Many persons are
willing TO pay for the drinks TO hear him
talk, but when the liquor has done lis
work-destroyed the memory of bright
ihteHect-his companions desert him and
he is left 10 sleep off the effects of a com
mon drunk.