New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-11
OVERCOME BY APOPLEXK.
JUDGE HENRY WILDER ALLEN STRICKEN.
HE LIES IN THE HOSPITAL IN PARTIALLY
pApAIyzHp CoNMTIoS, BUT WILL RECOVER.

HE LIES IN THE HOSPITAL IN A PARTIALLY
rARALYzHD CONDITION, BUT WILL RECOVER.
Judge Henry Wilder Allen. Of the Court Of Common
Pleas had stroke Of paralysis in his right side white
going out of the County Courthouse at O'Clock yes
terday afternoon, his way home. lie was aAen 10
the Chambers street Hospital where the physicians
thought he would recover.
Judge Allen had been sitting In the ChamDers Oh
the Court Of Common Pleas yesterday forenoon where
the only work which he did was to natursIIe scVefs.
applicants for citizenship. At II O'Clock he went
10 his prfvnte room and little afterwart he went
down to the private rooms Of the Supreme Court
Judges Shortly before . O'Clock he and Judge
Morgan J. oBrien, of the supreme Court. s'areeu
to go uptown. Judge O'Bnen sugees,eo
that they 20 down I'm the elevator but Judge AAeh
preferred to walk down. He felt well that ne SAID
he was going TO walk uptown 10 the New-forK hoIei'
ut No. 721 Broadway, where he boarded
The two judges went down the one flight OF steps
and walked through the corridor leading TO the west
entrance Of the building When opposite the shennS
Office Judge Allen staggered like drunken man. Judge
OsBren thought that his companion was only assuming
intoxcaon as he knew he said afterward. that Judge
Allen was in the habit of being little playful at times
When he saw him trying TO support himself against the
wall, however, he went to his assistance
and caught him In his arms Just rs
he was about TO fall. Several court officers
and clerks were Just passing through the corridor at
the time and they to Judge OBrien's assistance
and carried Judge Allen back upstairs to the supreme
Court judges private rooms. Two physicians were
called from the Chambers street Hospital and they
arrived within a few minutes. Judge Allen did not
lose consciousness and he tried to talk, but what he
tted TO say was unntellgible to those around him.
An ambulance was sent for and at 30 Judge Allen
was carried downstairs and taken TO the Chambers
street Hospital in It, At the hospital he was attended
nv Dr. Parker tho visiting surgeon, and DR.. Manning
the house surgeon
Jndg.s o,Brien and Lawrence were the only other
udses in the building at the time Of the accident and
Judge OBrien went to the hospital with the ambulance
After Judge Allen arrived at the hospital he was
still conscious, although he could not speak. The
disease which had attacked him apoplexy on the
left side Of the brain, and had parayzsd his right arm
and leg But as he had never been affected In IKE
manner before. the physicians thought that his re-
coyery was almost certain. He Is in private room
and Is attended by special trained nurse AT
late hour last night DR.. Manning the house surgeon
said that the patient getting along nicely. lie
could understand when spoken to and would nod his
head In reply but he had not recovered the power Of
speech. He was able also to move his right hand
slightly
Judge Allen Is a bachelor and is about fifty years
of age He Is native of Alfred York County, Maine,
and his father and grandfather were both lawyers.
HI. father had also occupied place on the bench
He was graduated at Dartmouth College and came to
this city TO practise law. After being connected with
tbe Arm OF Clark & Rapallo for time. he went
into the ct-Atorney's office, where he remained
two years Then he became the partner Of Nelson J.
waterbury and remained with him until 1867, when
he WIS made Register In Bankruptcy.
In June, 1884, Governor Cleveland appointed MT.
Allen as a Judge of the Court OF Common PleaS, u
! an the place Of Judge Van Brunt, who had been
elected to the Supreme Court In the fall OF the same
| bench on the County Democracy ticket His term
| expires December 81, 1o0s.