Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-16
ELECTED JUDGE HALL

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 As Vice President Tuttle,s Successor.
 A meeting of the directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad was held in the company's office, Grand Central station in New York Saturday, and Judge John M. Hall of Willimantic was elected director and vice president in place of Lucius Futile resigned.
 President Charles P. Clark said of Judge Halls appointment: "Our directors see that the methods of managing the property must conform to it's growth. Our expe- rience is the same as that of other rail road systems. Instead of having a techni- cal railroad man as vice president, they have elected Judge Hall to that office. To those who know him, 1t is unnecessary to say that he is q genial gentleman, an admirable lawyer and level-headed man. In my judgment, he will make first rate vIcs president. With 90 many leases, dis bursements, subsidiary corporations and contracts, there Is an immense amount of purely corporate work to be attended to- When MT. Futile, who was 8 railroad man, came to the property three years ago, he WAs buo VhAJ SIC6 oluC0 Ll6u we have added MT. MsIlen and MT. Ken drick, both of whom arc thoroughly equipped with all the experience and wis dom of their profession. We have plenty of railroad talent, and there is no reason why we should add to 1t. The corporate work has been done as an incident to the railroad work, but 1t has assumed much larger relative proportion, and there is enough now to engage the attention of g first class man, such as we consider Judge Hall to be-"
 Judge Hall Is about forty-five years of age, and has been for years prominent among the able lawyers of eastern Con- necticut. He has been member of the house of representatives, and in 1887 was elected to the senate. He became chair man of the judiciary committee and was the admitted republican leader in the legis- lature. He made memorable speech on the report of his committee recommend ing the communication of sentence of Swift, the Hartford murderer. His speech was quite an orstorical effort, and was the best he ever made in the legislature. The bill was passed by the legislature, but was vetoed by Governor Bulkeley. The lesis- lature failed to pass the bill over the veto and Swift was hung.
 Judge Hall is credited with having framed the present secret ballot law. Be- fore his election ss judge in 1889 he was counsel for the Consolidated road in his district, with Willimantic as the center. He had law practice that was worth probably $5. 900 to $6, 6,000, and he acknowl- edged that he made personal sacrifice in going to the superior court bench. He was appointed jodge by the same legislature that brought Samuel O. Prentice of Hart ford and Silas A. Robinson of Middletown to the superior court bench and that made ex Governor Andrew the chief justice.
 A prominent republican said last evening that Judge Hall had been for many years 8 warm personal friend of Hon. Lynde Har- rison and he had no doubt that his sslec- tion had been brought about by MT. Har- rison's influence.
 Lsst year MT. and Mrs. Harrison and MT. and Mrs. Hall went to Europe together end remained several weeks. When asked If the appointment of Judge Hall would not take away some of MT. Hsrrison's legal business for the Consolidated road, this gentleman replied:
 Mot at all. MT. Harrison will perform his duties the same as ever. Judge Hall will not go into the court to look out for the interests of the road, but he will have sufficient business looking into the legal status of traffic contracts, leases and other contracts. He will act as 8 sort of cor poration lawyer, such as the big roads have"