St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-14

to attend the twenty-frst birthday Gel
ebratioD OF her eldest son. Dudley Field
! lsgrave. His daughter is the widow
of Sir Anthony Musgraye. who was gov
ern9r of Queenland. Australia. when he
died. She is living in East Grinstead, i'm
Sussex. twenty miles from London. He
thea travelled about on the continent
and took the steamer from Genoa for
home. He has been at his home at %
Granercy park since his return, and
was thought to be in good health for
man of his age-eighty-nine years. He
was taken with pneumonia W ednesday
night. He had expected to spend the
summer among the Berkshire hills,
where he was born. He was engaged in
writing his autobiography. Only last
Wednesday he Remarked:
My one great ambition is to have my
code adopted all over the world. 1t is
question OF time wheh it will be
adopted"
When Mr.. Field landed from the
steamer Wednesday a terriple blizzard
was in full blast. He remained Oh the
dock fully one hour to claim his bag
gage, and was then driven to the resi-
denee of his daughter-in-law III Gram
Grey square. For the remainder of the
day he was bright, cheerful and enter
tanning. At 8 O'Clock Thursday mcrn-
ing the household was aroused to learn
that Mr.. Field was suffering from
severe congestlve chill. The physician
who was called detected tho pres
ence of pneumonia, but great
anxiety was not felt by the family
until 5 O'Clock this morning. The end
came as lie slept. The funeral services
will take place at Calvary church OH
SUNDAY next at 4'S0 p. IN. DIR. Satterlee
will Officiaie. assisted by others who are
not yet chosen. The burial will occur
at Stockbridge, Mass. on Monday next.
All day today and uutil late this even
ing there was a steady stream of visit
0rS to the house of the dead jurist.
They called to tender their sympathies
to the bereayed family. Among the
callers were Dr.. D.. NJ. McCrochem,
the chancellor of the University
of the City of New York. and Cephas
Brainerd, a lifelong friend OF the de-
ceased. There were numerous mes
'Sages OF coincidence, especially from
the Navy Herbert. A telegram was re-
iceived which stated, that Justice
Stephen Field. brother. and Chief
'JuSfics Melville Fuller and Justice
David j. Brewer would come OH i'm
'mediately from Washington. The pail
bearers will be Chief Justice Fuller.
John BIgelow. Abram s. Hewitt. Abra-
ham Lawrence. William NJ Evarts,
Joseph II. Chasty, r. NJ. Galloway. r.
E. Deyo, DIR. McCrochen and Justice
Charles Andrews.
David Dudley Field was born i'm Had
dam, Comm, iFebruafy l3. 1895, aud was
graduated at Williams college in 1925.
He was admitted to the bar in 1928 aud
was. continuously in practice up to 1885.
lie gained special prominence because
of his labors in the cause uf law reform.
His .'CodeS of Girl and Criminal Pro-
cedure" were enacted into law by the
New York legislature in 1850. In 1857
he was head of commission which pre-
pared political code, penal code and
a civil code. The state of New York
adopted his penal code. In 1878 he pre-
scented to the social science congress his
"OutlineS of an International Code"
which has been translated into French,
Italian and Chinese. He was Demo-
crat up to the time OF the war, but dur
ing the war was a Staunch adherent of
the administration. Later he rejoined
the Democratic party and filled out the
uBeXpired term of Smith Ely in COLI
greSS.