The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-03-27
rsnecial correspondents. J


hans he is the one man of all that have
adoDted this course whose name is Of
tenest before the public. The late Ros
coe ConkIing was another great lawyer
who came here to win fortune, and
when he was suddenly taken away, al
most by accident, he had gone far to-
ward fulfilling his ambition to die a
rich man, an ambition which he could
never have gratifed had he remained
in politics, or, retiring from that excit-
ing pursuit, had gone to practicing law
in one Of the lesser cities.
George Hoadley, governor of Ohio,
is another man of the law who came to
! New York to gain riches after he had
won good degree of success both in
business and politics elsewhere. His
name is not so often upon the lips of the
public nor does it run off the ends Of
reporters pencils with any such fire.
Quency as that of the free thinking, out
spoken colonel, but the ex-governor is
understood to be making a most excel
lent income all the same-in fact, prob
4 ably twice or thrice as much as Colo
incl ngersoll. Ex-Judge Dillon is an
other instance of the same sort, and so
was the late silver tongued Daniel
Dougherty, who came here from Phila-
Sdelpbia, and so is Charles W. Brooke,
8vho has been termed the leader of the
New York criminal bar.
Two Criminal Lawyers.
Mr.. Brooke, who, like Dougherty,
came here from the Quaker City, is GER
PANTY one of the notable figures of this
#tovn. He came in the seventies, and
tnlS story is told, though not vouched for
#oy me, concerning the cause of his leav-
Ntn8 Philadelphia: Ayoung man named
#0Frald Eaton was accused of murder,
ssand he secured Mr. Brooke for counsel.
brooke was SO thoroughly convinced of
EI8'on S innocence, in spite of the most
managing circumstantial evidence, that
~ vowed never to try another case in
lAadelphia if the verdict should be adj
EVrse The jury declared Eaton guilty,
lu The lawyer kept his word. Whether
iu0 story be true or not, the honey Tipped
'sa"yer has had no cause to regret the
slaaSlerence of his allegiance to the
AnIckerbocker town, for his celebrated
EaSeS nave been many and his fees fat.
~ latest notable case was that of Mey-
we polsoner. Though Mr.. Brooke is
.USe TO TO now, he looks quite ten years
'unger than that, and he walks with
r. ., elaStlo step of boy.
wore picturesque than Mr.. Brooke
~ ~ ueStlned to be leader at the crimi-
a. Var Is his partner, O'Sullivan, the
Ons man who became famous at a
Yunu' SO to speak, because of his init
,ay0 knowledge of medicine, displayed
IL. the trial of Carlyle Harris for
40 murder. O'Sullivan is a physician
well as lawyer, and he understands
o ,"0 motoring, too, for one of his nu-
fnouS degrees is that of doctor of vet
lay medicine and surgery, and he
ssa isu ID this capacity for time with a
o e,nelt OF British soldiers. He is still
n at5, oelng little if any over So, and
N''ileVe III build and bearing.
VINO Is the Leading Lawyer?
b. r ,rSlo!y owe the reader an apology
raot; e8H.uonlng these two ahead Of such
boat ts'oners as James G. Garter, Joseph
&oot ", colonel E. C. James, Elihu
ert no wheeler H. Peckham and others.
spt these men are more impor-
ro c broadly speaking, than either
hes a.o VI y Sullivan, and their earn
il if o Iuch larger, though it is doubt
sentio @Slae from the frequent political
- na.e VI some of them, any one is so
''ned IN the Newspapers as either