Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-03-06

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practice was entirely foreign. nor did he
need it to earn success. The honest spirit
of the man, evident in his every word and
act, apparent to the court and to the jury,
won more for him than the most cunning
artifice could have done. Every matter of
business received his closest care. He al
ways came to the trial of his cases well
prepared. 1t was natural that mind
such as his should select as the strongest
forces for attack or for defence, the equi-
ties of his case. Those which would ap-
peal to love of honorable fair conduct !;
and when he marshalled these, fortified
and prepared as he always was by a
knowledge of the law applicable to the
case, he became a formidable opponent.
Death has removed him too early for us
to know in what measure he would have
been successful when experience had
ripened his Judgment, but from the suc-
cess which he had already obtained, with
his talents and industry, it is easy to
foresee that he would have become in n
few years foremost among the readers of
the bar. He had become the tried friend
and counsellor of hundreds, and no lawyer
enjoyed to fuller extent the confidence
of his clients 1t was natural that this
should be so, for he was an honest man.
Stricken down at time when his expert
encc and his qualities of mind and heart
had placed him in a position where he
commanded the respect and esteem of all
and he was fairly on the road to success,
surrounded by happy family and host
of friends his death seems to us hard and
cruel. We followed him in our thoughts
from the time when his fatal malady first
made its appearance, earnestly hoping
that a change of climate would arrest its
progress, unwilling to believe that it
could have a fatal ending; his patient
tortitude and courageous battle for life
heightened the regard in which we had
held him, and when his noble soul was
freed from its tired, emaciated body, we
felt that we had lost not only a brother at
tine bar, but brother in the broader
meaning of the word. He has gone from
us, and as we vainly strive to pierce the
gloom, totally incapable Of guessing the
reason why he, talented, the best beloved
of us all, should be called so prematurely
to die, we, too, cln only rest upon that
Divine assurance, that God is love; that
somehow, somewhere, the mystery will be
solved, and that what he has lost here will
be more than compensated by the more
glorious opportunities which he enjoys in
that higher life, where we trust and be-
lieve such qualities as he possessed will
endure forever.
Mr.. Southland said:
May it please your Honor
In the discussion of the life of our
departed brother ! do not wish to remain
altogether silent, for these exercises are
but u just tribute to a worthy man.
1t was my good fortune to become some
what intimately acquainted with Mr..
Tuell, while he was pursuing the study of
the law in the Office of Mr.. Heath. l had
shortly before that time been admitted to
the bar, and was waiting with more or
less impatience for the coming of clients.
| had gone through the doubts and fears of
my own examination with considerable
confidence in the result, but was afflicted
with much uncertainty as to living after
wards He was viewing his approaching
examination with some anxiety, but of
the future he was most sanguine. He had
no fear or lack of clients or business when
once he should be given the right to
practice For the examination he had not
reason to fear, for his was a most credit
able one, and he was promptly made
member of this bar His confidence that
he should have business was well founded,
for of that he never lacked, and when the
fatal sickness seized him he had a large
and increasing clientage
Before his admission to the bar he was
one of an association of law students in
the city who organized q mock court and
selected me to preside over it, chiefly, as
he pleasantly said, because you have
nothing else to do" He and Howard r.
Goodwin, talented young man who was
studying in the office of Baker & Cornish,
generally closed the arguments on the one
side and the other, and both showed much
ability in research, clearness of statement
and logical conclusions in the presenta-
tion of their respective views. Brother
| Tuell lacked some of the ornamentation
| that a finished education gives, but he
abounded in that much more important
| wealth that sound and accurate sense
which constitutes the rocks of the founda-
tlons and the solid timbers of the well
built house.
He was industrious and painstaking in
his industry. His mind was most sympa-
thetic and his interest and faith in the
causes entrusted to his care never tagged.
He believed implicitly in his client, and
fought with unceasing vigor every sug-
gestion of such clients wrongdoing. The
clients case was always made more than
his own, and wore on him far more than
on the client. No class of men sees so
much of the troubles and difficulties of
mankind as the lawyer class, and the
thought that his intense interest in, and
sympathy for the troubles which were in
his daily life unfolded to him was prob
ably one of the causes of his untimoly
death, has often impressed itself upon me-
They certainly worried him, fer up to
within very few days of his death, too
weak to get to his office down street, he
was at his desk in his house, working to
} relieve them.
He quickly obtained and ever held the
confidence of all who knew him. Once his
friend, always his friend. applied with
out exception. He lived an honorable and
, useful life; he was correct. faithful and
J persistent counsellor and attorney, and a
!, gentleman. His case is closed; the evil
dence is all in. the arguments made and
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