The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-24

THE MINUTES
On July 81, 1896, Hon. George Moulton
Carpenter, Judge OF the District Court OF
the District OF Rhode Island, died al
Katwjyk-aan-zee, Holland.
Re was born April 22, 1874, at Ports
mouth, Rhode Island. and was educated
in the public schools of New Bedford,
Mass, and OF Providence, X. j., and
graduated at Brown University in 1864.
lie studied law in the Office OF James
| Tillinghast, Esq, OF the city OF Provi-
dennce, and was admitted TO practice I'm
the courts of tho state of Rhode Island
| In the year 1867.
In 1880 he was appointed one Of the
commissioners to revise the laws of the
State of Rhode Island.
| In 1882 he was elected an associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court OF Rhode
Island, which Office he held until January
1880, when.he resigned and subsequently
qualified as the Judge of the United
States District Court for the District Of
Rhode Island, 10 which Office he had
been appointed in december, 1884, to fill
the vacancy created by the promotion of
Mr.. Justice Colt to the United states Cir
cult Court of the First Circuit.
While at the bar Judge Carpenter was
an industrious, honorable and successful
practitioner, exhibiting many OF the
qualities which are necessary for the dis
charge of judicial duties. His industry,
his patience in research, his methodical
habits and his quicknsss to spprehend
the relation OF facts to each other and OF
the principles applicable TO them, have
become well known TO the practitioners
in the several courts OF this circuit.
These qualities also marked in promi-
nent manner his career as citizen and
led to his Willingness TO gratuitously
render his services In many affairs OF o
public character which demanded patient
ana careful labor.
AS judge he performed his important
functions with precision and celerity,
and with deep sense of the responsible
ties and Importance of the position which
he filed.
Resolved, that In the death OF Judge
Carpenter his friends have lost genial,
highly respected and intellectual COM
panion, his profession a conscientious and
industrious brother, and the United
States District Court OF the District of
Rhode Island an intelligent and honest
judge.
Resolved, that the United States At
torney be requested to lay these minutes
before the Circuit Court nf Appeals of
the First Circuit, now Assem- bled at
Providence, and TO ask that they be
spread upon the records OF said court
and on the records OF the District Court
in which Judge Carpenter formerly pre-
sided.
OTHER ADDRESSES MADE
Brief addresses were then mode by
Judges Stiness aud Rogers of the SUI
preme Court of Rhode Island ana Colonel
Daniel X. Bailou, on bshslf OF the Rhode
Island bar, and each spoke feellngly of
the excellent chsraot eristics by which
the dead iurist had made himself one Of
the most highly respected men in the
State. They spoke of his ability as a
lawyer. his impartiality as judge, his
love for ell that was good and beautiful
and his steadfastness as friend.
Letters expressing similar sentiments
wero then read from United States Cir
cult Judge Aldrich of New Hampshire
and Judge Tillingnast of the State Su-
preme Court after which Judge Colt, who
| presided accepted the resolutions and
directed that they be entered on the re-
cords with memorandum of the pro-
ceedings. In receiving the resolutions
Judge Colt said that they fitly expressed
the sentiments of the members OF the
court respecting their late associate,
Judge Carpenter, aud added.
His death.came so Unexpectedly that It
was a great shock to all of us. In ap-
parent. good health he had crossed the
water for short period of rest ana re-
creation, when suddenly and with hardly
a minutes warning ne was stricken
down. Whether he had any premonition
that he was crossing the ocean OF life we
know not, but II is somewhat significant
that before going sway he decided all his
own cases. and insisted upon the deter
mination OF every other cause in the court
OF appeals in which he sat. In sending
his last decision to the clerk of the court
in Boston, he wrote: "And this ends
my work"
Judge Colt paid glowing tribute to
Judge Carpenter as jurist and as a man
and at the conclusion.o his remarks the
court adjourned.
The large number present remained,
however, until Judge Brown bad called
| ~
for the first lime since Judge Carpenters
death, and a similar order, pIscing the
record OF the proceedings on the minutes
OF that court, had been given.