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DEATH OF LORD RUSSELL
UNEXPECTED END or ENGLAND'S
CHIEF JUSTICE.
Unable to Withstand the Shock of nm
Operation His Illness stomach
Trouble A Long and Brilliant Career
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Finished.
London, Aug. 1O.-Baron Russell of
Killowen, lord chief justice of England,
died this morning as the result of an
operation performed yesterday by DR..
Treves Baron Russell, who had bean
i'll fol- about a fortnight, is variously
reported to have suffered from gas
trio disorder and from tumor in hte
stomach
Lord Russell had suffered from gas
trio catalrh, but the fact of his illness
was not generally known until it was
announced that at a consultation held
yesterday, between Drs. Sir William
Henry Broadbsnt, Frederick Treves,
Stephen Mackenzie, and Samuel Her
bert Habershon, 1t was decided that an
operation was imperatively necessary.
1t was afterwards said that the pa
tient had stood the operation well, and
that his strength was maintained.
Last evening, however, Lord Russell
became worse, soon became uncon-
scious, and passed away peacefully at 8
p. m. to-day.
The war office telegraphcd the news
of the chief Justices death to his
youngest son, the Hon. Bertrand Jo-
seph, who Is at present serving as
lieutenant Of the Royal Artillery in
South Africa. The Hon. Charles Rus
sell, another son of the deceased, Is now
in Canada.
| The courts, generally, suspended bust
ness to-day, and the judges and other
distinguished lawyers eulogized the de-
! ceassd chief Justice The premier, Lord
Sal sbury, will select the successor of
Lord Russell, with the queens ap-
prevail. Lord Alverstone, better known
as Sir Richard Webster, the former at
! torney general and now master of the
rolls, will, it is generally thought, he
appointed lord chief justice Of England.
Charles Russell, the first Catholic to
hold the high office of chief justice of
England, was born in Newry, County
Down, Ulster province, Ireland, In 1888,
and was educated at Trinity college,
Dublin. His family, one of small gem
try, has been in County Down since the
close of the sixteenth century where
they maintaiced close connections with
the church An uncle. the Very Rev
Dr. Russell, was president of Maynooth
college, and to him Cardinal Newman
referred IN his "Apologia" as 1.-The dear
friend 20 whom under heaven / am in
debted for my conversion" A brother
of the chief justice was q well known
Jesuit priest, his sister was Mother
Mary Baptist Russell. superioress of
the Sisters Of Mercy at San Francisco,
to which place she went in 1854, and
5uII o. &c nt in, in,
England 1t was but natural, there
fore that even when Lord Russell rose
to his high office, he should have con-
tinued to be a most active Catholic
layman. Indeed, it was said that he
worked for the church with as much
zeal as If he were a preate instead of
an overworked LAWYER
Lord Russell made no high mark at
college, and returned to Ulster to be ar
ticled to solicitor, and finally set up
at Belfast to practice. BY 1856 he had
moved to London, and was admitted to
the bar a. Lincoln's Inn in 1859 He
became queens counsel in 1872, and
gradually became connected with all
the most famous trials in England, his
first important one being the YPverton
case which involved the legality of
Catholic marriage in Ireland.
Among the other notable cases in
which Lord Russell established his re-
putation as the leading advocate of
Great Britain may be mentioned the
Colin-Campball divorce case, the Belt
VS.. Lawes trial, in which all the Lead |
ing artists of the Royal Academy figur-
ed; the Wyndham Lunacy Petition; the
exposure Of the card-sharper known as
Lamhri Pacha, and the Boring Sea ar
bitration In the Maybrick case he vas
convinced Of the innocence of the pris- |
orer, for whom he worked to the ex-
tent of his ability. His latest distin- |
guished service was as one of the arbi-
traitors of the Venezuelan controversy |
in Paris
1t was not until 1880 that he went
into politics He was a home ruler, |
of course, and soon Became a leader
in the Gladstone party, and, although
not a great orator. he was often very
speaker He first became at
torney general in 1856 1t was in 1885,
after home rule had been rejected, that
Sir Char'es Russell, as he was then, OBJ
tanned his great chance. which was the
conduct of the case for Mr. Parnell be-
fore the special commission appointed
to investigate the truth of the charges
brought against him by the London
Times. Perhaps no other lawyer has
ever won such an enormous individual
prestige from a single case as accrued
to Sir Charles at the close of the Par
nell trial, which resulted in tine COM
pleta discrediting of the charges brought
by the London Times. Here his extra
ordinary success in managing a trial
was most clearly shown, and his fame
as the most skillful cross-examiner at
the English bar was established beyond
all doubt
When Mr.. Gladstone again formed a
in 1892. Sir Charles once more
became attorney general. 1t was we'll
however, that his appoint
nent was temporary, and when va
.ancy occurred among the law lords
soon afterwards. he accepted a life
and went into the house of
ords as Russell of Killowen. Shortly
afterwards, in 1894 he became lord
thief justice, on the death of Lord
1oleridge, and within two years 1t was
admitted that he stood in the front
'ank among the foremost jurists of
English history. He was more a man
If the world than either of his prede-