Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-25

| ton of knowing more about constitu-
| tional or international law than any
| lawyer in western Pennsylvania. He
| fairly revels in musty books and enjoys
| the distinction of being able TO read law
| while fishing.
Mr.. Knox is a member of the Castalla
Fishing club. which owns a reservation
near Sandusky, o. If during the fish
ing season he has big case on hand,
he takes his lawbooks there and studies
his case while angling for trout. His
friends say that when he returns he
generally has as much fish as law.
One of the pictures in his office shows
him in golf trousers and negIigee shirt
landing n big trout. On his face there
is an expression of the most intense in
terest.
There has not been an important law
suit in Pittsburg during the last decade
in which Mr.. Knox has not been on
one side or the other. When there is
associate counsel. Mr.. Knox is always
given the honor of devisinG the lines on
which the case is to be handled. He
first attained prominence 16 years ago
as one of the counsel for the stock
holders of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago railroad, who sued the
Pennsylvania company, to which the
road was leased He lost this case,
which was over an issue of stock, but
he made the company change its policy.
The famous Penn bank crash in the
latter eighties is well known to Pitts
burghers. Depositors tried to hold the
directors liable for S2,0OO,O0O or &c.
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lawyer, but Mr.. Knox and one other
fought them to the state supreme court
and won. He was one of the counsel
in the suit of the VanderbiIts against
what was known as the voting trust
of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie rail-
road, which the Vanderbilts now con-
troll
Mr.. Knox was associated with the
late General +. II. Bristow of New
York several years ago in litigation be-
tween the Carnegie Steel company and
the Southern Railroad company. This
suit was over n lien Mr.. Carnegie OBJ
tanned for rails sold to the railroad
company. 1t went to the United States
supreme court, where Mr.. Knox Sc
cured n victory.
1t was Mr.. Knox who attempted to
bring charge of treason. to the fed
eral government against the Home
stead rioters. He was very active i'm
the prosecution of Hugh O'Donnell,
John McLuckie, Jack Clifford and
others Finding that he could not OBJ
tain conviction Of the rioters ON the
charge of numbering guards who We're
shot, he had the charges quashed after
O'Donnell and two others had been
tried.
Mr.. Knox has one hobby-he keeps n
string of fast trotters and can be seen
any fine day driving in the parks or
on the Pittsburg boulevards. He has
one team for which he paid $4,000, and |
with this pair of high steppers he holds |
the worlds pole team trotting record |
for amateurs. None of his horses is al |
lowed in professional race for money |
and not even cigar is bet on their |
performances on Brunot's island track, |
Mr.. Knox has never been MUCH of a |
society man, but he is well known in |
club circles. He has n charming wife /
and four children, three boys and one
girl. ranging in age from 8 to 20 years. |
Their home life is simple, despite the /
stateliness of the stone mansion in |
which they live in Pittsburg.