The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-09
ELv|N ". CRANE
DIES AFTER HEROIC
FIGHT ON S|CkbEO
Former County Counsels Strag-
gle Against Fatal Maiady Won
Doctors Admiration.
HIS WIFE, BROTHER AND
SISTERS SEE END COME
Hope Abandoned Week Ago, but
Courage of iii Man Was
Unwayering.

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Former County Counsel Elvin w
Crane died at $50 n TODAY IN his
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h'f. Crane mace hafd hsht Tor lie.
| When his case was considered hopeless.
about week ago. he revived so much
! the early part Of this week thai his
physicians felt oncourneed
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! Devoted Wife at Bedside to the End
AT the bedside was his wife, VINO has
been unsparing of herself from the time
Eer husband was taken i'll. There also
were his brother. Linden Crane, and his
sisters, Mrs. Frances johnson and Mrs.
i Charles Rogers: Miss Edna johnson. a
niece, and Miss Kate Esch, d sister-in-
law, and two nurses
Wnle friends had feared he would
Gle, yet when the news reached them
! they We're shocked.
| The Rev. Robert Scott Inglis, pastor
OF the Third Presbyterian Church, will
| oficlate at Mr. Crane S funeral, the ar
rangements for which are being made.
| The Rev. Mr.. Inglis had ofiiciated at
! the funerals Of Mr.. Cranes S father and
mother. both of whom belonged to the
Third Church.
Mr., Crane was born in Brooklyn,
October 20, 1853, his paretns being
Samuel and Naomi Williamson Crane,
the latter a descendent of General
James Williamson, soldier in the war
of 1872. When quite young Mr.. Crane
came with his partens to this city, and
ne received his education in the pub
! lie schools of the city and in st. Pauls
School, which was at that time presided
over by the Rev. Joseph Smith.
Soon after leaving school he entered
the Office of the law firm of Joseph P.
Bradley and G. M. Abeel. AT once he
evinced an aptitude for the law and
soon became very useful to his in
structors. He remained with the law
firm until it was dissolved, upon the
appointment of Mr.. Bradley to a seat
upon the bench of the Supreme Court
of the United States and then he coa-
tinued in the service of Colonel Abeel
When Colonel Abeel received the ap-
pointment of Prosecutor of the Pleas
of Essex County, Mr.. Crane re-
manned with him and subsequently
became his assistant, continuing in
that office for eight years, doing most
of the pleadings. and trying the cases
before the Court of Special Sessions.
Colonel Abeel having been succeeded
in the Office of Prosecutor by Oscar
Keen, Mr.. Crane again became the
Assistant Prosecutor of the Pleas. and
he remained in that position during the
! incumbency of Mr.. Keen. Upon the
expiration of Mr.. Keen's term of of
flee, and when Governor Green sought
some one to fill the place. his choice
| fell upon Mr.. Crane, and in 1888 he was
appointed to the important position
Mr.. Crane made a yery able nrosecu-
tor. and his conscientious painstakins
and fair dealing. gave him a widesnread
reputation and made him yerv ponular
with those who we're brought into
! official contact with him. So great
was the popular regard for Mr.. Crane.
4 and so successfully haQ he prosecuted
the cases before the courts during his
first years. that when his term of
office expired there practically was no
| opposition to his reappointment. and
Governor Werts gave him a commits
sion for a second term of five wears.
! During his term of Prosecutor oY The
Pleas Mr. Crane prosecuted MANY verv
important criminal cases. some of them
most calabrated csses were tbose of