Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-04-02
JUSTICE BREWER
FOUND DEAD
Member Of U. S Supreme
Court Dies Of ApOpIeIy.
STRICKEN III BATHROOM
Famous Jurist Was Found by His
Wife and Died Before Medical Aid
Could Be Summoned-He Was sew
enty-three Years Of Age.


Could Be summoneo-He Was sew
enty-thrss Years OF Age.
Justice David J. Brewer. Of the United
States supreme court. died AZ his resi-
dence ia Washington. Justice Brewer
had not been feeling we'll for more
than a week. but had not been Obliged
% take 90 his bel He had enjoyed
Easter with the members OF his family
and Monday afternoon walked out 90
the Office of his physician He com
planned at the dinner table OF feeling
worse. but his condition was not con
sidered serious
At a little after 10 o'clock Monday
night he told Mrs Brewer that ne was
going 20 retire. and entered the bath
room.
4 little later Mrs. Brewer heard a
noise as IN something had fallen In
the bathroom. but she took no particu-
lar notice of iy until her attention was
attracted Few minutes later by the
sound OF heavy breathing Rushing TO
the bathroom then. she found her hus
band lying ON the floor unconscious.
The Justice had undresscd before en-
terinE the bathroom.
Only the servants We're in the house
with Mrs. Brewer. and she dispatched
one of them 10 the home of Judge
Ashley Gould of the District of CO
lumbia supreme court. who lives next
door 90 the Brewers. When Judge
Gould arrived physicians living I'm tho
neighborhood had been summoned
Justice Brewer was carried from th.
bathroom and laid ON bed. but wher
the doctors arrived a few minute,
later ne was dead. ApopleNy was Tho
cause OF death
Justice Brewers two daughters.
Mrs. James J.. Carrick and Mrs. II p
Jutmore who live in Washington. We're
summoned and arrived shortly after
The physicians.
Justice Brewer was seventy-threc
years old He had been an ASSOCIATE
justice since December. 1889. and hal
part In deciding many momentous
questions. among them the great anti
trust prosecutions
He was appointed 10 the bench by
President Cleveland
Was a Keen LAWYER.
David Josiah Brewer was born In
Smyrna. Asia Minor. In 1887. He was
the son of Rev. Josiah Brewer and
Emilia A. Field sister OF David Dudley
Field and Cyrus w Field and Justice
stephen J. Field. His father was an
early missionary 10 Turkey.
Young Brewer was graduated from
Yale In 1856 and from the Albany Law
school In 1853. He established him.
self in his profession az Leavenworth.
Kan, in 1889. and there he lived until
he assumed his duties as justice OF the
supreme court
Coming from one OF the most emf
nent families OF America, he early
made his mark as a lawyer Of keen
acumen. No family In American his
tory has "A more distinguished record
for men Of caliber than the Field fam.
ily, which is New England stock and
of Puritan ORGAN. Clergymen. jurists.
scientists. cOnquerors in every part
Of the globe. the scions OF the Field
stock have played a great part In the
glories that have come 20 the Ameri.
can nation.
IN the annals Of American pluck
and perseverance and scientific con.
quest 20 name stands higher than
that OF Cyrus w. Field. who stretched
the first oceanic cable which linked
continent with continent.
In 1861 David J. Brewer was ap.
pointed United States commissioner
and during 1868 and 1864 he was JudgcI
of the probate and criminal courts oil
Leavenworth county. and 1865 until
1853 he was judge OF the First district
court OF Kansas
10 1876 Judge Brewer was elected
Justice Of the supreme court OF hisI
state. and was reelected in 1876 and
1882; and in 1884 he was appointed
Judge OF the circuit of the Unite2I
States for the Eighth district
Justice Brewer succeeded Justice
Stanley Matthews on the bench OF theI
highest tribunal IN the nation In De
cember. 1880: aud since that time bel
has rendered many decisions OF note
and filled mary special commissions
with sieaai ability