The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-29
David j. Brewer of the United States
Supreme Court Stricken With
Apoplexy Last
Night
HAD SERVED 81 YEARS
Entered Bath Room Before Retiring
and Fell Over on Floor Ex.
pirins Shortly After
wards.

Justice David j. Brewer of the United
States supreme court died at 10:30
o'clock last night at his home, 1923
Sixteenth street. Justice Brewer had
not been feeling we'll for more than
a week, but he had not been obliged
to take to his bed. He had enjoyed
Easter with members of his family,
and yesterday afternoon walked out
to the office of his physician. He
complained at the dinner table of feel
ing slightly worse, but his condition
was not considered serious.
At little after 10 o'clock he told
Mrs. Brewer that he was going to re-
tire, and entered the bathroom. A few
minutes later Mrs. Brewer heard him
fall, and, rushing to the bathroom,
found him unconscious.
Only servants were In the house
with Mrs Brewer and she dispatched
one of them to the home of Judge
Ashby Gould of the District OF Colum-
bia supreme court, who lives next
door to the Brewers. When Judge
Gould arrived physicians living in the
neighborhood had been summoned.
Justice Brewer was carried from the
bathroom and placed on bed hut
when the doctors arrived few min.
ntes later, he was dead Apoplexy
was the cause of death.
Justice Brewers two daughters,
! Mrs. James L. Carrick and Mrs. II. P.
IJutmore who live in Washington,
were summoned and arrived shortly
after the physicians.
The supreme court is now on It's
Easter recess. 1t will reconvene next
Monday and undoubtedly will adjourn
for at least day, out of respect to
the memory of Justice Brewer.
The death of Justice Brewer will
be seriously felt by the court in it's
consideration of the Standard Oil
cases. Justice Brewer was regarded
as one of the strong men on the court
| IN considering cases involving corpor
alton law. He wrote many important
opinions on this subject, notably the
trans-Missouri traffic decision, one OF
the first under the Sherman antitrust
act, the Addis-Stone Pipe company
case and more recently the ConsoIidat.
ed Gas company case.
| Justice Brewer was tfls third oldest
! justice on the bench, Justice Harlan
and Chief Justice Fuller each being
seventy-seven years old. Justice Brew.
er was four years their junior. In re.
gard to length of service on the bench,
he also stood third, having served al
most twenty.one years.
Justice Brewer had been serving on
the bench actively up to the beginning
OF the Easter recess. He had been
feeling we'll, although recently he had
been troubled with deafness, which
had worried him considerably. This
is the second death on the supreme
bench in the present term. Justice
/ Peckham died early in the term and
was succeeded by Justice Lurton.
4 Justice Moody has been III for several
months, and probably will not be back
on the bench this term.
( David Josiah Brewer was born at
Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20. 1897
He is the son of Rev Josiah Brewer
and of Amelia A. Field, who were
at the time of his birth, missionaries
to Turkey, but returned to the United
States while he was an infant.
His Successor.
WASHINGTON. March 29.-"He
was an able judge was the express
sion from President Taft when he
learned of the death of Justice
Brewer
Who will be appointed to take
Brewers place is now the question
Judge Deemer of Iowa is talked of