Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-09
LLOYD BOWERS DEAD
Solicitor General Passes Away
Suddenly at Boston.
WAS TALKING WITH FAMILY
Blood Clot Entering Heart Causes
Sudden Collapse.
HIGH HONOR MEANT FOR HIM
Proba ability Of Appointment as Chief
Justice-Held in Regard
by President.
WAS TALKING WITH FAMILY
HIGH HONOR MEANT FOR HIM

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON, September 9-Solicitor Gen.
eral Lloyd w Bowers, who probably
would have been made Chief Justice OF
the United States Supreme Court this
fall, died here at IL 30 o'clock this morn
ing of complications arising from an at
tack of bronchitis.
He had been i'll about two weeks 1t
was believed that the crisis had been
passed, and that he was on the road to
| complete recover..
Death came suddenly. AS the solicitor
general was talking with his family a
blod clot in the heart caused almost IN
slant suspension of the bodily functions.
Mrs. Bowers, a son and the trained
nurse were present. in the apartment In
the Touraine Hotel. where they had been
staying for the last fortnight Mr.. Bow
ers was i'm his fifty-second year.
Death Cuts Short Gay Talk.
The physician who has attended Mr..
had good nights rest. ate a good
fully with his wife and son. Suddenly
he stopped talking and moment later
was dead.
The physician, DIR. Frederick Cogges-
hall, sped by automobile to the hotel on
telephone summons only to discover
that Mr.. Bowers had died instontly OF a
blood ciot in the heart.
DIR. Coggeshall said that the original
illness of Mr. Bowers, which took the
nf cold
overwork The cold attacked him at
Gloucester, whence Mr.. Bowers had come
from Chicago, his home city, to spend
the summer.
medical assistance Mr.. Bowers was
brought to Boston.
An abscess on one of the tonsils neces-
STATED an operation, the effects of which
Dr.. Coggeshall said were too severe TOT
the weakened system to throw on.
President Was Solicitous
The first news of Mr.. Bowers illness be-
came generally known through teie-
gram sent by Mrs. Bowers to President
Taft last Tuesday. The message was de-
livered to the President on the train
while he was on his way back to Beverly
from the conservation congress at ST.
Paul.
as he reached Boston he called at the
hotel and found the patient so much I'M
proyed that he was able to see him. Al
| that time President Taft expressed great
satisfa ction that his friend seemed likely
to recover. go
Daily reports concerning the condition
| of the sick man have been encouraging.
Yesterday the prospects of his being aoie
| to leave the hotel were discussed
Department of Justice Closed.
The news of the death of the solicitor
general was received at the Department
| of Justice today just few minutes
after the announcement had been mace
| at the Touraine in Boston. An order
was Immediately issued closing the de-
| partment at noon.
Barton Corneau. an attorney In the de-
partment who was closely associated
| with Mr.. Bowers, left Immediately Tor
Boston A telegram was sent to A. F.
/ Emery, the solicitor generals private
secretary who was on his way from New
I York to Washington, notifying him OF
| the death of his chief.
Mr.. Bowers left Washington July Q and
| took with him twenty-three government
| cases upon which he intended TO work
| while he was out of the city. Some OF
| these cases he completed and forwarded
| TO the department with the statement
! that when he had finished the last of the
work he had in hand he intended to take
| a long vacation, as he was very tired.
Choice for Supreme Court.
Mr.. Bowers figured conspcuously in
gossip regarding the succession TO one OF