The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-10-13
CHIEF JUSTICE FOX DEAD.
ApOplexy Killed the Supreme
Court Jurist in st. Louis.

ST. Louis, Oct. 6.-Judge James D.
Fox, chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Missouri, died at $40 o'clock
tonight at the Josephine Hospital,
Grand and Henrietta avenues, follow
ing stroke of apoplexy few min
uteS befor that time.
Judge Fox came to st. Louis yes
terday to seek relief from severe
headache, which had caused him
much suffering. After spending part
of that day and last night at the
Laclede Hotel, he sought his friend
Dr. F. j. Lutz at the hospital He
had no idea anything dangerous was
the matter with him. Only the acute
pain he suffered caused him to seek
treatment.
Jovial to the Last.
AT the hospital Judge Fox was as
signed to DR.. F. g. Pernoud, who
advised him to go to bed. Judge
Fox told the physician he had been
annoyed by the persistent headaches
and that, although he had tried many
homely remedies he knew of, he
could get no relief.
Judge Fox was in fine spirits,
joking about many things and dis
cusSed topics of the day." Doctor
Pernoud said. 81 was with him sew
eral times to-day and did not find
him the least anxious or worried.
Early in the evening | left his room
after one of my calls, but was sum-
moned by the nurse at 6l5 o'clock.
She said Judge Fox appeared to be
worse.
Gas entered the room realized
he was in very dangerous condi-
ton. ran to his side and found he
was breathing his last, He practical
ly was dead when | reached him. He
uttered no word that | know of. 1t
was clearly stroke of apoplexy,"
Judge Fox, who was a native. of
Madison county, formerly lived in
Fredericktown. He was born Janu-
airy %, lS47, and was educated in the
public schools of his neighborhood.
Later, he attended st. Louis Univer-
sity, gaining admission to the bar in
1866.
In the firstcase inwhich he appear
ed as attorney his father was counsel
for the opposing side. The case was
tried by a Justice of the Peace.
When he argued his first case before
the Circuit Court his father was again
his opponent.
Judge Fox was elected to the Cir
cult Court of what was then the Twen-
tieth Judicial Circuit in 1880. 1t is
now the Twenty-seventh Judicial Cir
cult He was reelected in 1886, 1892
and 1893.
In 1902 he was nominated on the
Democratic ticket for the Supreme
bench. His election followed and he
took his seat in January, 1903.
On May 2 last he was elected Chief
Justice, to succeed Judge LIE Roy B.
Valiant, the Judges of the court fol-
lowing at the time the rule to elect
the Judge oldest in commission each
year. Judge G. D. Burgess, who
was entitled to the distinction, with
drew in favor of Judge Fox.
Judge Fox, in 1894, was the Demo
cratic nominee for Congress in his dis
trict. That was the first year of a
great Democratic slump, and he went
to defeat with the entire Democratic
State ticket.
Judge Fox wasknown as one ofthe
hardest working members of the Su-
preme Court, and was regarded gen
orally by the bar as a iurist of clear
vision and possessing an excellent
knowledge of law. He had many
personal friends over the state.
AS story teller, he had few equals
AT picnics and barbecues he was a
general favorite and was always in