Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30
FAMOUS ENGLISH
LAWYER RETIRES
SIR GEORGE LEWIS CLOSES
EMINENT CAREER
WAS RETAINED IN FAMOUS PAR
NELL INVESTIGATION
British Subjects Beginning TO Wake
Up-Are Said to Be Really
Thinking for Them=
selves
fspeelal Cable to The HeraIdI


the famous solicitor, has retired from
the practice of law after remark
ably successful and distinguished ca
reer. He has been concerned in some
of the biggest cases in the last thirty
years, and he made his name in some
big banking prosecutions that were
undertaken in the early seventies. He
always has shown remarkable re-
source and insight in dealing with
cases of this kind, and his advice was
sought by members of the banking
community when they had a particu-
larly important and intricate case to
prosecute. He was instrumental, as
representing the family of Bravo, in
securing the second inquest in the
great Bravo mystery, which, however,
was never cleared up, as, although the
jury returned a verdict of wilful muir
der, the crown had not sufficient eyf-
dence to institute a prosecution.
His greatest Undertaking, however,
| was the conduct of the case for the
Irish party before the Parnell COM
mission, in which he was engaged,
| owing to the great confidence ex-
|
sell of Killowen. That confidence was
shown to be fully justified, for Sir
| George Lewis devoted himself to the
| inquiry to the exclusion of all other
business. He became enormously in
terested in the work, and his astute
management contributed largely to the
trapping and exposure of Pigott.
Worked for Justice
i Mr.. Parnell, when speaking privately
| of Sir George Lewis, paid him a high
| compliment for his disinterestedness
in the matter of costs, saying that he
had shown the greatest consideration
in that respect, and had shown through
out that he had a genuine desire to
see justice done, apart from any per-
sonal interest of his own. Sir George,
of course, found Mr.. Parnell a some-
what difficult client at times, and en-
tirely different from anyone else he
had ever been associated with. But
nothing could exceed his loyalty to
the interests for which he was con-
! cerned. 1t has often been said, prob
ably with entire truth, that Sir George
Lewis knows more of the skeletons in
the cupboards of aristocratic England
than any living man, but he has
caused 1t to be known that he never
kept a diary. He rendered valuable
serS ices some years ago by his eX-
| posure of usurers and their practices,
while he has always been the relent-
less foe of the black sheep of his own
| profession.
The word "roorback'' has not yet
penetrated to England, but notwith-
standing this fact the campaign just
ended was full Of ''roorbacks." The
Tories were the greatest promoters of
these political expedients and floated
some of the most astounding yarns to
49, ,OfV. la
man party regaled their frightened
supporters with amazing tales of the
| Krupp works from time to time. The
German firm at Essen are not manu-
| facturers if these romances are to
be believed but magicians.
Old Servant Impressed
The first Sir Robert Peel's housemaid,
now 80 years old, was pressed into SER
| vice as secondary evidence of Sir Rob
! ert's fear of free trade. This interest
| ing survival of the servants hall in the
| Peel household told a charming story
of how Sir Robert summoned his ser
wants and warned them against the
perils of free trade. He foretold, with
astounding accuracy and correctness,
| the exact evils which the Tories now
claim to have flowed from free trade,
and almost in the identical language
they employ.
Sir Robert Peel did not know, prob
ably. what a jewel of housemaid he
had. These predictions were made be-
fore he' entered upon the campaign for
| the repeal of the corn laws. The whole
| thing shows to what a depth of imbe
cility electioneering has sunk in Lon
don At the same time it would be in
| iudieious to imagine that Sir Robert
| Peefs up-to-date nonogenarian house.
/ maid did not have her believers.
The stream of vapid letters from
Highbury. with the name of Joseph
| Chamberlain attached to them, pro-
vided one of the strangest political
mysteries of modern times. In view of
! the character of these publications
| and the notorious fact that Mr.. Cham-
| berlain had not been able to write for
over three years, there was some Curl
osity to ascertain on what evidence
| the candidates who read these letters
at their meetings satisfied themselves
| of their authenticity. 1t has now been
ascertained that there was no internal
physical evidence whatever in the COM
| munication that Mr.. Chamberlain was
that author They were all either
| tvpewritten or written in hand which
| is not nor could not be MI Chamber
! Iain's Not one of them was signed by
Mr.. Chamberlain, and in view of their
entirely ineffective style, so unlike that
of the Birmingham dictator, tho pre-
| SuIupllOIi - liioil lii1S NVAN AtiSAS
'roorbacks."
Trouble in Golf Club
A story is told that prominent poll
| tician (probably A. ]. BalfouD recently
visited a golf course where he some
times plays, and passing through the
| smoking room his attention was at
tracted by a copy of a newspaper
spread out upon the table with some
words written on it in large characters.
He took up the paper and found the
writing was the following: "The Liars
stakes-Alexander Ure (attorney gem
eraI for Scotland, 1; his own name, 2;
Ananias. g."
He put back the paper, which, how
ever, was found afterward by another
member, who brought the matter to the
notice of the committee. Inquiries were
made as to the author. He was finally
traced and was asked to explain how
he came to use his position as MEM
Der of the club to offer such an insult
to another member. He was well
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