The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-04-08
JUDGE WILSON DEAD
WELLKNOWN JURIST STRICKEN
SUDDENLY YESTERDAY.

For Years He Was the General Coun-
sci for the Chicago, ST. Paul, Min
nearolis and Omaha Road; Heart
Failure Was the Cause of Aged
Attorneys Domse; Long in the
Practice Of Profession
st. Paul. April 4Iudee Thomas
Wilson, who for the past eighteen
years had been general counsel for
Ike Omaha railroad. was found dead in
the bathroom of his suite at The Aber
deem hotel yesterday afternoon
The web known iurst and attorney
had been dead several hours whca
found, and, according to the coroner
and Dr.. Alexander j. Stone. y life
long friend Of the deceased, death was
duc to a rupt,wed blood vessel in the
brain on heart failure, both conditions
being discovered following an exanina-
ton OF the body.
Evidently Judge Wilson had taken
his morning bath aud was about to
dress when he was stricken The body
was entirely nude when fonad by the
clerk.
Immediately upon the discovery OF
the body j. 7. Clark, vice president
of the Omaha road, was notified and
took charge OF the body, notifying
Judge Wilson's brother, John Wilson,
II Presbyterian minister of Pttsburg.
and also Mr. Wilson's soa-in- law,
United States Solicitor General Boyd
w Bowers, at Washington. D. c. In
The meantime the body was taken TO
the undertaking establishment OF VIII
lam Dampicr on Wabasha street.
Had Just Returned From Eermudas
Judge Wilson had returned only last
Saturday from Nassau in the Berm,,-
das. where he had spent several weeks
He was feeling in the best of spirits
Saturday evenin" when he appeared
in the billiard room of the hotel and
watched several guests playing bill
lizards
lie retired III ten o'clock, and moth
ing was Thought when he did not APP
pear early Sunday morning. Ai;ne
about tWo o'clock ihc chambermli id
knocked at the door, and, receiving nc
response, called the housekeeper, Miss
Mccarthy. after repeated knocking the
clerk was called and it was decided
TO Gsc the pass key into the bathroom
There the body WAS found stretched
upoa the floor in trent OF the bath
tub. Dr. Stone was called, but moth
ing could be done. DR.. Stone stated
that the Judge had evidently been dead
was found
Was Native Ct Ireland.
Judge Wilson was born in Count,
Tyrone, Ireland, May 26, 1927. ant
was therefore nearly eighty tire,
years old lie came to the United
States in 1898, and in 1852 he wa:
graduated from Allegheny college
Pennsy ivania. Three years later h,
came TO Minnesota and located in vi
nona, where lie engaged IN general law
practice.
lie Was menI,cr Of the consii
tutiona convention in 1891 and -,
tiict iudee in Winona from lS5. t.
1864. The latter year he became IN
associate justice Of the supreme eour
and from January, 1863 TO 1859 III
was chief Justice OF that tribunal. Ii
1850 he WAS elected representative /,
the legislature and served oHe ternl
following which he held one term a
senator from Winona county. in ISIS,
he was elected representative to con
"ress from the FIRST dist rict, bal, be
ing democrat. he served only Oh,
term. III 1892 he was chosen genera
counsel for the Chicago, st. Paul, Min
ncapolis & Omaha railroad and re
moved to St Paul, and since then h
has continued his residence here. fou
years ago he was appointed a mem
bsr Of the beard OF regents Of th
state university.
Judge Wilson was married in lsG
to louis; Benneit. They had only on
child. daughter, who married I.!oy'
: W. l,owers. Mrs. Wilson died abon
, twelve years ago IN st. Paul. an'
shortly afterward Mrs Bowers died .
her home at Chicago. c. w. Biin,
general counsel OF the Northern Pa
, cifc. recalled last night the time the.
, were IN Washington to argue opposit
sides OF q case. The day the cas-
came up Judge Wilson received Il tele
gram saying hat his daughter ha'
pneumonia. BE feared the worst, bu
n,Inn persuaded him to wait for tli
afteroon train and argue his case. II
: reached Chicago the next day, only
2 few hours before his daughter died.
The funeral services will be hcl
| here Wednesday Lloyd Bowers, hi
9 son-in- law. will arrive here that morn
inc from Washington. The intermen
will be made Thursday at Winona.
City Engineer Wilson Preparing Plan
! For New One.
C-tx, Enoipeer Wilson is DrrDar1