Bisbee daily review., 1913-01-04
JUDGE BURD|CK
 PASSES AWAY
Man Honored in This Com munity Who Suffered for Years Reaches End of
 Life Yesterday Bio
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JUSTICE SINCE 1906


 Justice T. D. Burdiek. after an ill., ness extending over nIne years. dur ing which time. as the result of a mine accident. he was a cripple, died Yesterday st his home. Since his acci- dent he has been very week. but just recently his condition became worse and for the last week it was feared that the end would come at any day
 He was very weak Thursday night and the end came yesterday afternoon, shortly after noon. It is expected that arrangements for the funeral will be made today.
 Justice T. D. Burdick was born in Vermont forty-fiye years ago. His earlier days were spent upon his fath- er's farm. He received a fine educa- ton. however. and was a college grad uate. For a time he engaged in the drug business and was also a prac- ticing physician. When a young man he went to Michigan. later gave up the practice of medicine and engaged for a time in the theatrical business. taking several companies on tour. In fact an through his career he was known as a man of many professions and generally a success at all of them. Later he located at Albuquerque, where he engaged again in the drug 1 business and also took up the prac- |! tice of medicine. He came to Bisbee with his mother nine years ago and went to work iS the mines He later engaged in the saloon business but
 soon sold out at a LSnfit and re- , turned to the mines. Shorts sSftsrsslziS
 he sustained the accident in ytFIe SStt!;Stt shaft which rendered him a crippff and was the cause of his death in conn l paratively the prime of life.
 He was working on the 200-foot lev el at the southwest stope, when he missed his footing and fell. The fall was only a distancesof ten feet, but that ten feet served Co inflicI years of almost constant torture upon the unfortunate man. His life was de spaired of at the time, as his back
 was broken by the fall, but he clung so tenaciously to existence that the hopes which physicions entertained of his recovery began to gain ground as week after week rolled by Al
 though he remained in the Copper Queen hospital about two years, he finally recovered sufficiently to be
 taken home.
 The judge continued to look for ward to death as a pleasure; for, as he would often say. Joe would be out of his misery He was the most pa- tient of men. howeTer, with all the suffering he endured, and was very solicitous for his mother, who looked after him constantly, lest she should overdo and be the first to be taken away.
 In political life, however, he took the keenest interest before the soci-
 dent in the mine. His friends re- warded him. even while he lay upon the sick bed at the hospital, with the nomination for justice O fth epeace O the republican ticket, of which party he was a staunch member. He was elected by a good majority and again reelected in the fall Of 1908 and again in 1911. He formerly had offices in the Muheim block but later removed to the Medigovich block.
 He is survived by his mother and a brother. Clinton A. Burdick, of Doug las. He also leaves numerous relatives in the east