The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-26
HUDSON, JURIST AND STATESMAN
 IS DEAD, AT g
Former States Attorney Sue cllfnbs in Sanatoriunn To
 Heart Attack.
UNABLE TO REGAIN
 HIS PRISTINE VIGOR
Had Brilliant Career as Legis- IatOT Shone As Trial
 Lawyer.

strRckera with heart disease. Stiles 5Idson, foauner state's attorney and one of the most brdEdant jurists in New England. died suddenly last niglat na Dr. Amos J. Givens' sa1rftariunn in Efannford
 Attorney Judson had been at the sar1atarfrrn for about two months. seeking to regain his lost health af-' ter several months, illness with neu1v- ous trouble Death came to the Fbz,fllszrt lawyer at GAO, soon after he. had eaten luncheon He had conn plahared of feeling i'll and retired to Flis room where the end came about half an hour afterward
 The former states attorney had been in i'll health for more than a year. Nervous attacks to which he had be- come a victim became more frequent and on March 30 of this year he was By his own request, relieved of hds duties as states attorney In an ef- fort to reeuperate he then went to 3 camp at Twdn Lakes. He did not inn prove and he then placed himself un-. der the care of physicians in the saTd- 4ari1zrn His condition is said to have nernaEaeds virtually unchanged during the tinns be was at the saIitaTd11rn uTl- til his deatk last night.
 The following have been asked to be pail bearers: Supreme Court Justice George w. Wheeler, Judge Howard J. Curtis, of the superior court Attorney John s. Pullman. of Bridgeport; Con- gressnaap Jeremiah Donovan. of Nor walk; F. S. Beardsley and Edward Al len Of Stratford.
 Mir. Judson' s wond erfuI genius for leadership was never better tested 4aan in the final service which he rem dered the state as legislator in the senate Of 1911 when the public utili- t8ies bill now on the statute books, became a. laaT
 This bill was kncwn from It's in ltrodnetaon until the date of its passage faB hlf@ JRa7son i61u and it can ssgaaeHsr llbe said that no piece of const ructive l7egdsdatfon ever offered to the legis- aasture of Connecthctnt met with such organized opposition from the special interests,
 Step by step Senator J11dson watched She progress of this iagaportant meas 71z.e. a measure that was opposed by every subtle means within the in genruAty of skilled lobbyists to con- Hrive
 More than once the fate of the bin for which the business interests of the state had been contendfng for sev- eral years was in Jeopardy and it was only the masterfula leadership of Sem ator Judson that saved the day. Stoutly aided by the honest men of the Senate who never wavered in their support of the measure which was fathered by the stratford senator the bill finally -evercame the seem ingIy insurmountabIe obstacles agains1 it and became a law
 But this was only one of many bills alike designed for reform that Sena- tor Judson fathered-
 It Is no secret that he was for years regarded as the biggest man politi- cal1y in his party and it is none the less secret that because of his in- corruI tfbdlity nominations for high of fees were denied him by the lobby which controlled the affairs of the Repu b1fcasn party
 But his memory will survive long years after his detractors have passed from public view.
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