Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-07-23
TRIBUTES PAID
T O Associate Justice
Arno w. King

OF Ellsworth, Whose Death Occurred
Sunday-Expressions by Gov. Mil.
liken, Chief Justice Cornish and
Ex-chief Justice Whitehouss
Tributes to Associate Justice Arno W.
King of Ellsworth, whose death &C.
Cured Sunday, were paid yesterday b.
Gov. Carl E. Milliken. Chief Justice
Leslie c. Cornish and ex Chief Justice
Gov. Carl E. MiIliken
The death of Judge A7i.o w. King
deprives Maine Of really great iurist.
whose brilliant inteiiecJ, legal learning,
noble personal character and broad hu-
, man sympathy have adorned the bench
during his II years of service. Endow-
ed by nature with unusual intellectual
ability, he had improved these natural
gifts by constant and painstaking study
unit! at 6 he seemed at the zenith OF
his powers. He was even handed JUS
! tice personified, and could be stern when
occasion required. yet he was patient
to inquire where justice lay and met ali
, the tedious and varied demands upon
! him with constant and unfailing courte-
! sy.
| Even the most casual contact with
! Judge King left an impression of serene
calmness and poise and of ample reserve
! strength, unhurried and unfailing. Yet
\ &, ,ot5 l.;
to be austere nor remote from their ev-
eryday affairs. Like Tennyson's Clys-
ses, he was a part of all that he had
met and his response was normal and
genial to all the natural interests and
! relationships of very human man.
! He was modest and unassunling, but his
! life was a constant force for truth and
! righteousness
| And so beyond the realization that
one of the great men OF our time has
| gone from US. we mourn in profound
and sincere sorrow the upright Judge.
/ the ideal citizen, the tender and great
! hearted friend"
! Chief Justice Leslie c. Cornish
| The termina ton of Justice King s
/ JuulCldI NdlSt a. tIt tSlS LCiiilh VI
his intellectual rover is most deplor-
able and brings with it a seEse of deep
| personal sorrow.
| "He has given II Of the fullest and
| richest years of his life to the service
of his native State and has left an in
delibe impress upon its jurisprudence.
! Justice King was the ideal magistrate.
! learned in the law. calm i'll tempera-
! ment, patient in hearing. deliberate in
acting, Just in decision and firm in con-
/ viction.
He was solid and safe and depend
able in all the relations of life, a lover
of truth and justice and hater Of
sham and wrong.
! Yet with all his virility he combined
! the gentleness and sweetness of a child,
who to. him. as 10 the Master typified
, the kingdom of heaven. He looked on,
upon the world with a loving and un-
selfish heart and the world loved him
/ in return.
! This state is poorer today for the
! loss that has come to it: and the
members Of the court mourn not
, merely for an honored associate
! hut for a true friend and a cherished
! panion.
ExChief Justice William Penn
! Whitehouse
t I'm the lamented death Of Justice
: Arno w, King, the state mourns
/ the loss of an honored magistrate
! OF it's highest judicial tribunal. one
who had enjoyed the absolute con-
/ fidonce of the people of the state, as
I we'll as the sympathy and good will
! of the bar, and the highest respect
! and affection of his associates on the
| bench,
| For his high ideals Of life as we'll
as of the judicial character and
function. for his love of truth and
! Justice, and the credit he has re-
| Elected upon the legal profession and
| the supreme court OF our state, he
will be long and kindly remembered
mented.
Associate Justice A. M. Spear
| Justice King was d nobleman. He
was not only a Just judge but a
and fair in all he had to do. While
strong and decisive, he was yet of
that conscientious nature that he
tested and proved every important
declaration of law or Of fact which
! it became his duty to make.
In his personal relations he was
kind and considerate. He was loved
and respected by all his associates.
His home life was ideal.
His loss is well nigh irreparable.
! His services to the people and the
state were of the very highest ordt
err. He was a very able jurist and
possessed the temperament and am
entities that made his a great judge.
| He awaited the final day with that
same calm fortitude that marked
! his life His associates, who have
! suffered with him. are grieved only
/ the deeper that the hopeless end
! has come