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tion by heart pulsations occurred Jan. 20 at Watts, Cal. The demonstration ended in the discharge of Arthur Smith, a metal worker from Tacoma, Wash., who had been arrested as a suspicious character. He consented to be a party to the experiment and his normal pulse was found to be seventy-nine. It increased to ninety-one beats when he gave his name as James Smithers, and Judge Cassidy told him he was not tell ing the truth. His heart then beat at the rate of ninety-five. After a few seconds' hesitation the man replied: "Arthur Smith is my right name, but I am an honest workingman and no vagrant. I'm sorry I lied, but I have relatives in the North."

Obituary

Coman, Henry B. — Supreme Court Justice Henry B. Coman died at Oneida, N. Y., Jan. 10, of typhoid. His term would not have expired till 1920. Cooke, Frederick Hale. — Frederick Hale Cooke, for many years a member of the law firm of Cravath, Henderson & De Gersdorff of New York, died on Jan. 11 at his home in Brooklyn. Mr. Cooke was the author of a number of treatises on legal subjects and had resided in Brooklyn for twenty-five years. Crew, William B. — Judge William B. Crew, former member of the Supreme Court of Ohio, died at Marietta, O., Jan. 24. He served on the common pleas bench from 1891 to 1902, when he was promoted to the supreme bench to suc ceed Judge M. J. Williams, who died in office. De Witt, George G. — George Gosman De Witt, a prominent lawyer of New York City, died Jan. 12, at his home, 39 West Fifty-first street, at the age of sixty-six. He was a member of the law

firm of De Witt, Lockman & De Witt. He became a Trustee of Columbia College in 1890, and a Governor of the New York Hospital, Roosevelt Hos pital, and a Director of the Chemical National Bank. Lochgren, William. — Having been Commissioner of Pensions and later, from 1896 to 1908, Judge of the United States District Court, William Loch gren died at Minneapolis, Jan. 28. He was in his eightieth year. Nicholls, Gen. Francis T. — Having been twice Governor of Louisiana, and long a Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, Gen. Francis T. Nicholls died at New Orleans early in January. Peirce, Edward B. — The shocking railroad accident which caused the death of Mr. Harahan, former president of the Rock Island Railroad, also resulted in the death of Edward Beachamp Peirce, general solicitor of the Rock Island lines. He had achieved a national reputation as an authority on interstate commerce law. He published a digest of the decisions of the courts and Interstate Commerce Commission under the Act to Regulate Commerce. Shedden, Lucian L. — A leader of the bar of northern New York, Lucian L. Shedden died at Plattsburgh Jan. 17. He had served as county attorney, county judge, member of the Board of Commissioners of Gas and Electricity, and he was a Regent of the University of the state of New York. Sloane, Ulric. — Ulric Sloane, former law partner of ex-Senator Foraker, recognized as one of the three greatest criminal experts that have practised in Ohio, authority on insanity in criminal law, with a record of having partici pated in more than two hundred murder cases, died Jan. 21, at Cincinnati, at the age of sixty-one.