Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1905 — Death of a Noted Lawyer. [ARTICLE]

Death of a Noted Lawyer.

’ New York. Jan. 5. —Colonel Henry CL Allen, long known to New Yorkers as the blind lawyer, is dead from blood poisoning. He was graduated from Williams college In the class of ’56. He was one of the prosecuting lawyers who convicted Boss Tweed more than twenty years ago. He was one of the lawyers In the famous Bott violin case, and it was on his advice that detectives discovered the theft of the Stradivarlas, whose loss was responsible for the death of Its owner, Professor Bott.