Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — JUSTICE BREWER IS DEAD IN WASHINGTON [ARTICLE]

JUSTICE BREWER IS DEAD IN WASHINGTON

Falls In Bathroom and Dies In a Few Minutes.

Justice D. J. Brewer of the United States supreme court died at bls residence, 1923 Sixteen street, Washington. Justice Brewer had not been feeling well for more than a week, but he had not been obliged to take to his bed. He had enjoyed Easter with members of his family. He complalhed Monday at, the dinner table of feeling slightly, weak, but viis condition was not considered serious.

At a little after 10 o’clock at night he told Mrs. Brewer that he was going to retire and entered the bathroom. A little later Mrs. Brewer heard a noise as If something had fallen in the bath room, but she took no notice of it until her attention was attracted a few minutes later by sounds of heavy breathing. Rushing to the bath room, she found her husband lying on the floor unconscious. Mrs. Brewer dispatched one of the servants to the home of Judge Ashley Gould of the District of Columbia supreme court, who lives next door to the Brewers.

When Judge Gould arrived, physicians living in the neighborhood had been summoned. Justice Brewer was carried from the bath room and laid on a bed, but when the doctors arrived a few minutes later, he was dead. Apoplexy was the cause of death. Justice Brewer was the third oldest justice on the bench, Justice Harlan and Chief Justice Fuller each being 77 years old. Justice Brewer was four years their junior. In regard to length of service on the bench, he also stood third, having served for almost twen-ty-one years. This is the second death on the supreme bench In the present term. Justice Peckham died early in the term and was succeeded by Justice Lurton. Justice Moody has been 111 for several months and probably will not be back on the bench this term.