Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1904 — PARKER RESIGNS AS JUDGE. [ARTICLE]

PARKER RESIGNS AS JUDGE.

His Action Forfeits Place In Court of Appeals Forever. Judge Alton Brooks Parker has filed with Deputy Secretary of State Horace G, Tennant lp Albany his resignation as chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Although dated at Rosemount, Esopus, N. Y., the resignation was handed In by a messenger sent from the Judge’s chambers, and followed a conference between the Judge and his associates on the bench of the Court of Appeals. The resigns tlon Is worded as follows: “Rosemount, Esopus, N.Y.—I hereby respectfully resign my office as chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, such resignation to take effect immediately. “ALTON B. PARKER." By his action Judge Parker disregarded the ndvice of the various politicians and others who have been urging him to withhold his resignation for three days. By so doing he would have made it impossible for a successor to his office to be nominated until next year, and would have held the place open for himself In the event of uls defeat for the presidency' of the United States in November, a temporary chief Justice being appointed by the Governor to serve out the year. The defeat of Judge Parker in the fall now would mean that his old place at the head of the highest of the State courts would practically be closed to him forever, as the man elected this year will have a fourteen-year term to serve. Charles Thornton of Chicago, acting for A. Booth & Co., filed in Columbus, Ohio, an answer to the quo warranto proceedings brought to oust the company from that State, in which he deuies the claim that the company is a trust and declares it has not exceeded its charter rights. At Earlboro, O. T., John Kane, a railroad employe, shot and fatally wounded hi* wife with a revolver. He then ahot himself through the heart, dying instantly. Domeatic trouble is supposed to have caused the tragedy.