Show A miserable end W V Drummond who was an appointee of president pierce to the chief tice ship of utah stands ari a conspicuous figure in the history of this territory he created a scandal and disgraced his offida by having a notorious courtesan sit on the bench with him it was mainly through his instrumentality that the buchanan army was sent here in 1857 to subjugate the cormons mormons Mor mons he having fa lely reported that they were in a state of rebellion among his charges was one to the effect that the Mor had seized and burned the supreme court ricord and were after the army had deen equipped and dispatched when an investigation was instituted found safe and intact in their having never been disturbed the investigation also developed the fact that the balance f drum charges were equally foundation epa the government had been hoodwinked and deceived by a conscienceless scoundrel aman of such a stamp could not fail to join ia the melancholy procession procesa ion of an unfortunate throng who have taken a similar course and traveled on the down grade it is not long since if we recollect aright that some of the eastern journals noted the fact that drummond had bean placed under arratt for tampering with postage stamps now cornea the philadelphia times of nov 22 containing a dispatch from chicago dated the day previous over which are the following headlines dead in a grog shop A cormer chief justice ends his days in shame here is the body of the dispatch in a dingy shop in south desplaines street a kaaa dropped dead last evening he appeared to be more than seventy years old though dissipation had made his countenance anything but pleasant to look upon the massive frame and ackar cut features showed him to bo a man of more alian ordinary birth and breeding in his pockets the police found papers which led to his identity ho was W W drummond once the supreme judge of the territory of utah the dead man was conw a remarkable character he was a virginian by birth and in was appointed to the highest judicial position in the territory of utah by president pierce he was then comparatively a young man and although having an family fell in with a dissolute woman who was the cause of his ruin after his associations ciati ons with her had estranged him from his family be became an outcast from society for the last six years he has been known aa a drunken pauper living in the low saloons on the west side news |