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Show FORMER MISSOURI CHIEF JUSTICE DIES ST. LOUTS, Nov. 21. Thomas A. Sherwood. Sher-wood. S9 years old, former chief justice and associate member of the Missouri supreme su-preme court for twenty-eight years, died from pneumonia at Long Beach, C'al., Sat-urdav, Sat-urdav, according to word received tonight by his daughter, Mrs. G. B. Webster of this elty. A decision, said to be one of tho most important Judge Sherwood handed down in his last years on the bench, was in favor fa-vor of the defendant when a St.. Louis newspaper attempted to force the Asso-1 Asso-1 eiri ted Press by court action to supply it with news, alleging that If it refused it would be violating the state antitrust laws. |