Show COMES COMESS S JO AID MO OF HIS f i FRIEND 9 r 3 years ears ago Omer Wood ui tl then en n a no Probate Judge in Idaho City frequently stage stage coached coached the two miles mUes Into Boise Dolse fJ for far a romp with vilh the children of Judge James F. F All Ail shie at that time c chief er justice of the Idaho supreme court The elder All Ail shies received the young J judge as liS a II friend and of a family high In the aristocracy of the Old South The children boy and girl welcomes His visits because of his Ills ability as a stor story teller and nad the pleasure found In his company Yesterday the same Omer Wood now a II convicted wife slave occupying occupying occupy occupy- ing a a. felons felon's cell In the Salt Lake county Jail looked out tram front behind l the iron of his cage caire to greet p-elt the same Judge who for tor eld times time's sake had hall laid aside the pressIng pressing press press- Ing business of a 1 large law practise and hastened down from the Idaho panhandle to appear before the su supreme supreme su- su preme court of Utah and argue that thata a new trial should be given Wood BECOMES CHIEf CHEF JUSTICE Jn In the early farly Os Os James 1 li K let left his home near Knoxville I Tenn and settling In Idaho took up the practise of law A dozen years later he was elected to the tho supreme court of that state an and subsequently became its chief Justice which office he hell held until 1916 when he lie resigned to establish lish a law firm at nt Couer where he now represents BO some me of the largest lumber a and mining interests of the northwest In 1905 Omer Orner Wood fresh from I law school left len his home at nt Knoxville Knox Knox- ville l Tenn Tenn e and nd following the exam exam- xa 2 pie of Judge went to I Idaho aho 1 There under patronage of the Idaho chief Justice who welcomed the young oung lawyer from back home Wood setup set setup I up practise at Idaho laho City and soon entered the political field being twice elected probate judge and once prosecuting prosecuting prose prose- I cutin attorney for Boise county CLOSE FRIENDSHIP i For Fot ten years rears relations between Woody Wood and the i was on the fie intimate footing or of close friendship The children gr grew w to maturity looking upon Omer Orner V Wod x Od d as a big bg g gI j I brother Then the moved mo to toI I Couer dAlene and Wood securing anI an appointment In the Internal revenue I j department came carne to Utah bringing ng I with him his wife and daughter vho v ho during his career In Idaho had hall re remained remained re- re eI e- e back In the home s state te of Tennessee I IOn I On January 9 1322 1922 Wood WoOl w s ar arrested arrested arrested ar- ar rested on a 1 first degree degres murder murier charge in connection with the tho death I cf his wife Detectives found her body I on a blazing oil all soaked bed in the I Woods Wood's apartment at the Pauline apartments on East I First South street I Wood stumbling from the piece place as asI I th the firemen arrived declared that 1 I bandits had entered the apartment and committed the crime I The hearing of ot the charge against him out of their friendship preferred to accept his version of ot the I story stoIl They watched developments clo closely elY keeping in touch with both Wood and Attorney Thomas Ramage who represented him When the Cd case on appeal came carne up for tor hearing Judge o without previous announcement announcement announce announce- ment was on hand On the motion of Ramage the Utah supreme court at- at the they Idaho lawyer to the Utah courts for this case only so that he might counsel with Ramage and make the closing argument in behalf of Omer Orner Woods Wood's appeal for a ne new 1 trial on n the charge |