Show A END W W DRUMMOND who was an appointee ot 0 president pierce to the chief 0 otah P V ta h stands as a conspicuous figu figure jn the h history ot of this territory X treated a public scandal and disgraced his office by having a notorious courtesan sit ou on the bench with him it was mainly through his instrumentality that the buchanan army was sent bent here in 1857 to subjugate thelMor mons he having falsely reported that they were in a state of rebellion among his bis charges was one to the effect that the mormons cormons Mor mons had seized and burned the supreme court records and reports which were after the army bad been equipped and dispatched when an investigation was instituted found safe and intact in their places having never brendis the investigation also developed the fact th thab L the balance of drummonds Drum monda char charts anathan were equally foundationless and that consequently the gov dinst had been hoodwinked and delved by a conscienceless scoundrel A man of such a stamp could not fail to join oin in the melan bolly cholly procession of an unfortunate throng throna who have taken a similar course and ana tra traversed trave vered Fed on the down grade it is not ot since it we ie recollect collect aright t that hat some gome of the eastern journals noted the act that drummond ammond Dr ha d been placed under arrest for tamper tampering tn with post poa tage stamps now cornea comes the t e philadelphia times et nov 23 02 containing a dispatch from chicago dated the day previous over which are the following ION headlines tf dead in a grog shop A former chief justice ends bis days alays in shame here is the body of the iho dispatch in a dingy grogshop grog shop in south desplaines street a man dropped dead last evening he appeared to be more than seventy years old oid though dia si pation had bad made his countenance but to look the massive frame anti and clear cut features showed allowed him tu to he be a mau man of more thin than ordinary birth and breed inz iu in hi ble pockets the pollee police found papery papers which led to his bis identity he was W W drummond once the supreme judge ol of the territory of siaa the dead tead man was once a remarkable character he watt was a virginian by birth and in 1851 1831 was waa appointed to the highest judicial position in the territory ot of utah by president pir pierced he was then a young man and aft hoagh having an interesting family tell fell in with a dissolute woman who wap wa the cause of his rai rain n after his associations with her bee had estranged him from his family he became an outcast from society for the last six years he has bee been known as a drunken pauper living in the low saloons on the west side |