JUSTICE GOFF, 70, ; LEAVES THE BENCH: Tried Many Famous Cases, During Service of •" j 2ft Years i 1 New York. —At the opening of the 1 first term of the new year in the' Supreme Court there was missed the familiar personality of Justice John W. Goff, who after twenty-three years of judicial service retired on \ account of having passed the age ! limit of 70 years. Justice Goff, who now takes his I place in the company of the official ! referees, came to New York as an \ emigrant at the age of 16, without money and practically without! friends. He was born in county ■ Wexford, Ireland, in 1847 and when a boy played with Charles Stewart Parnell. His father died before he ' was very old. Through an uncle he was able to continue his schooling for a few years, at the end of which ' time he decided to try his luck in ' this country. The first Job he got: was from A. T. Stewart, another Irishman who had come here much \ under the same circumstances. While he was working in A. T. | Stewarts store he drifted into the courts and used to listen to the lawyers. That gave him a desire to try that profession, and he studied nights at Cooper Union in order to fit himself for the bar. In those days he was somefhing of an athlete too. Boxing was his specialty and he was ' known as one of the best amateur i sparrers in New York. Aided John Boyle O'Reilly Justice Goff got a chance to study ( law in the office of Samuel C. Court- 1 ney and in 1870 was admitted lo the 1 bar. With F. W. Pollock he formed the law firm of Goff & Pollock and speedily made a record for himself : as a successful criminal lawyer. Al- ! w.ys an enthusiastic Irishman, he; took a deep interest in the fate of those suffering for political offences in Ireland, and he was one of a com- j mittee which sought to effect the es- ; cape of John Boyle O'Reilly, who | had been transported to Australia by the English Government. The whaling bark Catalpa was chartered and sent to Australia. O'Reilly's es- ! cape was accomplished and he was i brought to New York. Justice Goff was a Democrat, and ; when Mr. Martine was elected Dis- I trict Attorney he appointed him an j assistant. He had condemned Tain- ! many for its methods, however, and , in 1890 the County Democracy took i him up and ran him for District At- ; tomey against De Lancey Nicoll to ! succeed Col. Fellows. He was de- ! feated after a hot campaign'and had I gone back to private practice when 1 the Lexow investigation came on.; Justice Goff's selection as counsel for the Lexow committee was credited to . Dr. Parkhurst, who had conceived an | admiration for him during his cam- ; paign for District Attorney. He was | made counsel against the wishes of i however. As counsel he! turned out to be one of the most 1 merciless cross-examiners that New i York had ever seen. The witness i tand speedily became known as "the i rack' and the soft voiced inquisitor j became to many a menacing figure. I Police Commissioners and many! others broke down under the ordeal. j Declined Mayoralty Nomination Justice Goff practically managed the entire work of the commfttee and at the conclusion of its labors j the committee of seventy, formed to j rescue New York from Tammany in I consequence of the revelations, of-1 fered him the nomination of Mayor, j He declined the nomination in a! brief letter in which he said that he 1 could nos think of accepting it un- j iess every'element in the city opposed 1 REAL FRUITS not extracts are used in flavoring Hershey's Superior Ice Cream. That is the reason you get the actual fruit flavor. This, to gether with the highest quality pure ingredients combine to make this the most delicious and satisfactory of alb - ice creams. Order your \ • ' x / / at once for Sunday's refreshment Hershey Creamery Co, The Finest Equipped Plant in the State. Sanitary to the minutest nook and corner. No hands touch the ice cream from beginning to end of the process. \ 401 South Cameron St., Harrisburg r FRIDAY EVENING, ' .to Tammany should indicate that he | wus the first choice for that office. Following this declination, the | fusion elements unanimously chose him as the nominee for Recorder to succeed Recorder Smythe, and he was carried In on the landslide that elected Mayor Strong. Justice Goff followed up his election by Introduc j ing a bill that was intended to give him all the patronage of the Court ] of General Sessions. The other judges protested and a great row resulted. I A committee came down from Al i bany to investigate the conditions in j the courts, and its sessions were al i most as sensational as had been ! those of the Lexow committee, lte- I corder Goff took the stand and made : statements about some of the sub ! ordlnatcs 'which the other judges ; dented. The bill finally* failed of j passage. Tried Many Famous Cases I As Recorder and Supreme Court I Justice, Justice Goff presided at many famous trials, including those of Walter Langerman, agaihst whom Barbara Aub was the principal wit ness; Marie Barbcri, Albert T. Pat rick, the first trials of Roland B. Molineux and Charles Becker and the trial of the four gunm?n who, with Becker, paid the final penalty thai. for the murder of Herman fiosen- In 1913 efforts-were made to un earth the birth records of Justice Goff in an attempt to show that he was then over the judicial age limit. Nothing, however, came of the in vestigation. In the fall of 1906 he was put on the Tammany ticket for the Supreme Court at the instance of William H. Hearst, who was then allied with Charles F. Murphy, He was elected and began his term the following January. It would have expired at the end of next year. Justice Goff has one son, John W. 1 Goff, Jr., and a daughter, a member of the Ursuline Sisterhood, who is , known in her order as Sister Inez i ' Hildegarde. 1 1 I | BOOKS AND MAGAZINES! I John Reeds long awaited book un | I Russia is announced for publication. I | by Boni & Liveright. for January I 30th. This book will be called "Ten Days That Shook the World," and j is a moving picture of those thrilling ; ten days in Petrograd. John Reed , Knew personally, both the Bolshevik | leaders and their opponents. He had : access to their meetings and gives in ! his book important historical inform -1 ation that was hidden from the ordi | i ary observer or even the newspaper j correspondent. He describes In his j took how the revolutionists acted, | what they said and did; how the I leaders looked; what they said and : when they said it. The publishers ! state that for the first time the whole | story of the ten days is reported in [ | this book. There is also an appendix j | containing , documents, speeches ! newspaper clippings, secret diplo | matlc correspondence never published ; before in this country, and a simple, ! ; lucid explanation of Russian terms, j j parties and politics which should ! | clear up much of the confusion which | lias arisen through incorncct report ing and usage. "Men in War." by Andreas Latzko, which was almost unanimously ac claimed as one of the three greatest works of fiction produced by the war, and which was withdrawn from cir culation by the publishers, Boni & Liveright, last June, is again being distributed by them. "Men in War' was suppressed in the Central empires when it first appeared in 1917 and its author was obliged to flee for Company, the London publishers wh arranged in September with Boni & Liveright for the English publication of tills book, have Just written that its appearance in England has creat ed of a sensation in liter ary circles there. "Men in War" has already gone into its eigth print ing in this country and into its third printing in England. Heir to Italy's Throne, Who Was Paris Favorite ; 11 it. ■ ... i < : - kv. : .'...-* : '.•■•■-"• 'Aiaat PRINCE RUMBERX •/ /wty Crown Prince Humbert of Italy lias found Paris most hospitable and, Paris has found him the handsomest and "smilingest" crown prince she has ever entertained. This picture was taken on Prince Humbert's first visit to the French capital. EXECUTIVE GOES TO FRANCE Gettysburg, Pa., Jan. 3.—Paul S. | Miller, a son-in-law of Charles H. j "Wilson, has been spending the j Christmas holidays here at the home l of his wife's parents. He is general secretary of Temple University, Phil- I adelphia, and will act as educational \ executive in France. He will leave j for the overseas trip about the mid- I die of the month. Mr. Miller was I Y. M. C. A. secretary at Camp Colt > during the summer. Surprised at the Good Results From Three Bottles of Tonail. 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