JUSTICE GOFF, 70, ;
LEAVES THE BENCH:
Tried Many Famous Cases,
During Service of •"
j 2ft Years
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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
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.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
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| 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
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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.
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Gettysburg, Pa., Jan. 3.—Paul S. |
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"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.
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