Missouri Lawyer - American Autobiography Author:John Barker JOHN T. PARKER Of TTie A lissouri I5ar DORRANCE COMPANY PHILADELPHIA COPYRIGHT, 1949 DORRANCE COMPANY, INC. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JOHN T. BARKER To MILDRED HAP NORMAN II JACK CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE TIME AND THE PLAGE 9 II. THE BAR OF CARROLL COUNTY AT THE END OF THE CENTURY 17 III. THE FIRST CITIZEN OF CARROLL COUNTY... more » 29 IV. A YOUNG LAWYER 33 V. MACON COUNTY PERSONALITIES 42 VI. MARRIAGE,, MACON COUNTY LAWYERS AND JUDGES 51 VII. BORDER WARFARE 61 VIII. FRANK AND JESSE JAMES 69 IX. IN THE LEGISLATURE 81 X. WARRENTON TRAIN WRECK HENRY DEANTHE HYDES OF PRINCETON. . 102 XL SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL 107 XII. FREIGHT AND PASSENGER RATE CASES. 126 XIII. HARVESTER COMPANY CASE Quo WARRANTO GOVERNORS MAJOR AND PAINTER FELICE LYNE 138 VI CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XIV. TROOPING WITH CHAUTAUQUAS 145 XV. THE CASE OF OSCAR MCDANIEL .... 154 XVI. PERSONALITIES OF THE JUDICIARY THE POWELL CASE THE THIRD DEGREE A HAM DINNER THE MISSOURI MULE 160 XVII. KANSAS CITY 174 XVIII. WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON KANSAS CITY AIRPORT MUNICIPAL WATER PLANT 186 XIX. FIRE INSURANCE LITIGATION 199 XX. LASSON AND HINTON CASES 211 XXL A NEW CLIENT NAMED TRUMAN 219 XXII. CITY COUNSELOR 230 XXIII. THE SCANLON CASE POLICE DEPART MENT AFFAIR KANSAS CITY BOND ISSUE 241 XXIV. KENTUCKY LITIGATION AND MAN O WAR 249 XXV. THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION . . . 256 XXVI. THE UNION STATION MASSACRE 272 XXVII. THE SWOPE MURDER CASE 280 XXVIII. GREAT TRIAL LAWYERS 290 CONTENTS Vll CHAPTER PAGE XXIX. PERSONALITIES OF THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BAR 302 XXX. MY ADDRESS ON AARON BURR FRANK J. HOGAN JAMES F. BYRNES 311 XXXI. FEDERAL JUDICIARY 320 XXXII. THE KROGER STORE RAPE CASE 326 XXXIII. THE MURDER OF LEILA WELSH 330 XXXIV. THE MURDER OF JOHN J. GLEASON . . 353 XXXV. THE GREAT MISSOURI TURKEY CASE. 360 XXXVI. AN O. P. A. CASE 371 XXXVII. THOMAS J. PENDERGAST 374 XXXVIII. A TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN LAWYER 379 XXXIX. AT THE WARDMAN PARK HOTEL IN WASHINGTON, D. C 383 XL. THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER 391 10 MISSOURI LAWYER Nearly all of them were southern by breeding and tradition. Their life was simple, ample, and leisurely. There were but slight social and economic distinctions among them. The population was small, and inter marriage soon knit them into one large, slowly expand ing group. It was a social unit typical of the western frontier, and in it the new democracy in the still new America existed in perhaps as full and true a form as it could then have been found anywhere within the states that comprised our union. Carroll County, in the days of my childhood, showed the effect of social and economic evolution. The original settlers, now closely inter-related, had moved into com manding positions. They owned store buildings, blocks of dwelling houses, and thousands of acres of farm and timberland. Some of them were bankers and merchants. Others collected their rents, speculated on the stock market, bought and sold real estate, or simply managed their extensive properties. They lived in stately, richly furnished houses they wore broadcloth suits they traveled extensively they educated their children in the East, and lived exceedingly well. Hun dreds of German and Irish immigrants, together with native improvidents, tilled their land, felled their tim ber, rented their store buildings and their houses. But boy life, which does not see the artificial barriers of wealth and caste, went its rollicking, merry, aimless course, then as now, and always. Sons of the tenants and squatters from shacks on the fringe of the town, and the sons of the landlords who lived in white man sions, swam together in Wakenda Creek in spring and summer, and skated on it in winter. As we grew older, THE TIME AND THE PLAGE 1 1 and more bold, we sometimes ventured as far as the Missouri River, which was ten miles away...« less