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...LEXOW Pointe Claire, Quebec
Married. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 85, potent reformer; to Mrs. Eleanor Marx, 65, onetime companion of the first Mrs. Parkhurst; in Los Angeles. As president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1891 he instigated the Lexow investigation of the New York Police Department. Richard Croker fled to Europe; Tammany Hall was defeated in the following election; Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Police Commissioner...
...prominent New York lawyer who has been connected with the reform movement in that city. He was special assistant district attorney in the prosecution of police officials after the Lexow Committee's Investigation, 1894-6, and in 1897 was nominated for district attorney by the Citizens' Union. In 1901 he was a member of the reform Committee of Fifteen...
After graduating from Harvard, Mr. Fox studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1872. He was special assistant district attorney in the well-known prosecution of police officials after the Lexow Committee's Investigation, 1894-6, and was nominated by the Citizens Union for district attorney...
...Practice Association has also arranged for a lecture to be given on April 29 by Mr. Austen G. Fox '69, of New York. Mr. Fox was a special assistant distract attorney in the prosecution of the police officials of New York City after the investigations of the Lexow Committee. He has been a member of the Committee of Fifteen and is a vice-president of the Bar. Association of New York. The subject of his lecture will be announced later...