JUDICIARY: Benjamin Disbarred Lindsey

Assailed for championing "companionate marriage," ousted from office for "campaign irregularities," famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver was last week disbarred for "professional misconduct" by the Colorado State Supreme Court. While Denver Juvenile Court Judge— an office which he made nation-famed—he accepted a "gift" of some $40,000 from socialite Helen Elwood Stokes, in return helped her "as friend and counsellor" to break the will of her late husband, Hotelman W. E. D. Stokes. Said the disbarring judge: "By taking fees while judge, he was false to his oath both as a judicial...

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