ADAMS, St Clair March 24, 1945
Submitted By: 	Bill Boggess July 2006


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    THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, NEW ORLEANS, LA
    Monday, March 26, 1945, p1, c2 
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      ST CLAIR ADAMS,
         LAWYER, IS DEAD 
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     Former Prosecutor shoots
      Self After Long Illness 
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      Funeral services for St Clair Adams, Sr, attorney, who ended his life Saturday
at 11:40 p m at his residence, 4626 St Charles avenue, will be conducted today at
3:00 p m from the residence. Interment will be in Metairie cemetery. 

      Dr C Grenes Cole, Orleans parish corner, reported that Mr Adams' death was
caused by hemorrhage and shock following self-inflicted gunshot wound of the chest.
Relatives said Mr Adams had been in ill health for several years with a failing
heart. 

      Mr Adams, who was 66 years od, was a native of New Orleans, the son of Joseph
Sinclair Adams and Augusta Sprague Pugh [1850-1923]. He received his early education
in the city's public schools and his law degree from Tulane University in 1900. He
was married to the former Miss Elizabeth Borland who died six years ago. 

      During his early law practice here, Mr Adams was appointed assistant city
attorney and subsequently assistant city district attorney on the Old Regular
Democratic Organization ticket, he served in that capacity from 1906 to 1912. 

      Mr Adams was one of the founders and the first president of New Orleans Bar
Association, in the 1920s and former member of the Board of administrators of
Charity hospital. He also was a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and of
the American Bar Association. During World War I he was cited by the federal
government for his directorship of Red Cross activities here. He was former member
of the Pickwick Club and several Carnival and civic groups. 

      In 1923 Mr Adams was named special prosecutor by Governor John M Parker in the
celebrated Mer Rouge, La , Ku Klux Klan murder investigation. In a public debate
held in New Orleans in 1925 with the late Charles Darwin, Mr Adams favored capital
punishment as prescribed by law. 

      Mr Adams was chairman of a commission appointed by the governor in 1928 to
prepare the new criminal code procedure. 

      Mr Adams' survivors include three daughters, Mrs Maurice Sullivan of
Baltimore, Md, [Beatrice, born 29 Nov 1904] Mrs Harry G Thomas [El Paso, Tx,
Charlotte born 10 July 1903] and Miss Elizabeth Adams [born ca1911] of New Orleans,
a son St Clair Adams, Jr [born 3 May 1906] of New Orleans and a sister Miss Margaret
Adams [died 1974]. 

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Additional Comments: 

St Clair Adams, born 26 October 1878, in 05-03-1902 married orphaned Elizabeth Borland
born 15 January 1877, d/o General Euclid Borland and Charlotte Wilcox McCall.