Edgar M. Cullen

         EDGAR M. CULLEN,
        JURIST, DIES AT 78
  Ex-Chief Judge of Court of Ap-
    peals Succumbs in Brook-
    lyn Home After a Stroke.
    CIVIL WAR COLONEL AT 19
 He Presided at Impeachment Trial
 of Governor Sulzer and Issued In-
 junction Against John Y. McKane.

 Former Chief Judge Edgar M. Cullen
of the Court of Appeals and for more
than thirty years a Supreme Court Jus-
tice in Brooklyn, died yesterday at his
home, 144 Willow Street, Brooklyn. He
had been in failing health for some time
and about three weeks ago he suffered
a stroke of apoplexy, from which he did
not recover.
 Judge Cullen retired from the bench
in 1914 because of the age limit, and he
afterward became a member of the law
firm of Cullen & Dykman, with offices
at 117 Montague Street, Brooklyn. It
was while he was on the Supreme Court
Bench that Justice Cullen issued the
injunction against John Y. McKane,
the "Czar of Coney Island," and his
followers, ordering them to desist from
interfering with the watchers at the
polls in 1893. When this injunction was
served on McKane the latter replied,
"Injunctions don't go here." McKane
went to Sing Sing Prison later and the
subsequent reform cleaned politics up in
the Borough of Gravesend.
 Another famous case in which he was
concerned was the impeachment of Gov-
ernor William Sulzer in 1913. Judge
Cullen presided at the impeachment trial
which resulted in the ousting of Sulzer.
Justice Cullen was one of the four out
of nine who voted in the negative.
 Justice Cullen was born in Brooklyn in
December, 1843. He attended Kinder-
hook College , and was graduated from
Columbia College in 1850. He was
studying in the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute when the storm of the Civil War
broke, and he enlisted at once. He was
commissioned a Lieutenant in the First
United States Infantry and he served
with the regular army until 1862, when,
although only 19 years old, he was
made Colonel commanding the Sixty-
ninth New York Volunteer Infantry, and
before he was 21 years old he com-
manded a full brigade in action.
 Forced out of the war by a wound, 
Justice Cullen returned to the study of
engineering, but gave that up to enter
law. He was active in Democratic poli-
tics, and from 1872 to 1875 he served as
an Assistant District Attorney in Kings
County. In 1876 he was Engineer in
Chief on the staff of Governor Tilden.
 In 1880 he was elected to the Supreme
Court, and was re-elected in 1894. He
as appointed to the Court of Appeals
by Governor Roosevelt in 1900, and ap-
pointed Chief Justice of that court by
Governor Odell to succeed Alton B. 
Parker, who resigned to run for Presi-
dent.
 Judge Cullen was unmarried. Four
sisters, the misses Margaret, Charlotte
and Elizabeth Cullen of Brooklyn and
Countess Caroline de Valle of Madrid,
survive him.