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Article: Judge's photo still missing despite search efforts
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- August 8, 2008
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Thomas Irwin's ashes have rested in Section 4, Lot 18 at
Allegheny Cemetery for 138 years, but people in the post office and
federal courthouse, Downtown, are trying to connect a face with his
name.
The third-floor hallway is lined with images of all but one of
the 55 past and present Western District federal judges, from Nora
Barry Fischer, appointed last year, to Jonathan Hoge Walker, the
district's first judge, appointed in 1818.
Irwin is the only one missing.
In the space where his portrait should be hanging is a message
that reads: "If you know my whereabouts, please contact the clerk of
courts."
"All of us have been searching for this," said U.S. District
Judge Joy Flowers Conti, ...