MELANCHOLY DEATH OF AN EDINBURGH ADVOCATE
Yesterday Mr James Alexander Gardner, advocate, met his death, under very melancholy circumstances, through falling from a window of the third flat of the house in which he resided in Forres Street. Mr. Gardner, who was about 30 years of age, was the son of a late-Sheriff-Substitute of Argyleshire, was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, where he proved a distinguished pupil, and afterwards took his M.A. degree at the Edinburgh University. In 1881 he was called to the bar, and was looked upon as a promising lawyer, the cases which he had in Court being well got up and effectively handled. The unfortunate young man was well known in football and athletic circles in the east and west of Scotland, and at the time of his death held the position of the secretary of the Scottish Rugby Union, and was captain of the Edinburgh Academicals.