British Columbia’s Champion of the Courtroom

Losing his temper, he seized the prisoner by the throat and began shaking him violently...

During his amazing career which spanned over half a century and ranged from prime minister’s drawing room to frontier jail cell, Stuart Alexander Henderson was celebrated as the greatest Canadian criminal lawyer of his age.

His death, aged 81, made the front page of the New York Times.

His is a heckuva story and it’s next week’s BC Chronicle.

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PHOTO: Stuart Henderson, the man known as Canada’s Clarence Darrow. —BC Archives