The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
February 14, 2016
By Alan Blinder and Manny Fernandez
HOUSTON — When Justice Antonin Scalia (click here) did not respond to a knock at the door of his suite at the Cibolo Creek Ranch at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, John B. Poindexter, the property’s owner, was not alarmed.
Perhaps the 79-year-old justice was attending to Supreme Court business, Mr. Poindexter thought, or simply did not wish to be disturbed on his first morning at the remote ranch in West Texas. It was less than three hours later, when Mr. Poindexter tried again, that he found Justice Scalia’s body.
Justice Scalia had no pulse and was clearly dead, Mr. Poindexter recalled in an interview on Sunday.
“His hands were sort of almost folded on top of the sheets,” said Mr. Poindexter, a manufacturing executive from Houston.
He added: “It was just like he was taking a nap. He just went to sleep and didn’t wake up.”...
