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Another Massachuseffs senator Turns |
Up missingCA ssssnEs s and di nass1 ~ r ne.
Downfall.
IFrom the Boston Transcript, May so.l
The "Hon." Newton Morse, of
Natiek, is missing, When last heard l
from hevas supposed to been route
for the rich fields and thriving cities OF |
the Pacific slope, and the good people
of his town are mourning over the de-
generacy of one of their fsvcrite sons,
whom they had hopprcd with two terms
inthe House Of Representatives and one
N tlrc Senate. He was the predecessor
Of the 50 Hon. - and "Rev. 4" Z. d. Wins
low in the Senate, and proves 30 have
been his contemporary IN crime, and
successor as a fugitive from justice.
Mr.. Morse's weak point was d passion
for gambling. It eAgrossed and nearly
ruined him IN his yonth, but as he grew
older he conquered it, and went earnest
ly to work. Shortly after The begin
ming of the war OF the rebellion he en-
listed in Massachusetts regiment, and
served through the war. He had pre-
viously studied law In the Office ~ Mr..
(now Judge) Bacon, At the close of
the war be HTurktd for some time at the
trade of shoemaking, pursuing mean
while his legal studies, which being
completed about three or four years ago,
he was admitted to the bar. He then
began to practice as lawyer. The voters
of Natick, with whom he was general
favorlte, sent him 30 the, Legislature
two successive terms, and the third
wear he tuok his seat under the wing of
Or. Loring in the State Senate. Here
he remained one term. His practice as
lawyer was not very extensive, al
though he held the office, at one period,
of Police Justice, and at the time of his
departure from Natick was Trial JUS
tice of Juvenile Offenders. He was also
Chairman of the Board of School Com
mittee, and held various other minor
offices.
One afternoon Morse found himself
in Providence, R. l., with 500 in his
pocket and nothing to engage his atten-
ton. He visited gambling saloon,nnd
after watching the progress of the play
for a short time, yielded TO the excite
ment of the game and plunged into its
vicissitudes. He left the saloon 1923
richer than he had entered it, and ami
mated by the passion which had SUM
bered in him 50 long, he determined to
Increase hi- store to 81 900, and return
ed tc the gambling he'll in thb evening,
leaving it at midnight without dollar.
From that day until the day of his de-
parture he gambled excessively and
recklsssly, stalking every dollar he could
| lay his hands on, and losing it as fast as
he put itup. His real estate and per-
sonal property became another's, and
the proceeds were stink in the vortex Of
the gaming table. He borrowed fight
and left, and scrupled at nothing to OBJ
tain cash, which vas nosooner obtained
than It vanished. -.rrF NAH rF.
Within month, as a school commit
teeman, Morse drew out OF the Town
Treasury 1921 to pay the bill Of j. L.
Ross of AZ Chardon Street, Boston, for
school furniture, which bill he returned
TO Tho seiectmen receipted "by Newton
Morse" The Chairman, Col, Mutt,
suspecting that all might not be right,
at once wrote te the iirm asking wheth-
er their bill had been paid, and tele-
gram replied that it had not been paid.
Thereupon the Selectmen sent letter
to Morse demanding restitution within
4S hours, and he started for New York
to procure the money to cover the de-
linquency. He collected SlT5, it is said,
and returned to Natick, where his
friends were going to make up the de-
Aciencys but before they could do so
the sum collected in New York was lost
in gambling,
Ine discovery was made on the Goth
of April, and from that time on the sto-
ry of Morse's gambling propensities
steadily leaked out. 1t il said that in
addition to $4,000 which he has hor-
rowod in small loans from friends in
Boston, Needham, birmingham, Sher-
born, and Hollistun, he has squandered
the money belonging to his two children,
left to them by his aunt, who, it seems,
was aware of his vicious fascination,
and left the money purposely in the
/ children'5 name. Mr.. Morse mOrtgaged
| his house, a small one in the extreme
western part of the town, to the local
/ UdIfh SOlllC IVA ~CON'
In this house his grief-stricken wife and
two children, boy and girl, are now
residing. The children are about IA
and Is years old, respectively. As at
torney for the Newton National Bank,
Mr.. Morse collected several notes, the
proceeds of which are said to have
gone wholly into the jaws of the tiger.
Morse is said to have left town on
Sunday night, and gone toward Franz
ingham, and thence to California. q. 1t
is even said that the man became so
annoying to his victims in the town that
they "chipped in" to buy his ticket to
the Pacific Coast to get rid of him.
Morse is 40 years old, was prominent
member of the orthodox church in
Natick, and Grand Vice-Chancellor Of
the Order of Knights of Pythias in this
State, position he recently resigned