The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-29
MORSE'S TRIAL RESUMED
SPECIAL AGENT HEMINGWAY TEs- TIFIES-M0RsE RoRROWED MONEY.


 The trial of John Morse, who is charged with setting fire to his resi- dence on George street, was resumed in in city court yesterday morning. The first witness called was James w. Hem ingway, special agent of the Security Insurance company His testimony corroborated that of Frederick M. Lloyd, who testified on Wednesday af- ternoon that Morse had gone to the of flee of the company on April 15, about 4:30 o'clock D. m., and said to MT. Lloyd, You may renew that policy on my house. I've sold it to MT. Smith"
 The balance of the conversation with MT. Lloyd was in too low a tone for witness to hear.
 Philander Armstrong, the next wit ness, testified that he knew the accus- ed and had loaned him money. The first loan was for $100, which MT. Morse repaid about a week later, at which time Morse told him that he (Morse) was in financial difficulty and unless he secured loan he would fail.
 The witness afterward let MT. Morse have $1,2OO, payable in notes of two, five, seven, nine eleven and twelve months after date from November IS, 1885,
 The first note, which fell due on Jan- uary IS, 1896, was paid, but none of the the others had been paid.
 The five months note fell due on April IS, three days later than the date of the fire.
 Morse gave as security life insur. ance policy for $2,OO0, the premium of which had been paid three months in advance.
 F. B. Smedley testified that on April 15 MT. Morse called at his office and re- quested him to transfer some furniture from the George street house. The wit ness said that driver named Orum- mond moved one box of furniture to Lynwood street and one to Edgewood avenue.
 On May 14 witness said he went to the house and got small chest of of flee par CTS and some other packages, which he shipped to Mrs. J. Fl. Reeves, Columbus O. Morse said Mrs. Reeves was his sister Witness said he gave the way-bills of the property to Morse's son. The chest sent to Mrs. Reeves was about thirty inches long and fif- teen or sixteen inches wide, It con- tained office papers.
 | One box was packed in the house on George street and the chest and another package were packed in the office The chest when brought tc the office was burned and was painted be- 1 fore it was shipped to Columbus. Charles Hedges, the home office clerk ! at the Security Insurance company, | testified that he had received q slip from MT. Llcyd telling him 70 renew Morses policy. He had done so. | Edward c .Beecher, the real estate broker testified that on the first week | of April Mir Morse came to his office l and placed his house in his hands for i sale. The price which he thought he :. should receive for 1t was S7,50e, or he 1 was willing to rent the house, and thought he should get $500 or $600 a year.
 Fire Marshal Hubbard was called but did not testify. as the lawyers could not agree on the questions to be asked him.
 Mrs. Morse next took the stand. She produced the notes which she had promised to bring in. They were writ ten to her at Phoenix, Md, by her husband. Five letters were introduced, the first bearing date of May 23, 1896 | Phoenix, Md. The second note was written June 24, from Columbus, o.
 The letter of July IS enumerates amounts of money sent at different l times to Mrs. Morse, as does the one written from the same address dated August 5, 1896.
 After the notes had been read Mrs. Morse was asked if she had looked over the schedule of goods claimed to have been lost in the fire. She replied that she had. MT. Ely then asked the witness is she knew her husband was a member of the Knights of Pythias. She said she did. She had attended Pythian entertainments with him, but had never seen him wear uniform. Witness was asked to describe the oil cans she had seen in the cellar. One was a five gallon square tin gasoline, the other was a small gallon kerosene oil can There was nothing in the ke- rosene oil can when witness left home. There was some oil in the small can, but how much she did not know.
 The description of the articles taken from the house closed Mrs. Morses tes- timony and the arguments on the ad- instability of the question made.
 Mrs. Morse in the redirect examin- ation at the afternoon session said that her suspicious directed to her husband tby the contents of Minnie's letter (Mrs
 Morses daughter). In one of these
 Minnie had said: Papa says an in surance inspector visited our house
 and that he may be to see you. If he
 comes, you can be out or say nothing. '
 Witness thought all Minnie's letters peculiar In another letter the witness
 said: Papa says that you had better
 not return to New Haven. There is nc
 place for you to go, and nothing for you to do"
 Neither the redirect nor the cross
 examination by MT. Ely brought out
 anything new in the testimony of the
 witness. The case was adjourned un-
 til Wednesday, September l.
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