The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

Cowtng, District Attorney jerome, after relating the incidents connected with the prisoners arrest and extradi- tion from Texas, asked that the trans fer of the prisoner from federal to State authority be made. When this had been done he said:
 For reasons of a public nature, which cannot now be stated in public because they would be detrimental to the cause of justice, the defendant should be discharged upon his own re- cognizance from the indictment found on June 26. 1904 and I ask that he be discharged"
 Dodge was discharged and went to hotel accompanied by a detective of MT. Jeromes stan. After these de- velopments MT. Osborne said:
 MT. Dodge will remain at his hotel in my care until he Is wanted as a witness for the county"
 At the request of Mir. Jerome, Dodge and his counsel will appear at the criminal court building on Monday. 1t is said, to carefully review the testi- mony to be presented to the grand jury. The grand jury will meet Wednesday and Dodge will appear either on the opening day or the day following.
 After a sensational all-night session at police headquarters at which he is said to have made a. full confession. Charles F. Dodge. the former husband of the wife of Charles W. Morse, the banker and principal promoter of the American Ice Company, today was g. prisoner at the Broadway Central Ho- tel guarded by both Federal and local authorities. Dodge is charged with perjury in declaring that service had not been made on him in a suit by which his wife secured a divorce from him, and which was followed by the sensational Morse Dodge divorce case :.
 1t was supposed Dodge would be ta- ken into court and at the earliest mo- ment proceedings under which he is held by the Federal authorities with drawn. and the prisoner be formally turned over to the custody of the New York County officials. While he was arrested by a United States Marshal and sent to this city as Federal pris- oner, this was done only to place him in the hands of the authorities in this city.
 The arrival of Dodge in New York followed one or the longest and most bitterly fought legal battles on rec ord and was the real beginning of what 1t is believed will develop into one of the most sensational cases the metropolis has seen.
 Friends Cor Busy.
 nat IHc No pEotCCt louB0 by no means at an end was evidenced. by the manner in which his arrival was received yesterday. Even before the steamer bearing the prisoner had reached her dock. a process server forced his way into the presence of District Attorney Jerome with a paper demanding the release of the prisoner. This officer was hustled unceremon- iously from the office by sIr. Jerome, l H..- kz l on the ground that Dodge was a Fed l eral prisoner and that he was not at 1 that time in New York County, throw l ing the papers in the officers pocket and seizing him by the coat collar. rushed him out through the door. Be- l fore going away the process eerver i tossed the paper back through the i open door on the floor of the District 1 Attorneys office.
 When the steamer arrived. several attorneys were on hand to represent the prisoner. but he was hurried to police headquarters where for many | hours he was subjected to what the l police call the third degree process. | Representatives of the Federal, Coun- | ty and city police took part in this | long conference, two attorneys claim ing to represent the. prisoner being de- nied admission even in the face of the | most urgent protests.
 Demanded to See Prisoner. | It was the attempt of lawyers claim | ing to represent Dodge that brought about the most sensational incident of | the long night. Barlow Weeks and A. H. Hummel two of New York's most prominent criminal lawyers, appeared at police headquarters soon after Dodge arrived there in the custody oi officers and demanded to see the pris-
 oner on the ground that they had been
 retained to defend him. They met with little success. being informed by (
 stenographer who was sent out to meet
 them that 1t was not known that
 Dodge was their client, and that if SC
 he was at that time in custody of the
 United States authorities. They de
 clined to accept this answer as final however, and MT. Weeks made a formal
 demand in writing, addressed to an as- sistant district attorney known to be
 in the building. demanding that he be
 permitted to see his client. The note was returned with an endorsement stat. ing that the Assistant District Attor- ney extended the compliments of the season to Mir Weeks" A demand upon a police sergeant for service of a bench warrant for the arrest of Dodge was rejected by the officer with the ex- cuse that he would have to see MT. McAdoo first"
 Another appeal to the Assistant Dis- | trict Attorney brought the reply that Dodge had no desire to see the at- l torneys,, that he had not retained them. and that he was satisfied to be without | counsel.
 Before giving up the struggle early | this morning, Mir Weeks said the pro ceeding was worthy of an effort" " The attorneys declared that they be- lieved counsel was being withheld from Dodge against his will in hope that statement might be drawn from him before he was arraigned in court. At the conclusion of the conference at police headquarters. District Attorney Jerome said that MT. Weeks and MT !. Hummel had been denied admission be- cause Dodge had retained ex-Distric' Attorney James w. Osborne as his at torney. He said that MT. Osborne had been at police headquarters since the arrival of Dodge and had heard every