Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-24
He IS CHARGED WITH PERJURY
10 Declaring Service Had Not Been
Made on Him 10 Divorce
Suit
HIS FIGHT NOT YET FINISHED,
Said to Have Made a Full Confession
District Attorney Jerome Has
A Conference With Him

New York, Dec 2i.--Thero was very
unexpected turn to the case Of perjury
against Charles r. Dodge, who was
brought to this city from Texas yester-
day when he was released on his own
recognlzance after arraignment before
Judge Cowing, In the court OF general
sessions today. Dodge was accused OF
committing perjury IN testlfying that
service was not made upon him IN the
suit by which divorce was secured
from him by his former wife who subse-
quently married Charles W. Morse, the
( banker and promoter After DOdge's
testimony now alleged to have been
periured his former wife secured d..
vorco from Mr.. Morse. Dodge resisted
when an attempt was made 20 bring
him from Texas, but ON his arrival In
this city Is said 10 have made a con-
fosslon In a midnight talk With the 10.
cal authorities
Judge CoWng said after releasing
Dodge that he could not make public
his reasons for doing so at this time.
Dodge was released upon the recon-
mendation OF District Atty Jerome,
who said that for reasons OF a public
nature the ends Of Justice would be
served by such action IL was reported
that Dodge has turned states evidence
and that he will be "a witness Tor the
district attorney In proceedings against
others for whom Dodge is supposed to
have acted as agent.
New York. Dec. 2A-After sensa-
tIOnal all-night session &C police head
quarters at which he Is said to have
made fun confession, Charles r.
Dodge, the former husband OF the wife
OF Charles w Morse banker aud prin-
Cipal promoter Of the American Ice
company. today was a prisoner az the
Broadway Central hotel guarded BY
both federal and local authorities.
Dodge Is charged with perjury In de-
clarng that service had not been made
on him In suit by which his wife se-
cured a divorce from him, and which
was followed by the sensational Morse
Dodge divorce case.
II was expected that Dodge would be
taken into court at the earliest possible
moment, the proceedings under which
he Is held by the federal authorities
withdrawn and the prisoner formally
turned over 10 the custody OF the New
York county officials While he was
arrested by n United States marshal
and sent TO this city as a federal pris-
oner this was done only 10 place him
IN the hands Of the authorities In this
city,
The arrival OF Dodge IN New York
followed one Of the longest and most
bitterly fought legal battles on record
and was the real beginning OF what IL
Is believed will develop into one OF the
most sensational cases the metropolis
has seen
That the efforts 10 protect Dodge are
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
Dish Atty Jerome with a paper de-
lnandlng the release OF the prisoner.
THIS officer was hustled uHceremoni-
ously from the Office by Mr. Jerome.
VINO. after refusing 10 accept the paper
on the ground that Dodge was a fed
eral prisoner and that he was not at
that time lu New York countv
thrust the paper IN the officers pocket
and Selling him by tho collar rushed
him out through the door. Before go
ing away the process server tossed Tho
paper back through the open door ON
the floor Of the district attorneys office.
when the steamer arrived several at
torneys were on hand TO represent tho
prisoner, but he was hurried 10 police
headquarters. where for many hours
he was subjected TO what the police call
the third degree process" Represent
tatives Of the federal county and city
police took part IN this long confer
ence, two attorneys claiming TO represent
the prisoner being denied admission
even IN the face OF most urgent pro-
tests. II was the attempt OF lawyers
claiming 10 represent Dodge that
brought about the most sensational in
cident of the night. Barlow s. Weeks
and 4 II. Hummel two OF New York's
most prominent criminal lawyers, APP
peared at police headquarters soon after
Dodge arrived there IN custody OF the
officers and demanded 10 see the pris-
oner on the ground that they had been
retained To defend him. They met with
little success, being Informed by a
who was sent out to meet
them that Il was not known that Dodge
was their client and that II so he was
not at that time IN custody OF the Unit
ed States authorities They declined to
accept this answer as hnal however.
and Mr.. Weeks made a formal demand
IN writing, addressed 70 an assistant
district attorney known 10 be in the
building. demanding that he be per-
mittcd 90 see his client The note was
returned with an endorsement stating