The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-27
MAY INDICT SIX,
Five Lawyers and One Layman,
in Morse Dodge CaSsY
lAYMAN SAID TO Be DODGE.
Charles ", Morse Will Possibly Be
4 Witness To Be Here Soon.

sI >Jhoraatiou ~ Perjury Indtrt-
umi. Ma, ne Presented ro.da, ar
uHl,cd tntn TUESDAY. Whcm Morse
vhl ,la,c Arrived From Europe The
Vonr, Ihpi Flow al In SUE, Volume 10
Hu, Drdgr AMI kccp MIN Houeht
eud To- Have uccn Traced Throush
Wr,t ct The Hand, rhai Handled II.
~t n,1crnolt- in the Morse Dodge
e.. aec,rdins to the best information
tU. lmd Yesterday viii be found by the
GaaI larry which Is now ready to act
Iir mon indicted, Il was sid will be five
.rovrf. ud one laymau 80 one doubts
t4' ms aylnan is haIlcs = Dodge
Ile .udi,tmouts NAV he filed to-dny. but
Hno' 'ho Grand Jury will present them to
Judge Mcmahon ia Part /. OF General Ses-
siou- or Tuesday, II IL customary 10 dis
charge the Grand Jury on tho last Friday
al fho month but " necessary Judge
NAIahou viii have the January body meet
an Monday and Tuesday.
ne Grand Jury has had the complicated
marriage and divorce tangle under in
,c-tgltiou Cor the entire month A. soon
-. ra indictments are fled the persons
named IN them will be arrested The
indictments, it il stated. will charge con
spracy and subornaton of perjury All
IA mon against whom bills will be presented.
il /, said have been witnesses before the
pe-.u, Grand Jury. Charles ". Morse
has not llo ia now on tho Deutschland
lsupl ptner and i expected on Sunday
q Honaay. Perhaps no will BE- 'yituess
me TRIALS
The Grand Jury has taken & gres, mass
Of testimony aud examined some hundred
Witnesses The testimony covers feveral
hundred tyrewrittcn pages.
Dodge himself was taken privately
before the Grand Jury several days ago.
The detectives OF the District Attorneys
Office got him into the building and back
TO his uptown boarding house without
the knowledge Of outsiders, His physical
condition is said 70 be much improved
He is already under indictment for per-
Jury for having sworn TO n false affidavit
ira, he was never served III the suit for
dNorc brought against him by his wife,
who later became Mrs. Charles W. Morse
in addition TO Dodge, other witnesses
whose testimony was considered important
hy the Grand Jury were Abe Humme OF
Howe 4 inmmel, ex-Justice Fursman
Of the deiunct law firm OF Fursman, Little
t Schwarzkopf. William A. Sweetser,
David Nav aud Abraham Kafenburgh,
the latter two being members of the Howe
4 Hummel firm John Sohwarzkopf and
John 7 Little Of the Fursman firm, and
s&-lustioe Ernest Hall, who was referee
IN the Dodge divorce annulment proceed
ings
Howe Hummel we're counsel for Dodge
in the suit he brought to have the divorce
obtained by his wife set aside on the ground
the he had never been served This was
after she had married Mr.. Morse. The
basis for the annulment proceedings was
a periured AFFIDAVIT by Dodge that he
had not been served with a summons in
the suit In the divorce proceedings
William 4. Sweetser was Mrs. Dodges
counsel Mortimer 4. Ruger. since dead,
Tas counsel for Dodge After the divorce
had been annulled Sweetser dug up letters
IN Ringers Office showing that Dodge bad
eesn served in the divorce suit
''i'.' 'N'-s 'l'i ~ lFkaAi an ACtlOD 70 nave
me annulment Of the divorce vacated In
these proceedings she was represented by
"1-lus'ice Funnan. The Appellate Divi-
sion held that she had been lawfully divorced
from Charles F Dodge No further steps
were taken. however 10 reestablish her
marriage 10 Morse
he Grand Jury has investigated every
phase Of these proceedings. The books
and Tapers Of the law firms Of Howe h
Huinmel and fursman, Little d Schwarz-
Aopi have been inspected, employees Of
These TWO firms have been examined. and
N fact everybody who might know some
thlns about the case and whom the Dis
u1c' Attorney could subpoena was pro-
dlced before the Grand Jury
Inc preparation OF the evidence for the
Grand Jury has been in the hands Of As I
slstant District Attorneys Rand and Gar I
van and they have practically done nothing 1
ere al the month. One line OF inquiry has Z
oeen to find out who supplied the $50 900 /
'dd that was spent on Dodge in Texas in an I
mort 10 keep him out Of the Jurisdiction. I
" j. believed that this money has been /
saoed 10 most Of the hands il touched. /
10 Prosecute the Dodge case Mr.. Jerome 1
got $4,000 from the Board OF Estimate and (
Apporuonment.