The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-07
BANKER MORSE
SENT TO JAIL
FOR IS YEARS
Nulti-MiIlionaire King of FL
nance Is Given Long PriS-
on Sentence.
JUGGLING OF FUNDS
CAUSES DOWNFALL
CURTIS is GIVEN HIS LIBERTY
HE.NZE CASE WILL
COME NEXT.
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%cw York. Nov. edward q.
q. Noxev. mathematical expert for .
d. the government. who was the q.
4. governments chief witness in the .
/. trial OF Charles ". Morse and .,
/. Alfred II. Curtis. will on Monday Q
4. take UP the case against F. Au- Z.
.gustus Henze. Heinze was indict- &.
I. Cd in January last on charges of :,
4. over-certifving checks and misap- 9.
I. plication of the funds Of the Mer- Q.
:. camille National bank of which q.
[. he was president in October, 1907, 8.
. al the time Of the panic.
> Mr. MOXey Will first examine .
I. the books Of the Mercantile bank (.
+. at the time OF the alleged over 6.
/. ratification and misapplication. o
(. and the trial Of Heinze may begin o
IN January.
New York Nov 6.-From cell In
The TOmbs prison. Charles W. Morse
now directs the efforts OF his counsel
10 secure his freedom, he having today
been sentenced to serve fifteen years
in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.,
for misapplication of the funds of the
National Bank OF North America
and making false entries in the books
Of the bank Alfred II. Curtis. former
president of the defunct bank, VINO
vas jointly tried and convicted with
Morse was given his liberty today OF
2 suspended sentence.
While Morse's lawyers Immediately
applied for and secured a stay of eX-
ecutiOn for ten days after sentence
Lad been imposed. still it is probable
Morse VIII remain a prisoner I'm the.
Tombs until Monday as Judge HOugh
has refused to admit the finaneier 10
bail The Morse lawyers late today
applied to the United States circuit
court Of appeals for a writ to show
cause why their client should not be
admitted 10 bail and the writ was
granted but IL is net ratuuaebls until
Monday whether a new triat e-ill be
granted Morse is problematical. Judge
Lacombe granted a writ OF error 10 the
Morse lawyers today. The writ Sire
turnable Dec. and is based on thu
usual grounds-exceptlon5 taken by
the defense during the trial and ex-
Ceptions to the Indictment itself This
step had To he taken before applica-
ton for BAH could be made. and il also
eads 70 the argument for a new trial
The Morse lawyers say their client has
Instructed them to fight Ito the last
ditch"
A crowd of more than 600 men and
women followed Morse and two deputy
narshals who had him in charge from
The federal building to the doors of the
Iombs- As they trailed along the
crowd ieered and booted How
would You like TO be the ice man?'
shouted some one as the little man
a hot
equities. You'll get no ice in there"
yelled another. These and similar ex-
prassions followed the prisoner until
ne heavy barred doors Of the prison
rad Chased behind them Morse was
assigned TO the same cell he had occr-
pied with Curtis last night.
Morse declined TO make any COM
ment on his conviction and sentence
To-Day I have not a word to say, that
Is. not now" he said
Scene Is Dramatic.
The scene in the court room when
tne sentence was Pronounced by Judge
hough was a most dramatic one. The
wives Of the two prisoners. who had
peen constant attendants at court dur
ing the trial. were present early TO-
nay as Il anxious to cheer their hus-
"dhos oy their presence in the trying
"iueai That confronted them. When
S1e real test came. however It was the
husbands, and not the wives. who
proved the cOmfOrters. Morse sat like
stole when he heard the words
"nich condemned him to prison. There
was scarcely the tremOr of an eyeIid.
ana TO those who watched there was
10 longer even the shadow of a doubt
".at the little man was indeed a man
=. ron nerve. Curtis, too. accepted
'"- news which came to him-good
Jews IN his case-with the same lack
emotion that characterized his for
~ chief. But the strain had been
much for the women.
S the truth which Judge Hough's
rus meant flashed through her mind
; ,'.s Morse. who through all the try
s usys OF the trial had preserved an
-.l.uHied demeanor. collapsed in her
- buried her face in her hands and
san 70 sob cOnvulsively. Still weep
-ts, she was led away TO an ante room.
h, ySIr a moment later her husband
her In his arms and sought to
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