The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-07
Is the Report in New York
Financial Circles
ELUDED PROCESS SERVERS
Financier said to Have Carried Away
with Him Securities OF Great
value-wife Says He Went to
Europe to Save Mind.

New York, Feb. 7.--That Charles W.
Morse, the former ice king, who is mys-
teriously missing from New York, mas
carried with him more than million
dollars ia cash and negotiable securities
is the assertion made ID Wall street.
When process servers visited the New
York banks yesterday in which Morse.
had safe deposit boxes, it was found
that these were empty Of the securities
they contained last week.
Lawyers declare that aside from the
attachments on More Fifth avenue
mansion for Se4s,a2i and sfs5,752.
creditors will be unable to realize On
assets held By the former head Of the
shipping trust.
Morse sailed for Europe at the earnest
request Of his wife. who feared that the
loss Of mis- millions in the recent crash
might unhinge her husbands mind, ae.
ccrding to the statement made BY her in
an interview yesterday afternoon
~Mr. Morse she declared, "NNill re-
turn from Europe, and that very soon,
to face whatever ne may have to face.
He did not 90 away TO escape anything.
He went at the imperative call Of his
shattered nerves.
"The worries OF the last few months
were such tnat he was In fearfully
nervous state. He had to get away
begged him to 70, and at last he decided
that it was necessary for MIN to find
absolute rest somewhere. That, under
the circumstances, is only possible in
Europe
Mr.. Morse sailed last week. But
nave forgotten the name OF the steamer
do not know where he has gone tod
him did not want to know, 80 that |
would not be able 10 tell anyone II
were asked ( did not want The rest
That he needs 50 msEch spoiled. 5t
3 TWhyi did mot go whit hifn2 Weli.1
must confess it,i Il am ~ terribly bad
sailor dread an ocean voyage more
than anything else in the world. / be-
lieve would die if had to take another
So it was decided that 1 was to remain
behind.
X was learned in Wall street yester-
day that Morse collapsed last Friday III
the Offices Of Primrose & Braun, bank
stock brokers, at No. AS Exchange
place. This firm acted for Morse in r..
gard TO the bank stock he held in Ilis
various financial institutions and he was
there, presumably, to dispose Of some
OF his holdings
II was said that Arthur Braun, a mem
bef 81 the firm who has acted for Morse
az his private secretary for some
months, was in the firms offices at the
time that Morse broke down He fell
into chair and mad to be helped BY
two men to the elevator aud thence %
cab.i # vas. thai night. II Is Aelievegii
that he aud Mrs. Morse decided that he
mad better leave for Europe at onge, So
Albert BdafdIilgn, AfJrses counsel. Id.
fhittea tliat his client vent rs Europe
on tbe Campania on Saturday "for
three weeks trip to recover from TIE
strain Of his recent trials in the bank
ing world.
But it cannot be denied too emphati-
eally that ne has fed from his creditors
the lawyer
Morse's former associates pav little
Intention to the statement that the
-i.e- time ice king has gone "a EUROPE
they think he has gone to Paris 10 hive.
lie i part owner with Mayor Van Wyck
Y magnificent residence there. ana
The popular conjecture Il that he win
become, practically at least, French
sitizen
Though Mrs. Morse once Mrs. Charles
+. Dodge, whose sensational experience
n the divorce courts filled columns al
newspaper space a few years ago-is
stil at the Fifth avenue house, II Is Be.
ieved She will Join her husband tn
Europe in the near future.
Attorney Boardmans statement that
Morse sailed on the Canpania was a snr-
'rise 70 the officials of The Glnard com
,any, who say they did not know be
sas among thes passengers. though they
ldmit he may have Slipped quietly
board az The last moment.
AR Aorsess name was not on the
passenger list given out at the office al
ne cnnard line on the day before the
ampania sailed The only name re-
tmbling that Of the former ice king
vars c. N. Moore.