New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-16
MORSE JURY LOCKED UP
DETECTIVES ON GUARD.
Ererg One Connected scith Case
Under Close Surveillance.


defence Judge Hough sitting in the United States
District Court decided yesterday TO lock up the
Jury which is trying Charles w Morse ana Alfred
H Curtis. former officers OF the suspended Ma
tional Bank Of North America. on joint indictments
charging the nnisapplication OF the banks funos
and couspiracv 20 deceive the Controller of the
Currency by means OF false entries. This is the
first time in more than twenty-five years that
federal fury has been locked up in this district
Charles E IittleieId ex-Congressnlan from
Maine and Wallace Macfarlane. former United
States Attorney for this district VINO are defending
Nj Morse. said they could not remember SIM
lar action in this district, while ex7Judge "llla
NJ K Olcott counsel for Mr.. Curtis also failed
10 recall trial where the same procedure -ao
been followed except in a capital case
Henry l. Stirnson, United States Attorney VINO
,s prosecuting the case. said that the locking up
OF the Jury Was not at his suggesuon' Out was
Judge Hough's idea Six special hlarshas
were sworn in TO look after the twelve jurors VINO
-, ,.,a ii, rooms on the third floor Of the Astor
House -
In addition 10 having the jurors watched day
and night II was learned that force OF the gov
e,,,ar+,e Secret Service men. under command
Of CAPTAIN Flynn. have been in constant a'Ieio-
s-ca in 1be courtroom ever since the trial began
The Secret Service sleuths are keeping the jury
The Witnesses the defendants and al Ihose III
any wav connected with the case under constant
surveillance at all times =
1r5ge Hough also announced that he would IN al
,,,+sbiIi.,, hold night sessions. as 10 expedite
the trial which promises to be unusually lois-
Saturday sessions viii also be held Inc PIoseCu
,ion intends 10 take at least month 10 put III Us
,s-i,,o,,- and the defence will certainly require
-, II TWO weeks Counsel for both sides
- enormously oppose the holding OF night ses-
fo,s The Jurors. however, who do not ike me
close confinement. would prefer 10 nave the Nsii'
sessions. . , The
Roth the defendants were in court early t1'0
= 20 co-,,,,lsting the jury was at once taken
= 4,oc, eide exercised its three pereInptory CHAR
lenres and two Of the provisional! jurors ~eIe
ct,sea l,v mutual consent. Leonard L. !" ne, -
No 81 Broadway, member OF 'i49 -.
Sol Exchange. was challenged by the oeieiloe
= -,-a1 o+her bankers and brokers VINO hau
90, 90 OCCASIONALLY accepted the opening Gay
were eliminated 1907, follovvs.
The jury as finally chosen ana s"0'" 1o-''
z,.-.., Jobn F Elder. clerk. No. a6 West 1o5th
street Edward c. Burgess, civil engineer No ls3
SIX N1SiT Tobn b. Freund architect. No l4S Ae1an
deL aren Hired Chapen, restaurant No West go
street Zee c Wilson Atkins, civil engineer No 80
West street gd,ra-a J. Dewey. president, No. IA
FSgTth aEs George Endicott insurance. No 4s LIB
cry street isidor Elbe. insurance. No, 50 Liberty
street Gordon Wendell. treasurer. No, 81 Worth
street, charles F. shirk vice-president. No. zoe
PT9duGf F1e8erek D Williams, manager. No lSS
GTeenTjch S55ee[ Rrondt superintendent No 81
Fifth avenue
~ c+5r,son opened TIE trial for the prosecu-
-, -rirr q tvro-bour address TO the jury he eA-
,.ira5 The workings Of the national banking laws
- the, 1,eeau a sharp attack On the TWO oeleho-
-. co. What he called gross violations OF these
laws These violations. be said, grouped thenl-
alrez under four heads: The purchase and sale
80 Tho hanks funds OF stock Of the American
IL Securities Company in connection with the
-a,,,,,e ..ic,e pool OF several years ago; deals
-rs6e with The hanks money in the notation OF
.be CONSOLIDATED steamship Company. the N3loo-
Ooo Morse steamship merger which ehded so clSds-
+-,e1,-- deals in the stocks Of various banks made
,,, Morse with the National Bank Of North Amer
5c-s funds overcertifcation 10 the extent Of sew
81 hundred thousand dollars October l6, 1907.
The Tinted States attorney charged the two de-
PENDANTS with making many dummy" loans which,
h said were carried in the banks reports to the
controller OF the Currency as resources The
mere h1lving Of stocks for the account Of the bank,
,b,,gt7 in itself contrary TO law, did consti-
tule & crime, Mir. Stimson said 1t was in making
false entries in the banks books TO deceive the
federal officials that the criminality entered. Mr.
st5nlson further charged that American Ice stock
was unloaded the bank by Morse at 80 when
he knew that price was q highly inflated one.
Nr stimson ended by saying that October Is
q year ago. lust before the panic, Morse forced
f-19-ris 20 issue overdrafts to him. which so de-
Melted the cash resources Of the bank that there
was danger of its suspension. Morse already had
loans from the bank he said, aggregating over
s7alnda This too, he said. al time when all
conservative bankers were outstanding the re-
sources Of their institutions with the greatest care
Charles A Hanna. national bank examiner for
this district and receiver for the National Bank