The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-03
CONVICTED MAN, ON WAY TO
PRISON FOR LONG TERM,
GIVES OUT STATEMENT.
CALLS SENTENCE BRUTAL
as He Says Goodbye to Sons, e.-
fore Starting for Atlanta, Where He
10 to Serve Fifteen Years for vio!at.
ing National Laws.

New York, Jan. 2A-With supreme
effort to be cheerful. but with emo
tion occasionally getting the better of
him. Charles w. Morse left tonight to
begin 15-year sentence in the federal
prison at Atlanta. Ga. for violation
Of the national banking laws. Before
leaving the Tombs. where he has been
confined for the greater part of the
last year. Morse received his wife and
two sons and then the newspaper men.
He was too affected to say anything.
but he handed out carefully pre-
pared statement.
Mrs. Morse did not accompany her
husband to Atlanta. Tonight Mrs.
Morse said:
Il am going to Atlanta tomorrow
and probably shall live there until
my husband is released. | will devote
all my time in getting up a petition
to that end. In the last two weeks.
have received thousands of letters ex-
pressing the sympathy of the writer's
with my husband and their readiness
to sign a petition in his behalf
Morse deft Jersey City on the
Birmingham flyer of the Southern rail-
way at 10:45 o'clock In custody of
deputy United States marshals. The
party occupied stateroom. Morse's
statement is bitter and dramatic.
Sentence Brutal.
Il am going to Atlanta to begin
penal servitude under the most brutal
sentence ever pronounced against a
citizen in a civilized country" Is his
opening sentence. II have hopcd.- the
statement continues. with that hope
which comes from a consciousness OF
my innocence, that viii not have
close out forever the light and liberty
of this world under such an inhu-
name sentence. I had felt tha; the
fact that / had paid fine of $1,000
900 and served year in prison would
satisfy the cry of a victim. and / have
steadily believed that the courts would
be compelled to give me u new trial
When l learned that the private de-
tectives of the prosecution were the
Keepers of the jury. that the Jury
drank like men upon jaunt or IL hoi-
iday. rather than citizens engaged In
a serious service. and that. as IA re-
suit, two of them Were rendered un-
lit. l naturally hoped that would be
allowed another trial by another jury
Tree OF these hostile influences
IL seems, however. that the courts
intend to establish the practices
which make rum drinking part of
jury service and private detectives as
custodians OF jury a permanent in
stitution. BY this sentence and julg-
ment l may be brought to ruin but
the damage done to me is not half as
important as the injury To the admin |
istration of Justice. am now up i'm
years and must. with the passing Of
time pass also; but the record of nv
conviction and the way IL was brought
about Will remain a lasting and dan /
serous example of a government gone
mad in search of victim
whether l shall serve my fun sen /
tence, | am not able to say much de-
pending upon how much the govern
ment at Washington shall look spnn
IT. l have great faith that all right /
thinking men and women who know of /
me and my case and who realize the ,
inhumanity of my sentence will make |
known their feelings To the president. /
Whatever the future may hold in store /
liberty or imprisonment-I shall en-
deavor to meet in the same way 1 I
have struggled against the misfortnues
OF the past two years.
"tsisned C. W. MORSE"
Weeps. i
4 few minutes before the train left /
Harry and Benjamin Morse appeared I
for another farewell to their father.
He gave them a fond embrace and /
wept as they lett him. Morse braeea
himself for final picture AT the hands
of crowd OF newspaper photograph
ers, but he said nothing. He read
a newspaper after he had boarded the
car The train is due in Atlanta at
noon tomorrow.
In Washington.
Washington. Jan, 2.-charles W.
Morse. convicted New York banker.
who is on his way to Atlanta 10 be-
gin a lo-year penitentiary sentence