Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-01-05
MORSE STARTS
FOR ATLANTA
Gives Newspaper Men Bitter
Comment on His Case
VICTIM OF BRUTAL SENTENCE"


Says Private Detectives of Prosecu-
ton Had Charge of Jury, the Mem
Eers of Which Were Rum Drinkers
Hopes For Pardon From President
Convicted Banker Takes fearful
Leave of His Family In New York
New York, Jan. 3.-With a SUI
preme effort to be cheerful, but with
emotion occasionally getting the bet
ter of him, Charles w. Morse left
New York Sunday to serve fifteen
years in the federal prison at Atlanta
for violation of the national banking
laws.
Before leaving the Tombs, Morse
received his wife and two sons and
then the newspaper men. He was too
affected to say anything, but he
handed out carefully prepared state
ment of comment on his case.
Morse left Jersey City on the Birm
at 10:43 a. m. in custody of Deputy
United States Marshals Steebling and
Linicus.
81 am going to Atlanta to begin
penal servitude under the most brutal
sentence ever pronounced against a
citizen in civilized country" is the
opening sentence of Morses state
ment.
Il have hoped" the statement con-
tinues, with that hope which comes
from a consciousness of my innocence,
that will not have to close out for
ever the light and liberty of this
world under such an inhuman SEN
tence. | had felt that the fact that l
had paid a fine of 1000, 900 and
served year in prison would satisfy
the cry for victim, and have stead
lily believed that the courts would be
compelled to give me a new trial.
When learned that the private de-
tecllVes of the prosecution were the
keepers of the jury: that the jury
drank like men upon jaunt or a
holiday rather than citizens engaged
in a serious service, and that as a re-
suit two of them were rendered un-
fit, naturally hoped 1 would be al
lowed another trial by another jury
free of these hostile influences.
ut seems, however, that the courts
intend to establish the practices which
make rum drinking a part of jury SER
vice and private detectives as the Gus.
todians of jury permanent ~institu-
ton. By this sentence and judgmen
may be brought to ruin; but the
damage done to me is not half as i'm.
portant as the injury to the admins
tration Of justice.
Il am now up in years andl mus
with the passing of time pass also
but the record Of my conviction, AM
they way it was brought about, viii
remain a lasting and dangerous ex
ample of government gone mad il
search of a victim.
Whether | shall serve my full sen
tence | am not able to say, much de
pending upon how much the govern
ment at Washington shall look upol
. it. | have great faith that all right
thinking men and women who knov
of me and my case, and who realiz
the inhumanity of my sentence, wi
make known their feelings to tn
president. z
Whatever the future may hold i
] store-liberty or imprisonment
shall endeavor to meet in the sam
! way have struggled against the mis-
fortunes of the past two. years. +"
I A few minutes before the train
. departure, Harry and Benjamin Mors
appeared for another farewell to thei
;, father He embraced them and weE
: as they left him.
: Morse braced himself for a fins
picture by a crowd of newspaper pho
> tographers, but he said nothin
further. He hid his face in news
n paper after he had boarded the car.