Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-06-03
CHILD OF BANKER
HEARS FATHER IS
IN A PRISON CELL
Declares Husbands Health Is
Bad, and That Release May
Come Too Late.

New York, May 27.--Anna Morse, the
~l3-year-old daughter of Charles w.
Morse, once a millionaire banker and
now a convict in the federal prison, has
written the following letter to her step
mother:
MY Dear Mother-I am well. but !
am feeling dreadfully about father. ]
watch the papers every night to see II
/ can see anything. 7 wish / could see
him. Can /, mother dear, and can / do
something for him to help you? ! do
SO hope that he will be back In New
York soon.
Would 1t do any good If I wrote
President Taft q letter and tell him
how / feel about 1t? / AVE cried SO
much and have felt so dreadfully.
mother. Would like to lear from you
very much, but / do not suppose you
have any time to write at all. Yester-
day / wrote a letter to father eight
pages long. Dear mother, tell me IL l
can see'you With love, from
While it had been published and the
whole world believed that the inhabi-
tants of Bath, Me-, had succeeded in
keeping the news of her fathers Inn
~prisonment from little ~13-year-old Anna
Morse, this letter, written to her step
mother, the heroic wife OF the ex-bank-
er, shows hat the little girl has at last
learned all.
In Office Despite Heat.
Little Anna is staying with her aunt
in Bath" said Mrs. Morse to a reporter,
and this pathetic little letter, wnicn 1
received only q day or so ago, indicated
the shadow Of sorrow that has fallen
over her heart because of the cruel and
unjust Imprisonment of Mr.. Morse"
The plucky little woman, who is wag-
ing a courageous fight for her hus-
bands freedom, received the reporter
In her little office on the 18th floor OF
No. 43 Exchange place. In spite of the
half holiday In the financial district
and the heat, Mrs. Morse and her Sec
rotary, Miss Wilson, were as busy as
bees.
II just feel that I can't work too
hard for him, for I know that If / don't
hurry 1t will be too late. Mr.. Morse's
health is very poor, and l know | am
fighting for his very life," explained
Mrs. Morse, a catch In her voice.
"Not a Setback" She Says.
IT have just returned from a trip to
Washington and Atlanta" she contin-
ued, and everywhere / have found the
sentiment almost overwhelmingly in IA
vor Of my husbands release. 1t was
not really a setback we suffered I'm
Washington when the supreme court
denied the motion of my lawyer for
leave tS file a petition for q writ of
habeaS corpus. The supreme court was
out of it's Jurisdiction on that point.
n 1t could not have granted the mo-
ton had II wished to-"
Mrs. Morse said that in the four days
she was in Washington she secured the
signatures of 200 senators n repre-
sentatives to the petition for her hus-
band's pardon
There were only three out Of all the
representatives and senator's ] ap-
preached who refused to sign the petit
tion," said Mrs. Morse, and these did
so only because Of their ignorance OF
the case. One prominent senator, to
whom / had a letter OF introduction,
said he knew nothing about the case
and therefore could not sign the petit
ton. I gave him a little statement and
book of arguments on the case, pre-
pared by Mr.. Littleton, and he prom
Used to read them overnight.
Wins Reluctant Senator.
1.-THE next morning, when I saw him
again, he said: Madam. no man read
ing that statement could for a mo-
ment doubt your husbands innocence,
l will gladly sign the petition"
Mrs. Morse showed the reporter edi-
torial expressions from papers all over
the country d~enouncing the imprison-
ment of her husband and demanding
fair play. One of these newspapers
headed one of it's new articles, why
Free Heinze and Hold Morse?"
81 am delighted to hear OF Mr..
Heinze's acquittal," Mrs. Morse said
further. He raj not guilty OF the
slightest wrong-dolng, and ii would
have been but another blot on the
country to have convicted him. Both
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on similar indictments and before the
same court, and I think the world
should demand the freeing of Mr..
Morse on the same grounds
Mrs. Morse further said her husband
expressed the wish to her that Mr..
IIaipza he acquitted