The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-03
|llRSE BITTERLY
lENOUNCES COURT
|,,,,ieted New York Banker Is
= mos Statement as He Starts
for Prison.
MAST BRUTAL SENTENCE
EVER PASSED" HE SAYS
|l.,I,res Case Will Stand as
Example of Government
"Gone Mad for Victim.

zen, YORK, Jan. with a supreme
\ ,,o no cheerful but with emotion
-.,sIoually getting the better of him.
c,rss W. Morse left New York to-
=, n begin a fifteen years sentence In
!. ,.s.ral prison at Atlanta. Ca, for
-.s,an Of the national banking laws.
..,,rs leaving the Tombs. where he
j, hssn confined for the greater part
,.s isst year. Morse received his wife
tssS,,xo sons and then the ncwspa per-
he was too affected 10 say any
- but he handed out a carefully pro-
sr,d stasement.
f,orse left Jersey City on the Girming-
- Aver of the Southern railway at
~ o'clock. in custody OF deputy
.sisd states marshals. The party oc-
40 a statcroom'
Makes Bitter Statement.
us,,es statement is bitter and dra-
4 am going TO Atlanta 10 begin penal
-.,,inds under tho most brutal sentence
~ pronounced against q citizen In
md country" IS the opening sem
I have hoped" the statement CON
- a consciousness CT my innocence,
Ssf I will not have 10 close out forever
: asht and liberty OF this world under
a. an inhuman sentence. I have felt
s1l The fact that ] had paid n fine of
rBieDO and, served year In prison
M would satisfy the cry for victim,
|rIi have steadily believed that the
rrr would bc compelled 10 give me a
|,s tral. When / learned that the pri-
|u. detectives oil the prosecution were
n keepers OF the jury, that the jury
|f7rk Ike men unon launt or boli-
lA~- sl.a,, II.
6iHs seryice. and that. as n result,
|Fsof shem were rendered unfit. ] natu-
|aF hoped that would be allowed an
~ jury free OF these hostile iniu-
Slap at the Courts.
4 seenis. however. that the courts in
|p-i to establish the practices which
|cte mn drinking 8 part OF q jury
|11ln and private detectives as the
rtf By this aentcncc and judsmeut
irg b. brought 10 ruin. but tho dam
" d'ne 10 me\is not half as important
n ite inlury 10 the administration o!
fute- ] am now UP in years and
|nil, With the passing of lime. pass
~ ihe' way IL was brought about will
nh lssffng and dangerous example
tESernment gore mad IA search OF
MAY Appeal to President.
Whether I shall serve my full SEN
te am not able 10 say, nunn DC
t1lnE npon how tho government
Washington shall look npon IL I
~ gTtat faith that ali right thinking
and women Who know OF me and
cse and who realize tho inhunlanity
NJ sentence. will make known their
.,Ss to tic president Whatever the
[1s may hold III Store-liberly or inn
nment-l shall eudcavor To meet in
5me way L have struggled against
: H'slortuncs OF tho past two years:
&C W. MORSE"
4 Ies minutes before the train left.
20 and Benjamin Morse appeared
moihcr farewell TO their father, He
|sr ioem fond embrace and wcpt as
la lefl him
~ braced himself for a final pic
Inc hands OF q crowd of news
~ ,phoioEraphers. but he said moth
ne read newspaper after he had
tuea The car. The train IS due In
',1s at noon tomorrow
~ Morse did not accompany her hIs-
III Atlanta. Tonight Mrs Morse
IAN going To Atlanta tomorrow. and
ro1oly shall live there until my hus-
released. | Will devote all my
" getting up a petition to- that
10 lle last Two weeks ! have re-
~ thousands OF letters expressing
sympathy OF the wrii9Is with my
.c;la c1na and their readiness 10 sign a
'-1Pa IN his behalf"