The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-07
MORSE IN STRIPES"
 IN BITTER TERMS. Violation of National Banking Laws Results in Arrest and Convic-
 ton by Government.

New York.-With supreme effort to be cheerful, but with emotion oc' casionally getting the better of him, Charles W. Morse left New York to begin a sentence of fifteen years in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga, for violation of the national bank ing laws.
 Before leaving the tombs, where he had been confined for more than a year, Morse received his wife and two sons, and later granted an au- dience to the newspaper men. He was too affected to discuss the sen tence. but issued a carefully pre- pared statement, in which he de- nounced the government authorities and declared that he was going to Atlanta to begin penal servitude un- der the most brutal sentence ever pronounced against a citizen in | civilized country
 q have hoped, the statement con l tinues, with that hope which comes | from consciousness of my inno- cence, that l will not have to close out forever the light and liberty of this world under such an inhuman sentence. I had felt that the fact that 1 had paid a fine of $7,000, GOO, and served year in prison, would satisfy the cry for a victim, and have steadily believed that the courts would be compelled 10 give me a new trial.
 When I learned that the private detectives of the prosecution were the keepers of the jury, that the jury drank like men upon a jaunt or holiday, rather than citizens engaged in serious service, and that as . result two of them were rendered unfit, I naturally hoped that l would be allowed another trial by another jury free from these hostile infiuen ces.
 Whether I shall serve my full sentence l am not able to say; much depends upon how the government at Washington shall look upon it l have great faith that all right l thinking men and women who know of me and my case, and who realize the inhumanity of my sentence, will make their feelings known to the 1 President"
 Charles Wyman Morse, former "iee king' and millionaire banker, is reg istered as convict No. PISA and occu- pies a steel cell not in the least differ ent from the others. His immaculate tailored garments gave way to regu- lation suit if stripes, nor did the dis. tinguished prisoner escape the Bertil- lon expert, the prison photographer, ] the regulation bath or the barber. MT. Morse arrived from New York on the Birmingham Special" in | charge of two deputy marshals and ac | sompaniec by his friend and close bus | ness associate, W. H. Reid, of Boston. He declined to be interviewed, but made no protest when the cameras of the newspaper men were trained upon him. He was placed in hack and driven to the prison three miles from the station There the formalities in cident to the entry of all prisoners were promptly entered upon and com pleted before the dinner bell sounded Because he had not been vaccinated he was not permitted to eat in the big dining room with the mfwyp fwypwyp dining room with his feilow-con and his first meal was served in his cell
 Except when his pedigree" was be, ing taken, Morse showed no signs of emotion. The prisoner turned over to the clerks S21S in currency and some private papers. Because there was no evidence of violence shown in the pris- oner's record, he was assigned by War den Mover to "Class l, :" which enti. ties him to the privilege of seeing rel atives or friends for 30 minutes in each two weeks of his confinement. He may write and receive letters and have access to the library