New-York tribune., 1912-02-09
MORSE BACK AS FROM
A MODERATE ILLNESS
More JeaIousIy Guarded on Trip
from Atlanta than When Taken
There a Prisoner.
MUM AS TO BUSINESS AGAIN
Physician Repeats He Is a
Doomed Man-To Go as
Soon as Possible to
Bad Nauheim.
MUM AS TO BUSINESS AGAIN

SOOu DIS TOSSlDlc W
Bad Nauheim.
Charles w. Morse got back to New
York last night, looking and acting like
man with energy returning to bust
rcss after a moderate illness. In the
public part Of the Pennsylvania Station,
when he stepped off his train. he
dropped rather heavily into a wheel
chair, but a moment before. I'm the
privacy Of the Pullman corridor. he had
walked erect and alone, without help Of
any kind and without any apparent dis
tress
He was guarded on his return trip
from tine federal prison at Atlanta far
more jealousy than he was guarded
when as convicted prisoner he made
the trip down, leaving here January 2,
1910. to serve a sentence Of fifteen years
for Juggling the accounts Of the Ma
tiOnal Bank of North America. To the
newspaper men on board the Eirming
ham Special, on which Morse returned,
DR. A L. Fowler. his physician. told in
detail just what was the matter with the
patient. but not even the friends who
sent in their cards at different points
along the journey were permitted to see
or talk to the returning banker.
Mrs Morse in brief sentence con
veyed to the reporters on the train
through DR. Fowler that neither Nj
Morse nor any one in the family would
have anything to say to the press or
public.
1T would he foolish to attempt 10 deny
the stories that Mr.. Morse is going 10
get we'll; people VIII have TO see for
themselves" she said We will 60 TO
Europe as soon as Mr. Morse can
travel"
1t was reported that Morse had sent
a letter Of thanks to President Taft for
his commuted sentence, but no one con
nected with the Morse party would
either confirm or deny the story.
Kept from View All the Trip.
Beginning with his secret start from
Atlanta, Morse conducted his entire
Journey with apparently one purpose in
view. and that was to keep himself as
nearly out Of sight of the public as was
possible. When his train arrived at the
Pennsylvania Station here he was forced
for an instant to show himself. and In
that moment between the last step ~
his car and the approximate shelter Of
a wheel chair he faced a battery Of cam
eras and a bomblike explosion of flash
light powder urfinchingly. At his
home. No. 127 West 5sth street when he
stepped quickly from his taxlcab TO tho
door. and n few minutes before, when
he stepped just as briskly from his wheel
chair to the door of the automobile AT
the station, he faced similar blasts
Wearing a heavy overcoat with a high
collar. he was able to conceal tho lower
half Of his face even at those times, 50
that, except for the brief glanccs through
the door OF his stateroom when II was
opened for walters and porters to serve
him. no one outside Of his immediate
family circle has yet had chance 10
compare his apparent condition now
with what it was when he was sent to
prison.
Between Washington and New York
these feeting views Of the former
prisoner disclosed him I'm various atti-
tudes. once he was sitting up straight
in his seat looking over the newspapers.
and at other times he was half reclining
in his seat or lying down. He sat up TO
take his meals regularly. They We're
served in his stateroom. and when the
waiter was asked whether Mr.. Morse had
touched the hcaping plate Of broicd
chicken with which he was served he re-
piled:
Deed he touched it-he cleaned
1t up"
Says Business Would Kill Him.
Every attempt to learn direct from
Morse himself whether he contemplated
going into business again was check
mated by the family guard. Or. Fowler
asserted that the excitement of business
would kill Morse, and added that Morse
himself. though believing that he is far
healthier than his doctors have told him
he was, knows that II is their verdict
that he can never again stand the stress
of business.
Morse is suffering with mitral steno-
sis, producing periodical attacks of car
diac dyspnna, which is due to arterio-
sclerosis," Or. Fowler said, in giving a
technical diagnosis of his patient, "and
to put il in non technical terms IL means
in a general way that his arteries are
hardening and losing the elasticity which
ia necessary TO keep "A man in good
health Further, the valves of his heart
are not working rightly, and in addition
to that he has Brights disease"
To a Tribune reporter on the train
coming up from Washington DR.. Fowler
declined to pin himself down to any def
mite prophecy as to the probable length
of his patients life.
"Morse is a doomed man." the doctor
replied to questions along that line: che
will never get better He may hang on
six months, he may live six years. and
possibly he may go off suddenly in a
month. even in half an hour. Business
excitement or excitement of any kind
would affect his heart so quickly that
without immediate stimuant he would
be killed. He is much sicker man
than he thinks he is. Morse is more
optimistic than his condition justIfies
He won't live long. although wouldn't
undertake TO say how long he will live "