Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-09
Banker Morse
Is Home Again
REACHES NEW YORK IN VERY
FEEBLE CONDITION,
RECLINED IN WHEEL CHAIR
Curious Crowd at Pennsylvania Sta
tion to See Him-To Leave for Ger
many in Week or Ten Days.

New York, Feb. S.-Charles w.
Morse, bank Wrecker and pardoned
federal convict, came back tonight to
the scenes of his former triumphs and
tv5 conviction, crumIEed up in a
wheel chair, silent and impassive as
a lay figure. With a white faced wife
at his side, he was pushed through the
curious throngs at the Pennsylvania
station, lifted quickly into a taxicab
and whisked away to his home at 127
West Fifty eighth street. He expects
to remain there a week or ten days
before starting for Bad Nauheim,
Germany, where he hopes to recover
his health, which physicians say pris-
on life has shattered.
Showed No Emotion.
If Morse felt any emotion at his
home coming he did not show it. Not
once did he open his lips during the
progress Of his wheel chair from train
to taxicab. He did not even raise his
head. but sat with his hands limp
on the chair arms and his feet resting
feebly on the rest below. Thus he
passed stolidly through the crowd with
fur trimmed overceat collar partly
shielding his face.
Wheel Chair at Station.
The train from Atlanta, where Morse
served less than two years of his
| fourteen-year sentence, was more than
an hour late. Reporters and photogra-
| pliers by the score awaited its com
ing and as it swept into the station at
5.2S there was a rush to the front
of the Pullman car bearing the con-
Yict and party. Preparations for his
! detrainment had been carefully made.
a wheel chair was rolled up with al
! most automatic precision and Morse
was quickly installed in it.
Startled by FIashlight.
As the chair shot across the cement
| flooring there was a booming crash
and a burst of flames. Everybody
] Jumped. Morse shrank back into the
chair. A photographer had taken the
/ first flashlight Of the returning banker.
/ Mrs. Morse looked anxiousiy at her
! husband as the smoke cleared and
! pressed close to the chair as it was
/ wheeled to the elevator. Her face
/ was ashen. but she said nothiug She
.anG DR.. i. l.. Fowler of Atlanta, who
| will accompany Morse to Europe,
with the chair, and Merse was borne
/ to the upper level
Still Very Sick Man.
Here a great crowd awaited him.
/ When the elevator gates swung open a
battery of flashlights was turned loose
! and the fusillade continued as ne was
Wheeled to his taxicalb. Morse blinked
| but in his face there was nothing tina!
the onlooller might read.
Dr.. Fowler looked about him now
| and then and viewed the throng Gu
riously.
How is Mr.. Morse?' he was asked
He Is d very sick man, but he stood
the trip better than I had expected,
said the doctor.
! Police Fight Back Crowd.
| will Mr.. Mcrse attempt tc go dexr
town before he leaves for Germany -
Impossible said DR.. Fowler.
will there be any old friends a
the home to greet him tonight %
No one except the little family par.
ty." replied the doctor.
AS the party approached the wait
= ing taXicab the police fought back tn,
morbidly curious who pressed forward
and with the help of the station at.
tendants a lane was forced.
Wfe's Whole Solicitude for Morse.
Through this the sick man was
showed and lifted into the vehicle. Mrs
Morse for the moment was forgotten
She was breathing hard and Swayin,
in the jam. The doctor put out hi
I arm to help her. but she replied
Don't mind me. Get MIR. Morse il
safely"
A tense moment followed, filed witt
more flashes and then the little part,
whizzed away. Charles W. Morse wa
hon1e again.