Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-01
Year Doctors Gave Pardoned Banker LiUe Nearly Up
MORSE STILL DOOMED, SAY EXPERTS
Ice King Again Seeks Cure at
German Watering Places.
Case Called Hopeless.

the Federal prison on Jaruary 49, 1911,
after serving two years Of 2 III cen year
sentence, tod@y has only eighteen more
days TO live according 90 the predic-
| tions of physicians made at the time
they examined hin as he lay in the
Fort Mcpherson hospital awaiting the
action of government authorities. The
physicians declared then Morse could
not live year.
But today Morse is at Weisbaden
Germany, enjoying partial recovery,
after spending MS first year Of free
dom in strenuous endeavOr, crossing
! the ocea- twice. visiting his interests
in Maine, and even opening an Office in
Wall Street for a month, to Begin what
was termed q campaign Of reprisal on
his business enemies
However DR.. A. j. Fowler. Atlanta
physician. the constant attendant of
! Morse before the later was freed from
the Federal prison year ago. sees no
! reason today to alter his prediction
that The parGoned banker is a doomed
man.
Confident that no one with Morse's
complication Of diseases can hope to
live out mans allotted days, Dr.. Fowler
sticks to his original assertion that the
banker is at all times facing death.
"Merely Error Of Time" Says Doctor.
And he points significantly to the
| fact that while Morse, buoyed by sud
! den health did resume business for one
short month, he again is a familiar fig
ure at Bad Neuheim, Wcisbaden and
| other European water cures. seeking tho
health he can never hope to find.
IF I was in error when I said tina
Morse could not live out the year when
he lay next door to death in the For
Mcpherson hospital last January. it was
merely an error OF time. He is no
nearer complete recovery today than he
was then, OF at least he wasn't when l
examined him in New York this fall"
said DR.. Fowler today, maintaining that
he would cling to his original theory
! that Morse suffered from Brights dis
| ease, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and valvuIar
heart trouble.
He might go al Sny time. And then
again he may live for months if treat
ed with the proper care. But TO say
that Morse will again be the Morse Of
old conducting a strenuous business in
Wall Street is absurd 1t is a physical
impossibillty."
DIR. Fowler said that the medical eX-
| PLANTATION of Morse's apparent recov ery
was due to The peculiar control the
mental attitude exercised over forms
| OF kidney diseases
will Power Helped Him"
q am not sure" he said. that this
| has any psychological basis, bur it is a
clinical observation which most doc
! tors will verify.
This was apparent on the day. Jan
uary 49,, when President Taft commut-
! ed Morse's sentence. If you remem-
| Der Morse freshened visibly with the
news, and in some two or three weeks
was able TO be moved from the army
| post hospital to the Piedmont hote1
"But it did not alter the fact that
he is IA victim of one of the worst forms
! of organic mdlady. TO which he even
I tually will succumb His freedom only
| buoyed him up. gave him a change of
| atmosphere and his rugged vitality has
| llepl him going longer than the doc
/ tors who examined him thought posi-
! BILE"
Dr.. Fowler said that the army sur
| geons sent from Washington to exam
inc Morse while he was still a prisoner
and confined in the Fort Mcpherson
! hospital, following his removal from
! the Federal prison, all concurred that
Morse was suffering from cOmplica
ton Of diseases brought on by form
| OF Brights disease.
Makes Remarkable Rally.
| Morsc's first year of freedom has been
| a year OF surprises to Atlantans who
! followed his condition closely during his
! incarceration in the local penitentiary
and the army hospital and watched his
recovery at the Piedmont hotel
On leaving Atlanta. he went to Ger
! many. where, at Bad Neuheim and
other watering places, he apparently
| took a new lease on lie. SO quick and
remarkable was his recovery that by
| August he was back in New York ready
to go into business.
! He opened offices in Wall Street and
! began what was termed campaign OF
replisal ON his business enemies, to
whom he laid his conviction for viola
| ton Of the national banking laws ana
subsequent sentence to fifteen years in
the Atlanta prison.
After a week OF two in Wall Street,
| the former banker was taken i'll and
sen, 10 bed by attending physicians
! This was IN September. 1t was then
| Dr. Fowler went to New York and eN-
amined his eIstWhilg patient for the
FIRST time since Morse left Atlanta IN
l'ebrcsl.-.
Il folnd his condition, organicaIly
much the s4me," said Dr. Fowler to-
day. "a could see no reason for chang
| ing my original prediction that Morse
! was a doomed man"
Again Seeks Cure Abroad.
ON the advice Of phySicians Morse