The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-20
Physician Insists, However,
That Former Ice King
Is Doomed Man.

Atlanta, January e-Charles w .
Morse. ice king and banker. pardoned
by President Taft from the tederai prs
on here on January 49, after serving
two years of a ffteen-year sentence
has lived out his span of life to-day,
according to the predictions OF physi-
clans made at the time they examined
him as he lay in the Fort NcPherson
Hospital awaiting the action OF the
Government authorities. The physicians
declared then that Morse could not live
q year.
Morse is at Wiesbaden. Germany. af-
ter spending his first year of freedom
in strenuous endeavor crossing the At
Iantic twice, visiting ms interests IN
Maine. and even opening offices in Wall
Street for d month to begin what was
termed a campaign of reprisai against
his business enemies
However. DR.. A. l.. Fowler, Atlanta
physician. the constant attendant OF
Morse before the latter was freed, sees
no reason to alter his prediction that
the pardoned banker is d doomed man
Confident that no one with Morse
complication of diseases can hope to live
out mans allotted time. Dr. Fowler
sticks to his original assertion that the
banker IL at all times facing death He
points significantly TO the fact thdt
while Morse. buoyed by sudden health,
did resume business for brief period
Nauheirn Wieshsadcn. and other Euro
pean water cures. seeking the health ne
can never hope 10 find
Admits HIS Error.
IF was in error when SAID Morse
could not live out the year, When ne
lay next door 10 death IN the Fort NC
Pherson Hospital last January. II was
merely an error Of time. ne Il no
nearer complete recovery to-day than
he was then" said DIT. Fowler. man
tanning that he would cling TO his orlgi-
nal theory that Morse l. suffering from
Bright's disease. artcriO -sclerOsis. ana
VaIvuIaT heart trouble. lie might 20
at any time and then again he mlght
live for many months n treated with
DroDer care. But to say that Morse
Will again he the Morse of old. conduct
ing a strenuous business IN Wdli street.
IL absurd u IL a physical impossloillty-
Dr Fowler says that the medical ex-
PLANTATION of Morse's apparent recovery
is due 20 the peculiar control the men
tai attitude exercises over forms OF
kidney diseases
Morse Then Improved.
This was apparent on the day. Jan
nary 10 when President ! AIT COM
muted Morse's sentence II you re-
member. Morse fTcshencd NisiDly Win
the news and IN some two or three
weeks was able 20 be moved from the
army post hospital. 20 the Piedmont
Hotel But this did not alter the fact
that ne l. "A victim OF one OF the worst
forms OF organic malady. TO when ne
will eventually succumb- His freedom
only buoycd him up-Esv" MN Z
change of atmosphere ard M rugged
vitality has kept him going longer imam
IN. doctors who examined him thought
possible.
DIT Fowler says the army surgeons
-euf from Washington 70 examine
Morse while be was still a prisoner
and confined 20 the Fort Mcpherson
Hospital follow ing his removal from
the Federal prison. oil concuired ia
IN. diagnosis that Morse was s'ucf-
r.g from q complication OF diseases
brought on by form Of Bright DIS
ease.
Nforss's nr-' year Of freedom has
been one 81 surprise. On leaving At
f.r-a nc went To- Germany. where -
Bad <auheirn and other watering
places DE apparently took new lease
ON life - remarkable Vac ms re-
,orerr that b. August he ~s- back
IN New York. ready 90 - INTO bpsi-
ness
Morse o. Cheerful
Thomas Is Fielder. Atlanta attorney
one Of the counsel employed ~ Morse
fo es~rv ne cause before the Federal
utho~i.te- says he has recently re-
,eived 4 letter from hi- former client.
while fhe letter Was cheerful % tone.
FIELDER regards o. hardly a. likely mat
Morse viii ever return 20 New OK
20 enter active business
don't think Morse VII ever re-