The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-10
$I, 5OO, 900 NOTE
 "A DEAD HORSE" ,"
 MELLEN'S BELIEF
Former President of New Ha- ven Can't ThoW Much Light
 on Transaction.

New York, oct. 1o-1n it's suit to re- cover from the Billiard Company the sum of $s.e25.d47, alleged to be unac- counted for profits in the transaction transferring the New Ravens stock in the Boston and Maine from the New Haven to the Boston Railroad Holding Company, the New Haven may seek to establish a claim to a note for $1,- 500, 0,O00 that has been found among the effects of the late John F. Hill, a former governor of the state Of Maine.
 This note, on which $1o0.000 had been paid and to which has attached $500 shares in the Eastern Securities Com pany as collateral, was found in an envelope bearing this notation: This does not belong to mo. John F. Hll'' It was not included in the i'm ventory of the Hill estate, which was valued at $2,9o0, 900.
 The first reports concerning the note described 1t as having been made by the New England Navigation Company and to have been endorsed by the BilS lard Company, both of which were holding. companies for various prop critics acquired by the New Haven in building up the monopolies the gov ernment Is attacking as violations of the Sherman law.
 It was established yesterday that the note was made by the New England Securities Company on March 6, 1911
 
 pany- It was a factor in the merging of the Metropolitan Steamship Com pany, of which Charles w. Morse was president, into the Eastern Steamship Corporation, the New Haven holder z of the water lines to Maine.
 Former President Charles s. Me1len of the New Haven was asked yester- day afternoon if he had ever heard of this note.
 DO you bet7f he retorted. wen, Tsl1 s+ %f,n New England Navigation Company that made this notef know every note the navigation company ever made, and know 1t never made any such note as this. Are you sure 1t wasn't the New England Securities Company -
 Do you know anything about the Billiard Conpanyss, endorsement of such note ? MT. Me11en was asked.
 T never was a. stockho1der. an ofn- pany.'' was the reply. sT never at- tended any of it's meetings or saw any of it's papers z
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 .But'' 1t was said to Mr. MsI1en. you are named in the suit the New Haven has brought against the Billiard Company as one of its directors, aren't you?''
 "oh. they wanted to get some re- fspectable person on the Hst,'' was the fEOP4y, d zDlOetQ ETH SLLenQ118 IL. men, returning to the Hill note, he added:
 When samuel Hemingway Of New Haven appeared before the Inter rstate fCommerce Commission in May he told aof some transactions that had been had with Gov H1u Bonds of the something In excess of g, ,500, 900. were involved,s but you'll have to turn to the record for the details; can't re- lmember them. But I think you'll find this note is a dead horse
 The New England Securities Com pany was organized in 1910 at the offices of Ever1y M. Davis, No. 60 Wall street. At public hearings with in the past year it has, been testified that it, the company, was organized at the request of Warren D. Chase, a Hartford attorney. who was acting for Edward D. Robbins, until recently Fl general counsel for the New Haven. 1 George A. McIntosh was treasurer of the company, and George A. Mc- Tntosh. treasurer.s executed the Hill note.
 It was the New England Securities Company. it has been testified, that paid $3,000, 900 to the Metropolitan SteaLnship Company of Maine for control of it's stock. This stock passed on to the Chilmark Company. and Miss Jennie Morse, a. sister of Charles w. Morse, is at law now in an endeavor to show that this whole transaction was a New Haven scheme to eliminate the older Metropolitan Company. Of which her brother was president,
 At one of the hearings in the Morse suit 1t was testified by Pierre Jay, then a vice president of the Bank of the Manhattan Company, that Mcintosh opened an account there for the securities company on the introduction of MT. Robbins, John L. Billiard and Samuel Hemingway.
 At his home in Bay Shore last night MT. Morse said:
 ..I have known about this note in the effects of Gov Hill for some months There is no doubt that 1t was given to Gov Hill merely to hold until, at some time, it should be pro- duced when it was needed to show where Billiards money went. There is no doubt, either, that the money the New Haven is now demanding was lost by Billiard in the MetropoH- tan deal. think it was his own privkte deal, and that 1t was not t madA for the New Haven.
 esThe stock attached to this note was in one Of the companies p. D. Robbins formed down east to hold Metropo1itan stock The note was probably part of the cost of the stock, and suppose it was passed on to Gov. Hill because it would be safe with him. He was a man of fine in- tegrfty.
 MT Me11en was excused by the spe- ciaI Grand Jury yesterday "unti1 re- caIIed." He will be told Monday when he is to come back. The jury Tuesday.