The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-23
MELLEN TELLS HOW HE TOOK AN INDICTMENT TO SAVE LIFE
 OF THE BIG FlNANCIER.
SON ADMITTED SITUATION
Letter Written to the District Attor. ney Making a Confession to Shield Morgan and Thus Save His Life" ls Feature of Days Investigation.

Washington, May 22--A dramatic climax marked the close of the sen. sational testimony of Charles $. Mel len, former president of the New Haven railroad, before the Interstate Commerce Commission today when with evidences of deep emotion Mr. Mellen declared the late J. P. Nor gan was cognizant of the Grand Trunk negotiations on which he 0Mr. Mel lem was criminally indicted for vio- lation of the sherman antitrust act, and that he took the indictment that belonged to him (Morgan), believing 1t would have killed the aged finan- cier if he had been indicted"
 Mr. Mellen spoke with intense feel ing as he recited his efforts to shield the elder Morgan. This turned quickly to a show of resentment, however, as he told how the present J. P. Morgan had suggested "a change in the presidency of the New Haven" at which suggestion Mir. Mel len declared with emphasis:
 "I called his attention to the fact that | had been suffering under the humiliation of an undeserved indict- ment to protect his father"
 The crowded court room listened with itense interest as this closing recital was given. Taking up the Grand Trunk transaction on which Mir. Mellen's indictment was returned by the grand jury at New York, Gov ernor Folk chief counsel of the com mission, asked:
 Did Mir. Morgan have anything % do with this negotiation for the ex. change of the Ontario and Western with the Grand Trunk"
 He did"
 "What?"
 "He took very active part in the negotiation"
 What part; can you tell, if you know?' asked Mir. Folk.
 q did not know that Mir. Morgan knew there was negotiation on until he came into my office when I had an appointment with MT. Smithers and MT. Chamberlain, and he told them what he thought they ought to do in order to have peace between the New Haven and the Grand Trunk interests. He told of previous nego- tiations which he said extended over a period of twenty years (that is the term he used; 1 suppose 1t was gen eral term), and that he had bought a steamship line of them on the under standing he was to have the New London Northern for the New Haven road, and that they never had car ried out their agreement"
 This negotiation, he said, was with Mr. Smithers' predecessor, Chas. Rivers Wilson. He thought 1t was a great mistake; that they had not kept faith with him and he was quite em- phatic-as he was, you know, once in very great while-in thinking they had not done as they should had not kept faith with him. And he told thim they should give up the New London Northern road; he did not care for anything further and that that would be the only thing, in his judgment, that would ever result in permanent peace between the two properties. Then he retired from the room. I think Mir. F. c. Smith was present during part of that inter- view.
 ''Mr. Morgan retired and left Mir. Chamberlain and Mir. Smithers. and myself to continue the conference. l told Mir. Chamberlain and Mir. Smith CTS that we would continue the con ference on the basis that they should give no further attention to the question of surrendering the New London Northern road. they might do as they pleased with it: I did not care. The worst punishment wished to see inflicted upon them was the
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