The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-08
CONVICT BANKER RETURNS FROM EUROPE "cUREo" AND READY
 FOR A FIGHT.
WANTS HIS CASE REHEARD
Alleges That He Was Guilty of No More Banking lndiscretions Than Many Other Bankers of New York and the Eastern States.

Washington, Jan. 7.-Charles w. Morse, the former ice king" one of the most spectacular figures in mod ern American finance, and the prin- cipal actor in a drama that lasted for a half dozen years and carried him from the banking regions of New York to the Atlanta penitentiary, is about 70 write another chapter to his story
 After months of investigation and labor Morse is trying to launch all in- vestigation by a congressional com mittee of all the circumstances lead of violation of the national banking laws. Although his plans have not been announced, it became known .o- day that he also contemplates suit for damages against prominent New York bankers and others connected with his trial and conviction.
 Morse had talk with Senator Borah of Idaho here yesterday and suggested to him the need for an in yes;igation of his case by senate committee. Although the Idaho sen ator refused to press the matter, the ex-banker is understood to have left Washington still determined to force an investigation.
 Morse was sent to the Atlanta pen itentiary to serve a 15-year sentence. After a quiet but persistent fight led by Mrs. Morse and backed by many prominent persons, his sentence was commuted by former President Taf.. Mir. Taft acted on the statements of army surgeins who declared that Mir. Morse could not live longer than six months. The prisoner was released from Atlanta two years ago Shortly afterward he sailed for Europe, took "cure" and then returned to the United States.
 Since his return from Europe Morse has been making preparations to reopen in the court of public opin ion, at least, the case against him. IL is understood that Morse claims the main charge on which he was convict ed, the making of false entries in the books of the National Bank of North America, was a flimsy charge and that he did nothing more than was done by scores of bankers in New York. Testimony showed Morse made dunn my loans and was a purchaser Of stock of the American Ice Securities Company and of the stock of the bank of which he was vice president. He now is understood to charge that the office of the comptroller of the currency here refused at his trial to allow the jury to see the report Of the national bank examiner who inves- | tigated the Bank of North America and indicates that this report clearly would have established the fact that he mad doae <othing unlawful. He is said to contend this refusal was based on the fact that other New York bank CTS were making the same sort of loans and that the production of the examiners report in court would have resulted necessarily ill the prosecution of many other persons.
 Morse first was convicted in the
 federal courts in 1908 and subsequent
 ly charged that jurymen who passed
 in his case were under the influence
 of liquor and that the entire jury was
 in charge of improper guardians, six
 of whom were former secret service
 men from Washington. He was con victed on three counts and sentenced to five years Imprisonment on each
 and although two of the three con
 victions were later set aside, the sen tence of fifteen years was allowed to stand.
 In his long fight to regain liberty Morse succeeded in getting the inter est and friendship of prominent mel Ihere and it was not doubted tonigh' that his effort to bring the matte' into the lmelight again would have powerful support.
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