The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-23
INDICTED FOR MORGAN
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 completion of their line into Proyi- dence. If they felt that there was enough in the situation to warrant making a traffic agreement with us for the interchange of business for the joint use of the lines along the Connecticut river between Windsor and White River Junction and be- tween Windsor and Bratteboro and we had neary completed our own line between Brattleboro and South Vernon-l was glad to do it.
 'I was asked to put my views in the form of a proposition or contract, which 1 did it was submitted t1 them and within a week the grand jury proceedings commenced in New York and l was indicted"
 Did you write letter to the dis trict attorney taking the responsi- bility?" asked Mir Folk.
 q did. and | did it for the sole pur- pose of shielding Mr. Morgan"
 At whose instance did you write that letter."
 'I wrote that letter at the instance of MT, Lewis Cass Ledyard and Mir. Edward D. Robbins
 Who dictated it?"
 q dictated a letter, which was re- drafted by Mir. Robbins and corrected by Mir. Ledyard. l signed il in their presence and sent it to the United States district attorney, and l nearly killed everybody in the office to keep Mir. Morgans out of it."
 "To keep MT. Morgans name out of what?" asked MT. Folk.
 "Out of the whole proceeding"
 Had Mir. Morgan been subpoenaed in that matter?"
 'I have learned through my coun- sen-I did not know it at the time that he was subpoenaed and his sub poena was quashed or nolled, what ever your legal term is for that ac- tion."
 "Did you have any conversation with the present director of the road Mir. J. P. Morgan, Jr.?" queried MT. Folk
 "The present director?"
 Yes, sir
 'fAt the time Mir. Morgan called on me and thought the change in the presidency was desirable, I called his attention to the fact that I had been suffering under the humiliation of an undeserved indictment to protect his father He seemed quite affected; he turned to the window to compose his feelings and returned to the conver- sation with the remark that his fathers condition of health at that time was such that it undoubtedly would have killed him if he had been indicted. That was the condition l understood he was in when l took the responsibility upon myself and took the indictment that belonged to him."
 "Where did you meet Mir. Ledyard and MT. Robbins when that letter was formed?'
 "In my office in New York"
 Did they make an appointment to meet you there?'
 'I think there was an appointment. I think the other matter that was dis cussed at that time was the employ ment of special outside counsel for my defense. l may be wrong. It may have been a day or two after ward l had several appointments with those gentlemen to discuss this matter"
 The letter which Mr. Mellen said he wrote to the district attorney at New York flor the purpose of shield | ing Mir. Morgan" was not introduced in evidence, and MT. Folk afterward said it was not in his possession.
 The closing scene of the day con cluded the four days of gruelling. in- terrogation which MT. Mellen had un- dergone. Before the Morgan climax was reached Governor Folk had de- veloped the part taken by the various directors of the New Haven in the vast financial operations of the sys- tenn Mir. Mellen gave an intimate personal view of several members of the New Haven board, further em- phasizing the dominant power of Mir.