Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-05
MELLEN FALSIF|ED.
 ASSERTS LEOPARD Morgan Rockefeller Attor- ney Tells Other Side of
 New Haven Deal.
NOT SELF-SACRIFICING
Declares That Mellen Did Not Take fer Himself Indictment in Order to Shield MOrgan-Mellen to
 Be Prosecuted.
(By E. (. F0rbes)


 Washington, June 4.-Mellen was hurled into the sub-cellars of the Ananias club today by Lewis K. Ledyard, one of the Morgan legal fraternity.
 The Morgan Rockefeller scheme is to rush all their legal big guns to the firing line-and keep safely and snuglv in the background themselves.
 Mr. Ledyard volunteered to mount the stand before. Commissioner Me Chord today, but neither Chief Coun- sel Folk nor the commissioner would let him talk under oath.
 He was allowed to talk, however. He made a good impression by his apparent sincerity and anxiety to give a full account of his steward ship.
 George F. Baker was on hand, but was elbowed off by Mir. Ledyard.
 Refused Part of Spells
 MT. Ledyard declared today that he spurned part of the plentiful spells J. P. Morgan & company pock- eted in connection with the famous Notation of the steel trust. The profits from the dazzling financial feast were computed, think, at be- tween $60,000,000 and $70,000,000 by the Puio committee. so there was lots to go around, but MT. Ledyard's con science as told here, would not let him keep the share MT. Morgan, much to the lawyers surprise, sent to him. Mellen did not save J. P. Morgans life by taking an indict- ment properly belonging to the banker and in connection with which Mellen testified, papers had been served upon Morgan.
 Ledyard, with fire in his eyes, flung that flat contradiction at Mel lens head today.
 Quite by accident-according to the Ledyard version of the incident-J. P. Morgan dropped into Mellens of flee in New York one day and found him conversing with Messrs. Cham berlin and Smithers, concerning Grand Trunk negotiations. This fol- lowed:
 Mellen Not Mardrr
 Morgan ia his bluff way told them "There'll never be peace until We get the New London & Northern," then he walked out.
 '"Mellen said: Never mind what MT. Morgan said.' MT. Morgan had no more to do with it than that. The new London was not involved in any way.
 "Mellen never took over an indict- ment meant for Mr.. Morgan. The only question was Mellen's own inz dictment. He says he took the whole responsibility. He took none. The letter Mellen wrote the district at torney was not the letter of a man accepting responsibility; it was the letter of man claiming innocence"
 The letter Mellen testified on the stand. was first written by him, then forwarded by Lawyers Ledawyrd and E. D. Robbins to District Attorney Wise.
 Surprise For Mellen. I learned this evening on inside authority that Attorney-Gene Mo- Reynolds has begun action to prose- cute Charles s. Mellen, former presi- dent of the New Haven railroad, under the Grand Trunk indictment, returned in 1912.
 This will greatly surprise Mellen, who believed, I gathered in talking with him, that he was not immune after having given testimony before the interstate commerce commission. The political interpretation of the embittered attorney-general's belated activity if that he wants, if possible. to have the courts prove that Cover nor Folks questioning of Mellen has won the latter immunity. By confining his prosecution to Mellen, McReynolds will not turn the risk of incurring the ire of the powerful Morgan n-Rockefeller-B Baker clique. even should the courts disap- point him by ruling that no immunity Mas been granted New Haven wit ness.