The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-19

offices. II was three months ago when
they started work. They got into the
offices and took copies Of letters they
found and went into an adjoining room
and copied them. have seen the letters
they took. They are supposed to be
exact copies Of cablegrame and war
orders from the French Minister OF
Finance t. the Morgan firm and are ON
the letter head OF Seymour & Seymour.
II have also been in communication
with John n. Lindsay Of the Morgan
counsel. ] am told that the Morgan
people suspected that q clerk or some
one In their employ was furnishing to
some one in the Office OF Seymour 4
Seymour copies OF the original messages
from the French Government 10 the
Morgan Arm. orders for arms and cart
ridges. &c. These messages the Burns
people found copied exactly on the let
tor heads OF Seymour 4 Seymour in their
offices. The evidence laid before the
District Attorney shows apparently that
n Morgan 4 Co. clerk was acting in col
fusion or conspiracy with some one IN
the Seymour offices to supply copies Of
these cable messages and war orders.
How scheme WOuId Work.
The way II would work would he
this: These cable orders gave specifca-
tons of just what the French Govern
ment wanted. the amount and the price
to be paid. For instance. one would
say a billion cartridges at 40 much n
thousand or so much a million. These
messages when they were obtained would
be peddled or touted around to various
munitions manufacturers in this coun-
try who would be likely to bid on the
orders given to Morgan a. Co. The in
formation was touted just az a tou,
. usnnl1 Ia nj q. .,t1,l
manufacturers to know Just what the
Morgan firm would pay and thus make
a bid for the order accordingly. The
successful bidder. ! suppose. would di-
vid the profits will the man who fur
nished him the Information In the first
place. One OF them had to get the or
der and the touter could not lose"
District Attorney Swami said lie
showed this evidence to Frederick Sey-
mour. who maintained that he knew
nothing about the alleged practice. The
employee of the Morgan firm who is
involved IN the scheme is not known.
MIR. Seymour did tell Mr.. Swami. how
ever. that there were three men In his
offices who were interested in war NUM-
tons. They had desk room in the offices,
he said.
BY the time Mr.. Swami had finished
his story of the case. which went on
the committees record. Senator Thomp-
son had finished his talk with the Mayor
commissioner Woods and had de-
cided TO give his version. II was sub
sequently the same-that Morgan d co.
believed their correspondence with
France had been tampered with by
some one in their employ and that the
Burns people had produced copies of
cablegrans and war orders from France
TO the Morgan Arm written within two
days OF the date OF their recent by the
Morgan COMPANY. These copies. he said.
were OIL the letter heads Of Seymour &
Seymour.
ThOmpsOu's Narr.slXc.
ne Information obtained by The de-
te'''NeS' SaIu Senato thompson, was
mat these copies had been sent TO
manufacturers or munitions Al once and
the iuckE manufactures who got the
ofoer from Morgan 4 60 was expected
10 pay the sender or the copied mes
sage some OF MS commission. Now
""e'her the ''tter neads were Framed
or nov ! don't know The Burns p.op."
had access TO the seymour Il : ymour
ie''erheads and they had access to the
Ai.rsan caoieSrams and wal orders.