The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
SECOND TRIAL MAY BRING OUT MORE NEW HAVEN FACTS Charles w. Morse Figured
 in Requirement of the Joy Line of Ships
LITIGATION HAS
 HAMPERED SERVICE
Through Trains Between New Eng land and Washington Discontinued for Fear of Arousing De-
 partment of Justice
By HOLLAND

New York, January 14-(Special)
 Should the Attorney General at Washing
 ton make up his mind that there is enough
 in the case of the government against
 those New Haven railroad directors-whO
 were neither acquitted nor convicted in
 the recent trial by the jury-to justify
 making another attempt to secure yer
 dict which would sustain the govern
 ments contention that there was criminal
 conspiracy, then it is probable that some
 testimony which was held back in the
 trial which ended on Sunday of this week
 may be introduced and, if accepted, be-
 come evidence. It would be hard to find
 a lawyer who if he were not retained by
 the government in this case would say
 that the prosecution of these five direc-
 tors should again be ordered by the de-
 partment of justice at Washington. The
 jury on the whole is regarded as of a
 mental quality perhaps above the average
 of jurors. Eight of them were not per
 suaded that the New Haven directors en-
 tered into a criminal conspiracy which
 had for it's object the monopoly of trans
 portation in New England and all agreed
 that six had not.
 J
 sociates in voting to acquit all the direc
 tors are believed to have based their opin- ions that there should be conviction of five directors chiefly on the evidence which tended, in the view of the government, to support the theory that the New Haven railroad company by various artifces and by strongly favored high finance secured control of the Joy steamboat line with intent to monopolze all steamboat traffic by way of Long Island sound and the
 waters of Narragansett and Buzzard S bays.
 Yet those who are well informed are persuaded that the actual purchase of the Joy line, whose steamboats ply be- tween New York and Providence R. l., was due chiefly to the fear that Charles w. Morse would get possession of that line. Morse was the man, apparently, for whom President Mellen of the New
 Haven Railroad company had the respect which is caused by fear and ability. There had been negotiations with the Joy line, but some of the testimony seemed to show that the managers of that line may possibly have had in mind profita- ble bargain with the New Haven Railroad company. At all events negotiations were futile until, at last, in some under
 ground way President Mellen learned that Charles w. Morse was about to look
 over the Joy line property.
 MASTER AT BUSINESS That MT. Morse was master hand in creating and developing steamboat and steamship combinations has not been de- nied. If he took over the Joy line 1t prob- ably would be brought into association with some of his ether plans for steam boat and steamship combinations on the
 Atlantic coast, and particularly between New York and New England. Those who know say that testimony might have been offered at the trial which would possibly 1 tend to establish the fact that the intima- tion that MT. Morse was looking over the Joy line persuaded President Mellen that 1 he should get busy immediately. There are reported to have been speedy confer | ences between President Mellen and some | of the Joy line people that resulted in | passing over the title of the Joy line to the | New Haven company. If testimony of l this kind had been offered and admitted | it is possible that it might have explained | to the doubting jurors why the New l Haven Railroad company took over the l Joy line Steamboats