Arizona republican., 1917-12-25
REID TELLS MORE
 IF EFFORT ID FREE
 MORSE FROM PR|SON
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NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Walter E. Reid, of Portland, Me, who is suing Charles W. Morse for $15O,OOO for alleged breach of contract, today filed in the federal district court supple mehtary particulars demanded by the plaintiffs claim that he had pre- vented Morse and his wife from en- gazing in improper and unwise en- terprises" in their efforts to obtain the bankers release from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
 Morse's sentence of Imprisonment for fifteen years for misapplication of the funds of the National Bank of America was commuted January IS, 1912. by President William H. 1 Taft after the prisoner had served l 6 little more than two years of his sentence. The presidents action was based on the recommendation of At torney General Wickersham and the report of Surgeon General Torney 1 MT. Torney's conclusioH was:
 In my opinion, the prisoners dura- ton of life will be in all probability less than one month if kept in con finement, and in the, event of his re- lease under communication of sentence it IS not probable that he will live as long as six months"
 MT. Reid, in his additional report l filed today. said:
 In the spring of 1910 at the New | York office of the defendant. Mrs l Morse stated to the plaintiff that | Erwin Morse, the defendants son. was 1 a college mate of Robert Taft. Presi- ! dent Taft's son, and that she was l going to invite Robert Taft to New ! York to spend a week and offer him l s1O,OO0 to use his influence in pro- | curing defendants release. Mrs l Morse also stated she would get | Robert Taft to see Justice White | Plaintiff prevented Mrs. Morse from | carrying out this plan.
 Mrs Morse also had interviews and correspondence with one Garland | of Philadelphia, Pa. who was to pro- cure defendants pardon in cor.sidera ! tion of $50.000. of which sum the said Garland was to retain S10,00( | for himself The method by which | the pardon was to be obtained Wa. undisclosed. The plaintiff prevented this arrangement from being carried out"
 After relating several other in. stances in which MT. Reid alleged tha he prevented Mrs. Morse from uslns l "undisclosed means" to obtain he husbands release. the supplementary bill of particulars enumerates a lis of influential men who, it alleges were interviewed by the plaintiff il Morse's behalf. as follows:
 Governor Cobb of Maisne, who wa
 induced to see and did see PresiGen
 Taft: Governor John F. Hrl, at hi
 office in Augusta. Maine; George
 Macomber. who was induced to ee, and did see Senator Hale of Maine
 Senator Hale, at Washington, D. C.
 Mir. Peavey saw President Taft sev
 eral times; Congressman Allen O
 Maine. at Washington. D. C.; Johl
 Dwight of New York, at Washington
 D. C.: J. Sloat F'assett, at Washing
 ton, D. C.; Edward o. Eldredge, a
 New York.
 Plaintiff also wrote to Presiden
 Taft and corresponded with and in
 terviewed officials of the departmen
 of justice acting under direction o
 Attorney General George w. Wick
 ersham," says the supplementary bi
 of particulars.
 Although Morse iE his answer {
 Reid's suit denied that the plaintiff had ever rendered any service fo
 him, the plaintiff asserts that tn , contract sued upon-a verbal one
 covered the period from August 1t , 1909, to May 1, 1913, and that hi disbursements in Morse's behalf ap proximated s13,400