Show CHARLES W MORSE ON HIS WAY SOUTH TO BEGIN SERVING PRISON SENTENCE E MAY APPAll APPEAL I fOR PARDON Statement Handed Out to the Newspaper Men in Which He Declares His Conviction a Result of Hostile Influence CLAIMS TO BE VICTIM OF POPULAR CLAMOR Wept When He Parted With His Wife and Sons I and Braced Himself for fora a Final Picture by Photographers DUE IN ATLANTA AT NOON New York Jan ian a supreme to be cheerful but with emotion occasionally getting the better of him Charles W Morse left New York to today today day to begin a fifteen years sentence in the federal prison at Atlanta Ga for violation of the national banking laws Before leaving the Tombs where he had been conf confined for the greater part of tIle the last year Horse received his w wife e and two sons and then the news newspapermen newspapermen He was too affected to say anything but handed out a carefully prepared statement Th The general understanding was that his wife was wat to accompany him south but It could not be ascertained whether she was wason rn on tho same train with him Morse left Jerse Jersey City on the Birmingham flyer of the Southern railway at In Inthe Inthe the custody of deputy United States mar marr The party occupied a stateroom Statement of Morse Morses statement is bitter and dra matte matteI I am going to Atlanta to begin penal under the most brutal sentence pronounced agaInst u a citizen in a countr is his opening sea sen sentence H h hI tence I 1 have hoped the statement Ues es that hope which omos from froma froma a of my endo that I not have to close out forever time the light Ight and liberty of tills this world under such on inhuman sentence I have felt that thattie t tie e fact that I had paid a fine of Oo II and served a year ill in prison would sat satIsfy satIsfy the cry for a victim and aDd I have steadily believed that the courts would ho bl compelled to give givs me a new trial When I learned that the private detec detectives tives of the prosecution wore were the keep keepers ers era of the jUry that the jUry drank like men upon a jaunt or a holiday rather than citizens engaged in a serious service and that as a result two of them were rendered unfit I naturally hoped that I would be allowed another trial by bJ an another another other jury free of these hostile influences Scapegoat Plea Jt It seems however that the courts In Intend tend to establish the practices which make rum drinking a part of a jury ser serice serIce ice and private detectives as the cus custodians of a jury a permanent tio l By this sentence and judgment I Imay Imay may be brought to ruin but the damage done to me is not halt as Important as the Injury to the administration of jus justie tie I am now up In years ears and must with the passing of time pass also but the record of my conviction and the way It was brought about will ill remain a last lastIng lasting Ing and dangerous example of a govern government ment gone mad In search of a victim Whether I shall serve my full sentence I am not able to sa say much depending upon how the government at Washing Washington ton shall look upon it I great falCh Ch that all right thinking men and women who know of me and my case and who realize the Inhumanity of m my sentence will wUl make known their feelings to the President Whatever the future may hold holdin in or shall endeavor to meet In the same wa way I have struggled against the misfortunes of the past two years ears Signed cc C W MORSE Parting With Family t few minutes before the train left i and Benjamin Morse appeared for another farewell to their father He gave them a fond embrace and wept as they left him Morse braced himself for a final picture at the hands of a crowd of newspaper r photographers but he said nothing He read ad a newspaper after he boarded Continued on Page Two jN ii t tC twi C wi 4 r S 47 a c 1 J Lr I 5 i A Aek ek 4 t c cI I IJ t 4 1 I It II t I I If S SA Sf SCharles f i A f Charles W Morse and his guards as he entered the Tombs I CHARLES W MORSE ON HIS WAY SOUTH Continued from Page One the car The train is due In Atlanta at noon tomorrow Passed Through Washington It Washington Jan W Morse convicted New York banker who is on Ills his way t Atlanta to begin a fifteen year penitentiary sentence was In Wash Vash Ington fifteen s Ii todaY but he re refused to fused to see any one No personal friends of the convicted banker were nt at the station but a large delegation of newspaper men met the train Those who found the stateroom were denied admittance Passengers on the same car with Mr Morse said that Benjamin Morse a son of the banker boarded the train at Bal Baltimore Baltimore and saw his father fOr a few U |