Show MORSE K MISSING V YORK Property of the Financier At Attacked Attacked Attacked tacked in Suit Brought by Bank Examiner Hanna I HOME HEAVILY MORTGAGED TROUBLES FINALLY PROVED IN INSURMOUNTABLE INSURMOUNTABLE INSURMOUNTABLE SURMOUNTABLE New York Feb 6 Charles W Morse organizer of or the American Ice company and of or the Consolidated Steamship com corn company company pany could not be seen tonight regard ing the court actions instituted against him today He was not at his town house hous here it was said and It could not be learned that he li h was either in Boston or at his home at ar Bath Me Ma His creditors toUa attached his prop erty in this city including his residence at Fifth avenue In a suit begun by b Charles A Hanna national bank exam exam iner as receiver of at the National Bank of North America which Morse con trolled In the papers on which the attachment was granted It was stated that MO H had probably I left ft for lor Europe or depart departed ed elsewhere from frem New ew York within the last few days das Judgment by Default A judgment by default for to In an another another another other suit was also entered 9 against him today Morse whose opera in the business world had hod made him one of the most prominent of financial men has been seriously involved recently consequent con upon Ullon the money mone stress and banking troubles So far as known Morse had Iad no press ing engagements which would keep him in the city cit Just now The New York county count grand Jury has been investigating the local banking situ situation situation situation and some of the transactions which are alleged to have helped to make pos pes possible possible sible the recent series or of financial calami calamities calamities ties Morse lorse has appeared before the jury jur to give glye that body such information on the situation as WI he possessed Secretary Does Not Know Arthur Braun private secretary to Mr Morse said tonight I have not seen Mr Morse Monte since Mace one day last test week I do not know where he is I know nothing about the reports which have been circulated about his probable p whereabouts and I could not help lieu anybody to find him Mr 11 Morse was called to testify testily before a referee ref in December and end January in It regard to a H loan lOB of oo which he ob oh obtained obtained tamed from the Knickerbocker Trust company in October through the me of the cashier of the National Bank of North America The referees report on this loan was filed with Justice Clark Clarkin in the supreme court in iii Richmond two ho weeks ago a o and there has been no ruling on it to date Mr lIt Morse Mores e has not been beem l seen licon in the financial district this week but by lj a do clo friend is authority for fur the at t that he sew saw him Monday rondlY and ui Mors told him at the time tha thi to togO gO So to No steam st 1 Eu Europe rope on Monday and Mj M or lii list of or any steamer en JJ k to tomorrow tomorrow morrow i V V Troubles Piling a g Troubles have been piling t k and fast at aton on Morse ever since Mast last October H lIe was Involved Involved in the unsuccessful urit 1 earner corner in United Copper stock engineered by b F Augustus Heinze which marked the be beginning beginning ginning of the panic When hen th t time lc earner corner mfr went w nt to pieces and t stock came crashing down it was reported that Mr Mors had sold out the other members of the time pool and had caused the slump An As Anthe ARthe the stock and bonds of the time Consolidated Steamship company compan the latest and great greatest est eM Morse undertaking also declined with sensational rapidity when the corner cornel failed it is a question just what part tho th Morse transaction tl n played in the affair The failures of Otto Heinze Co add arid of or Gross Grose Kleeberg were soon announced Then followed follow in quick succession th the resignations of Morse lorse from all the bank banking bankIng bankIng ing institutions with which he was con connected connected connected the failure of the Knickerbocker Trust company the closing of the Hamil Hammi Hamilton Hamilton ton bank and half a score of small Brook Brooklyn Brooklyn lyn yn and Harlem Institutions the forced withdrawal of or Edward R Thomas arid and Orlando F y Thomas from frum the banking field the suicide of Charles L Barney and the spread of the paste pante over the Unit United United United ed States and the civilized world His Home Mortgaged On Oct 13 i at the beginning of the pan panic panIc panIc ic Mr Morse lorse mortgaged his hia Fifth ave aye avenue avenue nue house for lor to John E Berwind The Time property carried a prior prier mortgage of Jf With the time subsidence of or the th panic V the weakness of 01 the Morse banks became apparent and this culminated re recently recently in the th suspension of the National Bank of worth North orth America and the New Am Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam National bank which were looked upon tas as the two most important Morse institutions Then ihen followed the re receivership receivership for the Consolidated Steamship company and several of its subsidiaries I Mr Morse lorse and the late Charles L Bar Barney Barne Barney ney ne organized the American Ice company ten years ago and Mr Morse first came I into company prominence in connection ls |