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Show IK IN Mil TROUBLE HI OTHERS Won lu JSe Something Doing, .Says Friend, if Convicted Financier Would Talk. ATLANTA. Oa., March S. "If Charles K. Morse would tell what he knows of the connection ofHhc financiers finan-ciers in New York with the panic of J907, about a dozen men who stand high in the business world would bo buying tickets to Europe and other places for trips of indefinite length," said "W. P. Jfeid of Boston, before leaving leav-ing for the cast yesterday after a conference con-ference with the former "ice king." Mr. Rcid. a lifelong friend of Morse, has much of his business in chargo and has been a frequent visitor at the federal prison here since the latter began be-gan serving a fifteen-year sentence for violation of the national banking laws. "Morse is not the squealing kind and those men know it. But if thev thought he was going to talk thev would not ic so backward in giving him 'their aid," added Mr. Reid. According lo him. Ihc 15-ycar-old daughter of Morse docs not know of his imprisonment. She thinks her father is merely on a lengthv pleasure trip and is ignorant even of his arrest. |