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Show ITHLI1S STTEUT I01BJ1MG1 Suspicion Current in Rome That American Was Carrying Carry-ing Away an Old Master. Special Cable to Tho Tribune, ROME. April .13. J. Pierpout Mor-gan Mor-gan experienced the most exciting episode epi-sode of his present trip abroad late tp-day tp-day when ho departed from Paris. Their suspicious aroused earlier in tho day, several hundred persons, believing that the tinancior intended to smuggle out an old master, thronged the station, and when Mr. Morgan and his party appeared, taxed the efforts of the police po-lice to prevent them doing violence. Mr. Morgan had engaged a salon car and he arrived at -J:40 o'clock with his secretary. The crowd swarmed around his carriage and the police cleared a lane to the .station with diflicultv. Mrs. Burns, ono of several ladies who went to tho station to see the Morgan party off. was roughly handled in alighting from her carriage. Mr. Morgan was greatly agitated and dashed quickly to his car us soon as his carriago stopped. AJ1 tho exits of the car wore immediately closed and the blinds lowered. The action of tho crowd this afternoon after-noon .is believed to have been prompted by tho fact that Mr. Morgan this morning morn-ing personally superintended the packing pack-ing of a large picture which was delivered deliv-ered at his hotel. Tho picture was si.v fect by four and was inclosed in a heavy gold frame. It was reported that the. picture was an old master. Mr. Morgan, it was learned from authoritative au-thoritative sources today, bought many rare art objects while bore. His chief acquisition was a naeklxce of thc Lombard Lom-bard epoch recently exhumed. It is composed of eight golden swans linked together by miniature Greek masks. It is one: of thy finest known examples of the Lombard art. Mr. Morgan himself yesterday announced an-nounced that ho had purchased ' u picture pic-ture lu- Lippo Lippy for $-10,000, also some "old books uud parchments. |