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Show KOBE LIGHT IS MfOiTHE MDRSERELEASE Walter E. Reid of Portland, Maine, Files Supplementary Supplemen-tary Particulars in Suit Against Promoter. WIFE ACCUSED OF UNWISE METHODS Names of a Number of Prominent Men in Political and Civil Life Figure in Latest Disclosures. NEW YORK, Dec. CL Walter E. Reid of Portland, Me., who Is suing Charles W. Morse for $150,000 for alleged breach of contract, today filed in the federal district dis-trict court supplementary particulars demanded de-manded by the defendant in elaboration of the plaintiff's claim that he had prevented pre-vented Morse and his wife from engaging in "improper and unwise enterprises" iu their efforts to obtain the banker's release re-lease 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, b-y President Pres-ident William H. Taft, after the prisoner had served a little more than two years of his sentence. The president's action was based on the recommendation of Attorney At-torney General Wickersliam and the report re-port of Surgeon General Torney. Mr. Torney's conclusion was: "In my opinion, the prisoner's duration of life will be in all probability iess than one month, if kept in confinement, and in the event of his release under commutation commu-tation of sentence, it is not probable that he will live as long as six months." Talk of Bribery. Mr. Held, in his additional particulars filed today, said : "In the spring of 1910, at the New York office of the defendant, .Mrs. Morse stated to the plaintiff that Erwin Morse, the defendant's de-fendant's son, was a college mate of Robert Taft. President Taft's son. and that she was going to invite Robert Taft to New York to spend a week-end and offer him 510,000 to use his influence in procuring defendant's release. Mrs. Morse also staled she would get Robert Taft to see Justice White. Plaintiff prevented llr;3. Morse from carrying out this plan. 'Mrs. Morse also had interviews and correspondence with on? Gariand, of Philadelphia, Pa., who was to procure defendant's pa rdon In consideration of $50,000, of which sum the said Garland was to retain $10,0V for himself. The method bv which the pardot. was to be obtained was undisclosed. The plaintiff prevented this arrangement from being carried out." Prominent Men Named. After relating several other instances in which Mr. Reid alleged that he prevented pre-vented Mrs. Morse from "using undisclosed undis-closed means" to obtain her husband's release, re-lease, the. supplementary bibs of particulars particu-lars enumerate a list ot influential men i who, it a Hopes, were interviewed by the 1 plaintiff in Morse's behalf, as follows: "Governor Cobb ol Mnine. who was induced in-duced to see and did see President Taft; Governor John F. Hill, at his office in Augusta, Me.: George K. Macomber. who was Induced to see and did see Senator Hale of Mri:ne; Sen :i tor 7-Iale, at Washington, Wash-ington, P. C ; Mr. Peavey saw President Taft several times; Congressman Allen of Maine, ,t Washington. D. C; John Dwight of New York, at Washington, P. C. ; J. Sloat Fasectt. at Washington. P. C. ; Edward O. Eld red ge, at New York. "Plaintiff also wrote to President Taft and corresponded with and interviewed officials of the department of justice, acting act-ing under direction of Attorney General George W. Wickersham," says the supplementary sup-plementary bill of particulars. ! Although Morse in his answer to Reid's suit denied that the plaintiff had ever rendered any services for him, the plain-I plain-I titf asserts that the contract sued 'upon a verbal ope covered the neriod from August 10. 1900, to May l, 1913. and that his disbursements in Morse's behalf approximated ap-proximated $13,400. |
