Show I MORSE RETURNS TO i 1 I I F FACE AGE INDICTMENTS Banker Met on Shipboard By Police Wife and Son I STATEMENT TO PUBLIC i- i Recent Developments Surprise II former Millionaire Maker 1 of Mergers New ew York Feb 16 When When a few short months ago Charles W. W Morse then known as the ice king owner ol ot ola ota a chain of banks stretched from one end of the city to the other and n c-n- of or almot all aR the coastwise steamships and Island steamboat lines In lu these waters returned from his hta ann annual un I vacation In In Europe E he was he was met metat metat at nt the pier by dozens of men with outstretched outstretched out out- stretched hands and smiling faces eager to ta welcome him home Whon When ho returned today from tram a 0 two weeks weeks' trip hastily taken as aa he ho says for tor a 0 rest roat he ho howan was wan arrested on a a. charge of stealing OutsIde of ot this thin big formidable able ablo looking detectives and a. a band o ot of tho the on only y persons who comet d while whilo to i own to m WorD his ot r rb b rt D. D D Boardman an I J r rHe the tho captain cap cap- He Ho shuddered perceptibly na ns tam tain told him ho he was way a n. prisoner Are J A Mr Britt however how how- re reassuring reassuring- look from tram r. r ever over quickly calmed film Sum and he re recovered recovered ro- ro covered his customary nerve and cool cool- nose ness Later LIlter after he had had been ocen Informed by Mr 1 Boardman of tho the nature of ot the charges against him and of ot the tho grounds on which they had been based he ho laughed cynically and arid somewhat contemptUously con- con said sald It If that si ls Is the worst wont they have got against me I havo have nothing to worry about Statement Prepared tI At his palatial home No Fifth tonight after ho had been admitted admitted ad- ad to ball bail In OOOO he responded Interview by sendIng send send- to o a request st for an Benjamin a 0 inG ng down by his son typewritten statement I I had two purposes in going to Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope he hc said I thought that I might be hll able ablo to sell In England property in which I had hada a n largo large Interest and thus Increase my m ability to meet the claims of af my creditors and I 1 greatly needed a 1 fortnights fortnight's rest My business purpose was of or course defeated b by the tho publication In the English EngIsh Eng- Eng Ish lish papers that I was regarded re In had I New Vew ew York as a n fugitive straightened out m my financial affairs when I left New York so that there were vero no actions pending against me except one brought by a creditor and when I was wired by counsel that he had arranged with this creditor not to press pres his suit ag against me As I had no obligations maturing for three weeks from rom which I expected any trouble I 1 i saw no reason from the standpoint st. of or ormO to creditors wh why I my mO obligations ns should not take a fortnights fortnight's rest Xo o 0 Knowledge Kuo of lr Proceeding I had no knowledge that District contemplated taking Attorney Jerome proceedings against me and I any therefore did dill not communicate with him ilm on this subject left lert NewYork New NewYork NewYork About six weeks before I York hearing that United States Attorney considering the tile evi ovi- evidence evidence nc ney Stimson was dence In certain tran transactions between North America the National Bank of and with a view of possible presentation thereof to the grand Jury be bo telephone that I I asked him by given an opportunity to explain these transactions before any an action was taken against me I subsequently wrote to tho United States district attorney at attorney attorney at- at torney In tho the same direction Nothing NothIng Noth Noth- ing lag was heard from Mr Stimson In several weeks reply to my m request for conclusion that I naturally reached the his examination and antI he had completed found nothing against me I there there- had n nn ni hl ion t Ion G.- G. to iv n my mv j short ln Eu- Eu UV ho J. J W loro t saw bV Y i trip based upon the possibility of criminal proceedings against me mo either In the state or federal courts I did not sail upon the Campania under an assumed name nor mal make e any effort to conceal my Identity Tho The suggestion suggestion sug sug- has been made that I assumed the name of ot C M. M Moore foore My Iy 81 signature signature signa signa- nature na- na ture looks as much like lIko C M. M Moore as It does docs C C. CV W. W Morse of criminal crimi crimi- I assert my m Innocence any nal luLl act and I ask the tho public to suspend I have havo had hadan hadan I Ian Judgment In m my case until an opportunity to meet my accusers In court il by b r Practically Practical surrounded b by detectives Morse was walked hastily to the tho end of the tho pier where his wife was waiting for him In her automobile an and was driven to the home of Justice Dowling There he and antl the tho Justice had to wait valt almost an hour for Assistant District Attorney who hail had missed tho revenue cutter in tho the morning and ha haI had gone gono homo home In a huff huft because tho the fed- fed I oral authorities would not dispatch a n special boat bont with him on board I the l of ros all pros pres- pr preson s I l Coc c on oc tage o Two Swo J MORSE RETURNS TO FACE INDICTMENTS Continued from In c Oue One ent went upstairs to tho the Justices Justice's library li library li- li whore here a n. temporary court ha had bad 1 been arranged d. d The ball bonds were quickly sl signed by Mr Morse and two representatives of bonding companies This Morse wrote with his left hand This is a n char charge o of grand grond larceny Justice Dowling Bowling said Mr Morse l nodded nod nod- fled ded assent Mr l Morse then went wont downstairs downstairs downstairs down down- stairs to his wire wife who had waited an and was driven home Tho The Etruria had a Q very rough passage passage pas 1113 sage nn and 1 Mr 11 Morse kept to his cabin for tho the first three days out of Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool Liver Liver- pool although the tho weather then was wo s not sp 89 bad as nS It became later When Morse did lid show out of his hl room he Joined tho crowd in tho the smoking smoking ing Ins room nn and 1 played whist At dinner he ho sat gat at the captains captain's table occupy occupy- occupying occupying occupying ing the tho place of ot honor at the right o othe ot of f tho the skipper who was at the head Opposite Opposite Opposite Op Op- Morse sat fat the tho new Japanese ambassador am am- Baron Wireless Wireless es poured Into Morse lorse during the tho thoI I fast st th three day a of tip jw S' S Ma i of of or were r from om now 8 3 king king-I-ho It- It Jio ho cred lc to malta make my statement regarding his business affairs or plans for tor the future AW AU of or these messa messages es were Ignored |