Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 23, 1914, Page 1

TS TAKEN —_— Convicted Man Betrays Great Efivfim as Foreman Made Kmn Jufs Finding COUNSEL ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULD APPEAL Witness Told of J. P.’s Negotiations to Secure Control of New London Northern—Bought a Steamship Line With Un. derstanding That He Was to Have the Grand Trunk Branch for the New Haven System—Mellen Described Scene,When He Told the Younger Morgan of Shoulder- ing lame for the Elder’s’ Action—Son Showed Emotion, But Not Gratitude, as He Later “Fired” the Man Who ew York, May 22— Twelve men | court that he would be granted a rea- sonable time in which to make any declaed today o et aienc | motions he deemed advisable, asked onspirator responsible for the Ro- | fOf one weel and recelved it - senthal murder, which nearly two Charles Becker, you fi yrs ‘the ears ago awoke New York to a re- | {0 the Tombs prison until May 23/ alistation of carruption in the police| The whole proceeding from the time [ e opened a ne wera of | pecker was pronounced guilty until a P Ctht Suct:s HSh litahinat, was | [Eows a8 asclarsd occupied scartely found guilty of murder in the first de- | ©ORF TNUNICR L 3 John Beck- gres. Unly & pardon or lnuflm‘c_: er, standing at the door to the court asgain by the court of appeals can save | room, had heard the verdict Jackson hilin froe following to the elécttic o sank into a court attendant’s chair and ipe four o e st Sermas | Ll e e T i e morning of July 16, 1512. The jury Mrs. Becker Collapses. today decided that the gunmen were| Mrs. Becker's brother, John Lynch, Becl agen and John Becker, both of them show- S St ned that five ballots| ing thelr grief, hurried to the room were taken to decide Beckers fate. | Wherc Beckers wife was waiting. e nest Ballot = swid fo have stood | Bverybody in the building, and even a crowd in the street outside, knew six for guilty in the first degree, two | & crowd in the street outside, knew adliff had shouted the news across Lhe rotunda of the court house. But Mrs. Becker, sitting behind ciosed doors, aid not know it until John Becker en- tered the room. He did not say a Word to her then. He didn't have to. pwed what had happened. His shoulders were bent and shaking, I his cheeks were wet. Lynch begged : his sister to be calm, but that did no | good. She collapsed completely and | was still sobbing when_ her husband was led into the room. She threw her arms around his neck and buried her face an his shoulder. ‘On!” she cried, “Charlie, I'm so sorry, so sorry. Poor Charlie! I didn't say no more. She released and from her embrace and -dropped into & chalr. o - Becker staod looking down at her as she wept. Handcuffs wers then locked about his wrists; he was taken from the Toom and around the marble corridors 10 the other side of the building, across the Bridge of Sighs, and into the Tombs. Un_his way around the corridor friends who had known Becker for years expressed their sorrow. “1 am verry, very sorry for myself” he declared, grimly. “I have nothng | more to say.” ‘ | Tmmediately after the court was ad- | Journed Mr. Manton said: “T fail to see how the jury managed to convict Becker in view of the con- | flicting evidence that was presented by the witnesses for the state and the testimony that our witnesses gave. However, it has been done. I will im- mediately set to work to prepare an appeal. We will fight, and fight hard, to_have Becker cleared of this charge.” District Attorney Whitman express- ed himself highly gratified with the verdict. “It speaks for itself,” he said. Becker is guilty. It was proved. He must pay the penaity of his crime. Mrs. Becker remained in the sher- iff's office a long time after her hus- | band had been returned to the Tombs. isha was too overcome with grief to i leave immediately. When she went at | last she had to be assisted from the bullding. This, the sixteenth and last day_of the second trial, was devoted to the judge’s charge and the delib- erations of the jury. In his review of the evigence Justice Seabury directed the jury that in order to find the de- fendant guilty they must decide that | the stories of Rose, Vallon and Web- ! ber were. supported by witnesses not involved in the crime. This centered emphasis on the testimony of Charles P. Plitt, Jr,, who was Becker's press agent when'the former police lieuten- ant was master of the old strong arm ! squad. Plitt was a witness for the de- for not guilty, three for a lesser de- gree and one blank. A second balot, taken after the jurors had had lunch- eon, brought one man over to-the ma- jorlty. The third ballot showed a gain of two and the fourth stood ten for guiity. _The fifth was unanimous. Tears streamed down “the foreman's face as he announced the decision and tears stood in the eyes of several other urymen: but sympathy did not warp heir judgment. They had agreed that the corrobation which the district at- torney failed to present at the first trial to support the Btories of Rose, Vallon and Webber, ° the three accomplices who turned informers, had been fur- s verdict. Mrs. Becker was not per- mitted to accompany her husband to the court room. Pubiic Excluded from Court Room. Newspapermen, court attendants, counsel for the defense and District Attorney Whitman and his staff were | only other persons allowed admi: sion. The defendant'’s two brothers, Jackson and John Becker, the latter a | detective leutenant, hurried to a side entrance, where they stood awaiting the verdict All other doors to Lhe eourt roum were locked. When the little group in the court room had found seats, a door at the back was opened to admit the jury. The twelve men filed silently in, with Foreman F. Meriden Blagden at their head. All their faces were expression- Iess. Justice Seabury mounted the bench. He glanced guickly at the faces of the Jurors, but he learned nothing there. Old court attendants .who declared Jong practice hud ade them able usnally to tell the verdiet by the Jurors’ 1ooks admitted that on this oc- €asion they were ot a loss, Becker in the room overhead was still talking to his wife when Justice Seabury took his seat. Clerk Penny called “Charles Becker to the bar, and a balliff was sent for the defend- ant. Becker kisged his wife and left her. “Don’t “it's all Worrs. “The free me.” Becker eniered by the door through which the jury had Dassed only a min- Gte efore. He walked briskly to the rail, facing Justise Seatury, and grip- Pel it with both hands. His face was colorless. He glanced hopetully at the Jury, his gase resting upon the face ©of each man for a fraction of a seeond. But to all outward appearances the Jury did not even know the defendant Wwas in the room. : Verdict of Jury Announced. Clerk Penny asied the jury to Tise. he told her. Blagden, a ycusgish man, blond and slim, brashed his eves with'a handker- ief, already damp, “We have” he said, softly. “We find the defendant hie hesituted 4 moment and continued in a whisper, “We find this defendant suilty as charged in the indictment, Euilty of murder in the first dezree ™ Becker's fage was gray as he grip- ped the bar in fromt of him with all his strength, The big museles in iis | Yeiis In bis tetmpies swelisa. iy veins swel 3 great frame swayed and drooped, then, with quick eontrol. he became himself again. Big tears welled into the eyes of the Litie foreman. He wiped them away with iis hand and then the clerk be- san to ask the guestions required by law. The roll was called and each in- dividual juror was asked i{ “Guilty was his verdict, too. Becker stood moiionless while these questions were being put to the jurors. Immediately apon their:conclusion the clerx began to take Peckers “pedi- gree.” To the first guestion Becker answered in a steady toice that he was 43 years old. was bprn in the United States, and that his parents had both Been Gorn jn Germany. _the clerk. Secker did not ane Then, in a whisper, he Becker said he Aslicd whetheér he had convicted before, Becker iessly at his ceunsel, Mar- aton, wiho s stand] lu:,‘lw- Bk b The | His face sh, ond he took ‘the stand at the call of the district attorney, Beckers attor- neys tricd to prove that Plitt also was an accomplice, but the -court left this question to the jury, and their verdict | showed that they decided he was not. This point, it was said_tonight, mighi form the basis upon which Beckers | attorneys promised to take the case a similar question, involving the status of Sam Schepps, a witness at the first trial, but not at this, which enabled Becker tp gain a new trial frem the tion. Becker’s connsel, Martin 'F. Manten, entered formal objection to Justice Seabury's remarks to the jury. ‘I take exception” he said, “to the entir churge, on the ground that it is an ani mated argument.” Becker Looked for Acquittal. | The verdict caught Becker unpre- | pared, for when the jury first retired i his lawyer told him he looked for an j acquittal. The defendant at that time | declared he did not believe it possible ! he could be convicted on the evidence | presented at the second trial. i Mrs. Becker was even more hopeful. nnot “that conceive,” she said, jdence to such cooked-up storjes as | those told by Rose, Webber, Vallon and | Plitt. T.don't expect a conviction. The worst that can happen is a disagree- ment. CRarles is innocent and he will be exonerated Steanfahip Arrivals. Fiume, May 22.—Steamer Oceania, New York. ' : “Trieste, May 18—Steamer Martha Washingion, New York. May 19.—Steamer America, Cadiz, May 21—8teamer Montevideo, New York. Rotier May 22—Steamer Cam- panello, New York. New York, May 32—Steamer, France Havre. g Hartford Hartford. May 22—Ray A, Patter- som, four years 0ld, son of Mr. and Alvin Patterson, of No. 249 2 fense at the first triel, but at the sec- | once more to the higher court. #t was: court of appeals after his first convic- | Newspaper Man Sentenced to Prison. St. Petersburg, -~ May - 23—Prince Mestchersky, editor and proprietor of the newspaper Grashdanin, was today sentenced by court martial to a ‘week's imprisonment for publishing revelations in regard to a mutiny on :.:el;&;all of the Russian Baltic fleet Sir Thomas Crossley Raynsr Dead St. Thomas, D. W. 1. May 22—A tel- gram from British Guiana states that Sir Thomas Crossley Rayner, chief Justice of the Colony, died suddenly While on the bench hearing a suit in the supreme court there today. He was born in 1860 at Manchester, Eng. J. H. RORABACK HAS NO INTENTION OF RESIGNING man of Republican State Central Committes. New Haven, Conn., May 22—"T don't intend to resign,” said J. Henry Rora- back, chairman of the republican state central committee, in an interview with the Journal Courier over the long dis- tance telephone from his home in Canaan tonight. ~He has been inform- ed_that prominent members of the party had suggested the possibility of his resigning, as a result of the statements made by former: President Charles S. Mellen of the New Haven road, at the Interstate Commerce com- mission’s _inquiry into the New Ha- ven's affairs at Washington. Mr. Mellen testified that Mr. Roraback had acted as legislative agent for the New Haven road in Connecticut. Mr. Ror- aback continued: . “1 think that if the matter were called to the attention of Ma. Mel- len, he would have made it clear to the Interstate Commerce commission that since 1 became chairman of the republican state central committee, I have not acted as legislative agent for the New Haven road. For such is the fact, as is well known to others in au- thority in the management of tha road, if not to Mr. Mellen. I do mnot wish to be understood, however, as conveying the impression that before 1 was chairman I did not represent the roag, nor that I have not rendered services to the road as attorney in special matters for which I have been paid. At the present time however, I have no connection with the road, ex- cept as a . somewhat disappointed stockholder.” ROOSEVELT ASKS KNOX SMITH TO MAKE PUBLIC LETTER Expressing His Views on Morse’s Ac- quisition of Steamship Lines. Oyster Bay, N. Y., May 22.—The tes- timony {n Washington of Charles S. Mellen, former president of the New || York, New Haven and Toad; President Rooseveit concerning the sale of the New Haven's steamship lines to Charles W. Morse of New York, caused the colonel to send a tel- egram to Herbert Knox Smith, of Hartford, Conn., who was commission- er of corporations during the RooRe- velt administration. In his telegram he asked Mr, Smith to make public a letter which he had sent the colonel in 1912 regarding this matter, which, as commissioner of corporations, he superviged. This letter. the colonel said, explained every phase of the mat- ter, Colonel Roosevelt sald that the Mel- len interview was probably one of a dozen that day and he could not, re- call the details. “T thought then, and I think now,’ he went on, “that it would have been a mistake to have Mr. Morse acquire the steamship lines. You must re- member that the lines could not be maintained independently and so must be in control either of the raflroad or of Mr. Morse. As to Mr. Morse’s bus- iness ‘record, I will refer you to_ the courts. You remember he was indict- €d under my administration. We put Mr. Morse in jail. He was pardoned— but not untfl after my administration. YALE FELLOWSHIP AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS. Dickson H. Leavens of This City Gets Honorary Fellowship. New Haven, Conn., May 22—Fellow- ship and scholarship awards anneunc- ed tenight at Yale include" the fol- lowing Conmnecticut students: Special fellowships, Muriel Bacheler, Talcett- ville; Harold L. Haseltine, Falls Vil- lage; Harold S. Palmer, New Haven; John P. Senning, Middietown; Henry E. Whitney, Walingford; Stanley T. ‘Williams, Meriden. General Currier Fellowships: 6ttn FL Bestrom, New Haven; ileinrieh P, Lutz, New Haven; John H, Philip, of Reckfall. = Honorary fellowships: Stanley ©, Ball, New Haven; Dickson H. Leavens, Norwich; Margaret Merris, New Ha- ven;» Walter M. Scott, Pequabuek, University scholarships: Raymond P. Baker, New Britain; John O, Hal- verson, New Haven and Alexander L. Trachtenberg, New Haven. SEEKIN GSOLUTION OF COLORADO MINE TROUBLES. Cabinet Does Not Approve of Federal Control. ‘Washington, May 2—Hepe that a olution of the Colorado strike situa- tion might be found as a result of the work being done by two men sent to the scene by Secrtary of Laber Wil- son, was expressed by the Secrtary at the cabinet meeting today. The two men, one représenting coal miners and the other representing operators, ar holding conferences with principals to the controversy and have {madea number reports to Secretary Wilson. He sald that these reports show nothing definite yet, but that the efforts to bring = about arbitration ould be continued and that the pros- pects looked good. The suggestion made befofe the president yesterday by Judge Ben B, Lindsey of Penver to have the federal govrament take complete comtrol of the situation was not favered by the cabinet, it was understaed, BITUARY, Rudolph Tombo, : Jr. New York, May 23—Rudoipt Tom- bo, Jr, associate professor of Ge: ménic ’languages and literatures ai Columbia _university, died late last nisht at his home here after a long | fllness. 3 Prof. Tombo Wwas sent to Germany in 1810, as cxchange professor. This year he was again invited ta go to ‘urope by the Assoclation for _the - | s ntervicw WA | ———— .4 THREE CONFERENCES BETWEEN ENVOYS AND U. 8. DELEGATES Mediators . Ignore. Rumor of Rebels Sending Representatives—Not Likely, to Renew the Invitation That Had Been Extended That Faction. Niagara Falls, Ont, May 22 —Thres separate conferences between the three South American envoys and the Ameri- can_delegates today constl the Work of the mediation conferenge here. The Mexican delegates were not called into_consultation. While the subject participation in_ the mediation was a subject of abserbing interest to all the DPrincipals to the conference, it was paper. mand. columns of The Bulletin. | Bulletin Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, “Friday, May May May May May May 16.. 22.. | In the past welk the following matter was carrled in the news Telegraph Local General To@ll 184 18.. 193 19.. 187 204, 176 21.. 178 199 Totals .ovvvnn.. 1117 B i S — BROKE IN MIDDLE AS WH T ‘SOUNDED FOR “ALL ASHORE” THREE PERSONS DROWNED Seven Badly Injured, Taken to Hos- pitals—Others Treated for Submer- sion—Quick Work by Crew and La- berers Prevented Larger Loes of Life. Save way this afternoon, just before ihe vesel sailed and more than twenty persons, men, women and children, fell into the Hudson river. Many were res- | cued but three are thought to be miss . Mrs, Anna Edwardson of Brooklyn, was drowned and_ her body recover- ed. 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In’ response to newspaper Inquiries about their attitude toward constitu- tionalist representation, the Mexican delegates” jssued 'a statement saying they await formal notice of such ques- tion from the mediators themselves be- fore commenting on it, and thén would consult their home government. the question of constitutionalist par- ticipation, going forward with their of- forts to reach an agreement between the Urited States and the Huerta government on the differences which caused the present strained relations. The possibility of constitutionalist participation wes discussed privately by many of the principals to the con- ference. Obviously they were much n- terested, but ons of the mediators in- dicated ‘clearly that they wers mot likely to renew the invitation,previ- ously extended to the constitutionalists &nd’ then-withdrawn, They feel that the next move must come from the constitutionalists and that their entry must be unconditional, just as_were the acceptances by the United States end the Huyerta government of the ten- der of good offices for mediation, The view held by the mediators that for the present the most feaaible way ot solving the Mexican problem is to seoure a bi-partite agresment between the Huerta government and the Unlted Btutes, reserving efforts to secure ac- ‘ceptance of the programme by the con- stitutionalists, is known to meet the approval of the Mexican delegates. They have not committed themselves to any course of action sheuld tho constifutionalists desire to ceme into the negetiations, Originally it is un- derstood the Huerta govermment had ne objection te the entry ef the een- stitutionalisi into the negetiations, The Mexican delegates, hewever, in their statement tonight, emphasized that they had ne offieial word en the gubject 2s yet. Tho statoment fol- owi “In answer to the question adéressed te the Mexican delegation, inquiring what its attitude would be towards the representatives whieh it is said the rebel party will send to -the confer- enees at present heing held here, said delegation begs to state that it has re- ceived ne official netice to the effect Lhat the' abeve named party is sending delegates; that sheuld delegates come it does not know with what character they would do o, and that it is there- fore impossible for the Mexican dele- gation to emit an opinion on this mat- t |- “In any case the Mexican delega- | tion considers that the matter | for the study of the mediating pleni- potentiaries and that it would only be justified In taking it vp after thess gentlemen have duly considered it. Tn this last cage, the Mexican delegation would consult its. government before coming to any decision.” The fact that the medlators ent Thost of thel# time with the American commissioners fodey was sald to be due to instructions to the latter to re- fer virtually .all points of importance to the Washington government as they advance step by step in the parleys, Two long communications be- tween the White House and the Amer- iean delegates and when they oonfer- Ted late tomight with the medimters they were understeod still to be dis- cussing the order in which the varieus Points. in tha mediation weuld be aps ed, One of the und | Lol 5 S8 S et Ro hitch in the nege and ‘that LS e e i e The mediators: in the main ignored | old fell into the water with her and Was swept off by the tide. Of those injured, three were women, including a passenger on the steamship. Seven persons were badly injured and were taken to hospjtals. Others Were treated for submersion. Estimates varied as to the number of to ‘burn the hi toric Co!mbm at Mt. Vernon, N.| Y. was successful. ° , The Beaver River Hotel on the Mo- hawk & Malone Rail ed, involving a loss of $40,000. 7 It was stated in Washington that radium bearing ore has been discov- ered in Cero, Pelom, Sa!vador. President Wilson will férmally cpen the new American University at Washington next Wednesday. The residence of the Duchess of ‘Westchester at Rochamptdn, near, Lon- don, was seriously damaged by 'fire. The will of Miss Elizabeth S, Ship- pen, who died in Atlantic City, is said 0 leave an estate of abont $2,000,600 to charity. The comet discovered by European astromoners five days ago Wwas seen from the United States Observatory at Washington. A bomb was exploded in the office of “El Commercio” at Callao, Peru, and caused much damage besides wounding the editor. 3 DeWitt Marshall, a | engineer of East Rutherford, N. J. was sentenced to five years in the State prison for passing worthless checks. President Wilson will speak at Ar- lington National Cemetery on June 4 when the monument to the Confed- erate dead will be dedicated. Maria S. Madden, matron of the Illinois State penitentiary and prom- inent woman criminologist, died. at Leavenworth, Kan., aged 60 vears, The United States will import from Austria a new dirigible balloon which will cary 15 passengers, a crew of five men, and three machiue guus. A transatiantic flight of 1,900 miles by aeroplane .is impossible at the present stage of aercpiane _develap- ment, according to Orville Wrignt. a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to grant part of the Fort McHenry military re tion in Baltimore for a pubiic park. N. C. Neill, cashier, of the Psople’s Bank at Holly Sorirgs, Miss, com- mitted suicide by shooting because of i1l health. The bank is not affected. grocery stores in Brooklyn, Fested charged. with embezzling $1,682. T TN ST e b ed with the Treasury Department, will resign May 31. Eugene Hoatling, station agent for the West Shore Railroad at Tappan, N. ‘Yl.,s ‘was killed by burglars who stole touched. Former_Fire Commissioner Johnson of New York will be appointed head of the Bureau of Transportation of the Public Service Commission. The sal- ary is $6,000. General Russell Frost, a millibnai and former commarnder of the nation- al guard, shouldered & hod when ma- son’s helpers went on strike at South persons who were thrown into the wa- | Norwalk, Conn. ter. Some ran as high as fifty. Only quick work by the steamship's crew | and by dock hands with pike poles and ropes and ladders prevented larger loss of life, The gangplank broke directly in the middle just after the vessel's whistle had sounded for all visitors 1o go ashore. According to afstatement tonight by the agents of the Frederick VIII's owners, the Scandinavian-American line, the accident was caused by the overcrowding of the gangplank, which the agents sald was of steel-reinforced wood in perfect condition. The salling of the vessel which had what was sald to be the largest num- ber of cabin passengers—500—that ever left for Scandinavian ports on one ship from this city, was delaved an hour until it ceuld - be learned that nene of the passengers was miss- ing, ‘When the aceident happened mem- "bers of the crew dived from the docks and rescued several persons, Ship's ladders hurriedly threwn over the | side and life rings tossed overbeard, | saved others from death, BRITISH ARMY OFFICE! GUILTY OF GRAFTING. | Recoived and Gave Commissiens to | Influence Alletment of Centracts, Lenden, May 23—A piea eof guilty | ‘was handed in today by seven of the nine British army officers and all the | eight civilians charged in January last | with receiving and giving illicit com- missions in ender to influence the al- lotment of cantracts for suppiying | Oanu, in The 8,000-foot tunnel through the Sandy Ridge Mountain, near Dante, Va., has been completed. The tunnel | was bored througkL solid rock at a depth of 1,500 feet. A movement to purchase ‘the of the destroyed Ludlow ten and erect a monument to tho: dled on April 20, was started at strike headquarters in Trinidad, Col e colony After a prolonged debate the house today voted down an amendm the interstate trade c designed to compe! adopt a uniform to counting. The editor of the newspaper Ta Kugn-poa at Peking was beaten to death for refusing to tell the name of a contributor who sent details of th trall and decapitation of certainsreb- els, An American weman named Mrs. R. Favelle was found with a bullet wound in her head en a train which arrived in Arrezze, Italy, from Flor- ence, Her purse centained a check for $1,300. Major-General William H, Carter denied the report that maps and in- formation eoncerning the Isiand of the Hawalian greup had been stolen from army headquarters in Honelulu, Bankruptey proceedings against Gay and Sturgis, bankers and brokers of Bosten who made an essignment on April 21, were institited b creditors whose claims aggregated less than $1,600, 7 army canteens. All the officers except Lieut. Colenel ‘Whitaker were connected with the | quartermaster'’s department of the army and had risen frem the ranks. The civilians accused were employes of the firm of Lipton's limited. The bribery has beem going on for years. | Sentence was deferred unt!l May 25. | | Held Up Men at Danbury. | Conn., May 22—The pelice | busy tedey trying (o get ' seme clue to the two men who held ' up, assaulted and robbed Wesley | Knapp, of Paterson, N. Y, on the eut- | skirts of this city late last night. Knapp was struck frem behind, knoek- €d down and figteen dellars in meney | and his waich takem, The blew on | the head eaused a weund clean te the | bone and ene whieh required several | stitches te be taken, conterences, the medi- ol Mexican | Bank Cashier Pleaded Guilty, Pitthburgh, Pa., May 22 —Samuel Bleier, former cashier of the Vietor Bavings baunk, of McKees Rocks, Pa., pleaded guilty to embezzling 080 from the bank and was sen- rnnuh gerve not less than 18 and not mere than five years . ®he bank bas been closed Five' Indictments in Frank Gase, Atldnta, 6a, May 82—Five indict- ments were returned by the Fulten un; u-n‘tury'bwu-‘.fln-utvt Three young men found locked box ear- of a Pennsylvan train in Jersey City suld they he in the enr ever since May 13. and had been without water ever since. boarded the car at Jacksonville, An epidemic of scarlst fever the puplls caused the temporar ing of Milton Academy, school _at Milton, Mass. P’ Frank E. Lane sald that there were {19 cases of the disease but all were comparativeiy light The Interstate trade bill, the measure on the administratin trus was - agreed 3 by the house in com- mittes of the whole and ket aside for final action after the other two trust bills are resdy for paseuge. FLINN ‘AND PINCHOT AT SAGSAMORE HILL Went Over Pelitical Situation in Penn- ania with Rosseveit, Oyster Bay, N. Y., May 22 —William Flinn of Pittsburgh, progressive na- tional comzitteeman; whe led the belt of the Roesevelt delégations frem. the republican national commitiee of 1813, Paid tonight bis first visit to Saga- more Hill since Colonel Roosévelt's re- turn from South America. With Mr. Flinh was Gifferd Pin, head of (he forestry service under President Rooseveit and now ‘wive candidate for United » ryat- | A safe containing $500 was un- | who'| first | upon | progres- Sl s 18 was burn- | Misst Pay the Pedialty for His Crime”—M Found Guilty. ‘Washington, May 22—A dramatic climax marked -the close of the sen- sational testimony of Charles S, Mel- len, former president of the New Ha- ven road, bofore the iaterstate com- merce commission today when with evidence of deep emotion, Mr. Meilen declared that the late J. Plerpont Mor- gan was cognizant of the Grand Trunk negotiations on which Mellen _was criminally indicted for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust sct and that he “took the indictment that beionged to him" (Morgan), believing it would have killed the aged financier if he had been indicted. Mr. Mellen spoke with intense feel- ings as he recited his efforts io shield the elder Morgan. This turned quick- Iy to a show of r nitment, however, as he told iow ihe present J. Pierpont Morgan had suggesied a “Chaoge in the presidency of the New riave: which suggestion, Mr, Melien d ed with empbasis: |~ calied nis atenticn that 1 had veen suflerisg humilfa mens o to the fact H i dury of A 1 el of the coromiss Did Mr. Morgan do with this negot change of the Ontario and Wesiern With the Grand Truak?” | pointment with Mr. Smithers and Mr. Chamberlain, and he told them what he thought they ought to do in_or- der to have peace petween the New Heven and the Grand Trunk interest He i0ld of previous nezotiatons which he said extended over a period of tyenty years, (that is the term he | used; I suppost it a general term) {and that ne bad boushi a steamship line of them on the understanding he was to have the New London Northern | for the New Haven road, and that | they never had caricd out their agree- Mr. Smithers’ predecessor, Sir Charles ment. rhis negotiation he said, was with Mr. Smithers' preder , Sir Charles Rivers Wils He thougnt it was a great mistake; that they had Dot kept faith witn him, and ne was quite emphatic as he was, you know, once in a very great while—t emphatic in thinking th done as they said ; with him and be told tnem they should give up the New London Northern road; he did not care for anything fur- ther ‘and that would be the only thing | in his judgment that would ever result in permanent peace between the two properties. ‘Then he retired from the room. I think E. C. Smith w. Quring part of that intervie “Mr, Morgan retired and left Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Smithers and myself to_continue the conference. I told Mr, Chamberlain and Mrs. Smith- ers that we would continue the con-. ference on the basis that they shouid give no further attention to the Ques- tion of surrendering the New London Northern road, they might do as they pleased with it; 1 did not care. The worst punishment I wished to see in- flicted upon them was the completion of their line into Providence. If they felt that there was enough in the sit- uation to warramt making a traffic agreement with us for the interchange! of business for the joint use of the lines along the Connecticut river be- tween Windser and White River Junc- tion, and, between Windsor and Brat- tlebaro—and we had nearly complet- ed our own line -between Brattiecoro and Seuth Vernen—that I was to do it, “I was asked to put my views tn the form of & propesition er contract, | which I did; it was submitted to them, nd within' a_week the grand jury | Droeeedings commenced tn New York and T was indicted.” “Did_you write a letter to the dis~ taking the responsibili~ @id, and I did 1t for the so ot shlelding Mr., Morgan. t whose Imstance did you letter?* wrote that letter at the instance of Mr. Lewis Cass Ledyard and Mr. Edward D. Robbin: “Who dictated it™ “I dictated a letter which was re- drafted by Mr. Robbins and_corrected by Mr. Ledyard. I singned it in_their presence and sent it te States District, attorney and I nearly killed evervbody in the offi Mr. Morgan's name out of & “To keep Mr. Morgan's nume out of ‘what™ asked Mr, Folk. 1 Out of the whole proceedings.” + "Had Mr. Morgan been spbponénaed {in_that matter” | ‘T have learned through my eeunsel | —T did not kmow it at the time that he was subpoenaed and his subpeena was quashed, or nolled, Whatever your term is for that action.” = you have any conversation with the past director of the road, Mr. J. P. Morgan, Jr,” querried Mr. Folk. The presant director?” “Yes, sir."¢ Tells of Meeting With Younger Mor- @an. 3 “At the time Mr. Morkan called upom. me and thought the change im the was desirable I a_ his| atiention to the fact that | had be suffering under the humiliation 3 d indictment to : pur- | pos write ed. That was the co stood he was in whes it il | i | E | i E i I | ¥l | °g g [ i 1 I i ; 1 atg 4 oy i the_United | nad ve 10 keep [ I (1] n T { ! 14 % ¢