THE "ICE KING'S" CRIME.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 685, 9 December 1909, Page 7

THE "ICE KING'S" CRIME.

'. , - ,APPEAL REJECTED. MUST SERVE FIFTEEN" YEARS IN GAOL. (By Telecraph~Pre«a Association-CopyrlehU New York, December 7. The United State 9 Supreme Court rejected the petition of Charles M. Morse, the "IceKing," who in No\ember, 1908, was sentenced to filteen years' impii6onmont for misapplication of funds and fraudulent entries. He will, therefore, serve the original sentence.

of ice famine:>,';; : yoek's poor: i' iV-.is. certain';th'at .tho action of the; United. ; Statcs 'Supreme Court ;in affrmirig, the sentence .'of'-fifteen' 'years'.-imprisonment .passed : on' Charles M. '•Morse,; the 'former; "Ice King," for fraud on the National Bank>f North America,' will:. be received' with'v the Utmost satisfaction throughout tho -United, States. Tho "Ice Triisfc" manipulated, by Tammany, iand of which the late Tammany' Mayors .YanWyck, was one of the organisers and chiefs, has been described as.-the inost unconscionable- monopoly-AmerV ica> has ever known; It was William E. Hearst who initiated/arid.pursued with,merciless vig-. dur.'the.;campaign:,that .led; to the break-up of the trust 'arid': that brought -to light "its inner, workings—how .thousands'bf women' and .children, perished ,in : the congested-East Side districts of New YorfcCity through ;boine deprived of what is in the summer.months a dire' neces-' sity, .an. abiindance; of; cheap.-.ic'e..,:.;: ','; - : . .."During., the-recent .Mayoral campaign in, Now York City ;Mr. : , Hearst, conceived 1 the novel-idea j of a' Tain many'. "Chamber, of Horrors,"', iii, which,.'by y-mearis .of was 1 figures, 'charts,''car* toons, and placards,-Tammany's-exploitation of the, poor\was.. graphically portrayed,-' and its litter, heartlessness rivetted on the attention at a glance.: : "Taminahyls grave year'',and."Tam--i uiunjr's - cruelty .:tb ". children" :'. were legends placed : ovor. 'a ,Series-;.of/diagrams,'-, draped .in | black and white, arid demonstrating the toll in hiiman-life exacted,through-diseases attributed to unsanitary, tenements and; improper laws regulating the.amourit..of.,light.'and .ventilation/ in crowded districts;.'.not /to speak, of impure, water and■the;ice : ff|mihe. -'. : /- : - : ]: ■■■ ~'---/;/-:., ,;■''. /York, year' consumes .enormous quantities,of .ice, which ; is a .natural', and tinexhaiistible product, of tho Hudson River, arid' harvested. in ' the, months "of 'January and February; l rlf is.sold normally..'at 'an average of four;dollars'.per,;t'on.'; Morse and his associated/criminals increased the .price to; 18 and 20 dollars : per "ton,; which /meant putrid food and; tainted\milk'.to countless thousands of the Soor,. arid.a staggering, rate of mortality.;'; The ecision, of ■ the Supreme-- Court, in tho .case of Morse, is irrevocable.V;Morse must- servo out his ! 'sentcncc:-a-Nemesis'.not too'severeiri• proportion to' the crime, -perpetuated in the ice. monopoly scaridaU';'/'-:;'..,■■'. .. -'."'• One of the • strangest:.features ,of all to any-, bno living outside the United States is Morse's successful, operations on. the. Stock Exchango while released on. bail; The New York correspondent of ari>English paper .writes: "From the. finance-of ariy other- country he must have disappeared. '-Instead, ho': returned to- Wall Street, rented palatial' offices, and since.,then •has been'working'night and day at' the exploitation of, tho ■■''extraordinary' .opportunities which-"this country furnishes men of hisi : resources and. corihectl6ns, - Vast amounts of. his securities which- had been foreclosed were restored, to him;; and .he reacquired control of sovcral steamship lines/reorganised them,- and announced, only .a few, days since that "as -the rosult of his foiir months' labour, he had made X 1.500,000, leaving him only £100,000 indebt.''';