HOW I SAVED MR. MORGAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13430, 11 July 1914, Page 10

HOW I SAVED MR. MORGAN.

DRAMATIC NARRATIVE BY

RAILWAY CHIEF.

NEW YORK, May 28. A dramatic story, of how, to save the late Mr J.. Pierpont Morgan from prosecution, he assumed entire responsibility for' the .violation of the Sheman AtofoiTrust' Law • dl^d ' allowed (himself- to be criminally indicted, was narrated by Mr Mellen, t'he, former: president of th( New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway to the ' Inter-State Commerct Commission. . The indictment was due to the action of ' the New York, New Haven, and Hfartrfiord. Riailvhay inlApreventiing the Grand \ Trunk . Railway from, obtaining a, Boston • •terminus; and tHereby 'ijorpe-' trating its monojpolyi '. m New- England traffic. For this action, "Mr : Mellen said^ the eldei- Mr ; Morgan ; was alone responsible, ;but realising' that 'the shook of the indictment would « probably • kill the' great banker, Mr " Mellen wrote a letter prepared for him by, Mr Morgan's lawyer, m which -heiassumed all responsibility.' As a result of this letter, Mi Mellen. was criminally indicted. Mr Mellen's stoi'y^was- listened to m dramatic silencej whichi Ayas heiglhtoned when he added that; after the death of the eldt v r Mr^Movgan, i ,the' laittfer's son" "fired" Irhn as president* of the railway ; Asia resuilt of, his ;revidej}ce.f-Mr Mellen. gains immunity from prpsecuiion/ " <