Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1912 — Tales of GOTHAM and other CITIES Millionaires Held Prisoners an Hour [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Tales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

Millionaires Held Prisoners an Hour

NEW YORK.—For nearly an hour the other day J. P. Morgan Jr. and Robert Bacon, *former ambassador to France, were held prisoners on the thirty-first fiber of the Bankers’ Trust building. It was nearly luncheon time when Mr. Morgan and Mr. Bacon fumed and fussed in the elaborate suite on the thirty-first floor of the Bankers’ Trust building which has been set aside for J. P Morgan Sr. for holding secret conferences. Mr. Morgan went up to the thirtyfirst floor for a conference with Mr. Bacon. First they took an express elevator to the twenty-ninth floor. An auxiliary runs up to the private suite, but it ,waß broken, so the two men walkeg up. They then turned the knob of the doorwhich leads to the suite, slammed It and proceeded to get dowu_to business. The conference did not last long and at Its eoncluslon Mr. Morgan went to the door.

There was no knob on the inside. A steel bar ran In from the outside knob, but it was so short that it couldn’t be turned. When Mr. Morgan saw the gazed blankly at Mr. Bacon Bacon gazed blankly at Mr. Morgan. “Jailed!” exclaimed Mr. Bacon. ' Mr. Morgan fished a penknife from his pocket and tried to loosen the screw which held the steel bar. Bo broke the blade of the knife. "There ought to be some way out of this,” the financier said, after ho had worked at the bar until the perspiration stood on his brow. Then he looked about and discovered an automatic fire alarm.- ; The breaking* of a glass cover-on the alarm ought to have brought firemen, but the alarm was not in working order, and the glass was broken to no purpose. After they had waited and waited, with no signs of firemen, they set to work at the door again. _ Mr. Bacon used his pocket knife this time and, after much laborious effort, managed to loosen the screw and shove the steel bar out of Its groove. - Then the handle of the knife was inserted into the groove and it opened the door. Mr. Morgan will probably take a fire axe with him when he again holds a conference in the private suite. v