The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-03
]. P. MORGAN
TWICE SHOT
Fired Upon byAssassin i'm His
Country Home on Long
Island Today
MAN OVERPOWERED
MORGAN'S BUTLER
Is Under Arrest at Glencove - One
Bullet Passed Through Arm, other
Is Lodged in Victims Thigh-As-
sailant Carried Satchel of Dynamite.

NEW YORK, July 3. - J. p. Nor
gan, head of the big banking house of
his name and financial agent in this
country of the British government,
was shot twice in his country home near
Glencove, L. L., by man who entered
the house shortly after Q o clock this
morning
1t was said Mr.. Morgan was not seri-
ously wounded. One shot took effect in
his hip, the other in his breast. tearing
the flesh and passing out through his
arm.
The assailant was overpowered bv
servants, placed in Mr.. Morgan s auto
mobile and rushed to Glencove. There
he refused to say who he was or
where he came from, but asserted he
was "a Christian gentleman and had
felt 1t his duty to persuade Mr. Morgan
to end the war
The effect on the stock market was
hardly noticeable
No absolute Identification of Mr.,
Morgan s assailant has as vet been
made. lie did say, however, that he
was of German descent Mr.. Morgan.
with his wife and daughters. went to
their summer home in Glencova after
the marriage Of Mr.. Morgan s son.
Junlus Spencer Morgan, in Boston i
few weeks ago
At Glencove, Justice of the Peace
Luyster questioned the prisoner. who
asserted his name was t. Holt and said
that he was instructor in French nj
Cornell university. He told the iustice
that he had no quarrel with Mr.. Nor.
gan personally, but felt that the time
had come for the war to end. 1t was
become more and more unhearable. he
Isald, and it was his firm belief that he
should 90 to Mr.. Morgan and ask him
to end 1T. This, he knew, Mr.. Morgan
could accomplish because of his great
influence
. wanted to see Mr. Morgan and to
reason with him, the man said. 81
have nothing against him. =
The assailant was cut over the eve
by a blow from coal he'd and had
been bleeding freely lie also limpcd
Morgan servants
MIR. Morgan apparently did not con
slider himself seriously wounded. When
Iit was first reported he had been shot
the Morgan house was the target of a
yolley of telephone inquiries from New
York. The first of the calls were ans
wered by Mr.. Morgan himself, who
calmly told of the shooting and added
he did not think it amounted to much
| The first news of the shooting was re,
ceived at 1890 at the Office of the sher
iiff of Nassau county al Mineola.
! The sheriff Immediately despatched
/ men to GlencoVe to investigate
| 1t was unofiicially stated that two
bullets took effect on Mr. Morgan, ono
taking a glancing course after striking
Mr.. Morgan in the breast and passing
out through the arm The other wounc
was said to be in the hip.
| The man who fred the shots arrived
in Glencove this morning on the So
train, hired an automobile and went tt
the Morgan home at Matinicock point
He rang the bell and when the butler
answered called for Mr.. Morgan
He said he was an old friend of Mr.
| Morgan, but was refused admission tC
the house.
The man said he then pressed a pisto
lagainst the stomach of the butler, whC
screamed, and pushed his way past hin
tinto the hall Mr. Morgan was an
proaching the front door through thu
hall at the time. He asked what tn,
| trouble was. The answer was shor
which took effect in his hip. Mr.. Nor
gan staggered and fell into a chair. Th,
butler, the assailant s back being
turned, picked UP brass coal hod from
the fireplace and brought it down OF
the assailant, but too late to prevent
second shot. The butler fell on the man
wrested the weapon away and overpow
cred him.
Servants came running in answer tt
his call, and the sheriff and surgeon
were summoned by telephone.
The man was placed under arrest an(
Itaken to Glencove.
A satchel which the man brought t.
| Glencove was found near hedge OF
the Morgan property. It was filleC
4 with dynamite.