The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-04

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ness TO Germany"
He told Assistant District Attorney
Weeks and the newspaper men That
he came to New York from Ithaca
about ten days ago and registered al
/ the Mills Hotel. No. 3. at Seventh
Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street. He
would have the authorities believe to-
day that he had not been out of New
York since arriving at the Mills Ho-
tel, but 1t was ascertained that he
/ had not been at the hotel on Friday
or Friday night. and this discovery
| led partly to his confession that he
! had gone to Washington to explode
/ the bomb which destroyed part Of the
Senate wing.
Encouraged possibly by his ability
! to set off a bomb in the Capitol and
! escape arrest or detection, he returned
| to New York early this morning and
took the first available train out of
! tle Pennsylvania depot over the Long
| Island Railroad to Glen Cove. This
train arrived at Glen Cove at $3.50 A.
| NJ.
| The instant Holt stepped onto the
! platform several of the professional
| chauffeurs who let their automobile
hacks to visitors recognized him as the
! same man who had visited Glen Cove
on Thursday afternoon last and who
| had been driven to the Morgan
grounds on East Island by Matthew
Kramer. chauffeur who works for
! Myron F. Ford, the driver who took
Holt TO the Morgan home this morn
/ ing.
On Thursday, Kramer said. Hol,
approached him and asked to be
driven to the j. p. Morgan house. He
remarked casually that he was a Wis
itor interested In handsome country
places and wanted to see how fine
Mr.. Morgan's house was. Kramer
took him as far as the entrance gate
where he stepped out, glanced toward
| the front of the house and over the
grounds, and then asked to be car.
ried back to the depot.
Sized Up Situation.
! 1t is absolutely certain that he
took the opportunity in this and other
WAYS TO familiarize himself in every
| way possible with the lay of the
grounds and with the identity of sucs
OF Mr. Morgan's servants as he might
expect to meet. He knew Mr.. Nor
gan's chauffeur, Hiram Campbell, by
sight, and was on the lookout fol-
| Campbell this morning. Others oil
the servants he had Inspected care
fully.
Fred Ford, proprietor of the line
of motor cars which serves Glen Cove
visitors, was standing by the little cal
which bears a name like his owT
when Holt with his peering eyes and
stopped shoulders. slouched up L
him this morning and asked to bs
driven to the Morgan home. Ford
noticed that the man was we'll dressed
though not particularly neat, and hao
irA nf hat ra0
senger had other than a Legitimate
I business errand.
4 Before the car started for Eaa
Island Holt asked Ford IL he might
sit in the drivers seat
1 Il can see the country better IL
sit with you," he remarked. Besides
believe that Mr.. Morgan Is starting
for New York city this, morning, and
don't know whether he intends to
use his yacht, the Corsair. or go BY
train. Probably he will go by train
J Morgans chauffeur
Ford replied that he knew Camp
bell well.
That's good" said Holt. I'VE ma,
meet Mr.. Morgan's automobile alonf
/ the road. IL we do | want you tC
throw my suitcase into Mr., Morgan's
4 car and / will Jump IN myself. In
an old friend OF Mr.. Morgan's, and
he won't think anything Of ita-.Qld
friends are allowed unusual prfvi-
\ leges.'
That placed In Ford's mind the
first faint suspicion that his passen-
ger was a person who needed watch
ing The driver could not do anyth tne
precipitate. He had nothing to 70 on
AS the motor car began TO cross Q
bridge, which was being repaired, and
slowed down to make the narrow
temporary roadway, Holt climbed
back into the tonneau, saying tt
Ford:
II expect I had better get a card
out OF my suitcase. The servants
might require. one"
u He opened the brown suitcase
which he had brought from New
York and extracted several articles
Ford was SO busy with the manage.
ment of his car In the slender bridge
roadway that he did not observe ex-
actly what Holt took from the case
He rather thought later that Holt had
4 used the moment to remove two re-
i volvers and possibly the sticks Of dy-
4 Mantle that were subsequently fount
on his person and in the Morgan
grounds. At any rate. he found what
he sought, regained his place IN thu
drivers seat. and told Ford to CON
j tinue on to a place iears the froH1
entrance OF the house.
Eyes Shining Lake II Cats.
Z The automobile was not stopped al
1.-THE lodge of Superintendent McGre.
gor. and there were no servants or
the lawns. Ford shut OF the power
and glanced inquiringly at his fare
He noticed, he says, that Hollis eyer
were shining like a cats in the dark
He smiled slightly as he stepped
! lightly from the car and walked the
short distance TO the main entrance oil
Mr.. Morgan's house
+ Ford watched him closely---stiil i'm.
J pressed by the notion that
pressed by the notion that the man
was queer--and saw him ring the
bell. Then as Henry Physick, TINS
Morgan butler. answered the ring and
half opened the door the automobile
drawer, saw something else that made
him release q shout OF alarm, AMI
sent him scurrying from the car Il
4 the Morgan garage calling for help
i He saw that Holt had drawn hi
volver from the side pocket OF In
coat and that he was pressing the
4 muzzie of the revolver against the
buffers stomach. That Was all thai
Ford saw OF the preiiminaries az tn
4 attack. The rest is known from whAi
Holt himself confessed to Justice Lafy.
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