The Green Forest tribune., 1915-07-09

S-@O and get to the match heads
 When the acid reached tba matc, heads it set them on fire and caused the explosion. There wasn't any que9e. work about it. I knew how much time 1 had. So I hung around while the acid was eating it's way through the cork. l pulled out my watch an1 said to myself that it ought to he going off pretty soon. And, sura enough, it did go off pretty soon Then l hurried to catch the train to New York"
 Holts confession of the Capitol ex- plcs1on came close on the heels of his denial of the charge to newspapor men and detectives. Reporters cold him the story from Washington, call. ing his attention to the marked sini- larity in the language used by him in his confession of shooting Mir. Morgan and the letters written to the Washington newspapers.
 Don't you know anything about this?' he was asked.
 
 No, I don't" he asserted. "t wasn't in Washington at all. I was in New York. I had my breakfast and my luncheon at the Mills Hotel, at Thirty-sixth Street and Seventh Ave nue. So you see I couldn't have been in Washington"
 What were you doing all day." he was asked.
 "1 was walking around the stret ts in New York trying to make up my mind to come out here and do my duty. That was all I was thinking it over."
 Holt was told that the Mills Hotel clerks couldn't recall his being there, but he stuck to his story.
 "It does seem strange" he said, af- ter reading the Washington story for the second time. "It does seem strange that the man who did that thought about as I did. It was rather odd that he used almost the same words I did. can't explain it."
 When Captain Tunney and Justice Luyster came out from their two-hour talk with Holt, the policeman inti- mated that something approaching the third degree had been resorted to.
 We had to go after him good and strong before he told what he knew ' said the Justice.
 Placed the Bomb at 4 p. M.
 According to Holt's confession, he went to Washington from New York Friday, arriving in the capital about noon. He went to the Capitol, he said, in the afternoon and set the bomb about o'clock, timing it to go off about midnight He strollei about Washington several hours. In that time he mailed the letters he hal previously written, explaining why he wished to blow up the Capitol. He had written the letters before he went to Washingon, and in each there had been left blank spacein the typewrit- tes lines for the insertion If the word Senate" The police believe this in dicated that he had been undecided what building to blow up, and they think that he might have considered dynamiting the White House. Holt caught the midnight train back to New York, which gave him just tirla to catch a. Long Island train from the same station out to MT. Morgan $ home.
 q had two or three sticks of dyna- mite left over that 1 didn't need in Washington" he explained, "so brought them along to Glen Cove. intended to use them there if I had to-"
 "Why did you try to blow up the Capitol?" CaptaAn Tunney asked.
 Well" was the reply, T thought that was a good way to bring the at tention of the American people to the terrible murders being committed in Europe. But what do you want to ask me that for? l explained the whole thing in my letter to The Washington Times. I understand my letter was printed. Well. my reasons are all in that letter"
 Before the confession Captain Tun- ney had been skeptical of Holt's cor' nection with the Washington eXplc- sion, because he had regarded the for mer Cornell teacher as q man Who knew little of explosives. He had re- marked that no percussion caps had been found with the dynamite in Holt's suitcase, and had about COL eluded that the man had the dynamite. hut didn't know what to do with 1t. Dynamiters almost invariably use a percussion cap to cause and eXplo- sion.
 Had Names of Others.
 After Holts confession, showing that he was familiar with one ot the rarest methods of exploding dynamite, the Captain went through the prison CTS pockets again. He found scrap of paper, and discovered on 1t the name. "Junius Spencer name of MT. Morgan's son-and the names o1 lane Norton Drew, Francis Tracy and Henry Sturges. Immediately beloF'