Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-07-08

I. Glen Cove, l.. l., luly Cd. ::
= p. Morgan. who was shot twice !:
!. by Frank Holt last Saturday, :
:. is out OF danger. His physi- :.
!. clans have so notified his fam =
i lily, Mr.. Morsan's pulse and <
Il temperature are normal and he :.
4 passed a restful night. Z.
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New York. July 3.-Frank Holt, for,
mer teacher of German in Cornell uni
versity, obsessed by the idea that God
had appointed him to stop the ship
ment OF wal supplies to the allies,
tried to murder J. p. Morgan, attempt
ing nine hours before to wreck the
Capitol at Washington, 800 miles
away, with a dynamite bomb, the pc.
lice declare. Holt confessed, they
said, that he placed the bomb which
damaged the senate wing of the Cap.
itoIvEriday night.
The New York and Washington po-
lice also have information which leads
them to believe that Holt planned
next to go to Cornish, y. H., and at
tempt the life Of President Wilson.
Holt forced his way into Mr.. Nor
cams house on East Island, three and
cne-half miles from Glen Cove. l.. L..
drove the butler before him by the
menace Of a revolver, searched the
house until he found Mr.. and Mrs.
Morgan on the second floor, and then,
as Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan attempted to
disarm him. fired two shots.
One bullet entered the lower side Of
Mr.. Morgan's abdomen and lodged
near the base of the spine. The other
pierced the right groin, ranged down
ward through the flesh of the thigh
and passed out of Mr.. Morgan's body.
The %tinancier, who as head of the
banking house which was the purchas-
ing agent of the British government
had become an object for Hollis at.
tack, is seriously. but not fatally in.
jured.
Mrs. Morgan Seizes Intruder.
Mr.. Morgan owes his life. very
likely, to the courage and quickaess
OF Mrs. Morgan, who, the first TO de-
tect Holt lurking i'll the shadows OF
the upper hallway, literally flung her
self at the man and so disturbed his
aim that he had no opportunity to
shoot straight.
Mr.. Morgan himself overpowered
Holt and with the assistance of sery-
ants tied him and trusscd him after
the Morgan butler, Henry Fiske, had
thumped him soundly over the head
with the first handy Weapon availa-
bic, a coal bod.
Then Mr.. Morgan, after calmly as
suring his house guests. the British
ambassador and Lady Sprin@-Rice, who
had witnessed the desperate struggle
on the second floor landing, that he
was not badly hurt. and after tele-
phoning to his mother and to William
d. Porter, one OF his partners. himself
t~elephoned to DR.. William II. Zabris-
kle OF Glen Cove, simply telling DR..
Zabriskie that he had been shot and
asking the physician to come at once
to the house.
Holt Given the Third Deqree."
Thomas Tunny, captain Of the bomb
and anarchist squad of detectives Of
the New York police department, and
William E. Luyster. Justice of the
peace before whom Holt was az
raigned, obtained the confession. TX
do so, they minated, they had te
employ SO called third degree meth
DDS of police headquarters.
Three sticks of dynamite bound to
gether, some match heads placed in a
hollow OF one of the sticks, a bottle OF
sulphuric acid. in the neck of which
there was inserted a cork carefully
measured and of a kind previously
teSted-such was the bomb which
Holt placed in the senate wing of the
Capitol at 4 p. N. Friday.
Holt had ascertained by tests that
the acid would eat it's way through the.
cork in about eight hours. Therefore
he estimated that the bomb would ex-
plode about midnight. He wanted to
make certain, he said, that it would
explode, so he took a stroll about
Washington and early in the evening
went to the Union station, a few
blocks from the Capitol, and waited
there until he heard the explosion.
Then he took a train to New York
and from there to Glen Cove, where
he engaged an auto and was driven to
the Morgan residence.
The damage to the Capitol will not
exceed $4,000, mostly to furnishings.