The Harrison times., 1915-07-10
j. P. Morgan Shot By Man
Who Set The Capitol Bomb

above the match heads. You see
had timed the sulphuric acid in my
tests before and knew just how long
it would take to eat through the cork
and get to the match heads.
when the acid reached the match
heads 1t set them on fire and caused
the explosion. There wasn't any guess
work about 1t. ! knew how much time
I had. So I hung around while the
acid was eating its way through the
cork, / pulled out my watch aud
said to myself that 1t ought to be
going off pretty soon, And, sure
enough, It did go off pretty soon
Then I hurried to catch the train tc
New York"
Holt's confession of the Capitol ex
plosion came close on the heels Of his
denial Of the charge to newspaper
men and detectives. Reporters cold
him the story from Washington, call
ing his attention to the marked simi
larity in the language used by him
in his confession of shooting Mr.
Morgan and tho letters written to the
Washington newspapers,
Don't you know anything about
this?" he was asked
mo, I don't" he asserted, 81
wasn't in Washington at all, ] was in
Now York l had my breakfast and
my luncheon at the Mills Hotel at
Thirty-sixth Street and Seventh Ave
nue. So you see | couldn't have been
in Washington"
what we're you doing all day." he
was asked.
81 was walking around the streets
in New York trying to make up my
mind to come out here and do my
duty. That was all. l was thinking
It over"
Holt was told that the Mills Hotel
clerks couldn't recall his being there
but he stuck TO his story
1T docs seem strange" lie said, af
ter reading the Washington story for
the second time ut docs seem strange
that the man who did that thought
about as did II was rather odd that
ne used almost the same words I did
| cant explain II"
When Captain Tunney and Justice
Luyster came out from their two.houl
talk with Holt the policeman init
mated that something approaching thu
third degree had boon resorted to,
I'VE had 10 go after him good and
strong before he told what he knew
said the Justice,
Placed the Bomb at 4 P. M,
According to Holts confession, he
went to Washington from New YorN
Friday arriving In the capital about
noon, He went TO the Capitol, nc
said, in the afternoon and set The
bomb about o'clock, timing It tC
40 of about midnight Tie strolle,
about Washington several hours, n
that time he mailed the letters he hWI
previously written, explaining why hC
wished 70 blow up tho Capitol He had
written the letters before he went tc
Washington, and IN each there had
been left q blank spOcein the typewrit
tes lines for the insertion of the word
Senate" Tho police believe this In
dicNted that he had been undecided
what building 10 blow up, and they
think that he might have considered
dynNmiting the White House Holt
caught the midnight train back :,
New York, which gave him Just tirlr
to catch q Long Island train from the
same station out to Mr. Morga0l
home
81 had two or three sticks Of dyap
mite left over that | didn't ncod IN
Washington" he explained, 80
brought them along TO Glen Cove
intended to use them there II | hat
TO-"
why did you try TO blow up The
CApitolY Captain Tunncy asked
"Well" was the reply ~ thought
that was O good way 10 bring the at
tontion OF the American people TO tht
torrblc murders being committed II
Europe But what do you want to ash
me that ror2 explained the Who'll,
thing In my lottcr to Tho Washington
Times | understand my letter wa
printed, Well my reasons are all II
that letter.
Before the confession Captain Tun
ney had been okcptical Of Hol's con
nocton with the Washington eSpo
sion, because ho had regarded the for
mer Cornell teacher M man wht
knew littlo Of explosives, lie had re
marked that no percussion caps has
been found with tho dynamite II
lIoltB sultcasc and had about COT
eludcd that tho man had the dynamite
but didn't know what 10 do with Il
DynRmltora almost invariably use {
percussion cap 70 cause and oSplo
sion,
Had Names Of othera