The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-04

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newspaper clippings were in the case,
all relating to the European war.
Henry Fiske, Mr.. Morgan's butler,
doubtless saved his employer from
more serious injury by telling the as
sailant with blow from a coal hod
and overpowering him. Holt was
locked up in the Glen Cove Jail, and
from his cell issued statement as
sorting that he was impelled to go to
Mr.. Morgan to persuade him to stop
the export of war munitions.
The attack on Mr.. Morgan took
place in the dining room of the Nor
gan home. The assailant, refused adj
mission at the door, pressed a pistol
against the buffers body and pushed
past him through the hallway and in
to the dining room, where Mr.. Nor
gan had just finished breakfast.
The assailant reached Glen Cove on
an early train, carrying a suit case
and drove by automobile to the Nor
gan estate, three miles away. He left
his suit case near hedge on the es-
tate. Later the suit case was found
to contain dynamite. A second pistol,
fully loaded, was found in the prison
er's booklet when he was searched at
! Glen Cove.
The effect of the shooting on the
stock market was negligible. The
market, which opened irregularly, re-
sponded to the news of the shooting
with loss of about a point on So
called Morgan securities, including
United States steel stocks. Holt made
/ the following statement to the Asso-
ciated Press this afternoon:
HOLT ISSUES STATEMENT.
My home is in Dallas, Texas.
! have wife and children, and ar
40 years old. was born in this
country and so were my father and
mother. My ancestors were French
and German; it was all mixed up. l
received a degree of Doctor of PhiIos-
ophy from Cornell in 1914, but before
that / was an instructor in French.
formerly was an instructor in Vanoer-
bilt University, Nashville.
81 came to New York two weeks
ago from Ithaca and put up at the
Mills Hotel at Both Street and Seventh
Avenue. took no pains to conceal
my identity and registered under my
own name.
about month ago conceived the
idea to see ]. P. Morgan and get him
to use his influence in stopping the
expectation of arms which make you
and me responsible for the murder
which is going on over there.
81 could not go from manufacturer
to manufacturer myself, but thought
Mr.. Morgan's banking connections
would render it more easy for him to
accomplish this.
"I have not been influenced to do
this by anybody else. l think Presi-
dent Wilson's notes were fine, but
they did not seem TO do anything to
stop the war.
81 came down here from New York
this morning to put my idea before
Mr.. Morgan, but I depended upon
him to formulate the plan. Of course
l did not mean to shoot Mr.. Morgan,
but I intended to stay there until
[ something was done. ] had a stick of
dynamite in my pocket; l thought it
might come in handy some how.
/ "Some fool has said that I had nj
troglscc in my suit case, but that
/ wasonly benzine to clean my clothes.
I went up to the house and got by the
butler and walked up stairs. I had
my gun in my hand. In the hall, on
the second floor, l met Mr.. Morgan.
A woman who I took to be his wife
Immediately preceded him down the
hall.
"She screamed and jumped away
from where-I don't know where ex-
actly. Mr.. Morgan did not give. me a
chance to say anything. He Jumped
at me and grappled with me and I
fired in the air, thinking to scare him.
They tell me hit him. I don't know
for somebody hit me on the head.
81 hope Mr.. Morgan is not badly
hurt / admire Mr.. Morgan's courage
in graphing with me- If he would
only use his courage in the right di-
rection and for the right things he will
get some where and do something
worth while"
I With a pencil borrowed from a
newspaper man, Holt addressed this
telegram to his wife at 101 Marseilles
street, Dallas:
MAN proposes, God disposes. Don't
come here until you get my letter. Be
strong"
The telegram was signed Frank .
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