New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-04
Wall Street Excited by Attack MoganBankes SaDe Marker

library showing him into that room.
A. he looked in cried to Mr.. Morgan
10 90 upstairs. The fellow started up
tho front STARR after the master, ana
Mrs. Morgan and some Of their iriends
had gone up the other way. and ran
TO alarm the servants and get help.
"On the way back picked up lump
of coal. and when ! got upstairs ana
Mr.. Morgan was wrestling with MN on
Tho floor | let him have 1t over inc
head. Then we bound him up ana
looked after Mr.. Morgan"
Mrs. Resale McCabe, a nurse VINO
has beer in the Morgan family TOT
many years, told of the scui1e IN me
upper hall and the shooting, as did
Bernard Stewart, Mr.. Morgan's valet
Estate Now Guarded.
Neither tho justice nor Mr.. Weeks
was permitted to see Mr.. Morgan. Ihey
apparently had ne little information az
TO the exact CO. diton of the banker as
those held up 81 the entrance 10 the
Morgan estate & mile away
This road approaching inc DrluSe
that connects the Morgan place wlth
the main land was torn up so there IS
room for but a single yehlcle, eng
there a deputy sheriff and farm manu-
working under the direction OF AIlBuS
McGregor, Mr.. MOrgan's superlh-
tendent, kept all who could sno" 10
e cd reason for entering away.
Even Herbert l. Satterlee and MS
wife. Mr.. Morgan's sister, had dlfn-
Guilty in entering when they arrived IN
n dusty high powered car. Mrs. Satter-
lee was apparently cool, but her nus
band was plainly worried,
They had been preceded into the
house by Dwight w. Morrow, the
Younger Of Mr.. Morgan's partners, and
ono Of the two at present in New York;
George f. Baker, jr.. William person
Hamilton and Mrs. Hamilton, also
sister of the banker, and Willard ID.
Straight. Of the Morgan staf.
Mr.. Baker was the first OF these TO
leave VIII the reporters stopped
him at the barrier to ask what Mr..
Morgan's condition was he refused TO
talk.
Il cannot say a thing" he replied
mot a thing
Meanwhile In Glen Cove the widest
rumors we're in circulation. One was
to the effect that the bankers IN
testines had been punctured. Another
was that the second shot had been re-
moved from the base of the spine.
The examination of witnesses at the
MORGAN place was ended soon after 3
o'clock and just before O'Clock HoIt
was arraigned before Justice Luyster.
About the Glen Cove courthouse,
which looks more like a country church
than a court of justice, big crowd had
Gathered. From New York had come a
q ~
and the inevitable motion picture ma
chine was also in evidence. These
swarmed into the courtroom, where IN
one corner the machines were set up.
Just after O'Clock Holt, weakly
leaning on the arm and shoulder OF
Constable McCahill, was brought IN
from the cell room. About his head was
a blood-stained bandage and he looked
weak and sick. His gray coat had been
replaced by "A blue jacket a policeman
had loaned him. and as his name was
called he all but fell before McCahlll
could grab him.
Would Amend Complaint.
Frank f. McCahill, being duly
sworn" read the justice, Says that he
is informed, and so believes, that on
the Sd day Of July, 1915, in the town
Of OYSTER Bay, Nassau County, State or
New York, Frank Holt, late of Ithaca,
y. Y, did commit the crime OF assault
in the first degree in that, being armed
at the time and place aforesaid, he did
willfully, maliciously and felonlously go
to the home of J. p. Morgan at East ISL
and, and with intent TO do bodily harm
TO the said J. Z. Morgan and to Kill
him did fire two shots at the SAID j. +.
Morgan with revolver with leaden
ball cartridges, and did grievous bodily
harm upon the said j. p. Morgan"
Holt had listened intently to the
reading.
what is your plea" asked the
court, while the cameras and the NOV
ing picture machines clicked away,
guilty or not guilty.?
"All that about trying TO Kill him IS
wrong" said Holt.
"That is the language OF the statute"
said the court.
Take out all about wanting to kill
him. ! didn't want TO kill him"
Holt" said the court, ut is my duty
10 tell you that you may plead now or
ask for a reasonable time in which 20
consult counsel. What do you say, do
you wish to plead now or will you ask
for n continuance ,?
"You should rot have put that in
there about wanting to kill him." re
piled Holt. "You know better"
Assistant District Attorney Weeks
here cut in TO ask that the prisoners
plea be entered as mot guilty" to pro-
tect his rights, and that the case be
continued until Wednesday. He was
not ready to 90 on, he said, even if
II =
over to Wednesday at 2 o'clock, and
Holt was taken back to his cell pre-
paratory TO being removed to the
cnuntu iail in Minnnla