Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-03

NEW YORK. July 81. p Morgan.
head of the banking house of his
name, and financial agent in this
country of the British government.
was shot twice at his country home
near Glencove, L. l.. this morning
Mr.. Morgan's assailant, who was
captured by squad of servants toi6s
the police that his name was Frank
Holt and that he was an Instructor
in German at Cornell University
1t was said that MIR. Morgan was
not seriously wounded. One of the
shots, it was reported, took effect in
his hip; the other in his breast, tear
ing the flesh and passing out through
his arm Later bulletins given out
through the Morgan offices confirmed
these advices from his physicians.
Police officials who quizzed Holt be-
l1eve he is mentally unbalanced
Holt, placed under arrest and held
on the charge of assault, declared he
had come to see Mr.. Morgan and per-
suade him to end the war. He said
that he had no intention of hurting
him. At first he refused to give his
name, asserting simply that he was a
Christian gentleman" Later he
gave out a statement in which he at
tackled Mr.. Morgan and his connec-z
tion with securing munitions in this
country for the allies at war in Eu-
rope.
Mr. Morgan. apparently, did NOT
consider himself seriously wounded.
When ii was reported that he was
shot the Morgan house was the tar
get of a volley of telephone inquiries
The first of these calls was answered
by Mr.. Morgan himself who calmly
told of the shooting and added that
he did not think it amounted to very
much.
Henry Fiske. Mr.. Morgan's butler.
doubtless saved his employer from
more serious injury by telling the
assailant with blow from a coal nod
and oyerpowering him. Holt was
locked ZIP in the Glen Cove Jail and
from his cell issued statement
asserting that he was impelled to go
to Mr. Morgan to persuade him to
stop the shipment of munitions of war
from this country abroad
Soon after Mr.. Morgan was shot he
insisted on having telephone extern
sion brought to his side and over the
wire he talked with his mother,
assuring her that he was not danger
ously wounded and telling her she
need not worry about his condition
He wished her to hear the news from
his own lips first
Cramer, the taxicab chauffeur who
had driven the assailant three miles
from the Glencove station to the
Morgan home, was still standing with
his car in front of the gate when the
shots were fired. Cramer ran around
to the garage in the Morgan house
and sounded an alarm bell. summons
ing the servants.
Hnd Dynamite In Satchel.
With three guards the assailant
was placed in one of Mr.. Margan's
automobiles and hurried at top speed
to Glencove. The satchel which was
left by the hedge by the man also was
thrown into the car When it was
opened, the dynamite inside was
found to be of the sixty per cent
nitro gYcerine kind, the kind which
explodes more easily than the forty
per cent. kind, commonly used By
contractors.
The man was searched at Glencove.
In his pocket was found a second pis-
tol. the latter being of % caliber,
while the weapon which was used In
the attack was .3S caliber.
The terrific force of the blow the
assailant received from the coal hod
had caused him to bleed profusely,
and he appeared to be weakening as
the day passed. Although he had apr
peared to be but little hurt at first.
he became or feigned to become
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