The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04
STATE BUILDING
CONTRACT LET

Jan here. To the dozens of questions
which the local police volleyed at Elm
he at first made NO reply and Tor.
more than an hoar he declined 10
give his ZANE or SAY ANYTHING about
himself Finally hs oecame talka.
tive and told justice of the Ps.:cs
uyster II at he had gone to see Mr..
Aforgan anout ending the EuroIpin
war and that Mr. Morgan hac not
givn him chanc to say anything.
II fird to scare him." Holt said.
They tell me i hit him. hope he
is not badly hurt
Soon Holt decided that he would
write what he had to make public on,
the matter. He then prepared a
statement addressed TO Justice Luy-
ster and intended for the newspapers.
In hts statement he repeated TO great
extent what he had told Mr.. Luyster
verbally.
Exact Extent Not known.
The extent and nature of Mr..
Morgan's injury were not defined un-
til nearly o'clock in the afternoon
when specialists summoned from
New York had completed their exam
inatiop. of him. In the meantime
numerous conflicting reports We're
circulated as to the gravity of these
wounds. One of these reports was
that bullet had struck Mr.. Nor
gan in the abdomen.
A line OF deputy sheriffs were kept
around the Morgan estate and all
iallers were excluded.
Holt is Arraigned.
Late today Holt was arraigned be-
fore Justice Luyster on charge OF
assault with intent at malicious kill
ing The prisoner was brought from
his cell into the court house with a
white bandage around his head
through which showed a dark red
STAIN above a cut onrthe forehead.
He appeared to have been weakened
by the loss of blood and tottered as
he stood before the Justice.
you are charged" said Justice
Luyster, with assault with intent
at malicious killing. How do you
wish to plead?.
Holt swayed forward SO far that
1t appeared he would fall He threw
of county detective. Another de-
tectiye sprang to Hollis side and be-
tween them they supported him dur
ing the rest of the proceedings.
How do you .plead?" asked the
justice.
Take out all that about the ma
lic:ous killing" Holt replied. "It
oughtn't to be there"
Justice Luyster informed the pris-
oner that the wording of the charge
was according to the legal code.
Pleads Not Guilty.
go you want preliminary exam
lnatiop.?" the justice asked.
II don't know what you mean"
Holt replied But do want to OBJ
ject to the part that tells about ma
licious killing. That isn't right"
The justice explained the meaning
of his question and again. asked Holt
how he pleaded. Finally Holt said
he pleaded mot guilty" He ap-
pearcd undecided whether he. want
ed preliminary examination. As
sistant District Attorney Weeks step
ped forward while Holt appeared to
be making up his mind and told the
court he would like to ask for posi-
ponement of all further proceedings
until next Wednesday, July q. This
bail in the meantime.
Is Tries TO Blow Up Capitol.
Holt is the man who set the bomb
that exploded in the United States
capitol at Washington last night. In
a statement made to Justice Luyser
and Thomas Tunney, head of the
bomb and anarchistic squad of the
New York city detective bureau, Holt
confessed setting the bomb and de-
scrfbed 1t in detail. As missile of
terror. It was to be unique in the an
nails OF. the New York police depart
ment.
Il made this bomb, Holt is quoted
as having said in his confession, with
three sticks of dynamite, some match
heads and a bottle of sulphuric acid.
had experimental on 1t before. Not
once, you know, but many times.
knew just what I was doing and just
how to doa=it. 1 really didn't take
any chances for all my observations
had been checked up and knew
when the bomb would go Off almost
| to the minute. In fact I waited in
Washington until I heard it go on.
Then I hurried away as fast as 1
could and caught the train for New
1 had to hurry"
How did you make the bonn b 20
he was asked.
Tells How He Made It.
'Well,'' he replied. Il took three
sticks of dynamite and bound them
together. Then / took my knife and
followed out place In one of the
sticks. When 1 had cleaned 1t out
clean enoughI put some match heads
into the hole-three or four. don't
know exactly how many.
When the match heads were put
in the hole 1 took little bottle of
sulphuric acid out OF my pocket and
put a regular cork in the neck I
turned the bottle upside down and
fastened the cork in the hole In the
dynamite just above the match heads.
You see / had timed the sulphuric
acid in my tests before and 1 knew
| just how long it would take to eat
through the cork and get to the match
heads.