The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-07-09
ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF
]. P|ERPONT MORGAN, JR,
Frank Holt, Former Vanderbilt In
structor Confesses to Crime.

Mr.. Morgan had penetrated his hin
and that neither had pierced his
abdomen.
The first shot struck the right
hip and went through in a line al
most horizontal, DETECTING and
slightly downward. The second
shot struck near the groin and was
DETECTED much more sharply down
ward. This shot came out of the
upper leg.
Frank Holt, former Cornell Uni
versity instructor, who attempted to
assassinate ]. P. Morgan at East
Isle, Mr.. Morgan's summer home
near here to-day, confessed tonight
that he was the man who set the
bomb which exploded in the capitol
at Washington last night.
Mr.. Morgan, the victim of the
bullets which Holt fired to-day, was
said by specialists at his bedside to
be resting we'll tonight. No vital
organ, the physiciansannounced, had
been involved in his injury. The
physicians, however, declined to
state the precise location of Mr..
Morgan's wounds. Junius Spencer
Morgan, eldest son of the financier,
was asked to define the exact nature
OF the injuries. After comforting
with the physicians, young Mr.. Nor
gan asserted they had decided to |
add nothing to their previous bull
letins.
Holt, by his confession and the
detailed capitol outrage, stamped
himself as an expert on the use of
explosives, the police assert. I'm
mediately after his confession was
obtained, the chief of the Washing
ton police, a squad of secret service
operators, and New York City de-
tectives and Bertillon and finger
print experts were summoned to
Glen Cove.
USE THIRD DEGREE.
Thomas Tunney, captain of the
bomb and anarchist. squad of New
York detectives, and VIM. E. Lyster,
the Justice of the Peace before s
whom Holt was arraigned late to-
day, obtained the confessions. To a
do SO, they intimated, they had to
employ so-called third degree meth
DDS. i
Three sticks of dynamite bound
together; some match heads placed v
N hollow of one of the sticks n
which Holt had scooped out with
lis penknife; bottle sulphuric acid S
n the neck of which there was in
erted a cork carefully measured and h
IT kind previously tested-such CT
vas the bomb which Holt placed in v
he senate wing of the capitol at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. Holt al
lad ascertained by tests that the
cid would eat it's way thru the B
ork in about eight hours. There 81
ore, he estimated that the bomb
yould explode about midnight. He M
wanted to make certain, he said M
hat it would explode, so he took a
roll about Washington and early tn
l the evening went to the union
alton, several blocks away from M
lie capitol and waited there until he VIZ
card the explosion.
Then he boarded train to New PI
ork. Arriving there, he lost little da
me in taking another train for
LEM Cove. Several sticks of the Sol
1naInite left over from the making mi
the Washington bomb were in
S suitcase and these he took with lis
m.
One of the sticks he placed in his
,cket, with two loaded revolyers,
r use, if necessary, in his mission w.
the Morgan home. 1t was not
ed and was found when he was Mt
cked up.
At first the police thought the 10t
Mantle played minor role in his
an to assassinate Mr.. Morgan. Ca
hen they listened, in undisguised
lazement, to the story he told of fiel
e Washington bombs construc-
IN, they concluded that he pos SIN
ssed a knowledge of explosives far
yond that of the ordinary bomb bet
lker. IS,
Under the third degree, Holt talk
freely of his bomb-designing.
Ithout much persuasion he had I
emily admitted earlier in the day tho
at he had gone to the Morgan Chi
me with the intention of remain nee
; there until Mr.. Morgan did and
nething to end the European war moV
wanted Mr.. Morgan to prevent gra
, further export of American-made racl
r munitions. who
The man who unfolded this I'M mel
lal story of manipulating and at day
1pted assassination, talked coolly the
with dramatic frankness. He is earl
American citizen, native born, and
tut 35 years old, and educated far getl
we the average. He had been a tify