Evening star., 1915-07-04
.HOLT'S CONFESSION
DUE TO SUGGESTION
FROM WASHINGTON

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parallel ideas had been made the basis
| of news dispatch.
Don't you know anything about
| this?" Holt was asked.
| No j wasn't in Washington Friday
| at all was in New York. / had my
breakfast and luncheon downtown at
the Mills Hotel at 36th street and 1th
| avenue. So you see l couldn't have
| been in Washington"
| What were you doing all day"
Il was walking around the streets in
New York, trying to make up my mind
| to come out here today and do my duty
That was all. l was thinking it over
When Holt was told that the Mills
Hotel clerks had not recalled seeing
him there yesterday, he still stuck to
his story.
1T does look strange. doesn't it," he
| asked. after reading the Washington
| story for the second time 1T seems
that the man who did that thought
about like l did. too, doesn't it? 1t
| was rather odd that he used almost
the same words as l did. 1 can't ex-
plain it"
Justice Luyster and Capt Tunney began
| to question him. They soon obtained
| his confession, they asserted.
Gave Him Third Degree.
Capt. Tunney intimat ted that so-called
| third degree methods were employed
when Holt denied the charge and
Justice Luyster said:
I'VE had to go after him good and
strong before he would tell us what
he knew"
According to Hollis confession. ne came
to Washington from New York Friday.
arriving there about noon. He went to
the Capitol during the afternoon and
timed the explosion at midnight. After
setting the bomb he strolled about
Washington for several hours. In the
evening he went to the Union station
a few blocks from the Capitol. and
waited several hours for the noise OF
the explosion, which he knew would
soon occur.
! II had two or three sticks of dyna-
| mite left over that ! didn't need on the
Washington job" he explained. SO
brought them along to Glen Cove anG
intended 10 use them here if l had to.
| "Why> did you want TO blow up the
Capftol?" Capt. Tunney asked him.
| Well" Holt replied. Il thought that
was a good way to bring the attention
of the American people to the terrible
murders being committed in Europe
| But what do you want to ask me thai
| for? 1 explained the whole thing in my
| letter to the editor of The Washington
Star. l understand my letter was
| printed today. Well. my reasons are
all in that letter"
Heard Him With Amazement.
| Capt Tunney and Justice Luyster
| listened with amazement to the recital.
Before the confession they had re-
garded Holt as a man who knew only
| :. little about explosives.
| They had remarked that no percus-
sion caps were found with the dyna-
mite in his suit case. or with a STICK
that was found on the lawn or the
| Morgan estate-apparently the stick
that he had carried in his pocket into
the Morgan house and thrown away
when the police hurried him to the
automobile-and they considered that
| in his plans. Dynamiters almost in
variably use a percussion cap. Capt
Tunney said, to explode the material
! With Holts assertion that ne was
of exploding dynamite, a method
which Capt Tunney said was used SO
seldom as to be almost unknown. the
impression was strengthened that the
prisoner was gifted with knowledge
far beyond what he had seen fit to
display in the earlier stages of his
questioning. And SO they went through
naI care this time, to determine If they
| had overlooked anything Of impor.
/ tance They found a scrap OF paper anC
! brought 1t to the light.
i on the scrap of paper were written
, the names of Junius Spencer (Mr.
Norgan's oldest son is named Junius
Spencer Morgan). Jane Norton Drew
Francis Tracy and Henry sturges. Inn
mediately below the name of Juniu,
Spencer was written Camp Uncers
Hamilton county. N. Y"
There is not much doubt In my mind.
said Justice Luyster. that the writing
on this scrap of paper fitted in will
Hollis plans to end the European war
and dynamite methods on the person.
whose names are on the paper is some
thing we have not yet determined. Per
haps we will be able to get some light OF
that later"
Made in Pennsylvania.
Capt. Tunney was somewha: puzzle,
as to where Holt had bought the dyna
mite which was manufactured in Penn
syivania A record Of all dynamite sale
In New York city is kept by the police
/, From this record Capt. Tunney said h.
was able to announce positively that tn
exr ,osive was net sold to Holt in New
| Y..rA
. In his statement Holt described tn
tcmb in detail. As missile Of terro
il was said to De unique IN the. annals o
the New York police department.
-. made this bCmb." Holt is quoted a
r having said in his confession. with thre
. sticks of dynamite, some match head
ard bottle of sulphuric acid
Il retty slick. commented Capt. Tun
ncy. 4 don't see how YOU did it,