The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-07-21
BUGHOUSE OR JAIL
now FOR CRANKs
Who Threaten Or Modest
Officials.
TAKING PAINS At WASHINGTON
T0Protect the President. Cab
met, Ambassadors and
other diplomats.
oEF1oERs WILL BE ON wATCH


Washington, July 1.-THE prin-
cipal points in the campaign begun
by Federal authorities to prevent
fanatics from damaging Government
property or injuring persons. as
Frank Holt did when he placed
bomb In the Capitol and shot ]. P.
/ Morgan, are these:
I. Every threatening letter re-
ported to the Post-Ofice Depart
ment will be given to Chief Inspec-
tor Rooms with instructions to trace
it to the author and enforce the pos
tai law covering such offenses. The
Secret Service of the Treasury De-
partment and Department of JUS
tice. and the Capitol. Metropolitan
and White House police have been
ordered to be more careful as to
whom they admit to the public
buildings and permit to run at large.
2. A thorough search has reveal
ed no bombs secreted at the White
House or at the Capitol by Holt or
other cranks. Police and others
have searched every nook and cor
ner of the White House, Capitol and
executive buildings. Every precau-
ton has been taken to make sure
that the President and Cabinet are
safe from any death-dealing ma
chine that could have been tucked
away by q person bent on mischief.
The Washington authorities be-
1ieve that Frank Holt had no accom-
plice in his work here or at Glen
Cove, but they know from the num-
Der of threatening letters that go to
the White House. foreign embassies
and heads of departments that
many unbalanced minds are excited
over the European war and likely to
become dangerous. :.
The number of cranks that write
the President is large. but the let
ters never reach him. II Holt wrote
the President. as he is said to have
said he did. the letter never came
to the Executive Once of the White
House. Such communication
might have gone to Cornish. N. H..
but Secretary Tumulty did not see
It.
After the explosion in the SUI
preme Court room at the Capitol in
1898 an extra force of policemen
was put on. One of the economies
effected by the Democrats In 1910
was to cut on this police force adj
ded to the Capitol force because of
what is known as the Spanish
American War scare" The guard
at the Capitol and the White House
Is now being strengthened material
1y.
One Of two things will happen to
persons who start anything that
looks dangerous to the Federal po-
lice or Secret Service men; they
will go either to Federal prisons or
to Warehouses. Those detected in
writing threatening letters who are
found to be crooks will be sent to
prison. but fanatics will go to asy-
lums. Government oficials will
take no chances on men like Holt.
The new and rigid rules for dealing
with abnormal persons apply to
those who wrote to Ambassadors
Bernstorf. spring-Rice or others. as
well as to those who annoy the
President.
Before the bomb exploded In the
Capitol any man in the United
States could have gone into that or
other Government buildings before
the regular closing hours and have
planted enough dynamite to blow
up any building in Washington.
Cranks are driven on of the
White House grounds when detect
ed. Those who seem to be danger
GUS are sent to hospital for obser-
walton. swarms Of people go into
certain parts OF the White House
daily. and smart crank could DO
much damage II close watch were
not kept over him. Hereafter great
or care than usual will be taken.
The Capitol has been headQuar-
tiers for all sorts Of cranks. and In
spite Of the close watch and the fact
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