Evening star., 1915-07-04

! | cn1ne was pI0ceO, 1Of tne puf. |
! pose of pulling down n window.
eyes Frightening. Il had experimental
many times. I knew just what | was
doing, and just how to do 1t. 1 really
didn't take any chances for all my OBJ
| servations had been checked up and
knew when the bomb would go off. al
| most to the minute. In fact, l waited
in Washington till / heard it go off
Then l hurried away as fast as could
and caught the train for New York.
didn't have much time, SO I had to
| hurry.
How did you make the bomb" he
| was asked.
| Well" he answered, II took three
sticks of dynamite and bound them to-
sether. Then l took my knife and
sticks. When 1 had cleaned it out deep
enough l pat some match heads into
the hole-three or four, l don't know
| exactly how many.
Used Sulphuric Acid.
When the match heads were put in
the hole I took a little bottle of sui
phuric acid out of my pocket and put
a regular cork in the neck. | 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 / knew just how
long it would take to eat through the
cork and get to the match heads.
| when the acid reached the match
heads it set them on fire and caused
! the explosion. There wasn't any guess
| work about it, knew how much time
| I
was eating it's way through the cork.
pulled out my watch and said to my
self that il ought to be going pretty
soon. And sure enough it did go prett.
soon. Then ! hurried away.
| Confessed in His Cell.
| Holt made his confession in cell of
the Glen Cove jail He had discarded
his shirt and collar. and had bound
across his forehead a white cloth,
through which blood showed from a
cut on his forehead. His grayish eyes
sparkled as he spoke, and he talked
at first with great animation.
! AS the day wore on he weakened
| The quantity of blood he had lost from
a terrific blow on the head blow
| that knocked him unconscious as he
Ter on the floor of a hallway In the
| Morgan home-was great, and the
strain told on him during the after
noon.
When night came. and with it his
confession of the Washington outrage.
| Holt was a wreck. He huddled back in
| a corner in his cell, breathing hard
| and apparently comatose. But the de-
| tectives refused to let him rest. They
| dragged him out to the corridor, with
a man on each side to support him.
and walked him UP and down until his
stumbling feet dragged hstlessly over
the flooring.
! Then they would sit him down and
surround him. They pumped questions
| at him so rapidly that at times his
| haifaudible answers were interrupted
| by succeeding questions. And still he
| refused to answer what he did not
| wish to answer.
Third Degree in Earnest
They let him rest few moments
! and when he refused to answer pulled
him up and began once more the tedi-
| Gus promenade the length of the cor
ridor. talking to him all the time.
| After two hours of this treatment
| Holt wilted and replied wearily to the
questions. Apparently he was close
| to exhaustion and the wound over his
eye was bothering him.
| His story was that he left Jersey
City yesterday morning. arrived In
Washington at noon and went to a
house at Delaware avenue and c
street. where he rented room. Be-
fore taking the ferry from New York
to Jersey City he purchased a supply
| of so-called trick matches at 9Th
| avenue store in New York city. These
| he took with him.
These matches. Holt explained. were
of the kind that exploded or popped
after they were lighted. Their sale
was not prohibited for Fourth of July
celebrants and SO he had no difficulty
| in obtaining them. The popping o.
the matches. he explained. furnished
the concussion which exploded the dy-
| Mantle.
| Holt said that he left the house where
he rented room, taking the dynamite
with him. and walked around the Capt.
. tol grounds. He then walked up the
steps leading to the main entrance Of
the Capitol, and strolled around
through the corridors without meeting
a guard or a policeman He spent abou,
half an hour in the building, he added
looking for spot to place his bomi
any one or cause great damage to thu
building.
II didn't want to hurt anybody" he
said. II just wanted to call the at.
tention Of the nation to the terrible
murders being committed in Europe
And l didn't want to damage the Capi.
tol any more than was necessary"
After placing the bomb. Holt walked
slowly away. He went back to his
room, he said, and to the Union sta.
tion. He also walked about the street,
for awhile. Then he decided to write
to the newspapers and the Presiden,
and explain why he had set the bomb
Mailed Letters Early.
He did this. he said, before the bomt
exploded and mailed the letters during
the early evening. The letters were
addressed to newspapers and to the
President at the White House. And al
this point he refused to tell more.
Didn't you have an accomplice?" h.
was asked.
NO. he muttered weakly Non,
whatever I did the whole thing my
self j planned it. l executed 1t. No
body knew anything about it but my
self"
Didn't you have an accomplice in tn,
setting Of the bomb at Washington? p
the detectives persisted.
Il tell you," he replied. Il didn't
Neither at Washington nor Glen Cove
Where did you buy the dynamite?'
There vas no answer The detectives
caught his arms. dragged him to al
upright position and began again oI
their walk.
Holt was asked where he had live,
before going to Ithaca His memor.
seemed to fail him here After a lont
pause he replied that he used to live il