New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-06
Planned to Throw Suit
case with Explosives
Into Financier's Auto.
OFFICIAL BELIEVES
HE HAD ACCOMPLICE
Major Pullman Thinks Prison
er's Lack of Memory May
Cover Confederate's Escape.
Hmm Tho TIL me Bu,eau !

Washington, July 5.-That Holt in
tended to kill j. p. Morgan by throw
ing a suitcase containing dynamite into
the fnancier's automobile was the ad-
mission the prisoner made 10 Major
Pullman, chief OF the Washington po-
lice, the latter declared to-day.
"He told his chauffeur" said Major
Pullman, that he was a friend Of Mr..
Morgan Mr.. Morgan wants TO see
me. He has sent for me- he said to
the hired chauffeur, but he doesn't
know what time ! am going to be at
Glen Cove. Therefore, if you see him
on the road, just signal 70 the driver to
stop and you toss my suitcase over into
his machine and viii get out
Later the suitcase was found 10 con-
tain, among it's effects, three sticks Of 60
per cent dynamite. 1t probably would
have blown the machine to pieces
Three sticks of dynamite were used
TO wreck the Senate reception room.
Holt confessed TO having bought SIX
sticks altogether.
Thinks Holt Had Confederate.
Major Pullman, in discussing his talk
with Holt, expressed the belief that
Holt is not crazy, but a crank. The
Chief commented particularly on Holts
lack of memory, pointing out that this
might be a ruse to permit his conteder-
ate 90 make n getaway.
"He doesn't remember where he went
% school," said Major Pullman. He
cannot give the slightest description Of
the neighborhood Of the Capitol. He
does have slight recollection Of the
Columbus monument in from. Of the
Union Station, but doesn't remember
the streetcar tracks on the way to
the Capitol itself, and doesn't seem TO
have any recollection Of the Senate
office building. If I had runt at top
speed through Kalamazoo | think |
could give "A better description Of the
entire town that he could give Of the
ueighborhood where he stayed here.
Holt May Tell All Wednesday.
This lack Of memory may be a finely
planned ruse and 10 may be assumed
i'm order 10 allow some one 10 make
getaway. He says he is going 20 tell a
lot Wednesday, which is the day set
for n hearing We asked him why he
would not talk more now, intimating
that il looked as If he was giving some
one a chance to escape. lie replied:
well. il may look that way, but |
haven't shared my plans with any one
| suggested TO him that he had talked
over his views on the shipment of arms
with his wife lie wanted TO know how
! had learned that, and seemed to act
as if we had read something on tho
subject telegraphed from Texas, where
his wife is. / told him / deduced az
much, and he replied that he had talked
with her, but that it was two months
ago, before she went south from Ithaca,
and that his ideas had gone forward
a whole lot since them
Chief Pullman said that Holt told
him that while many persons were
talking the way he did against the
shipment Of arms 20 Europe, no one
did anything about Il. II first thought
of this thing about two months ago,
Holt said, according TO Major Pull
man. Il thought something ought 20
be done to call the attention Of the
people 20 the evil of selling munitions
Of war abroad, and then | thought
Morgan ought TO be warned that he Is
not using his influence to stop it."
House Holt Lived in Found.
BY climbing to the roof Of the only
tall building in the vicinity Of Union
Station Major Pullman located to-day
the house in which Holt stopped while
in tho capital A visit to the building
revealed that the room which Holt said
he occupied contained precisely the
furniture he described, while negro
maid identified his picture as that of
a lodcer at the time Holt said he was
here. In the room where he had
STAYED. which has not since been occu-
pied. was found q bottle which had
contained sulphuric acid
Photographs Of the house itself, the
view from the window Of the tall
building and the room in which he is
believed to have stopped were taken
to-day. They will be sent TO Mineola
for Identification BY the prisoner.