Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-05
PLANNED TO WRECK
Mr.. MORGAN'S AUTO
Frank Holt Had Three Sticks
of Dynamite in Suit Case
for That Purpose.
INTENDED TO THROW 1T
INTO CAR AS 1T PASSED
Maj. Pullman Tells of His Talk
With Man Who Wrecked SEN
ate Reception Room.

! ioi OH Oh MS questioning OF
Frank Holt. Phi. D., the man who
i wrecked the Senate reception room
with three sticks of dynamite. and on
the day following shot ]. Pierpont
Morgan twice. Maj Pullman's story
gives a hitherto unpublished incident.
Had Mr.. Morgan left his home in an
automobile before DR.. Holt had reached
| the estate at Glen Cove, and had the
Morgan machine and Hollis machine
| met on the road, Holt had planned to
throw suit case containing three
| sticks of dynamite into the Morgan au-
tomobile.
He told his chauffeur" said Maj.
Pullman, that he was a friend of Mr.
Morgan.
| NOW, Mr.. Morgan wants to see me.
He has sent for me- said he 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 to the driver to stop
and you toss my suit case over into his
machine and l will get out
| Later the suit case was found to con-
tain. among its effects. three sticks of
| 90 per cent dynamite. 1t probably
would have blown the machine to
, pieces
| 1t was three sticks of dynamite which
wrecked the Senate reception room. DR..
! Holt confessed to having bought six
| sticks altogether.
Went on Train With Holt.
Nal Pullman. as has been published.
went to New York Friday night to be
guest Of Police Commissioner Woods,
at the annual athletic games of the
police department in New York, and
went there on the same train which
carried DR.. Holt. who was awake in
lower car rs. when the explosion
came Maj. Pullman was asleep at that
| time in lower I. car %. By the time he
saw DR.. Holt the man had confessed to
having placed the bomb in the Capitol
building. Mai. Pullman returned to
Washington early this morning.
He is tall and gaunt." was Mai Pull
mans description of the man. It
should say he is six feet one inch tall,
poorly deyeloped, sallow. dark brown
cheeks and bushy dark brown hair He
is a grouchy sort or man. but is not
crook or an ordinary criminal. but a
highly educated person with fine sensi-
bilities. He is doctor of philosophy
He spent a year at the University of
Berlin and a year at the University of
Paris. He is easily insulted and uues-
tioning him had to be matter of ex-
treme tact.
The alleged third-degree stories are
third degree at all. but was handled
with extreme gentleness. He would be
easily insulted and would refuse to
talk, but could be tactfully led into the
was walked up and down and up and
down the cell all night is a mistake.
Nothing like that occurred at ALL
The idea OF his being paraded all over
the cell until he wore out possibly
originated with this circumstance:
There was telephone booth near his
cell, and Commissioner Woods had to
use it several times. DR.. Holt was
walked to the end Of the corridor when
this telephoning was going on. and sew
eral persons at the Jail entrance saw
Woods. and could hear some of the con-
versation inside. Therefore the story
Of his being walked all over the place
in third-degree manner was founded
possibly on that.
Great Lack of Memory.
There is but one peculiarity about
him that is prominent above all the
rest. That is his absolute lack of men,
ory. or feigned lack of memory, about
the most ordinary matters. He doesn't
remember where he went to school He
cannot give the slightest description of
the neighborhood of the Capitol. He
does have a slight recollection of the
Columbus monument in front of the
Union station, but doesn't remember
the street car tracks on the way to the
Capitol itself. and doesn't seem to have
any recollection of the Senate Office
building He tried to show me by a
plan that he himself drew where he
stayed in Washington. but it doesn't
mean much of anything.
IF 1 had run at top speed through
Kalamazoo, I think 1 could give bet
ter description of the entire town than
he could give of the neighborhood
where he stayed here.
This lack of memory may be a
finely planned ruse and it may be as
sumed in order to allow some one to
make getaway. He says he is going
to tell q lot Wednesday which is the
day set for a hearing. We asked him
why he wouldn't talk more now. inti-
mating that it looked as if he was
giving some one a chance to escape.
He replied: Well 1t may look that. way.
but hadn't shared my plans with any
one. I suggested to him that he had
talked over his views on the ship
ment of arms with his wife. He wanted
to know how / had learned that and
seemed to act as II We had read some
thing on the subject telegraphed from
Texas. where his wife is. I told him 1
deduced as much and he replied that
he had talked with her, but that 1t
was two months ago, before she went
south from Ithaca. and that his ideas
had gone forward whole lot since
then
He says Mr.. Morgan was the first
man who grabbed him in the Morgan
| house after firing the two shots, al
| though there are conflicting stories
about that. He has a terrific welt on
the head, where the butler hit him with
| a coal bucket, and he was badly knock
| ed around by fists.
! Didn't Want to Kill Mr.. Morgan.
II talked with him a great deal, along
| with Capt. Thomas Tunney, the detec-
] tive in charge Of anarchist squad.
James Coy. the young policeman who
disguised himself as scrub woman
and detected the plan to blow up st.
Patrick's Cathedral. was there also. So
was Chief Flynn of the secret service.
/ asked him why he wanted to blow UP
the Capitol and kill Morgan. He said
| he had no idea of killing Mr.. Morgan
and had no i'll feeling against the man
personally.
| There are 80 many people who talk
the way do. about the wrong of ship
| ping arms to Europe said DR.. Holt,
but there are no people who do any
| thing about it. I first thought of this
| thing about two months ago.
| thought something ought to be done
| to call the attention of the American
/ fConfl0uod I'm Thir6 pe10