Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-06
HOLT TO TELL HIS
STORY WEDNESDAY
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Shooting Of Morgan

SHootln9 OF Morgan
An authoritative statement Of the
shooting is as follows:
Holt called at the Morgan home at
9 O'Clock, while Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan
were at breakfast. Fisk. the butler. an
swered Hollis ring at the door. Holt
handed the butler his card, telling him
to inform Mr.. Morgan he was from a
friend.
The butler started back through the
hallway. Holt slipped a pistol from his
pocket and pressed it against the but
ler's stomach.
"See this gum" he demanded. Il
have another one"
The butler, pressed by the muzzle
Of the weapon. backed into the hall
way. Holt following. AS the front door
closed behind them, the butler real
lied the determination Of the assassin
and spoke in a loud voice, SO that Mr.
Morgan might hear.
Mr.. Morgan is in the library"
Butler Warned Millionaire
Holt was not diverted by this, but
continued to press the butler back
ward down the hallway toward the
dining room. AS they neared the din
ing room door. the butler spoke again.
Upstairs. Mr.. Morgan, UPSTAIRS" he
shouted.
Alarmed by the shout Mr.. Morgan
and his wife left the dining room by
another door, entered a rear hallway
and went upstairs. They found MOTH
ing amiss there and started back, US
ing the front stairway. Unwittingly
they walked almost into the assassin's
arms. Mrs. Morgan saw him first,
screamed and drew back.
Holt turned and fired twice before
Mr.. Morgan could seize him. Fisk. the
butler. no longer menaced by the pis-
tol, grabbed the assassin's right hand.
Mr.. Morgan, with two bullet wounds
in his body, threw himself on his as
sailant and the three men went down
in struggling heap on the hallway
floor.
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British am
bassador to the United States, an
over might guest at the Morgan home,
was. with Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan at the
breakfast table when Holt entered the
house.
Captured by Domesties
The struggle on the floor was short.
The pistol was torn from Hollis nm
gers and he was beaten by the butler
and other domestic servants. who came
running at the sound Of the shots,
till he offered no further resistance.
Then the Glen owe police and a ply
sician were summoned and Holt was
placed in one Of the Morgan automo-
biles and hurried at 40 biles an hour
to the Jail here
Mr.. Morgan walked, calmly and COL
lectedly, feeling, he said, that he had
been shot, but experiencing no sensa-
ton Of weakness, up the stairs and
went to the telephone. He called up
the doctor and afterwards his Office in
New York City and told the story of
the shooting over the wire, asserting
that he did not regard his wounds as
serious. Then heswent to his bed and
law down, awaiting the doctor.
While the doctor was hurrying to
his bedside from Glen Cove, Mr.. Nor
gan asked that the telephone be
brought to him. Personally he obtain
ed long distance connection with
Utica, n. Y, and through the exchange,
with his mother.
He told her that she would hear re-
ports that he had been shot, but that
she was not to worry. Then he told,
for the second time. of the attempt on
his life, saying he did not regard the
affair as serious.