The Spectator., 1915-07-09
J.P. MORGAN SHOT BY CRANK.
 EXP[ODES BOMB IN CAPITOL

acid out of my pocket and put regu. lar cork in the neck. 1 turned the bottle upside down and fastened the cork to the hole in the dynamite just sbove~the match heads. You sec I had timed the sulphuric acid in my tests before and knew just how long 1t 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. l knew how much time had So I hung around while tue acid was eating it's way through the cork. I pulled out my watch and said to myself that 1t ought to be going off pretty soon. And, sure enough, it did go of pretty soon. Then I hurried to catch the train to New York"
 Holt's confession of the Capitol ex- plosion came close on the heels of his denial of the charge to newspaper men and detectives. Reporters told him the story from Washington, call ing his attention to the marked simi- larity in the language used by him in his confession of shooting MT. Morgan and the letters written to the Washington newspapers.
 Don't you know anything about this?" he was asked.
 No, I don't" he asserted. Il wasn't in Washington at all. I was in New York. I had my breakfast and my luncheon at the Mills Hotel, at Thirty-sixth Street and Seventh Ave nue So you see couldn't have been in Washington
 What were you doing all day." he was asked
 'I was walking around the streets in New York trying to make up my mind to come out here and do my duty. That was all. I was thinking it over"
 Holt was told that the Mills Hotel clerks couldn't recall his being there, but he stuck to his story,
 "It does seem etrange" ie said, af- ter reading the Washington story for the second time. Tt does seem strange that the man who did that thought about as I did. It was rather odd that he used almost the same words l did. l cant explain it.
 When Captain Tunney and Justice Luyster came out from their two-hour to llx int mated that something approaching the third degree had been resorted to.
 We had to go after him good and strong before he told what he knew, said the Justice.
 Placed the Bomb at 4 P M.
 According to Hclt's confession, he went to Washington from New York Friday. arriving in the capital about noon. He went to the Capitol, he said. in the afternoon and set the bomb about o'clock, timing 1t to go of about midnight He strolled about Washington several hours. In that time he mailed the letters he hal previously written, explaining why he
  written the letters before he went to Washington, and in each there had been left a blank spacein the typewrit- tes lines for the insertion of the word Senate" The police believe this fn- dicated that he had been undecided what building to blow up, and they think that he might have considered dynamiting the White House. Holt caught the midnight train back to New York, which gave him just tire to catch g. Long Island train from the same station out to MT Morgan $ home
 'I had two or three sticks of dyna- mite left over that l didn't need in Washington" he explained. "so I brought them along to Glen Cove. I intended to use them there If I had to-"
 Why did you try to blow up the Capitol?" Captain Tunney asked
 Well" was the reply, 'I thought that was good way to bring the at tention of the American people to the terrible murders being committed in Europe. But what do you want to ask me that for? explained the whole thing in my letter to The Washington Times. I understand my letter was printed. Well, my reasons are all in that letter"
 Before the confession Captain Tun. ney had been sleptical of Holt's cor. nection with the Washington explc- sion, because he had regarded the for mer Cornell teacher as man who knew little of explosives He had re marked that no percussion caps had been found with the dynamite in Holt's suitcase, and had about COL cluded that the man had the dynamite but didn't know what to do with it. Dynamiters almost invariably use n percussion cap to cause and explo- sion
 Had Names of Others.