The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-07-10
|n Morgan Shot By Man
|Who Set The Capitol Bomb

OF~N 0
,bove the match heads. You SEE !
lad 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. l knew how much time
/ had. So I hung around while the
acid was eating its way through the
cork. | pulled out my watch AMI
said to myself that it ought to be
going off pretty soon. And, SIRE
enough, it did go off pretty soon.
Then I hurried to catch the train to
New York"
Hollis 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 Mr.
Morgan and the letters written to the
Washington newspapers.
Don't you know anything about
this?" he was asked.
mo, don't" he asserted. 81
wasn't in Washington at all. / was In
Now York. l had my breakfast ant
my luncheon at the Mills Hotel, a
Thirty-sixth Street and Seventh Av"
nue.. So you see I couldn't have beer
in Washington"
What were you doing all day." HI
was asked.
"I was walking around the stre,t
in New York trying to make up nj!
mind to come out here and do m.
duty. That was all. / was thinkia;
1t over"
Holt was told that the Mills Hote
clerks couldn't recall his being thers
but he stuck to his story.
1T does seem strange" he said. a
ter reading the Washington story 70
the second time "It does seem strang
that the man who did that though
about as | did. 1t was rather odd tha
|, he used almost the same words di'
l can't explain it."
When Captain Tunney and Justic
: Luyster came out from their two-hou
talk with Holt, the policeman int
Z mated that something approaching tn
, third degree had been resorted to.
. I'VE had to go after him good an
, strong before he told what he knew
, said the Justice.
I Placed the Bomb at p. NJ.
, According to Hollis confession, I
/, went to Washington from New YoI
p Friday, arriving in the capital abo'
a noon. He went to the Capitol,
said, in the afternoon and set q
bomb about o'clock, timing 1t
. 20 Off about midnight He stroll'
. about Washington several hours.
that time he mailed the letters he h;
:, previously written, explaining why
!. wished to blow up the Capitol. He h;
;, written the letters before he went
;, Washington, and in each there h;
been left a blank spacein the typewr
tes lines for the insertion If the wo
- Senate" The police believe this
dicated that he had been undecid
!, what building to blow up, and tn
:, think that he might have consider
dynamiting the White House. Ht
= caught the midnight train back
New York, which gave him just tir
=, to catch Long Island train from t
- same station out to Mr.. Morgal
:, home
- 81 had two or three sticks of dyl
!, mite left over that l didn't need
, Washington" he explained, so
brought them along to Glen Cove.
" intended to use them there II l h
a to-"
~ why did you try to blow up
- Capitol?" Captain Tunney asked.
Well" was the reply, 81 thoue
IN that was a good way to bring the
=, tention Of the American people to
terrible murders being committed
g.. Europe. But what do you want to 8
"I me that for? I explained the VIII
=, thing in my letter to The Washing'
=. Times. I understand my letter v
~ printed. Well, my reasons are all
a. that letter"
Before the confession Captain T
=, ney had been skeptical Of Hollis c
"A nection with the Washington exI
- sion, because he had regarded the
mer Cornell teacher as a man v
,,v knew little Of explosives. He had
marked that no percussion caps
been found with the dynamite
-- Hollis suitcase, and had about c
cluded that the man had the dynam
but didn't know what to do with
o Dynamiters almost invariably use
.r percussion cap to cause and exl
M sion.
h. Had Names Of Others.
,ut After HolHs concession, snow
IDS that he was familiar with one of
MT 'rarest methods Of exploding dynam
he the Captain went through the pris
he er's pockets again. He found sc
ric of paper, and discovered on 1t
gu. name, "Junius Spencer"-the name
the Mr.. Morgan's son-and the names
the Jane Norton Drew, Francis Tracy
ustl Henry Sturges. Immediately be