New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-04

Holt wished.
q want TO sec Mr.. Morgan" he re-
Piled
Your card. please"
Holt handed him card readings
"The summer Social Directory. Rep
resented by Thomas {. Lester"
This was not sufficient for Physick.
and he asked what the callers business
was.
81 am an old friend Of Mr. Nor
ean's." he replied. "and have got to
see him"
you will have 20 wait a moment"
said PhyMck. who had decided that
Holt was an undesirable visitor.
"Oh no. won't" Holt replied, press
ing revolver against Physicks stom-
ach "I'm going to see Morgan
with the pistol at his stomach,
physick was pushed into the hallway,
but he kept his head.
"All right" he said. "you will find
Mr. Morgan in the library" indicating
the room on the extreme west of the
building. Holt started and looked into
the room. while Physick cried at the
top of his voice:
"Mr. Morgan, upstairs, upstairs,
quick"
Mr.. Morgan, who was with Mrs. Nor
gan. Sir Cecil Spring Rice, Lady Spring
Rice and other guests. was IN the din
ing room at the extreme east OF the
hall. perhaps one hundred feet away,
jumped from the table and by the rear
stairs went to the first floor above the
ground. 1t was in his mind that some
thing was wrong on the upper floor.
Wife Tried to Guard Husband.
Meantime Holt had started upstairs.
As he reached the landing on the sec
ord floor Mrs. Morgan opened a door
and emerged into the hallway.
Directly behind her was her husband.
She saw Holt with a pistol in either
hand. Screaming, she hurled herself
upon him, only to be brushed aside by
Nh Morgan, who grappled with the IN
truder Just as the pistols spoke.
Physically Mr.. Morgan is giant; his
assailant is slim, almost an3mlc. Holt
went 10 the floor. the banker on top,
wrestling to get the pistol that was in
his assailant's right hand. Mrs. Nor
gan tore the other revolver from Hollis
left hand just as her husband threw
the weapon in the other hand to one
side and began pounding the mans
head against the floor.
Meanwhile Physick. who had alarmed
the servants quarters and the guests,
led by Sir Cecil swarmed into the hall.
The butler had picked up huge lump
Of camel coal, which he banged on
Hollis head with all his might. That
took the fight out of the intruder, and
i'm a few minutes he was trussed up
like a turkey and awaiting the police.
Even then none Of the party in the
house knew Mr.. Morgan had been shot
until he went to the telephone and
called up DR.. William II. Zabriskie. at
Glen Cove.
~ have been shot" he told the physi
clan. "and think you had better come
right over. It is nothing very seri-
Gus"
A similar message he sent to his
Office. and when a connection could be
made he talked with his mother at
Highland Falls.
you will hear that have been shot,
but want YOU to know from me that
it is not serious was the substance
of the message he sent her.
Servants meantime had notified DR..
J. W. Markoe, in New York, and the
Glen Cove police.
He's a Christian Gentleman.
For the latter Hiram Campbell, Mr..
Morgans chauffeur, broke all speed
records driving to the police station
and returning with his brother Deputy
Sheriff Theodore Campbell and Frank
L. McCahill. a constable. They re-
moved the ropes and straps from tie
prisoner. ard placing him in double
irons, took him to the Glen Cove lock
up.
To them he told his name and de-
clared he was "a Christian gentleman
doing the work Of God"
He was then a sorry looking object.
His face ard head were covered with
blood from the wound inflicted by
Phvsicks lump Of coal, and there was
a lump Lack of the left ear whore
some one had kicked HIM. His gray
suit. which had been neatly pressed,
was stained and torn, and he seemed
like man in a daZe. At first 1t was
with difficulty that anything could be
got out Of him.
Then he said that his name was
Frank Holt and that he was an IN
structor IT Cornell University.
81 am forty years old" he said, land
7 have a wife and two children at lOl
South Marseiiles Street, Dallas, Tex.
! am an instructor in French at Cornell,
and earned by degree Of Phi. d. there
a year ago. am an American My
parents were born in America. some
distance hack they were French and
German. il is a queer mixture. l
formerly taught in Vanderbilt Unlver-
sity, Nashville. j came down here TO
persuade Mr.. Morgan to stop this war
in Europe by sending no more ammunl-
ton abroad.
"Manltestly. I could not 10 that my
fstr frf|ra n
manufacturer. Mr.. Morgan could. /
did not have any very definite plan IN
mind, but ! meant to present the idea
to Mr.. Morgan, and let him work 1t out.
No Harm Intended.
81 wanted to stop this murder that
is going on. ] wanted 10 have stop
nut 10 the traffic that is making muir
derers Of us all. ! did not intend to
harm Mr.. Morgan.
al came to New York from Ithaca
about two weeks ago, and put up at the
hotel at Seventh Avenue and Thirty
sixth Street A few days ago | con-
ceived the idea of seeing Mr.. - ~gan,
and came down here to look IN riAce
over. ! did not try to see Mr. Morgan
then.
81 wanted TO see him and get him
to stop the expectation Of arms, which
is making you and me responsible for
murder. ] had no inspiration from
anybody and talked with nobody about
1T. Neither am ! member Of any
German society, an anarchist or So
cialist." .
"Did the news Of the S10O,0o0,o00
loan made public this morning 'nfu-
Cnce yOu?" he was asked.
at was all considered" he replied.
"Mr. Wilson's letters arc all right,