The Monticellonian., 1915-07-08
J ?. Morgan Shot By Man
 Who Set The Capitol Bomb


 had timed the sulphurie acid in my tests before and l 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 1t set them on fire and caused the explosion. There wasn't any guess work about it. I knew how much time I had. So I hung around while tie acid was eating its way through the cork. I pulled out my watch and going off pretty soon. And, sure enough, 1t did go off pretty soon. Then I hurried to catch the train to New York"
 Holt's confession of the Capitol ex- plesion came close on the heels of his denial of the charge to newspaper men and detectives. Reporters 1old him the story from Washington, call ing his attention to the marked siIni- larity in the language used by him in his confession of shooting Mir Morgan and the letters written to the Washington newspapers
 Don't you know anything about this? ?" he was asked
 No, 1 don't" he asserted. T 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 I couldn't have been in Washington"
 What were you doing all day2" he was asked.
 T 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 l was thinking it over"
 Holt was told that the Mills Hotel clerks couldn't recall his being there, but he stuck to his story.
 Tt does seem strange" ie said, af- ter reading the Washington story for the second time It does seem strange | that the man who did that thought hbbdL ho dlNa lL Ndo ldliitI odd II1ttt he used almost the same words I did. 1 cant explain it.
 When Captain Tunney and Justice Luyster came out from their two-hour talk with Holt. the policeman inti- mated that something approaching tha 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 Holt'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 off about midnight. He strolled about Washington several hours. In that time he mailed the letters he had previously written, explaining why he wished to blow up the Capitol. He had written the letters before he went to l Washingon, and in each there had been left a blank space in the typewrit- tes lines for the insertion of the word Senate" The police believe this in. 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 a Long Island train from the same station out to MT. Morgan $ home.
 T had two or three sticks of dyna- mite left over that I didn't need in Washington" he explained, "so brought them along to Glen Cove. intended to use them there if l had to-"
 Why did you try to blow up the Capitol?" Captain Tunney asked.
 Well" was the reply, "I thought that was a good way to bring the ct. tention of the American people to the terrible murders being committed in l Europe. But what do you want to ask thing in my letter to The Washington | Times. l understand my letter was printed. Well. my reasons are all in that letter
 Before the confession Captain Tun. ney had been slleptical of Holts cor, nection with the Washington exnlc sion, because he had regarded the for. mer Cornell teacher as man whu 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 coi eluded that the man had the dynamite but didn't know what to do with it. Dynamiters almost invariably use Il percussion cap to cause and explo sion.
 Had Names of Others.
 After Holt's confession. showing that he was familiar with one of the rarest methods of exploding dynamite the Captain went through the prison. CTS pockets again. He found a scrss of paper. and discovered on it the name. "Junius Spencer"-the name o' Mir Morgan's son-and the names of Jane Norton Drew. Francis Tracy and l Henry Sturges. Immediately below
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