Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-07-09
FRANK HOLT TRIED
To 'GET"J.P MORGAN
COLLEGE PROFESSOR SHOOTS AT
FlNANClER AND HITS HIM
WITH TWO BULLETS.
MORGAN LIVES; HOLTSUICIDES
This German Fanatic Claimed Morgan
Could Stop the United States From
Selling War Munitions
to the Allies.

Glen Cove, N. Y, July 9.-Frank
Holt. who today made an attempt on
the life of ]. p. Morgan, head of the
banking house of J. p. Morgan & Co.,
later was said by the New York police
to have made a confession regarding
the placing of the bomb which explod-
ed under the capitol building at Wash
ington, d. c., July g.
Mr.. Morgan was shot twice at his
country home near here by Holt, a
native American of German parents,
former student and instructor at
Cornell university, who was to have
become the head of the department of
French in the Southwestern Meth
odst university at Dallas, Texas
Both shots took effect in the region
cialists at his bedside states that there
are no unfavorable symptoms and that
Mr.. Morgan was resting.
Holt was overpowered by Morgan
and Henry Fiske. the butler in the
Morgan household. He was jailed
here, where he issued a statement say
ing he had intended no harm to Mr..
Morgan, but had come to Glen Cove
to persuade the banker to stop the
shipment of munitions of bar abroad.
He went into the Morgan home, he
said with a pistol in his hand and a
stick of dynamite in his pocket, in
tending to remain there till Mr.. Nor
gan did something"
To Hold Mrs. Morgan a Prisoner.
Mrs. ]. p Morgan and the Morgan
children were to be held as hostages
in their own home and killed with
use his influence to stop the exporta-
ton of war munitions, Holt told Po-
lice Commissioner Arthur Woods in
his CELL
Holt said his plans miscarried; that
he planned to send Mr.. Morgan out to
stop the expectation of munitions
while he held the other members OF
the family in an upstairs room.
MIR. Morgan is Improving.
Mr.. Morgan continues to improve
so much so that specialists in attend
ance announce he is out of all danger
This was on Tuesday
Mr.. Morgan spent a restful day Mon
day and members of his family anC
friends were very much cheered by
his general favorable condition.
The favorable turn in the condition
of Mr.. Morgan was in marked contras
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: came so grave that late in the day or
ders we're given that no one was to Sc,
!, him but his counsel and physician.
Writes Letter to Wife.
Holt Monday wrote letter to hi
wife, who is stopping with her fathe
. in Dallas, Texas, in which he toll,
her that he did not care to live an,
. longer and hoped she would "brini
the little ones up to be God-fearinl
men and women"
Holt Suicides.
Mineola, n. Y.-Frank Holt, tn
> Cornell university professor who sho
]. p Morgan in his home near Glel
. Cove last Saturday, committed sui
eide in the Jail here Tuesday night.
: Jail authorities declared that Hol
killed himself by climbing throug
- the opening at the top of his cell doc
and then plunging to the narrow cour
J. below.
J., There are many conflicting report
as TO the manner in which Holt me
:, his death, but it was definitely estal
lished through DR.. Cleghorn, the jai
y physician, that Holt died of a fra'