Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-07-09
j,P. Morgan Shot by
College Instructor.
BELIEVED F|NANCIER
COULD END THE WAR
Confesses to Attempt to Wreck
National Capitol a Few
Hours Previous.

New York, July 3.-Frank Holt, for
mer teacher of German in Cornell uni
versity, obsessed by the idea that God
had appointed him to stop the ship
ment of war supplies to the allies
tried to murder j. P. Morgan, attempt
ing nine hours before to wreck the
Capitol at Washington. 800 miles
away, with a dynamite bomb, the po
lice declare Holt confessed, they
said, that he placed the bomb which
damaged the senate wing of the Cap
itol Friday night.
The New York and Washington po'
lice also have information which leads
them to believe that Holt planned
next to go to Cornish, N. H., and at
tempt the life of President Wilson.
Holt forced his way into Mr.. Nor
gans house on East Island. three and
cne-half miles from Glen Cove, L. l..
drove the butler before him by the
menace Of a revolver, searched the
house until he found Mr. and Mrs.
Morgan on the second floor, and then,
as Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan attempted to
disarm him, fired two shots.
One bullet entered the lower side of
Mr.. Morgan's abdomen and lodged
near the base of the spine. The other
pierced the right groin, ranged down.
ward through the flesh of the thigh
and passed out of Mr. Morgan's body.
The financier, who as head of the
banking house which was the purchas-
ing agent Of the British government
had become an object for Hollis at
tack, is dangerously but probably not
fatally injured.
Mrs. Morgan seizes Intruder.
Mr.. Morgan owes his life, very
likely, to the courage and quickness
of Mrs. Morgan, who, the first to de-
tect Holt lurking in the shadows Of
the upper hallway, literally flung her
self at the man and so disturbed his
aim that he had no opportunity to
shoot straight.
Mr.. Morgan himself overpowered
Holt and with the assistance of serv-
ants tied him and trussed him after
the Morgan butler, Henry Fiske, had
thumped him soundly over the head
with the first handy weapon availa-
BILE, coal hod.
Then Mr.. Morgan, after calmly as
surfing his house guests, the British
and Lady Spring-Rice. who
had witnessed the desperate struggle
on the second floor landing, that he
was not badly hurt, and after tele-
phoning to his mother and to William
D. Porter, one of his partners, himself
telephoned to DR.. William H. Zabris-
kie of Glen Cove, simply telling DR..
Zabriskie that he had been shot and
asking the physician to come at once
TO the house.
Holt Given the "Third Degree"
Thomas funny, captain of the bomb
and anarchist squad of detectives of
he New York police department, and
William E. Luyster. justice of the
peace before whom Holt was ar
aligned, obtained the confession. To
10 so. they intimated, they had to
employ so called third degree" meth
DDS of police headquarters.
Three sticks of dynamite bound to-
,ether, some match heads placed in a
follow of one of the sticks, bottle of
;ulphurfc acid, in the neck of which
here was inserted cork carefully
measured and of kind previously |
was the bomb which |
Holt placed in the senate wing of the |
'apitol at p. m. Friday.
Holt had ascertained by tests that |
he acid would eat its way through the |
ork in about eight hours. Therefore
'e estimated that the bomb would ex-
lode about midnight. He wanted to !
make certain, he said, that it would |
EXPLODE, so he took a stroll about |
and early in the evening |
vent to the Union station, a few
locks from the Capitol. and waited !!
here until he heard the explosion.
hen he took train to New York |!
nd from there to Glen Cove. where |
e engaged an auto and was driven to
he Morgan residence
The damage to the Capitol will not !
xceed $4,000, mostly to furnishings.
GArmao Crno Droeane%. Hool