Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
STAMPS HIMSELF EXPERT
IN USE OF EXPLOSIVES
Belief Prevails That Holt is Con-
necteti With Other Recent
Bomb Outrages.
INVESTIGATION is IN PROGRESS
Detectives Prepared to Ply Prisoner
Throughout Night With Questions,
If Necessary-Tells How He Pre-
pared Capitol Missile.

GLEN COVE. n. Y. July 3.-Frank
Holt. former Cornell University in
structor. who attempted to pssassinate
! j. r. Morgan Mt East Isle, Mr.. Morsan's
summer home. near here. to-day, con-
fessed tonight that he was the man
who set the bomb which exploded in
the Capitol at Washington last night.
Mr. Morgan. the victim of the bullets
which Holt fired to-day WAS said by
specialists ut his bedside to be resting
quietly tonight. No vital organ. the
physicians announced, had been in
volved in his injury. Tho physicians.
however. declined to state the precise
location Of Mr.. Morgan's wounds.
Junius Spencer Morgan. eldest son of
the flnancicr. was asked to define the
exact nature of the injuries. After
comforting with the physicians, young
MIR. Morgan asserted they had decided
TO add nothing to their previous
J bulletins.
Holt. by his confession and the de-
| tailed description Of the bomb he used
in the Capitol outrage, stamped him
self Is an expert in the use OF explo-
sives the police assert. Immediately
after his confession was obtained, the
| chief of the Washington police. a squad
of Secret Service operators and New
York City detectives and BertiIlon and
finger print experts were summoned to
Glen Cove.
Belief prevailed that Holt had been
connected with other bomb outrages
| which have been reported to the police,
notably the finding recently OF n bomb
| on the grounds Of Andrew Carnegie's
Fifth Avenue residence In New York
City. Detectives prepared to ply Holt
| with questions all night. IL necessary.
Thomas Tunney. captain Of the bomb
and anarchist squad Of New York de-
tectives. and William E. Luyster the
justice OF the peace before whom Holt
was arraigned late to-day, obtained the
confession. To do so, they Intmated,
| they had to employ so-called third
| degree methods.
ESTIMATED TIME
BOMB WOULD EXPLODE
Three sticks Of dynamite bound to-
Eether. some match heads placed in
| hollow of one of the sticks, which Holt
| had scooped out with his pen knife;
bottle of sulphuric acid in the neck of
| which there was inserted cork care
| fully measured, and of n kind previous
| " tested-such was the bomb which
| Holt placed in the Senate wing Of the
| Capitol at 4 o'clock yesterday after
! noon. Holt had ascertained by test
| that the acid would eat it's way through
| the cork in about eight hours. There
| fore, he estimated that the bomb would
| explode about midnight. He wanted
| to mako certain. he said, that 1t would
explode, so he took a stroll about
| Washington. and early in the evening
went to the Union Station, several
blocks away from the Capitol. and
waited there until he heard the ex-
| ploslon.
Then he boarded a train to New York.
Arriving there. he lost little time in
taking another train for Glen Cove.
over from the making Of the Washing
these he took with him.
One OF the sticks he placed in his
pocket. with two loaded revolvers, for
use, IL necessary, in his mission at the
Morgan home. 1t was not used. and
was found when he was locked up.
| AT first the police thought the dyna-
| mite played minor role In his plan
to assassinate Mr.. Morgan, but when
they listened In undisguised amazement
to the story he told OF the Washing
ton bombs construction they con-
| cluded that he possessed q knowledge
OF explosives far beyond that of the
ordinary bombmaker.
Under the third degree, Holt talked
| freely Of his bomb designing. without
such persuasion, he had openly adj
mitted earlier In the day that he had
gone TO the Morgan home with the in
| tention OF remaining there until Mr..
Morgan did something to end the Eu-
ropean war. He wanted Mr. Morgan
to prevent the further export Of Ameri-
can made war munitions.