Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-03
Up. MORGAN SHOT
BY INSPIRED MAN
AT COUNTRY HOME
CONTINUED from First Pase.>

| shot at him. He had two revolvsrs
and used them both.
1t is related that several shots were
two went wild.
| DR.. W. H. Zabriskfe Of Glen Cove was
Immediately summoned and DR.. Marke
Of this city was sent for. Mr.. Nor
was given out that 1t, was not believed
that they were necessarily serious.
Mr.. Morgan, with his wife and daugh-
ters. went to their summer home in
Glen Cove after the marriage recently
of his son. Junius Spencer Morgan, in
Boston,
Matinicock, Point, where the Morgan
home Is located. is almost surrounded
by water and II about two or three
miles from the central part of the vii
Hired Auto for Trip. -
When Mr.. Morgan's assailant arrived
in Glen Cove on q train. from New
York this morning he hired an auto
and was driven by the chauffeur, Mat
thew Cramer. to the Morgan summer
home. where the shooting occurred
As soon as, the man had been over
powered after airing and .wounding the
financier some Of the servants in the
Morgan home procured a rope and tied
him securely. Then they. took him out
on the lawn near the mansion to await
the arrival on officers from Glen Cove
for whom they had telephoned., Judge
william -Luyster and Constable Frank
McGili took hfm In an automobile to
the courthouse at Glen Cove where
the contents Of two suit cases that he
were examined.
One OF these was found to contain
three large sticks of dynamite and
the other large bottle of nitrogiy-
cerin. There were also two large
boxes of cartridges for his revolvers.
The prisoner. tal1. 1anky man of the
raWboned type, was extremely reticent
at first. but afterward was persuaded
to talk. although he would not say
much about himself. Although he
a marked foreign accent When asked
by the officials who inspired tho plot
against Mr.. Morgan . denied that any
one had done So.
Inspired From on High.
TT came to me from on high" he de-
clared. The man seemed to lack COM
plete comprehension Of what had hap
pened in the Morgan homo, and Of the
effects of the shots he had fired. He
could not be persuaded for some time
that he had wounded Mr.. Morgan. in
sisting that he had not wanted to kill
him or even hurt him. When asked
why he fired the shots he said he did
so to frighten the financier.
Told that he had endangered his own
life by his act, because he might have
killed Mr.. Morgan, the prisoner said
he did not mind that, as he was willing
to die, as he could not stand the
European war any longer.
When Judge Luyster told him that
his shots had wounded Mr.. Morgan. the
prisoner insisted this could not be so.
II did not hurt him." he cried. II shot
to friRhten him. I hope he isn't hurt
l shot away from him Just SO that he
might be frightened. You can do as
YOU wish with me. I did my duty: you
do yours" he told Judge Luyster. The
courthouse officials concluded after the
completion of their examination that
the man was not rational. among
other things the man had with him was
group of railroad tickets 70 poin!s
in various parts OF the country. ne
also had $40 in cash.
Mr.. Morgan had made arrangements
to go to Bar Harbor aoous september
/ after a visit to the Pacific coast, for
which he was expecting to leave July
returning about tho end of August.
Butler Escapes. Uninjured.
Henry Ffske, Mr.. Morgan's butler.
who felled the assailant with = coal
bod and thereby doubtless saved Mr..
Morgan from more serious injury, was
not hurt. apparently. by his encounter
afterward with the would-be assassin.
The police assert that Holt had been
living in Glen Cove about q week. He
had been seen by various persons on
the street, and his presence in the
neighborhood Of the Morgan home last
Thursday had been commented on be-
fore the shooting.
In his cell, the assailant began the
preparation of a written statement
which he Informed the police he want
ed to give out to the newspapers.
Statement Prepared by Holt.
The statement prepared by Holt was
addressed to William E. Luyster. the
justice of the peace who had ques-
toned the man about the shooting.
Holt signed the communication Of.
Holt, Dallas, Texas, and Ithaca" The
statement reads:
my motive in coming here was to
try to force Mr.. Morgan to use his in
fiuence with the manila cturers Of mu-
nitions in the United States and with
the millionaires who are financing the
war roAn6 to have an embargo put on