The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-07-07
DANGEROUS MAN
IS FRANK HOLT
Attempted To Assassiuate
j. P. Morgan.
PLACED BOMB At WASHINGTON
As a Protest Against vii.
sons Policy Regarding
War Munitions.
THIRD DEGREE METHODS USED

Glen Cove, n. Y, July 81. p.
Morgan, head of the banking house
of ]. z. Morgan & Co., was shot
twice to-day at his country home
near here by Frank Holt, native
American, former student and in
structor at Cornell University, who
was to have become head of the de-
partmcnt of French in the South
western Methodist University, at
Dallas. Texas, next sell. ------ 80 $780, ---
Holt to-night confessed also he is
the man who set the bomb that ex-
.ploded last night in the capitol, at
Washington, according to Police
Captain Tunney, a police headquar-
tiers.
Holt described in detail the MAX
ing he placing of he bomb.
BcGh shots Holt fred took effect
in he RECON of the hip and it was
announced tonight that Mr.. Morgan
was not seriously hurt. and is rest
ing easily.
Hot was overpowered by Morgan
and Henry Fiske, butler in the
Morgan household, who grappled
with him in the hallway. He was
locked in Jail here, and from his
cell Issued written statement say
ing he intended no harm to Morgan,
but came to Glen Cove to persuade
the banker to stop the shipment
abroad of munitions of war from
this country.
He went into the Morgan home,
he said. with a pistol in his hand,
and stick of dynamite in his pock-
ct, intending to remain there until
Morgan ''did something"
Another loaded pistol avs found
in Hollis pocket and more dynamite
in suitcase he had taken to the
Morgan house. In addition there
were numerous newspaper clippings
in the suitcase. all bearing on the
European war.
Holt late to-day was arraigned
before Justice Luyster, on the
charge of assault with intent of ma
licious killing. Holt declared the
part about malicious killing"
should not be there. and he did not
know what preliminary examination
meant. On request of Assistant
District Attorney Weeks further
proceedings were postponed until
July Z, and Holt was held without
bond.
Holt, by his confession, detailed a
description of the bomb he used in
The cap'tcs outrage and stamped
himself as an expert in the use of
explosives. the police assert.
Thomas Tunney, captain of the
bomb and anarchist squad of detec-
siyes of the New York department.
and William Luyster, Justice of the
Peace, before whom Holt was ar
raigned late to-day, obtained lhe
confession. To do so they intimat-
ed that third degree methods We're
employed.
Three sticks of dynamite bound
together. some match heads placed
in the hollow of one stick. which
Holt scooped out with a pen knife.
a bottle of sulphuric acid, in the
neck of which an inserted cork.
carefully measured and of kind
previously tested-such was the
bomb that Holt placed in the Senate
wing Of the capitol at O'Clock yes
terday afternoon.
Tests had showed Holt the acid
would eat through the cork in about
eight hours. He took stroll about
and later went to the
union station. near the capitol and |
waited there for the explosion. He
then took the train for New York,
and on arriving there lost little time
In taking another for Glen Cove.
The man who unfolded this un-
usual story of bomb placing and at
assassination. talked coolly
and with dramatic frankness. He is
an American citizen. native born.
thirty-fve years old. and educated
far above the average. He was
student at Cornell, and later an in
structor there.
his wife. daughter of o. Y, Sen
asbaugh, presiding elder OF the Dali
Ic,. ~syss. district OF the Methodist