The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-07-04
CRANK'S IDEA0F ENDING THE EUROPEAyz1AR:
BLOW Up CAPITOL AND SHOOT ]. ?. MORGAN

hall, broke into run as he approach
ed the dining room, and shouted: Cup
stairs, Mr.. Morgan, up stairs!"
The financier and his wife, !believ-
ing that something had happened up
stairs, ran up the back stairway. They
found nothing wrong and hurrying
through the long hall on the second
floor, and down the front stairs. al
most stumbled upon the intruder who
was brandishing revolver in either
hand. Mrs. Morgan brushed ahead
and attempted to throw herself be-
tween the would-be assassin and her
husband. Morgan. however, pushed
her back and hurled the full weight
OF his 200 pounds Of solid flesh upon
his slender assailant, just as the two
revolvers barked.
At this point, accounts of,what hap
pened differ materially.
The verison generally accepted
here tonight was that Holt fired three
shots before he was felled, one enter
ing Morgan's abdomen, piercing the
center and infiicting a serious wound.
and second penetrating the groin
and coming out through the right
thigh. A third shot was reported to
have shattered a valuable OIL painting,
one of the belongings OF the finan-
cier's father
Morgan's physicians issued a state
ment early this evening, declaring
that the two bullets that entered his
body lodged in the region of the right
thigh, causing no serious wounds.
In falling to the floor with his as
n i1a Mrrpar coSraya Iyol%J. x,rsc<r
and wrenched one of the revolvers
out of his hand. The butler ana other
servants then rushed In and overpow.
cred Holt.
They trussed him up with ropes
and telephoned for the police and doc
tors.
Morgan refused the assistance OF his
wife and unaided, mounted the stairs
of the second floor, blood streaming
down his trouser legs. He undressed
himself and got into bed
DR. John Zabriskie Of Glen Cove,
reached the Morgan home fifteen min
utes later in his automobile DR.. Lyle
Of st. Luke's hospital, New York, was
hurried to Glen Cove and shortly aft
erward P. H. Davfdson's yacht arrived
with q number of New York special
lists.
Holt, meanwhile, had been carried
to the lawn Of the Morgan home, Sc.
curely bound. Constable Frank Nc
Gill and Judge William Luyster drove
to the Morgan home and removed the
prisoner to the court house here.
When Holt was searched he was found
to have on him three sticks Of high
power dynamite, two large boxes of
cartridges and bottles the police be-
lieve contains nitroglycerine. era.
After DR.. Zabriskie had attended
Morgan. the financier ordered the ex-
tension telephone in his room brought
to his bedside. Butler Fiske had him
connected with his mother, Mrs. J. P.
Morgan, Sr., who is at Highland Falls,
on the Hudson. Morgan propped him
self up on. his elbow and personally
told his mother not to be alarmed
over his condition. He then talked to
his partner William H. Porter, over
private line to J. p, Morgan and Com
pany in New York.
The Glen Cove police Immediately
began sweating Holt. The prisoner
talked freely, though at times in an
irrational manner. He repeatedly de-
clared that he had no intention Of
killing Morgan, but that he felt his
victim was responsible for prolonging
the European war and that he intend
ed to f1ghten him into preventing the
expectation Of any more ammunition
to the allies.
The smash from Morgan's fist and
the onslaught by the servants left
Holt in a badly battered condition
His head was bleeding and he was
bruised about the head and body.
When b., had recovered sufficiently he
consented to talk with reportsT
Holt said that his home was in Dal.
las. Texas, and that he was forty years
old
81 am an American" he said. my
ancestors were French and German
Before / went to Cornell. 7 was an
instructor at Vanderbilt college. re-
ceived degree Of doctor of philosophy
at Cornell In 1914 while I was an in
structor there in modern languages. I
resigned from the Cornell faculty this
spring and accepted an appointment
to the chair Of Roman languages at
the Southern Methodist university,
Dallas.
mo one influenced me to do this
got the idea about a month ago that
l might persuade Mr. Morgan to stop
the sale of ammunition because /
thought 1t was all wrong. | did not
mean to shoot him, but | did intend
to stay around until something was
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