The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-07-08
CRANK DOESMUCH DAMAGE
PLANTS BOMB IN CAPITOL AND
SHOOTS J. PIERPONT MORGAN.
Says 1t Was Protest Against United
States Selling Ammunition to
British Government.

Glen Cove, y. y, July 3.-Frank
Holt, former Cornell instructor, who
attempted to assissinate J. P. Nor
gan at East Isle, Mr.. Morgan's sum-
mer home, near here, today, confess
ed 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 bull
lets which Holt fired today, was said
by specialists at his bedside to be
resting we'll tonight. No vital organ,
the physicians announced, had been
involved in his injury. The physi-
clans, however, declined to state. the
precise location of Mr.. Morgan's
wounds. Junius Spencer Morgan.
eldest son of the fnancier, was ask
ed to define the exact nature of his
injuries. After conferring with the
physicians young Mr.. Morgan assert
ed that they had decided to add moth
ing to their previous bulletins. At
II o'clock tonight, however, it was
established that both bullets pene-
trated the hip and one entered the
abdomen.
Belief prevailed that Holt had
been connected with other bomb out
RACES which have baffled the police,
notably the finding recently of a
bomb on the grounds of Andrew Car
negie's 5th avenue residence, in New
York city. Detectives prepared to
ply Holt with questions all night If
necessary. Thos Tunney,' captain of
the bomb and anarchists squad Of
New York detectives and William E.
Luyster, the justice of the peace be-
fore whom Holt was arraigned late
today, obtained the confession. TO
do so, they intimated, they had to
employ so-called third degree
methods.
Description of Bomb.
Three sticks of dynamite bound to-
gether, some match heads placed in
i hollow of one of the sticks, a bottle
of sulphuric acid, in the neck where
there was inserted a cork, carefully
measured, and of a kind previously
| tested-such was the bomb which
Holt placed in the senate wing Of the
Capitol at o'clock yesterday after
noon. Holt had ascertained by tests
that the acid would eat its way
through the cork in about eight
hours. Therefore, he estimated that
the bomb would explode about mid
night. He waited at the Union sta
ton, several blocks from the Capitol,
he said, until he heard the explosion.
Then he boarded train for New
York. Arriving there he lost no
time in taking another train for
Glen Cove. Several sticks Of the
dynamite, left over from the making
of the Washington bomb, were in his
suit case, and these he took with
him.
One of the sticks he placed in his
pocket with two loaded revolyers, for
use, if 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 dy-
Mantle played a minor role in his
plan to assassinate Mr.. Morgan.
When they listened in undisguised
amazement to the story he told Of
the Washington bombs construction,
they concluded that he possessed a
knowledge of explosives far beyond
that of the ordinary bomb maker.
Talked Freely.
Under the third degree Holt talked
freely of his bomb designing. Ear
lier in the day he openly admitted
he had gone to the Morgan home with
the intention of remaining there until
Mr.. Morgan did something to end
the European war. He wanted Mr..
Morgan to prevent the further export
of war munitions.
The man who unfolded this un-
usual story of bomb placing and at
tempted assassination talked cody
and with dramatic frankness. He is
an American citizen, native born,
about 35 years old and educated far
above the average. He had been
student at Cornell, he said, and later
an instructor there in French. Rec
ords show he taught German instead.
Next autumn he had expected to be
the head of the department of French
at the Southwestern Methodist Uni
versity at Dallas, Tex.
His wife, a daughter of 0. S. Sen
sabaugh, presiding elder of the Dali
las district of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, South, is with her father
in Dallas. To her he addressed