The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
J. P. MORGAN IS SHOT AT
 COUNTRY HOME BY FANATIC

and he was beaten by the butler and other servants, who came running at the sound of the shots, until he offered no further resistance. Then the Glen Cove police and a physician were sum- moned and Holt was placed in one of the Morgan automobiles and hurried at 40 miles an hour to the jail here MT. Morgan walked, calmly and col lectedly, feeling, he said, that he mad been shot, but experiencing no sensa- ton of weakness up the stairs and went to the telephone. He called up the doctor and afterward his office in New York city and told the story of the shooting, asserting that he did not regard his wounds as serious Then he went to his bed and lay down, await ing the doctor.
 While the doctor was hurrying to his bedside from Glencove MT. Morgan asked that the telephone be brought to him. Personally he obtained long distance connection with Utica N Y. and through the exchange with his mother He told her that she would hear reports that he had been shot, but that she was not to worry Holt was locked in a cell in the jail here. To the questions of the local po- Ice, he at first made no reply. For r1ore than an hour he declined to give his name or say anything about him
 
 told Justice of the Peace William F. Luyster that he had gone to see MT Morgan about ending the European war and that MT. Morgan had not given him a chance to say anything.
 'I fired to scare him." Holt said They tell me I hit him. I hope he IS not badly hurt"
 Soon holt decided that he would write what he had to make public on the matter. He then prepared state men1 addressed to Justice Luyster and intended for the newspapers. In this statement he repeated to great cX- tent what he had told MT. Luyster verbally.
 The extent and nature of MT ,Mor- gans wounds were not defined fIntil nearly o'clock in the afternoon when | specialists. summoned from New York, | had completed their examination. In | the meantime numerous conflicting re- ports were circulated as to the gray . ity of his wounds. One report said a bullet had struck MT. Morgan in the abdomen.
 | Callers Excluded A line of deputy sheriffs was stretched l around the Morgan estate and all callers were excluded. Attendant physicians and | surgeons kept in telephone touch with the Morgan offices in New York.
 Late today Holt was arraigned before
 
 with intent at malicious killing. He was with a white bandage around his head, through which showed dark red stain above cut on the forehead. He appeared to have been weakened by the loss of blood and tottered as he stood before the | justice.
 You are charged" said Justice Luys- ter, with assault with intent at malic- ious killing. How do you wish to plead?' Holt swayed forward so far that 1t ap- peared he would fall. He threw out his arm and it circled the neck of county l detective. Another detective sprang to Holts side and between them they sup ported him during the rest of the proceed 1 ings
 1 How do you plead?" asked the justice. | Take out all that about the malicious killing" Holt replied. Tt oughtn't to be | there''
 Justice Luyster informed the prisoner that the wording of the charge was &C., l cording to the legal code. | Do you want a preliminary exami- nation?' the justice asked 1T don't know what you mean" Holt replied but I do want to object to the part that tells about malicious killing. That isn't right
 l The justice explained the meaning of 1 this question and again asked how he 
 not guilty He appeared undecided whether he wanted a preliminary exam l inaton. Assistant District Attorney | Weeks stepped forward while Holt ap- 1 peared to be making up his mind and told the court he would like to ask for postponement of all further proceedings until next Wednesday, July r. This was granted, Holt being held without bail
 in the meantime
 The exact location of the spots where the bullets went home when MT. Morgan was shot, the gravity of his wounds and the seriousness of his condition, whether sufficient to cause concern or otherwise. were points which Mir Morgan's doctors failed to clear up in their bulletins of the patients progress.
 Junius Spencer Morgan, MT. Morgan s son, was asked by newspaper men to make a statement bearing on these fea- lures. 1t was pointed out to young MT. Morgan that more than 12 hours had elapsed since his father had been shot and | that rumors of serious import and con-
 aictng nature had been published in the meantime, and that the exact locat.rn n of MT. Morgan's wounds remained as yet | a matter that only the physicians and | the members of the family knew. One I of the rumors, young MT. Morgan was told, was that Mir Morgan had been sh ot I in the stomach and that the bullet had penetrated the abdomen.
 I'll see what the doctors say,' he re- | piled. He returned a few minutes later and read the bulletin issued at 6:15, which ] stated that the bullets did not involve any vital organ" and that MT. Morgan $ l condition continued excellent. II This is all that the doctors care to say at present" MT. Morgan asserted. An earlier bulletin stated MT. Morgan
 was shot in the region of the hip," young
 MT Morgan was told Tt might be in-
 ferred from that bulletin that the shot
 entered the abdomen. Do the doctors
 care to set that question at rest?'
 Mr. Morgan replied that the doctors did
 not care to say anything more than the contents of the last bulletin. No more 1 bulletins, he added. would be issued to- night
 Prattville Wins
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