The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 09, 1915, Image 2
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BOMB EXPLOSION IN CAPITOL.
Reception Koom in (irrat Washington
Ituilding Suffer* DuniHKe.
Washington. July 'J. ? A tremendous
explosion believed to linvo hCCIl cailSOif
l? v some k lti? ! of ,|h>iuI> ?ii* infernal
4 machine wrecked the public rwreptlon
room In the <*a?t side of the capltol
build in;: .shortly liefore midnight to
night. Nil one was' Injured.
officials liel ieve that tho explosive
was placed by a crank who desired {<>
i reate a sensation. Visitors wer.? al
lowed lu the room during today and a
timed machine might have been left
wlthiiut attracting attention.
The buildlir.; u.'iil lieen .chisiMl ;:lnco
dark and there was mi one in it ex
i-ept the watchman and teleph ue
swltchlioard operators. Watchman
Jones, on the fl? n?r below at the ortst
entrance, .said lie was blown from his
chair.
The report could be hoard for a mile
and in a few minutes' a crowd of ex
rited jieopje had gathered. In tho
meantime, tin* lights had been switch
ed on ami excited officials were rush
ing back and forth on two Hoofs of
the great building. After the tirst
rumors of a Immh, some of the Investi
gators ?-oncluded that tin* blast had
lieen .caused by a spontaneous combus
tion in a iras pipe. The sides of tho
wall were torn oiit. however, and all
r ?? | ? i | h'"? apparently were intact. Then4
'..id been no gas fixtures on the senate
? i ? ! ? ? -ince an explosion occurred there
:,>arl\ years ago. it was said.
A ^Tr<?ii^ ?>dor ['fermented the build
i i . ??nt none seemed aide to detect
what it was. No traiv Could be
found "t' :ni exploded bomb or of any
thing which might have caused
the explosion.
Suiterlntendeut \V?khI | said ho had
examined the structural feat urea of
the building and found there was no.
damage ??xc??i?t . In the Immediate vi
cinity of the reception room.
While some olliclals thought the ex
plosion was the work of an irresponsi
ble crank with no other end in view
than a sensation, others seriously sug
gested that It might have been j>eri>e
t. rated by some one desiring to demon
strate his disapproval qf some of tin*
policies of the American -government.
It was apparent there was no intent
t?> destroy life, as it is generally known
the room Is empty at night.
Outrage Perpetrated by Holt,
(rloneove, X. Y., July .'i ? Frank Holt,
formed ComMl university Instructor,
who attempted to assasinate J. 1'. Mor
gan at -Fast Isle, Mr. Morgan's sum
mer home, i near here today, confessed
tonight that he was the man who set
the bomb which exploded In the capl
tol at Washington last night.
Holt by Ills confession and the do
tailed description of the bomb he used
In the capltol outrage, stani|K?d him
self as an expert in the use of" ex
plosives, the police assert. Immedi
ately after his confession was obtain
ed, the chlM of the Washington police,
a squad of secret service operators ami
New York city detectives and Itertll
Jioti and linger print experts were sum
moned here.
llollef prevailed that Holt had been
connected with other bomb outrages
which have I milled the police, notably
the tindlng recently of a bomb on the
grounds of Andrew Carnegie's Fifth
avenue residence in New York city.
Infectives prepared to ply Holt with
questions nil night if necessary.
Charles Tunney, captain of the bomb
and anarchist squad of New York de
tectives, and William K I,nyster, the
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ST. LOUIS. HO. :
just lev of the peace before whom Holt
whk arraigned late today, obtained the
confession. To <lo so, they intimated,
they had to employ soealled third de
cree methods.
Three sticks of dynanilt'e hound to
gether; some matchheads placed In a
hollow of one of the sticks; a bottle
of sulphuric acid In the neck of which
was Inserted a cork carefn|ly measured
and of a kind previously tested ? such
was the bomb which Holt placed in
the senate wins of the capitol at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Holt had
ascertained by tests that the Held
would eat Its way through the cork
in about eight hours. Therefore, he
estimated that the bomb would explode
about midnight! He waited at t\\et
uni|>n station, several blocks from the
capitol, he said, until he heard the ex
plosion. *
Then he boarded 'i train for New
York. ? Arriving there, he lost little
time In taking another train for Olen
cove. Several sticks of the dynamite
left over from the making of the Wash
ington bomb were in his suitcase and
these he took with him.
One of the sticks he placed in his
pocket,- with two loaded revolvers for
use, if necessary, in his mission at the>
Morgan home, it was not used, and
was found when he was locked up.
At first the police thought the dyna
mite 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
bomb's construction, they, concluded
that he possessed a knowledge of ex
plosives, far beyond that of the ordb
nary bomb maker.
I'lider the third degree Holt talked
freely of his bomb-designing. Earlier
in the day he openly . admitted he had
gone to the Morgan home with the In
tention of remaining there until Mr
Morgan did something to end the Eu
ropean war. He wanted Mr. Morgan
to prevent the further export of Ameri
can-made war munition.
The man who unfolded this unusual
story of bomb placing and attempted
assassination talked cooly and with
dramatic frankness. He Is an Ameri
can citizen, native born, about 2T?. and
educated far above the average. He
had been a student at Cornell and lat
er an instructor there in French. Rec
ords show he taught (German also.
Next autumn he had expected to be
the head of the department of French
at the Southwestern Methodist univer
sity at Dallas, Texas.
His wife, a daughter of O. F. llena
haugh, presiding elder of the Pallas*
district of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, Is with her father In
Dally s. .To her he addressed a tele
gram after his arrest, telling her that
man proposed, but fthd disposed, and
bidding her 1k? brave.
Holt, told ills story in u c^ll of tlie
(jlencove jail.* He had bound across
his forehead a white cloth through
which hlood showed from a out on
his forehead His grayish eyes spark
led as he spfike and he talked at first
with great animation.
As the day wore on he weakened.
The amount of hlood that he had lost,
from a terrific blow on the head, a
blow that knocked him unconscious as
he grappled with Mr. Morgan and his
butler In the Morgan house, was great,
and the strain told on him.
When night came and with it his
confession of the Washington outrage,
Holt was a wreck. He huddled back
in a corner in his cell, breathing hard
and apparently comatose. However,
detectives refused to let him rest. They
dragged him out to the corridor and
walked him up and down until his
stumbling feet dragged listlessly.
Then they would let him sit down,
and surround him. They hurled ques
tions at him so rapidly that at times
his half audible replies were inter-'
rupted by succeeding inquiries. Still
he refused to answer those questions
that he did not want to.- ?
The Third Degree.
j They let 'hi in rest a few moments
I and when lie refused to answer pulled
him up and began once more the te
dious promenade, talking to him all
the time.
1 i
After two hours of such treatment,
Ilolt told his story. He said he loft
Jersey City yesterday morning, arriv
ed In Washington at noon and wont to
a house on Delaware avenue and C
.street, where he rented a room, He
for<> taking the ferry from New York
to Jersey City he purchased a supply
Of so^alled trick matches. These
matches, Ilolt explained, were of the
kind that explode or "popppedV after
they were lighted. The ]H>pping of the
nifiti-V.c.s, he explained, furnished the
concussion which exploded the dyna-.:
mite. 4
s Holt said that he left the house
where lie rented a room, taking the
dynamite with him, and wnlked,? round
the capltol grounds. He then walked I
up the steps to the main entrance of j
?the cnpitol and strolled through the
corridors. He spent about half an
hour in the building, ho added, looking
for a spot to place Ills bomb where its
explosion would not injure any one or
cause great damage to the building.
After placing the bomb Holt walked
away. He went back to his room,
he said, and to the union station. He
walked n bout the street for awhile,
then derided to write to the news
papers and the president explaining
why he had sot the bomb.
Ho did this, he said, before the bomb
exploded and mailed the letters dur
ing the early evening. At thin point
he refused to tell more.
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"Didn't you have au aocomjJllcr?" be
was linked.
"So," he muttered weakly, "none
whatever. I did the whole thing my
self. 1 planned It, I execute<\ It, no
body knowing about It hut myself."
"Didn't you have an accomplice in
the netting of the bomb at YVashlng
ten?" the detectives jierwistcd.
"I toll you." he replied, "I did not.
Neither at Washington nor (ilencove."
"Where did you huy the dynamite?"
"There \mis no answer. The detec
tives caught (he prisoner's arm, drag
ged him to an upright position and
renewed their walk.
Holt became ho weak toward mid*
night that it was decided to let hlin
rest In hjs eel I until tomorrow when
the examination will be resumed,
PIKBI'ONT MOKtiAN ?HOT. 1
College Professor Thought Morgan
Ought to Htop The War.
(Ilencove, N. Y., July tt,-~ J. P. Mor
gan, head of the banking house of
.1. P. Morgan & Cq? wan shot twice
today at bin country home near here
by Frank Holt, a' native American, a
former student feud Instructor at Cor
nell university, who wan to have be*
come head Of the department of French
in I he Southwestern Methodist uni
versity at Dallas, Texas, next fall.
Mr. Morgan was said by socialists
at his bedside to be resting well to
night. No vital organ, the physicians
announced, had been involved In bis
Injury. The physician, however, de
clined to state the precise hs'Rtiou of
Mr. Morgan's wounds. Junlous Hpen
eer Morgan, eldest son pf the fluau
eler, was asked to detinc the exaet
nature of the Injuries. Alter confer
ring with the 'physicians young Mr.
Morgan answered they had decided to
add nothing to their previous bulletins.
At 11 o'clock tonight, however, it was
established, both bullets penetrated the
hip and neither entered the abdomen.
Holt was overpowered bj^ Mr, Mor
gan and Henry Flake, the butler In
the Morgan household. He was 10.1k
?*! U|) lu jail l?iv.
From hit* cell ho iMMued tt wiliLl
htiitfiiifiit, aayloa thai ti? |litTJ
ed no harm to Mr. Mortc?u, \mt J
t'OlUO to (ilencoVe to l?f| nliatU* n?. I, J
er to ?to|> tbi ahlpinent fruBl T71
t*ouiktri Q>f u)unUioii? of war'. h*
into Uiv Morgan home, tic mmV4, witf
u pistol In bin (land ami a *\\{\ t|
dynamite In hi* pocket, Inte^M#. j
remain there till Mr. Morgan
?omethiug."
Another loaded .pistol ^
lI*?lt'M pocket. More dyiifciijrit* wa* >
a Hiilfc case ho had taken to the h,?
itan house. There wi'iv numerous u*.*,
paiH'f clipping*, all hearing mi nu. fA
rojM>aa war, lij the ault case.
Brief Wespite for Iteikrr.
Alhany, *V ^ <i ?lul.v I. ^tovcriuj
Whitman today granted ('hurle* !U*i
or, the former New York Hie*
tenant under sentence of ?U?ath, h r,
prleve until July Thu govern
said he would take no .further u^tlo
hi the cane than the granting of th
reprieve, This means that if (L
United States supreme court doe* ik
Interfere Becker will have to tile.
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Big Death Toll.
( 'idea ho', July (J. Nineteen Mad
9Q8 Injured was the nations juurlM
1<> two days celehratlon of the Fourti
of July acuordlnv to corrected ftguril
compiled to<lay by the Tribune, Ttt
figures show an increase over tgi
totals when twelve were killed ad
K70 were Injured. The lire low wj
$839^25', lust year It was $99,545.
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Big Yield of Wheat, -
Olemson College, July 0.? A rejtoi
has eoiae to Clemson Collegt of a yle
of R4 bushels' and 27 pounds of wh?
on one acre on the farm of Iloyd Oand
whose farm is lu the Mont Cjare se
tion of Darlington county, In additlc
to thla unusually fine yield pf ?
acre; Mr. fiandy made 14 bushels i*
acre on nine acres.
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