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. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
j. IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrliardt Items.
Ehrhardt, July 6.?.Messrs 0. W.
Ramsey, C. C. Moore, Harry Ehr-I'
hardt and W. H. Barnes spent Sunday
in Charleston.
^ Mesdames A. B. and Sallie Haigler,
of Cameron, are visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. \V. R. Copelard.
A large crowd from Ehrhardt attended
the ball game in Walterboro
on Friday last, which resulted in a
victory for the Walterboro team, 9
> to 6.
? ?ri/i \t P D firant are
j spending 6ome time with friends and
relatives at Holly Hill.
Mrs. W. P. Pate and children are;
on a visit with relatives in Albemarle. (
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Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Ritchie, of Al-j
S bemarle, N. C., are on a visit at the,
? latter's mother, Mrs. Jacob Ehr-;
f hardr. .
Mesdames J. L. and F. H. CopeL
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\ land spent the week-end at the Isle
of' Palms.
Clear Pond News.
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Clear Pond, July 6.?Mrs. George
Ann McMillan has returned to her
home at Ehrhardt after spending:
? some time with her daughter, Mrs.;
R. F. McMillan.
ft Messrs. Eartelle and Bruce Black.
^ of Hilda, spent Saturday and Sunday I
f with their sister, Mrs. Herbert Folk. \
Miss Vera McMillan is visiting
I f relatives and friends at Ehrhardt.
P Mrs. A. H. Sandifer and children
have returned to their home near
Denmark after a visit at the home
of Mr. G. W. Folk.
j Messrs. Earle Summers, and Oren
, Drawdy, of Farrell's and Jacob Car^
ter, of Lodge, were visitors at the
Y home of Mr. J. B. Folk Saturday and
Sunday.
y Mrs. R. F. McMillan is spending
6ome time with her mother at Ehrhardt.
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Mrs. Avis Steedly and children returned
home Saturday after a visit
to her sister, Mrs. A. H. Sandifer,
? near Denmark.
Mr. Hughie Clayton and family, of
the Colston section, visited at the
^ home of Mr. T. J. Smoak Saturday
J and Sunday.
P Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bellinger, of
Bamberg, spent Sunday with Mr. R.
F. McMillan. AMICUS.
Walterboro Wins From Ehrhardt.
Walterboro, July 4.?In a very exciting
game of base ball on the local
m. grounds Friday Walterboro was successful
over Ehrhaidt by the score
1 of 9 to 5, thus making Walterboro
the winner of two games out of the
series of three played to this time.
The game yesterday was replete with
errors, hard hitting, daring base running
and at times phenomenal batU
^ " tery work. The batteries were for
L Walterboro, Rhett, Witsell and Kugan;
for Ehrhardt, Hiers, Moore and
Moore. A very large crowd was presa"**
ent, many of the stores of the town
fnr the occasion.
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Callings From Cope. /
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Cope, July 4.?Mrs. Laura E. Livingston
and daughter, Miss Mary, of
Bamberg, have been at Mr. and Mrs.
S. B. Cope's the past several days,
and will visit other relatives in and
around Cope for a week or more.
Mrs. Connor, of Greenwood, is
here on an extended visit to her
; , daughter. Mrs. Frank E. Cope.
' Mr. Jessie J. Hayden, wife and
child, of Jacksonville, Fla., are here
for a visit to his parents, Mr. and
< . Mrs. J. C. Hayden, and other relatives.
.i* Mrs. M. L. Cope, of Bamberg, is
here with her son, Mr. Shelton B.
^ Cope.
Mr. Toomer Stack and sister. Miss
Bettie, both employees of the Gharry
. . ' leston navy yard, are at home for
the Fourth.
:v Mr.-\Charles G. Henerey, of Ehrhardt,
arrived this morning to spend
r!^ today and tomorrow with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Henerey.
Horseback riding among the fair
sex seems to be coming into vogue
p. 7 \ again, as every once in a while they
are seen enjoying this delightful
' i pastime.
' Mr. Roy Hoover and family, of
k* Orangeburg, are over for an outing,
r and are stopping with Mr. and Mrs.
, Joe H. Clark.
Read The Herald, $1.50 per year.
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REFUSES TO CHANGE SENTENCE, h
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Governor Whitman Grants Reprieve
to Allow Counsel to Appeal. I
Albany, X. Y.. July 1.?Governor
Whitman today declined to commute
the death sentence of Charles Beck-,
er, convicted of the murder of Herman
Rosenthal. Simultaneously,
.Martin T. .Manton. Becker's counsel,
announced he would take no further!
steps in behalf of his client.
That other counsel for Becker may
have an opportunity to appeal to the
federal courts, however, if desired,;
the governor granted the convictedj
man a reprieve from the week begin- j
ning July 12, to the week beginning;
July 26. When Manton left here after
his conference with the governor|
he did not know if the case would be.
taken to a higher court, or what attorney,
if any, would appeal for the
convicted man.
"Late tonight it developed that'
Becker offered to make revelations
to the governor in connection with i
graft in New York police circles. The!
governor, however, refused to con-;
sider this phase of the case. The on-!
ly is^ue before him. he held, was the I
actual killing of Rosenthal.
Save for the statement that Becker
had not confessed the killing of!
Rosenthal or offered to implicate
others in the killing, the governor;
eov nr?f)iin<? roparriinfr the offer'
of the revelations.
His Only Hoj?e.
Only a writ issued bv a federal ;
court now will act as a stay. A mere j
appeal will not have that effect.
.Manton, who retires from the case,'
never has believed that there was'
much hope of federal court inter-i
vention. Points which an appeal on
constitutional grounds might be taken
are considered of a minor character.
Mrs. Becker did not appeal to the
governor in her husband's behalf.
A statement late today from the
executive chamber said:
"I deem it my duty to decline to
appoint a commission to further examine
into the Becker case, and feel
that I must deny the application for
the commutation of the sentence to
imprisonment for life.
".Mr. Manton is of the opinion that
he has done all in his power for the
client, and has asked! for a reprieve
that other counsel may have ample
time in which to carry the case into
the federal court.
"Owing to my absence during the
last week from the capital and the
incident delay, I think it is fair that
the extra time should be given, and
I have granted a reprieve, postponing
the execution of the sentence to the
week beginning July 26."
Terry-Mlley.
Fairfax, July 3.?The marriage of
a very popular young couple of Brunson
was that of Mr. C. J. Miley, and
Mis6 Lucile Terry, on the evening of
June 30, in the town of Fairfax.
The bride and groom repaired to
fhe home of the Lutheran pastor at
Fairfax and were married by the
Rev. Groseclose.
The bride is the beautiful daughter
of Mrs. H. R. Terry, of Brunson. The
groom is a prosperous merchant.
They will make their home in Brunson.
Watermelons at Cope.
Cope. July 1.?The earliest carload
of melons to be shipped from this
place went out today. They were
loaded by Mr. John H. Cope. This
is two days earlier than last year, he
having shipped the first car of the
season on the 3rd of the month. They
are of the Watson variety and will
average thirty-five pounds.
The heavy rains of the past few
days have saved the old corn, which
? Vi^o-inn i n c tn ciiffer hadlv for
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lack of moisture,' and the same is
now practically made.
WHITE DIES OF WOUNDS.
Man Who Shot Greenville Chief
Passes Away.
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Greenville. July 1.?Walker White,
who shot and fatally wounded Chief
of Police James E. Holcomb on May
11 and seriously wounded Patrolman
Bridges, died at the City hospital this
morning from gunshot wounds inflicted
by Sergt. Cooksev. who shot
White after he had wounded Chief
Holcomb and Officer Bridges. Chief
Holcomb died on May 30, and after
that time White refused to take food,
slowly wasting away until he was
nothing but a human skeleton.
Over 400 people in Bamberg county
are using Glendale Spring water,
and there is not a typhoid patient
among them.?adv.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATI
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quid
Heading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The board of trustees of Orange
burg awarded the contract Wednes
day for a $30,000 high school build
ing.
Governor .Manning has appointe*
James .McKie as sheriff of Fairfieh
county, to succeed the late Adam P
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Hood, wno was Kineu wune ueieuu
iug a negro prisoner some week
ago.
Jim Perry and Ferrell Howell
young white men, were lodged ii
Lexington jail Sunday night by Sher
iff .Miller, charged with shootim
into the house of .Maggie Pratt, ;
white woman.
* A revival is in progress in Ander
son under the direction of Rev. B
F. .McLendon, and one in Orange
burg under Rev. Thomas H. Leitch
.Mr. McLendon reports 1,922 conver
sions up to Tuesday.
Ex-Gov. Ansel, sitting as specia
judge, has denied the motion for ai
injunction against the issuance o
bonds in the sum of $400,000 b
Greenville county for the benefit o
roads. The case will be carried t
the supreme court.
Bonds to the amount of $C0,00C
recently voted in Orangeburg, fo
the erection of a high school build
ing, were sold last week to the Far
mers Union Bank-and Trust com
pany, of that place. The funds wil
tie in hand within thirty days, it i
stated.
Thos. E. .Miller, colored, late pres
ident of the State colored college i;
Orangeburg, ran over an East India;
in Charleston Saturday and cause<
injuries from which the man diei
later at the hospital. The coroner'
jury exonerated -Miller. The East In
dian was Sha Bokesh, 52 years ol
and a resident of Charleston for 2
years.
Wesley Bible Class Federation.
The Wesley Bible class is the or
ganized Bible class of the Methodis
Episcopal Church, South, and is
part of the great organized Bible clas
movement that is transforming th
old-time inert class into one of powe
and force, and one that is reachin
the men and women of the church a
never before. It is also stopping th
awful leakage of boys from the Sue
day-school and church during th
teen age.
The South Carolina wesiey didi
Class federation was organized 0<
tober 7-8, 1913, at Columbia, an
met in its second 6ession at Colum
bia, March 17, 18, 19, 1914. Thi
federation is an autonomous unio
of all Wesley Bible classes in Sout
Carolina?intermediate, senior, an
adult, for both men and women.
The third federation will meet i
Spartanburg, July 19, 20, 21 of thi
year, and everything points to th
largest federation ever held in South
em Methodism. Spartanburg Methc
di6m is organized to make everj
thing delightful for all who attend
and elaborate plans are being mad
to accommodate from 1,500 to 2,00
people on that occasion.
An unusually attractive pre
gramme has been prepared. The foi
lowing strong speakers have been s?
cured: Bishop James Atkins, forir
er Sunday-school editor and noi
president of the general Sundaj
school board; Miss Elizabeth Kilpal
rick. Sunday-school expert of th
general Sunday-school board; Di
Chas. D. Bulla, superintendent of th
Wesley Bible class department an
corresponding secretary of the gen
eral Sunday-school board; Mr. J. M
Way. divisional field secretary of th
Atlantic division; Mr. A. L. Dietrich
divisional field secretary of the mid
die division; Mr. J. H. Therrell. Sun
day-school field secretary South Geoi
gia conference; Mr. A. H. Cole, Sun
day-school field secretary Florida con
ference: Mr. M. W. Brabham, Sun
day-school field secretary North Car
olina conference: Dr. Jas. H. Moffat!
president of Erskine college; th
presiding elders of both South Care
lina conferences: Rev. E. O. Watson
D. I).. Rev. R. S. Truesdale, D. D
Rev. W. A. Massebeau. and Rev
John H. Graves, all of the Sour
Carolina conference: Mr. Cliarlto:
Durant. of Manning, and Dr. Vane
W. Brabham, of Orangeburg: Rev
John W. Speake. Rev. J. R. T. Ma
jor. Rev. C. E. Peele, and Rev. R. I
Holroyd. all of the Upper South Car
olina conference; and Mr. R. S. Ligon
of Anderson.
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CRANK DOES MUCH DAMAGE
PLANTS BOMB IX CAPITOL AND
SHOOTS J. PIKKPOXT MORGAN.
Says It Was Protest Against l*nite<!
States Selling Ammunition to
J i PKKPAKK ILLITERACY DATA.
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! Club at Winthrop (iather? Kduca?j
tional Facts.
Columbia. July 4.?The South Carolina
club students attending the
L summer school for teachers at Winthrop
college have compiled some interesting
statistics relative to native
white illiteracy in South Carolina.
The members are wondering whether
_ | illiteracy has anything to do with
J economic conditions in the various
| counties.
j | "The South Carolina club students
think, that 'moonlight schools' are
; as badly needed in their State as they
' | were in Rowan county, Kentucky,
i when a heroic band, composed of
s
I every school tea-cher, determined to
! wipe out illiteracy?and wiped it
' out," says a paper prepared by the
11 j club members.
Present the Facts.
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| Some of the facts established by
| the club members are as follows:
Orangeburg county has 4 per cent,
of white illiteracy and $351 of per
'' capita farm wealth?the average
farm wealth for the State being
'* | $3^4 per capita,
i Sumter county has 4 per cent, of
white illiteracy and $345 of per cap.1
! ita t'ai-m wealth
n 1 Lee county- has 10 per cent, ol
''j white illiteracy and $4 53 of farm
y i wealth.
1 Saluda county has 5 per cent, ol
0 white illiteracy and $397 of per capit^
farm wealth,
i, Florence has 9 per cent, of whitt
r illiteracy and $39S per capita farm
- wealth.
-] Greenwood has 6 per cent, of white
:-j illiteracy and $34 2 of per capita farm
[1 wealth.
s On the other hand:
Georgetown county has 13 pet
[_ cent, of white illiteracy and $108 ol
a per capita farm wealth.
n Horry county has 10 per cent, ol
jj I white illiteracy and $215 per capita
d j farm wealth.
s| Union has 13 per cent, of white il_
j literacy and $222 of per capita farm
jj wealth.
O Chesterfield county has 20 pei
cent, of white illiteracy and $277 ol
per capita farm wealth.
Williamsburg county has 14 pei
cent, of white illiteracy and $253 ol
per capita farm wealth.
In Spartanburg county there art
a nearly 6,000 native white men, wo
s' men and children more than 10 years
e of age who can neither read noi
r write their names.
S In Greenville county there ar<
8 nearly 4,000. In Anderson cduntj
? iust under 3,500.
There are five counties in Soutl
? Carolina with each more than 2,000
and 12 counties with over 1,000 whc
e cannot read or write.
Data on Counties.
Mrs. Annie Bennett, of Greenville
l" county^ contributed the following ta
ble showing the white illiterates, anc
, the percentage, in each county:
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d The State?native white illiteracy
persons 10 years old and older, 50.Q
245, or 10.3 per cent.
s 1?Charleston 420 i
e 2?Edgefield 205 c
i- 3?Bamberg 174 4
). 3?Beaufort 117 4
r. 3?Calhoun Ill 4
lf 3?Newberry 347 4
e 3?Orangeburg 519 4
0 3?Sumter 306 4
9?Abbeville 475 f
>- 9?Saluda 365 I
|. 11?Barnwell 398 f
11?Chester 469 (
i- 11?Greenwood 566 (
n 14?Dorchester 329 '
14?Fairfield .. : 361 1
- 14?Lexington 1,065 1
e 14?Richland 1,251 1
. 18?Clarendon 483 i
e 18?Hampton 524 i
d 18?Kershaw 616 . i
!_ 18?Laurens 1,091 S
f. 22?Florence 1.018 ?
e 23?Colleton 910 1C
,t 23?Lee 601 1 (J
23?York 1,577 It
26?Aiken 1,489 11
. 26?Anderson 3,467 11
[. 26?Berkeley 379 11
26?Greenville 3.793 11
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2b?.\iarion ioj. ?i
.. 31?Lancaster 1,094 12
rf 32?Georgetown ..- -557 13
e 32?Union .. ..1.3S4 13
i_ 34?Spartanburg....*.' 5,SOI 14
lt 36?Williamsburg 1.440 14
J 36?Pickens 2,023 15
r I 37?Darlington 1,729 16
J 37?Oconee 2,212 16
n 37-?Cherokee 2,024 16
e ! 40?Dillon 1,351 1 7
41?Marlboro 1.633 IS
. 4 2?Horry 2.654 19
43?Chesterfield 2.1 46 20
Adult schools have been organized
i. in the rural districts of Laurens and
Newberry counties.
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Glen Cove, X. Y., July 3.?Frank
Holt, former Cornell instructor, who
attempted to assissinate J. P. Morgan
sft East Isle, Mr. Morgan's summer
home, near here, today, confessed
tonight that he was the man who
set the bojnb which exploded in the
, Capitol at Washington last night.
Mr. Morgan, the victim of the bullets
which Holt fired today, was said
by specialists at his bedside to be
resting well tonight. Xo vital organ,
the physicians announced, had been
involved in his injury. The physicians,
however, declined to state, the
precise location of Mr. Morgan's
wounds. Junius Spencer Morgan.
' eldest son of the financier, was ask!
ed to define the exact nature of his
: injuries. After conferring with the
physicians young Mr. Morgan assert-1
ed that they had decided to add noth- j
" ing to their previous bulletins. At i
| 11 o'clock tonight, however, it was
j established that both bullets pene1
trated the hip and one entered the
j abdomen.
Belief prevailed that Holt had
"j been connected with other bomb outi
rages which have baffled the police,
!i notably the finding recently of a
' bomb on the grounds of Andrew Carnegie's
5th avenue residence, in New
* York city. Detectives prepared to
1 ply Holt with questions all- night if
necessary. Thos Tunney,* captain of
the bomb and anarchist's squad of
New York detectives and William E.
Luyster, the justice of the peace before
whom Kolt was arraigned late
' today, obtained the confession. To
1 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 a
| hollow of one of the sticks, a bottle
.1 of sulphuric acid, in the neck where
^ there was inserted a cork, carefully
measured, and of a kind previously
4 tested?such was the bomb which
' Holt placed in the 6enate wing oj. the
. Capitol at 4 o'clock yesterday after.
noon. Holt had ascertained by tests
that the acid would ea* its way
4 through the cork in about eight
' hours. Therefore, he estimated that
the bomb would explode about mid{
night. He waited at the Union station,
several blocks from the Capitol,
j he said, until he heard the explosion.
Then he boarded a 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 revolvers, for
! use, if necessary, in his mission at
t the Morgan .home. It was not used
I and was found when he was locked
I up.
I At first the police thought the dy\
namite played a minor role in his
\ plan to assassinate Mr. Morgan,
t When they listened in undisguised
I amazement to the story he told of
i the Washington bomb's construction,
> they concluded that he possessed a
> knowledge of explosives far ^eyond
J that of the ordinary bomb maker.
f Talked Freely.
r Under the third degree Holt talked
r freely of his bomb designing. Ear'
Hop in rtav h? onenlv admitted
! j he had gone to the Morgan home with
! the intention of remaining there until
1 Mr. Morgan did something to end
> the European war. He wanted Mr.
1 Morgan to prevent the further export
1 of war munitions.
' The man who unfolded this un1
usual story of bomb placing and attempted
assassination talked cooly
and with dramatic frankness. He is
an American citizen, native born,
about 35 years old and educated far
above the average. He had been a
: 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
I at the Southwestern Methodist I'ni
;! versity at Dallas, Tex.
1 His wife, a daughter of 0. S. Sen-j
' sabaugh, presiding elder of the Dallas
district of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, is with her father
in Dallas. To her he addressed a
1 telegram after his arrest telling her
[ that man proposed, but God disposed,
. and bidding her to be brave.
Holt told his story in a cell of the
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TAKKS HIS OWN* LIFE. I
Holt, Commits Suicide, Either by
Shooting or Plunging to Death.
Glencove, X. Y.t July 6.?Frank J jig
Holt, the Cornell university profes- ~yr.>>!3
sor. who shit J. P. Morgan in his
home near Glencove last Saturday,
committed suicide in the jail at Mine- J
ola tonight.
While several of the jail authori- *
ties declare that Holt killed himself
by climbing through the opening at
the top of his cell door and then
plunging to the narrow court below,
Holt's keeper said he was positive
that the prisoner was Kiuea in nis
own cell, where he said he found the
There were many conflicting reports
as to the manner in which Holt
met his death, but it was definitely
established through Dr. Cleghorn, the .
jail physician, that Holt died of a
fractured skull. Dr. Cleghorn found
that death had been instantaneous.
District Attorney Smith searched
Holt's cell immediately after arriving
at the jail and found a letter ja|
written on yellow paper. This letter,
which Holt must have written $||
before he attempted suicide early $8
this morning, when the pencil with
which he tried to sever an artery was
taken from him, was addressed to
"My dears" and follows:
- "I must write once more. The
mnre i think about it the more I see
the uselessness of living under circumstances
such as these. Bring up ^Sjjp
the dear babies in the love of God '3*9
and man. God bless you my sweet.
Affectionately,
"FRANK. vjl
"P. S.?All please pardon me for V |H
all the heartaches I have brought |
you. Pray with me that the slaughter
will stop. My heart breaks. Good
At Midnight there was still con- - <jjjm
siderable confusion in the jail and
conflicting stories as to the manner
in which Holt was killed were told
by those attached to the institution.
The attendants disagreed as to the Ap
place where the body was found.
Jeremiah O'Ryan, the keeper detail- '
ed to watch Holt's cell, declared that
ha was positive the body was in a ?
pool of blood in the cell when he
first saw it. '
"It sounded to me like an explosion,"
said O'Ryan, giving his ver- *
sion of what occurred. "You will
have hard work to convince me that
It wasn't. The cell was in partial
darkness as the lights had not been
fully turned on.
"I was 15 feet from the cell when ,
it happened and my back was turned.
I heard a noise and then ran
into the cell and looked around. It, A - |gj
was dark.
"I couldn't see at first. Then I
found the body in a pool of blood in
a corner of the cell.
"HOlt naa Deen 10 remainauit buuu
spirits. He had laughed and Joked
earlier in the evening. That made
me suspicious."
Gle^ Cove jail. He had bound across *
his forehead a white cloth through
which blood showed from a cut on his i
forehead. His grayish eyes sparkled
as he spoke and he talked at first with " $jg
great animation.
Damage Wrought By Bomb.
Washington, July 3.?Investigation
of the explosion late last flight, which
wrecked the Senate reception room of '
the National Capitol, was interrupted
to-night by the confession in New
York of Frank Holt, the man who
6hot J. P. .Morgan at his home in Glen
Cove, L. I., this morning, that he
also had been responsible* for the
Washington crime.
Earlier in the day Washington
newspaper? had received a letter
signed "R. Pearce," in which the
writer stated he nad planned the
Capitol explosion "as the exclamation
point to my appeal for peace."
While experts were at work satisfying
themselves that an infernal machine
had wrecked the Senate room,
the police were searching for clues.
They could find no trace of the mys
terious "R. Pearce," but to-night
they sought to trace the movements
of Holt.
Hours before Holt's confession,
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however, suspicion was aroused here
that the assailant of Morgan and the
man who sought to wreck the Capitol
were identical. Holt had given utterance
in New York following his
arrest to statements strikingly similar
to expressions in the "Pearce"
letter.
Germany and.Munitions.
"If Germany should be able to buy
munitions here we would, of course,
positively refuse to sell her," Holt
said after his arrest.
"We would, of course, not sell to
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