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VOL. XXX. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, .JULY S, 1915. NO. 18
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ATTEMPTED TO BLOW UP NATIONAL
CAPITAL AND KILL ,
J. PIER PONT MORGAN.
Glenccye, N Y, Jtoly. 3:?Frank
Holt, former Cornell* tmiversity instructor,
who attempted to assassinate
J P Morgan at East Isle, Mr j
Morgan's summer home, near here, j
today, confessed tonight that he was
the man who set the bomb which exploded
in the capitol at Washington
last night.
Holt by his confession ^nd the detailed
description' of the bomb he
used in the capitol outrage stamped
himself as an expert in the use of
explosives, the police assert. Immediately
after his confession was obtained,
the chief of the Washington
police, a squad of secret service ope-1
ratoifc and New York city detectives
and Bertillion and finger print experts
were summoned here.
Belief prevailed that Holt had
"been connected with other bomb
outrages which have baffled the police,notably
the finding recently of a
bomb on the grounds of Andrew
Carnegie's New York city residence. |
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Detectives prepared to ply Holt with
questions all night if necessary.
Thomas Tunney, captain of the
bomb and anarchist squad of New
York detectives, and William E Luyster,
the justice of the peace before
whom Holt was arraigned late today,
obtained the confession. To do
so, they intimated, they had to employ
so-called third degree methods.
.Three sticks of dynamite bound
together; sorhe match heads placed
in a hollow of one of the sticks; a
bottle of sulphuric acid in the neck
of which was inserted a cork care-1
fully measured and of a kind previously
tested?such was the bomb
which Holt placed in the Senate
-wing of the capitol at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Holt had ascertained
by tests that the acid would
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eat its way through the cork in about
eight hours. Therefore he estimated
that the bomb would explode about
midnight. He waited at the union
station, several blocks from the capitol,
he said, until he heard the explosion
Then he boarded a train for New
York. Arriving there, he lost little
time in t: king another train for
Giencove. Several sticks of the dynamite
left over from the making of.
the Washington bomb were in his
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One of the sticks he placed in hi?
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 dynamite
played a minor role in his
nlan 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 explosives far beyond
that of the ordinary bomb-maker.
Under 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
intention of remaining there until
Mr Morgan did something to end
the European war. He wanted Mr
Morgan to prevent the further export
of American-made war munition.
The man who unfolded this unusual
story of bomb placing and ati
tempted assassination talked coolly
and with dramatic frankness. He is
an American citizen, native born,
about 35,and educated far above the
average. He had been a student at
Cornell and later an instructor there
in French. Records show he taught
German also. Next autumn he had
expected to be head of the department
of French at the Southwestern
Methodist university at Dallas, Tex.
His wife is a daughter of Rev 0 F
Sensebaugh, presiding elder of the
Dallas district of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South. To her he addressed
a telegram after his arrest,
telling her that man proposed but
God disposed, and bidding her to be
brave.
Holt told bis story in a cell of the
Glencove jail. ,He had bound across
his forehead a white cloth through
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which blood showed from a cut on
his forehead. His grayish eyes sparkled
as he spoke and he talked at first
with great animation.
As the day wore on he weakened.
The amount of blood that he had
lost from a terrific blow upon 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 of his cell, breathing
hard and apparently comatose
^However, detectives refused to lei
him rest. They dragged him out t(
| the corridor and walked him up anc
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down until his ""stumbling feet list5
lessly dragged.
Then they would let him sit down,
, and surround him. They hurled
I questions at him so rapidly that at
times his half audible replies were
, interrupted by succeeding inquiries,
i Still he refused to answer thq, questions
that he did not want to.
They let him rest a few moments
1 and when he refused to answer pulled
him up and began once more the tedious
promenade, talking to him all
the time.
After two hours of such treatment
Holt told his story. He said he
, left Jersey City yesterday morning,
arriving in Washington at noon, and
, went to a house on Delaware avenue
and C street, where he rented a room.
Before taking the ferry from New
, York to Jersey City he purchased a
supply of so-called trick matches.
'Holt explained that they were the
kind that exploded or "popped" after
they were lighted. The popping
of the matches, he ^explained, furnished
the concussion which exploded
the dynamite.
Holt said that he left the house
where he rented a room, taking the
dynamite with him, and walked
around the capitol grounds. Then
he walked up the steps to the main
entrance of the capitol and strolled
through the corridors. He spent
about half an hour in the building,
he added, looking for a sfJot to place
i his bomb where its explosion would
not injure anyone or cause great
damage to the building.
After placing the bomb Holt walked
away. He went back to his room, |
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He walked about the street for a J
while, then decided to write to the !
newspapers and the President ex-;
plaining why he had set the bomb.
He did this, he said, before the;
i bomb exploded and mailed the let- i
, ters during the early evening. At;
this point he refused to tell mofe.
Mineola.L I, July 6:?Frank Holt,!
the Cornell university professor who
shot J P Morgan in his home near
Glencove last Saturday, committed
suicide in the jail at Mineola tonight.
Salesday.'
Monday being salesday there were
offered at public outcry two lots of
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under foreclosure in the case of the
5 Bank of Kingstree against Weary
McGill and others. This was bought
' by Messrs F Rhem & Sons for the
I sum of $2,525.00.
The other, a foreclosure sale in
the matter of E B Rhodes and
' others against Ellen White, in vol v-;
ing a one-third interest in the estate
} of Hairy White, was bought by Mr
1 Rhodus for $100.00.
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Indlantown Items.
Indian town, July 5:?The summer
visitors here have succeeded in livening
up this old burg.
The picnic at Indiantown church
Saturday, July 3, was well attended
and everybody seemed to have a
good time. GeoVgetown, Rome,
Rhem9, Nesmith, Benson, Kingstree,
Cades, Lake City, Vox, Johnsonville
and Hemingway were represented;
it is estimated that four or five hun- '
dred people were present to enjoy Indiantown's
hospitality and the company
of its people. There was plenty
of everything to eat as is always the
case here. The young men of the
community furnished a barbecue
which was delightfully cooked and
was fit for a king.
Mrs Sam Cooper and Miss Denie
Cooper of Sumter, the Misses Plow
den of Manning and the Misses
Hamiter of Blackstock are guests at
Mr T M Connor's. !(
Miss Emma Cooper is entertaining
at a house party this week Misses Jim- j
mie Britton and Ada Brockington of
Kingstree, Miss Minnie Doar of
Georgetown, Messrs Dunlop McCuIlough
of Sailers, Jim Epps of Kingstree
and ? Watson of Andrews.,
Miss Cooper will give a lawn party ;
for her guests on Tuesday evening, 1
and on Thursday evening the young 1
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Miss Jane Ervin is at Spruce
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Cabbage Snakes.
Mr B L Johnsqn of Rome brought
to The Record office yesterday morning
somewhat of a curiosity in the
form of reptiles. It was a pair of
cabbage snakes, one he said was 18
and the other 13 inches long when
straightened out. Mr Johnson had
his "reptiles", if they may be so
classed, in p small bottle of water,
and they were perfectly alive but aJ
twined and intertwined .about each
other thai they resembled a badly
tangled mass of No 8 white sewing
thread. Mr Johnson said if the
"snakes"were taken out of the bottle
and placed on a smooth surface they
would soon untangle and straighten .
themselves out, as he had found by
experimenting with them. We have
frequently heard of cabbage snakes,
but never saw one before. We
were never very strong on cabbage
as an article of food an# since we
are informed'that this peculiar looking
snake is poisonous and ah habitue
of the globular vegetable we
are decidedly less favorably impressed
with its dietetic properties than
ever.
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