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Show MORGAN ATTACKED BY ANASSASSIN ATTEMPT TO KILL BANKER AT HIS HOME FOILED BY NARROW MARGIN. Assassin Overpowered by Capitalist and His Butler. Confesses That He Placed Bomb Which Exploded in the National Capitoi. Glen Cove, N. Y. Frank Holt, a former Cornell university instructor, attempted to assassinate J. P. Morgan Mor-gan at East Isle. Mr. Morgan's summer sum-mer home near here, Saturday, and has confessed that he was the man who set the bomb which exploded in the United States capitoi at Washing, ton Friday night. The two bullets fired at Mr. Morgan Mor-gan penetrated his hip and neithel pierced the abdomen. The first shol struck the right hip and went througl' In a line almost horizontal, deflecting slightly downward. The second shol struck nearer the groin and was de fleeted much more sharply downward This shot came out of the upper leg. Mr. Morgan and his butler grapplec" with his assailant, and after he had been overpowered he was turned ovei to the officers. Mr. Morgan's assailant declares hii purpose was to persuade Morgan tc jrPIERP0NTM0RGAN - & , j v J. P. Morgan, who was shot by a crank because he is chief fiscal agent of the British government for the shipment of munitions,, the assailant asserted. stop shipping munitions of war abroad, and thus hasten the closing of the world "war. Mrs. J. P. Morgan and the Morgan children were to be held as hostages in their own home and killed with dynamite if J. P. Morgan refused to use his influence to stop the exportation expor-tation of war munitions, Holt told the officers. |