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Show - . - . .' I ; CRANK TRIES TO ASSASSINATE j GREAT NEW YORK FINANCIER m Assailant Arrives at Morgan Summer Home With Two Re- I volvers and Two Satchels Containing Dynamite and I; Nitro-Glycerine Wanted Morgan to Stop Sale of V War Munitions to Allies Thought He Had Message From on High Seven Specialists Called to Examine Wounds Inflicted m by Would-be Assassin. I ft Glen Cove, N. Y.. July 3.-Sevcn M specialists from New York City ar- B rived here on H. P. Davison's yacht this afternoon and, with physicians M from Gleu Cove, went to the Morgan V home for a consultation. Up to 3 Kr o'clock this afternoon no official Vm statement had been issued from thei K Morgan residence as to the precise lo ft qatlon and extent of Mr. Morgans wounds. m Morgan Firm Statement. m A statement issued by the Morgan W. firm shortlv before 4 p. m. reads: m "An examination of Mr. Morgan gl discloses . that there are two bullet ItSS wounds In the region of his right hip. Mr There are no unfavorable symptoms K and he Is resting easily." m (Signed) "II. M. LYLE, ! "J. W. MARKOE. "Time, 3:30 p. m.. Glen Cove, N Y." The above statement was signed by Mr. Morgan's attending physicians. New York, July 3. J. P. Morgan, head of the big banking house of his name, and financial agent in this country coun-try of the British ..government, was shot twice at his country home near , Glen Cove. L. I., by a man who entered the Morgan home shortly after 9 o'clock today, It was said that Mr. Morgan was not seriously wounded. One of the shots, It was reported, took effect in his ifeEE.' hip. the other in his breast, tearing Irafe the' flesh and passing out through his mt arm. The assailant was overpowered jft bv servants, placed In the Morgan au- W tomobile and rushed to Glen Cove, flf There ho refused to say who he was v or where he was from, but asserted W that he was "a Christian gentleman" I and had felt It his duty to persuade Mr, Morgan to end the war. WL The effect on the stock market was WL hardly noticeable Arrived In Automobile. m' "When Mr Morgan's assailant ar- m rived In Glen Cove from New York on B a train this morning he hired an au- tomobile from a garage near the sta- Pfj tion and was driven by a chauffeur, & Mathew Cramer, to the Morgan sum- 'fofcl mer home, where the shooting occur- jSS red W As soon as the man had been over- mf powered after firing and wouuding the mL financier, some of the servants in Wl the Morgan home procured a ropo K and tipd him securely. Then they nj? took him out on the lawn near th4 !Sf mansion to await the arrival of offi- W cers from Glen Cove, for whom they & had telephoned. ', Officers Take Man Away. ft. Judgf William Luysler and Consta- m ble Frank McGlll took him in an au- - W tomobile to the court house at Glen ' Gove' wnere tne contents of two suit- ' E cases that he had brought with him a & from Now York were examined. One I' B of these was found to contain three W large sticks -of dynamite and the W other a large bottle of nllro-glycerine. 1 There wore also two large boxes of I, cartridges for his revolvers J' ' The Prisoner, a tall, lanky man, of I the raw-boned type, waB extremely ret- 8 Icent at first, but afterwards was per g suaded to talk, although he would not r , say much about himself. Although ? he claimed to be an American citizen, court house officials said he spoke with a marked foreign accent 5 WhC5 l8ke(! by the officials who I nspired the plot against Mr. Morgan, ,. he denied that anyone had done so. I ! nBta9C from 0n High. ILC declarer6 t0 mC frm on " he J V PnS.8 t0 la complete : X Z tic m ln 0f bat happened I In the Morsan home and of the effects ef-fects of the soots he had fired He : , JSuJdllnot b? I for son time S qaid hn riiri . iMor8an, the prisoner, i the Buropa C'S,,"14 not 8tand - "I did not hurt him 0 v a "T V shot to frighten vi ' he crIed v,i h Is not hurL 2' 1 hope he f Just so he Vnleht tWay from hS 1 You can do w JSLJ8 frightened. . & did my duty; y0B H h Wlth " ii j I Judge Luyster do yon" lie told ilV Man Nnt t x. H The court housJ T,Ional. , . If after the compfetL0" Chls concluded I tlon that the SSn 0 tbelr exaraina- t . e ttan was not rational He persisted for some time in declining declin-ing t? tell him name. Among other things the man had with him a group of railroad tickets to points in various parts of the coun-trv. coun-trv. He also had $40 in cash. Mr. Morgan had made arrangements to go to Bar Harbor about September 1, after a visit to the Pacific coast, for which he was expecting to leave on July S, returning about the end of August. Au-gust. Morgan Calls Mother. Soon after Mr. Morgan was shot he insisted on having a telephone extension exten-sion brought to his side and over the wire he talked with his mother, assuring assur-ing her he was not dangerously wounded wound-ed and telling her she need not worry about his condition. He wished her to hear the news from his own lips first- , r- . J Said He Was Morgan's Friend. . The man who shot Mr Morgan came to Glen Cove on the 8 -53 train, hired an automobile and went to the Morgan Mor-gan home on Matinlcock. point He rang the bell and when the butler answered, called for Mr Morgan. He said that he was an old friend of Mr. Morgan, but was refused admission to the house, Man Terrifies Butler. The man then pressed a pistol against the stomach of the butler, who screamed, and pushed his way past the servant into the hall. Mr. Morgan Mor-gan was approaching the front door through the hall at the tlme He asked what the trouble was. The answer was a shot which took effect in the hip. Mr. Morgan staggered and fell into a chair The butler, once the assailant's assail-ant's hack was turned, picked up a brass coal hod from the fireplace and brought it down on the assailant's head, but too late to prevent a second shot. Assailant Overpowered. The butler fell on the man, wrested the weapon away and overpowered him. Servants came running in answer an-swer to his call and the sheriff's office of-fice and a physician were telephoned. The man was arrested and taken to Glen Cove There he refused to say anything and would not give his name. Mr. Morgan with his wife and daughters daugh-ters went to their summer home in Glen Cove, after the marriage- recently of his son Junius Spencer Morgan in Boston. Matinlcock point, where the Morgan home is located, is almost surrounded by water and is about two to three miles from the central part of the village vil-lage of Glen Cove. It was learned authoritatively here late today, that the British ambassador, ambassa-dor, Sir Cecil Spring-Rlcc, was the guest of Mr. Morgan over night and was at the breakfast table today and witnessed the shooting of the financier. German Alleged Assailant. Glen Cove, Long Island, July 3. It Is unofficially stated that one bullet took a glancing course after striking Mr. Morgan in the breast and passed out through the arm. The other wound was said to bo In the hip. Mr. Morgan's assailant is declared by officials at the court house here where he was taken to have said he was of German descent and that he was willing to give up his life at any time to end the war. It was added that he declared air. Morgan was responsible re-sponsible for tho war and for tho shipment ship-ment of arms abroad, and that he could stop the conflict if he wished. Justice of Peace Luyster questioned the prisoner. Was "Christian Gentleman." "I am a Christian gentleman" was the only reply the man would give when pressed for his name. Ho declined de-clined also to say where he came from As to his reasons for shooting Mr. Morgan, however, he was more communicative. He told the justice that he had no nuarrel with Mr. Morgan personally but felt that the time had come or the war to end. It was becoming more and more unbearable, ho sain, and it was his firm belief that he should go to Mr, Morgan and ask him td, end it. This, ho knew, Mr. Morgan coW accomplish because of his great Influence. ' , 'K wanted to see Mr. Morgan ana to reason with him" the man said. "I have nothing against him." The, assailant was cut over the eye bv tho blow from the coal hod and tfad been bleeding freely. He also was limping as a result of Ins encounter en-counter vith the Morgan servant. Chauffeur Hears Shot. Mathew Cramer, the taxlcab chauf feur who had driven the assailant n three miles from the Glen Cove sta- : tlon to tho Morgan homo was still 1 standing with his car in front of the gate when the shots were fired. Cramer Cra-mer ran around to the garage In the Morgan house and sounded an alarm bell, summoning the servants. With tqree guards the assailant was placed In one of Mr. Morgan's automobiles auto-mobiles and hurried at top speed to Glen Cove. The satchel which was left by the hedge by the man also was thrown Into the car. When it was opened the dynamite Inside was found to be of the 60 per cent nitro glycerin, the kind which explodes more easily than the 40 per cent kind commonly used by contractors. Had Two Guns. The man was searched at Glen Cove. In his pocket was found a second sec-ond pistol, the latter being a .22 caliber, cali-ber, while the weapon which was used in the attack was .38 caliber. The terrific force of the blow the assailant received from the coal hod had caused him to bleed profusely and he appeared to weaken as the day passed. Although he had appeared to be but little hurt, at first, he became, be-came, or feigned to become, dazed about noon. It was thought that possibly pos-sibly he was suffering from a fractured frac-tured skulL Glen Cove, Ny., July 3 Mr. Morgan apparently did not consider himself seriously wounded. When it was reported re-ported that he was shot, the Morgan house was the target of a volley of telephone Inquiries from New York. The first of these calls was answered by Mr. Morgan himself who calmly told of the shooting and added that he did not think it amounted to very much. Was Cornell Professor. Glen Cove, Ny., July 3. Mr. Morgan's Mor-gan's assailant asserted this afternoon that his name was F. Holt and said that he was an instructor in German at Cornell University. The statement prepared by Holt was addressed to William E. Luyster, the justice of the peace, who had questioned ques-tioned the man about the shooting Holt signed the communication "P Holt Dallas, Texas, and Ithaca." Tho statement reads: Wanted to End War. "My motive in Coming here was to try to force Mr. Morgan to use his influence with the manufacturers of munitions In the United States and with the millionaires who are financing financ-ing the 'war loans to have an embargo put on shipments of war munitions, so as to relieve the American people from complicity in the death of thousands of our European brothers "If Germany should be able to buy munitions here wo would, of course, positively refuse to sell to her. The reason that the American people have not as yet stopped the shipments seems to -be that we are getting rich out of this traffic; but, do we not get enough prosperity out of non-contraband shipments and would it not be better for us to make what money we can without causing the slaughter of thousands of Europeans. Sorry For Unpleasantness. "I am very sorry T had to cause the Morgan family this unpleasantness but I believe that it Mr. Morgan would put his shoulder to the wheel ho could accomplish what I hae endeavored to. Of course, I did not want to injure in-jure Mr. Morgan as I wanted him to do the work I could not do. I hope that ho will do his share anyhow. We muBt stop our participation In the killing kill-ing of Europeans and God will take caro of the rest." Holt was held on an assault charge.' There was no formal arraignment. Dr. Zabriskie of Glen Cove was the first physician to reach tho Morgan home Other physicians were summoned, sum-moned, among them Dr. Leylo of St. Luke's hospital, New York. They examined ex-amined Mr. Morgan and during tho day kept in constant telephone touch with his office, advising of the patient's pa-tient's progress. It was said that their advices were increasingly optimistic. Bullets Are Found. Servants examining the premises after the shooting, found the first 'bullet, 'bul-let, apparently the one which has ripped rip-ped through tho flesh of the breast. It was lodged in an oil painting on the library wall. The other bullet entered the hip and came out through the groin. It was not found In the first search. Henry Fiske, Mr. Morgan's butler, who felled the assailant with a coal hod and thereby doubtless saved Mr. Morgan from serious injury, was not hurt apparently, iby his encounter afterwards with the would-be-assassin. The police assert that Holt had been living In Glen Cove about a week. He had been seen by various persons on the street and his presence In the neighborhood of the Morgan home last Thursday had been commented on before be-fore the shooting. In his cell the assailant began the -preparation of a written statement which he informed the police "he wanted want-ed to give out to the newspapers. Holt of German Descent. Ithaca, Ny., July 3. Frank Holt is not in Ithaca and was -believed here to be in New York City He has been an Instructor at Cornell during the past year, coming here from a University Uni-versity In West Virginia. He is of German descent, but not birth, It is stated. He is described as about 35 years old, tall, sparsely built, dark hair, large features and married. He is not a Cornell graduate and was to go to the University of Texas next fall as a professor New York, July fi. The Cornell University faculty list contains the name of a Frank Holt, who has been an instructor in German at the University Uni-versity since 1912. He holds the degree de-gree of bachelor of arts. There is nothing in the list to Indicate where he received his degree |