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Show MORGAN ATTACKED .BTf AN ASSASSIN ATTEMPT TO KILL BANKER A". HIS HOME FOILED BY NARROW MARGIN. Assassin Overpowered by Capitalist and His Butler. Confesses That He Placed Bomb Which Exploded in the National Capitol. Glen Cove, N. Y. Frank Holt, i former Cornell university instructor attempted to assassinate J. P. Mor gan at East Isle. Mr. Morgan's sum mer home near here. Saturday, anc has confessed that he was the mar who set the bomb which exploded it the Vnited States capitol at Washing ton Friday night. The two bullets fired at Mr. Mor gan penetrated bis hip and neitlie-pierced neitlie-pierced the abdomen. The first sho struck the right hip and went throug" in a line almost horizontal, deflect inf slightly downward. The second sho struck nearer the groin and was de fleeted much more sharply downward Tliis shot came out of the upper leg. Mr. Morgan and his butler grapplec with his assailant, and after he hat been overpowered he was turned ove-;o ove-;o the officers. Mr. Morgan's assailant declares hi: purpose was to persuade Morgan t J7PIERP0NT MORGAN . 1 f m j. - - I-': i - J. P. Morgan, who was shot by crank because he is chief fiscal agen-of agen-of the British government for thi shipment of munitions, the assaitan asserted. stop shippir.g mun:t:c:.s cf wa: abroad, and thus h.tstva the cles r.g o the world war. Mrs. J. P. Morgan and the Merest children were lo b" h.-'.d as hes'.get in their own home and killed w:tr dynamite if .1 P. Morgan r-fu-ej tc use his influence to stop the exp.'T tation of war munitions Hoi; told tb.i of fleer |