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Capitol Bombing and Morgan Attack

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 15, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 35.

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Capitol Bombing and Morgan Attack

About midnight on July 2, a time bomb exploded in the Senate wing of the Capitol at Washington, D. C., causing damage to the amount of several hundred dollars. The following morning J. P. Morgan was attacked at his home in Glen Cove, L. I., and in the fray which followed several shots were fired, two of which wounded him, though not seriously. His assailant, one Frank Holt, an instructor in the German department of Cornell University, was captured by Mr. Morgan with the help of servants, and to the police he confessed placing the bomb in the Capitol. He claimed to have performed this act as a protest against the exportation of ammunition and war supplies to the Allies, for which trade he believed Mr. Morgan to be largely responsible. On the Tuesday following his arrest Mr. Holt committed suicide in his cell.