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SATURDAY,
the 14th August, 1915, at 11,
Kowloon,
THE ATTEMPTED MUR- DER OF MR. J. P. MORGAN.
NARROW ESCAPE.
Frank Holt, the American of German desorgt, who shot Mr. J. P. Morgan on July, ploaded guilty formally to charge of wounding the funnier "arei. | dentally," and to wrecking the Senate Recuption roam as Washington, with a dynamite bomb intentionally "* later., wiste the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph on July 3 The event took place on Friday night. after which the fanatic, who was former.
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instructor in German at Cornell Uni- versity, fastened to Glen Cove, Long Esland to see the man who brought about the great European was Al- though he carried two pistols, Holt,! whose physical and facial resemblance to the Germans Crusen Prince is remark. able, insista ha merely desired to mai monstrate with Mr. Morgan in a friend- ly way, and fired simple to frighten hius. Holt's pacifa intentions on Saturday are | further eatived by Ere violence of his similar sticks were found, later in the setin in pushing by Mr. Morgana bus suit-cow he had lifting the front dojr. lor, and by the discovery in his band bag of enough dyahnite to blow up the
finanzier's summer. hom
As soon as the excitement of the holie had calmed down a little Mr. Morgan |
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was helped to his "best-room, where he DARING EXPLOITS OF A PICKET busied himself toe'severní minutes tèles phoning to various frinads and business sssociates, mentioning he had been shot, but that there was no reason for alarm,
"Today" be seni tô, bố muffering fhea tally and physically rather more than his vision. He was reported as con- pletely prstrated, and raving incoherent.
Á GERMAN VÁTHER. law in this struggle on Saturday" mora-
After his arrest. Holt "issued a stud: ing one of Mr. Morgan's English aye- vonka-kip the troper over the head went that be had cause the explosion with a hang of coal, inflicting a painful at Washington as a protest against the gash, and also belalared líta severely expert of war supplies by America and about the body.
The present itation in Belgrado in almost more than Gilbortian, wrote the: Helgrade correspordima of "The Times "* on July 6. After lunch, when you are tile, you go out into the street and look at the enemy and sown and wonder
a similar object inspired his visit to Mr. When he is going to begin. You can as-
As to Mr. Morgan, ono bullet entered Morgan, beewuse the latter was the fiscal tend to the roof of a favourably situated the lower right have side of the finanwar agent for the Allies. Halt 858 that house, or walk to the higher ground out-
st No. 2, Loebie! Terrace, Camoran Road,eire's Rislemen and ledged nor the base his father was a German nad his mother side the town, and ook through glasses of the spine. The other pierced the Fresh, and be aduits that he planned up the Danube to where, beyond the both deeds fully fe two month, Austrian toen of Semelin and the island (and nids: "I had to design upon ane of Gresser Kring, the Austrian river human life, either at the Capitol or at monitors are lying black and ugly, in
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right grgin. ranged downward through the doh f the high, and passed out the body. Close examination shows
involve
thas the buket, did not 程
azy ital org, nd the condition of the
patient was reported late last night and Halktand, Sideboard. Bookanye, Japanese Screen, and Tea Service, Teakly to-day as satisinctory,
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Mr. Morgan's home."
the stream. At one time there were
what
side boora; for since their number was
Elis record at Cornell, where he re-even monitors, Lut there are only six cried the degree of doctor of philosphy now and you can generally as throw. last fear, was that of a quiet, stucions, one of which always has steam up with According to the police depositions, often morose man: Ho was married epicket boat on guard over them. 11. wh was well-dressed, first accout.cently, and next autumn he was to have you carrosses is that they are lying in Crockery, Shanghai Bath, Ice Chested Mr. Morgan's butler. I want to beente professor of French at the now see Mr. Morgna, l'h ma old friend of South-Western Methodist University at Dallas, Texas, which has not yet opened its doors. With other membera of the dran department and German student
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TUESDAY,
1."
Mr. Morgun is busy," replied the butler. If you'll give me your
1k if he'll see you. Just wait out. ricar.**
started far the stairs.
at Cornell. Jolt attended private meet. ings of the German club and listened to sperckes nude there.
..
racticed from seven to six by. a. pretty piece of torpedo work on the part of the solitary little picket boat. commonly known as The Terror of the Danube," the enemy's monitors lyve been sings larly unenterprising.
There are understood to be weighty Tatler took the card, but Helt gave him no time to move. He puil The moral of the shooting, as pointed reasons why nothing mast be known ed the revolvers from his side pocket, by the American newspaper editorials, in England of the composition of the 684 thrust then against the butler's abdomed up in the statement of the mixed artillery foive which, under GD-
(mehi, and sæidjo No, I'm going in now.
Now York Times that in the Unital Jivkovitch, military commander of The buther suid afterwards ho pretendod
States to-day
there is tes mehr free. the district, his charge of the defence to taint at any rate he fell back, and dem for racked brains." Not only the of Belgrade. It composition is thor the man walked into the house and big financiers, hur niny others, share oughly well known to the Austrians. the danger of Mr. Morgan, I have
The essential forts have been published glanced through several of our leading in French, Ameriena, Swiss, and other German
the newspapers. But it appears that the newspapers, including Nowyorker Staats zeitung," the for. most calamitous consequences right be her organ of Her Dernburg, and still expected to follow any publication of the controlled by Hermann Ridder. Not one ame facts in England. One can say attempts to justify Holt's malevolozzo. nothing, then, except that the force is churningly cosmopolitan, and that the young gentlemen (I cannot, happily, at the moment remember their nationality, for I have not seen them since lunch); who have charge of the Terror of the Danube have great lurks with it. They poke their way on dark nights into creeks and passages where they are not in the least expected and annoy the Austriana] dreadfully.
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At that time Mr. Morgan was at breakfast with the British Ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, across the hall from the ary: The butler says he told Hols that Mr. Mergan was in the library, and then ran to the breakfast room, crying, Upstairs, Mr. Morgan, upstaira
Mr. Morgan started upatuite by the ink why, while the batler hurried for assistance. Sir Ceril followed his host uure kéísurely.
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At the head of the stairs Mr. Morgan encountered the nurse, who had left her room. "If inquired what the' trouble"] was, ami started un 24 moon-l-room,
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Alis⋆ McCabe caught sight of Holt an body, has been discovered by Dr. Cuth with machine guns mounted in their Brase-mounted Bedsteade, Side-boards, the stairs and called her master's at-bert Christy, the well-known traveller turrets. Any one of them could eat up Dinner Waggons Extension Dining Tables tention to him. As Holt reached, the and authority on aleeping sickness, who the Terror" in, a few minutes if it with the Gouds they ship, and the Colonial occupation of the Nippon Yaser Esaba Ist May; peluruished,
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Morgan, and wald quite casually, Ahl Mr. Morgan, I've got you.**
As he spoke he drew the revolvera
from his pockets, and Mrs. Morgan, who stod beside her husband, screamed, and threw herself between the two men.
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the forest, catching the animals by means into a prepared minefield, and the Dread-in the principal provincial towns sad The booker jumped at Holt. pushing of nets. They are very shy and quite nought's remnants drifted ashore on industrial centres of the United Kingtion Mrs. Morgan back an he did so. Then naked. Hol pulled the trigger twice in rapid succession.
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and by the help of the Barnbuti dwarfs Belgrade. The crew escaped and they Mr. Morgan in a much heavier as well with whom he lived, he penetrated to threw the inchine guns overboard; but us taller man than Heit. He fcored the anats of the okapi. He shot one even so, the Terror next day got him almost of the instant the shot was of these animals and succeeded in cola lovely-haul of plunder out of her, from fired. Within few seconds hall-electing four... -687 dozen of the financier's servants, mostly
-machine-guz ammunition and automatio Hin great difficulty was to get through pistola to a gramophone with an excellent zuen. answered the colla for help. They the forest in a catlike and, noiseless way stock of records, as well as the Dread Brag themselves on toit and Mr. Morbike the Bambati. The work was very nought's ensign and pennon, three ad- gan, as Mrs. Margin reached down and trying. Constant wrenched from Holt the revolver ha held twilight, and a plague of flies and ticks The young gentleman in command of
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in one hand, while Misa feGabe ore rude progress hard. Practically, the the "Terror!! (whose nationality in THE FIRST CHINESE NEWE, PAPES
away the other revolver.
There were calls for ropes and straps, but the servants were enraged at Holt, and they beat and kicked him ungeret fully. He struggled to his feet at one point in the meleo, and the butler, who had picked up a lump of coal to the coal-box in the upper hall, threw it at Holt's head. His aim was good, and the coal struck Holt, on the forehead, Inflicting a deep cut and felling him again."
Mr. Morgun, no one knowing at that time that he had been shot, was halped
whole time marching was through water, scopes me has within the last two days often waist deep,
been decorated by his Government with Sortimos, adds Reuter, the traveller-well, what corresponds to a D.5.0. had only a few bananas tied to his bolt. And most thoroughly as he carned it. and often had to subsist entirely on wild Night after night he and those with goin, not;
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to his feet. He said calmly, Send dest of the Express in Sothern France, for the police." The British Ambassador telegraphs that the Germans are using a had taken part in the fraces, and when metal destroying Squid on the Western the two men zone and draw aparz want such as they have been using to some discovered that there was litood in hotly { advantage
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him go gaily on errands of the utmost danger, and they keep fairly terrorized an enemy force of monitors, and gunboats and what-nots of literally mean then hundred times their strength. It simbat makes one weep that 'onorennot say who these young men are.
PRESIDENT YUÂNE YAMILY.-
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as well. Then it was learned that Mr.eylinder under high pressure. By simply
At present, says the Pcking Gazelle, the Morgan had been wounde
** turning a seraw the liquid eat ho thenwn a Frosident bas 15 sons and. 13 daughters. He went to the telephone, however, Fest m against latted wire, which turns of the former, six sto niss and anmmoned The Zabriskie. Physick, through more quickly than wirecutters while the rest are still young Superintendent Angus, Moliregor the aid possibly sover it.
ind persiston ly keeps to the north of the unmarried boys is still unde British Ambasador, and Mr. Bernard fut it does not matter. Things are ahsolute Joars of agep Stewart Morgan's valet, all thot kandy quiet on our front
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ia pinioning Holt. He loopt up his struggle reported, the correspondant adds ple, calling out, Look out for the that the lofuriated Germans after button
been finally driven from the Labyrint!
dynamite in my pocket You had better brought up from Vimy masses of re Carte ortako it out of tide.? This very was ment for a counter attack on the cemet
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