DIPLOMAT AND GUNMAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144783, 13 September 1915, Page 4

DIPLOMAT AND GUNMAN.

BRITISH AMBASSADOR INTERVIEWED. With regard to the shooting of Mr. J. P. Morgan by tho German. Holt (who subsequently committed suicide in a New York prison), it appears that it was the British Ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, who finally wrested the revolver from Holt. A friend calling at the Embassy tho other day undertook to congratulate Sir Cecil on his heroism. “Congratulations are hardly in order,” said Sir Cecil, was a most distressing affair.” “Yes,” agreed the visitor, perfunctorily. . . “1 mean particularly to me, went on the Ambassador. . “To vou? How.so?” “1 was visiting Mr. Morgan and had on at the time the one suit of dress clothes I had with me, and it got all messed up.” And the Ambassador, whose sense of humour is well developed, .he being an Irishman, let his eyes twinkle, though his mouth retained its firm Ambassadorial lines.