_Q._ Do you mean to truthfully answer my question by saying that you have not been to Philadelphia at any time since you left Ithaca? _A._ At no time. _Q._ You have a clipping of a Philadelphia newspaper in your possession. Where did you get that? _A._ I think I got that out of a Philadelphia paper of course, that I found lying around. I think it was a cartoon. _Q._ Were you not in Philadelphia when you purchased that paper? _A._ I did not purchase that. I saw that lying around somewhere, probably in the Mills Hotel. _Q._ Where did you sleep last night? _A._ Now, I will tell you. A reporter from the Associated Press asked me about this Washington business, and he was trying to connect me with that. I suppose that is what you are trying to do. _Q._ I am not trying to connect you with anything. I want truthful answers. I am very frank and honest with you. I will fairly investigate every answer that you make. _A._ Yes, I thought that over since he was here, and I think it is just as well to say that I wrote that R. Pearce letter. I was in Washington yesterday and came back on the train. I think it is just as well to say. Here was news! McCahill slipped out of the room, and sent this telegram to Captain Boardman: “Holt was in Washington Friday. Will wire full particulars later,” and returned for the particulars, which Holt continued to unfold. He had gone to Washington early Friday, arriving at 2 P. M., hired a furnished room near the Union Station, and two hours later walked over to the Capitol and found the Senate wing deserted. He placed a bomb near the telephone booth, timed so as to explode in eight hours. He idled away the evening, mailed the R. Pearce letters, took a midnight train to New York, stopped at the Mills Hotel for mail, and took an early train to Glen Cove Saturday morning. What his activities had been since then we well knew. But while the confession of his responsibility for the Washington outrage was a really surprising bit, it did not conclude our work, for he had pointed out several new alleys of possibility which we must search.