The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-09
HOLT BOMBS NO
Longer FEARED
Most of Madman's Explosives
Believed to Have Been
Accounted for.
LETTER REVEALS PLANS
Writing to Dear Darling, Maniac
Told Of Horrors He Had
Schemed.
LETTER REVEALS PLAN!

Kew York. July S.-Arthur Woods. 20
lice commissioner, announced today that
I; had been determined definitely that
Frank Holt or Erich Mucnt.r. the Gyaa-
inter and, assailaIt of !. =. MorS1.,
had received only one consignment OF
dynamite from the Aetna Explosives
Company. pa:reiy. the shipmen. OF -Oc
70 per cent sticks. which have all been
seized OF accounted Tor. This disposes
Of the story created by mistake In
the companys bookkeeping. that Hol:
had received u SECOND consignment D:
cpc sticks Of 70 per cent dynamite. Also,
Il has eased the minds of police and
Secret Service men. Thc we're AFRAID
that Holt might have lcft bombs scat
tered in al sorts or places Picked out
By mis- cratic fancy Us deserving CT &C.
s:ruction.
The detectives sn1 Secret Ser-ice men
Gre still working or tie theory of q pos
Bibie sccornplice ans confederate d the
dvnamitcr, but Commissions: Woods has
made II plain ina. he Is &C: disposed to
b. ssnxGire OF results along this line.
Spent Lees Than 500.
il tasulatior OF Hollis movements. rail-
road journeys en5 purchases shows that
he may have spent rather less than S1c0
Speaking to Commissioner Woods. before
hc committed suicide, Holt himself said
In a vague way that his enterprises had
been terribly eNpensive:' they had cost
him several hundred dollars" He would
not go into details. bEi he did say to the
police commissioner, with touch OF
pathos:
You know. J have always been a STU
dent. MY time mas been spent in study
and teaching. in institutions Of learning.
I am ignorant Of the ways of the world.
When set out to do this die not know
how to begin. l. cost HE more money
than II would have cost some man who
was acquainted With the world"
He also said that he knew nothing OF
crime. commenting that he supposed
some people would call what he had done
q crime.
Holt paid $3.50 FOR tre dynamite nc
bought: his two pistols apparently cost
about $50 each, and he ammunition for
them perhaps another dollar. his fare
Srom Ithaca to New York was 4 triie
more thar Sc. hiS fare TO and from
Washington about sll.JG: in Washington
he paid 80 cents for one days use of a
furnished room. auC the meals he ate
there very likely did not cost any more;
the shack he rented at Central Park,
Long Island. FOR use a. "a bomb factory.
he Paid SO for: his food lille he lived
there and during his visit 10 New York
INST have cost next 10 'snthing, mas
WAS palpally suffering from malnutrition
when he was arrested: add a small
amount for chemicals, illuminate of mer-
curry caps. exploders and incidentals, and
you have 4 complete inventory Of Hollis
expenses They could scarcely have
amounted to more than 800. if that much.
The probability is that they were not
more than So. He had $50 on MIN when
he was arrested.
There is no doubt In my mind that the
man was insane" said Commissioner
V ocds today. He had the typical star
ir". cIazy eyes of a lunatiC. When I
taIk ed to him his mind would seem to ,
r.n down at intervals. and he would sink
f. ard in his chair in a kind of stupor,
bu. he first mention of the war would i
prlv,nize him back to life like spark
of 'uctIi,ity. He would straighten I'D
in his seat. and his eyes would light up
again in their crazy fashion"
Last Letter Made Public.
callas. Tex. July s.-The last letter
written by Frank Holt the terrorist and
assailant of J. P. Morgan. to his wife,
was made public here this morning by
Rev. o. +. Sensabaugh. the father-in-
law of the dead prisoner. The message
was undated, and was headed only En-
Route" but from its contents il is be-
neved that it was written while Holt |
was On his way from Washington, where |
he had exrioded the bomb in the Capitol, |
to Glen Cove. where he shot Mr.. Morgan. |
The letter is a rambling one, and unintel- |
ligible in some places, as for instance in |
the second paragraph. where Holt men !
tioneds "R. Pearce. of Washington" The |
text is as follows:
MY Dear Darling: You are the only |
one 1 can and must trust and entrust |
with this news. / know you are strong !
in your faith in God and love for your |
fcllow-men. and do therefore approve of |
my action. The fact that it should strike |
our family instead of John Smiths may |
seem hard. but can't be helped. One hun |
bred times I said. like Jonah. Lord. send |
somebody else but l got only one an !
aver. Nobody else seems to be available. ]
have prayed and trembled and doubted |
and lain awekc at night and thought !
and thought. hut there is no way out of |
II. The slauG. ter in Europe must be |
stopped and america must stop sending |
ammunition. If it goes on l cannot live,
for I am responsible in so far that do |
not stop when can. So will try.
First. R. Pearce OF Washington. That |
Is my appeal. II is q starter. and may
do some good. Let us pray that the
people may wake up TO the crime they
are committing by allowing the slaughter
to 90 on
"Second-Ttc steamer leaving New
= ork for Liverpool on July should sink,
God willing, on the eth. I think IL Is the |
Philadelphia or Saxonia. nut am not quite
Burc, a.. according to schedule. these left /
the ID. ION the margin was written,
Tear this of till after II happens
Third-I need powerful assistant, and |
have chosen J. P!srpont Morgan. of Glen
Cove, L I. BY the time you get this IL
viii be all over. ! shall either be killed /
Or In prison, with the Morgan family In |
fhe3r residence In Glen Cove. while Mr..
Morgan viii so 70 all manufacturers of /
ADamunitions and Persuade them to stop