Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-07

New York, July THE dead hand OF
Frank Holt, assassin. bomb maker anu
alleged wife murderer. reached OUT
over the Atlantic today and menaced
with dynamite attacks two trans-At-
lantic liners, and threatened the liVes
oY !. 900 men, women and children.
somewhere on tho ocean. Holt wrote
10 his wife, the liner saxonia or the
Ph,ladelphia-he was not sure which
would be destroyed today. The dyna-
mite bomb. containing thirty POUNDS OF
erplosiys which Holt 10 known to nave
recetved and which has not been ac-
coanteA, Tor; d. believed by the ponce
"a he the means Holt has chosen 10
1s LIE Myssssy clsarsd.
AZ Holt lay a suicide TO-DAY a. MN
cola. y. L, the wireless cracked
warning over The Atlantic telling OF MS
threat to blow up ship; and the mys-
terv OF his life was cleared away WIN
his positive Identification as Er1cn
Muenter. the alleged wife mufderer'
Who fled Harvard University IN 1soo.
Nothing more dramatic IN tne ,ase
few crowded Gays " 1hoAe -.
come than the warning OF deseructlon
uncovered after his death.
His confession that he r!sced the
ro,,,h in the capital at Washington last
Friday: his attempted assassination OF
1p Morgan; growing evidence that ne
was Erich Muenter. alleged wife mur-
derer. culminating today in his identi-
aoatinn and his sensational suicide py
eaninr twenty feet from the top OF MS
aeIl to the floor, formed an exciting
sequence OF events Of which the threat
ened liner was the climax.
Navy Department Warming.
1,ha navy department was enlisted to
nrevenf the threatened disaster at sea.
n answer 70 the warning came mes
sapa from the liner philadelphia, which
said everything on board had been
Identified and all was well. The Sax
onia had not replied.
The failure Of the tSaxonia to reply
was not regarded as Of especial signifi-
canoe. as it was thought she might
have passed out OF the zone OF wire
less communication. She is now four
days out. -
aboard Of whom 115 are in the cabins
Tho Philadelphia has aboard GIL. OF
these 206 were in the first cabin. 2o5
n the second and 200 in the steeraga
Dynamite Still Missing
The dynamite with which Holt In
tended. it u believed. to destroy the
Saxonia and Philadelphia, swa1 part OF
3 shipment Of 100 pounds received by
Holt recently at Soysett, L. l., under the
aiias OF G. Hendrfks. Seventy pounds
( of fho dynamite has been accounted for.
Three hounds were taken to Washing
ton for the bomb exploded in the capi-
raj. The remaining sixty-seven pounds
were found In trunk In this city last
nirht. Tho police have had no trace
az the other thirty pounds. It u possible.
fbe rolice said, that the remaining
thirty pounds were on board the vessels
At -. a search Of the Philadelphia
had Jailed to disclose any explosive. 1t
4 fnferred from the message received
from that vessel at sea.
Holt advised his vito Of his plot in
I letter which was received by her on
81 before yesterday. This letter. Police
:.omm6iasioner Woods announced today,
vas taken BY Ars. Holt and her father
10 = former governor OF Texas. The
forunar governor, whose name was
swithhaid. communicated with Mayor
pullman. head Of the Washington police
department
WARNINGS by wireless were sent
broadcAst over the Atlantic from sta.
tions on. the eastern seaboard advising
the ieaxonia and Philadelphia to steer
near each other.
Beth Vessels Warned.
Both vessels were reached by wire
fess, The Philadelphia replied that
everything aboard had been identified
ana that all was we'll. The saxonta
also had. received the wireless warning
ana signifled that the warning would
be followed.
The Cunard line and the American
fne bdfh were notified by Commissioner
VVood0 and they also endeavorsd to
reach the steamers by wireless.
At beth ofhces it was said that It
would b practtcally impossible for any
6ne 70 yaGs 4hs line Of guards at the