Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-07
Trunk Full Found in New York.
Thirty Pounds Unac-
counted For.
DEAD BOMBMAKER
WORKED IN BUNGALOW
Experimental With Explosives at
Central Park, L. INTENDED to
Blow Up More Buildings.

GLEN COVE. N. Y. July THE au-
thorities of Nassau county joined the
New York city detectives today in a
painstaking search for thirty pounds
of dynamite known to have been de-
livered to and unaccounted for by
Frank Holt, the assailant of ], P. Nor
gan, and the man who set the bomb in
the United States Capitol last Friday.
who committed suicide during the night
by jumping twenty feet from an iron
bar on his cell door to the floor.
A trunk found last night in a storage
room above a livery stable and garage
on West 3sth street in New York city
containing 1874 sticks - sixty-seven
pounds-out of 200 sticks of dynamite
known to have been shipped to and re-
ceived by Holt under the alias Of c.
Hendricks at Syosset. L. l., recently.
Six sticks were used. it seemed ex-
tablished today, by Holt when he went
to Washington. Three of these six
sticks of dynamite were used, according
to Hollis statement. In making the
bomb placed in the Capitol; the other
three sticks were found in a suit case
and on the lawn of j. P. Morgan'S
estate.
thirty ROUNDS missing.
This would leave sixty sticks, or
thirty pounds. of the explosive unac-
counted for. Although Holt was quoted
as saying that he had used these sixty
sticks in his experiments in the house
he rented at Central Park, L. l., this
statement was not believed. Nor did
the condition Of the premises at Cen
trail Park indicate that explosives had
been used. although 1T was believed
possible that Holt might have destroyed
Where the remainder Of this ship
ment was engaged practically the en-
tire attention of the district attorneys
detectives today.
Holt Admitted Receiving Dynamite.
Later the police received word from
Warden Hulse of the Jail at Mineola to
the effect that Holt had admitted to him
that he was the owner Of the 200
sticks Of dynamite received at Syosset,
L. l., last week.
Holt, according to Hulse, received the
dynamite shipment under the name OF
Hendrick, and took 1t to a small house
near Central Park. L. l., where he pro.
used about sixty sticks in his expert
ments," he told Hulse, keeping all but
six Of the remainder in his trunk. This,
the police sail, would seem to indi-
cate that Holt used only six sticks to
make the Capitol bomb.
The building in which the trunk full
of dynamite was found Is used as a
storehouse. Those in charge Of the
place said that the trunk arrived from
Mineola at IL o'clock last Saturday
1t was to be left there until called for.
Bought In Pennsylvania.
Inspector Eagan said that the dyna-
mite was not of the kind used In New
York. and probably had been pur-
chased in Pennsylvania.
This trunk full Of dynamite" he
said would have blown up the entire
block and these large loft buildings
nearby would have been a pile of ashes
II it had exploded"
John w. Griffith said that when the
trunk was delivered he himself. igno-
rant of it's contents, helped dump 1T
from the truck and roll it into the
building. James Mclaughlin. night
rolling the trunk about the floor with
great abandon.
Under the direction of Inspector
Eagan the trunk was taken on a fire
the fire prevention bureau. AS pro-
tective measure police lines were
thrown about the entire block.
Admitted He Lied.
GLEN COVE, N. Y, July Frank
Holt admitted to detectives that he
lied when he said that he made the
Capitol bomb out of sulphuric acid and
match heads. and said also that he did
not tell the truth about his movements
in Washington and New York.
Holt made these admissions when
confronted by evidence tending to show
that he made the Capitol bomb in
bungalow which he rented near here
about ten days ago. They followed
the positive Identification by Lewis
OFT of Holt al the man who had rented
the bungalow, and found numerous bot
ties with corks punctured in the center.
public buildings throughout the coun-
try, three of which were marked.
Frank McCahill. local constable,
who accompanied the detectives in the
search of the bungalow. said that the
marked buildings were the New York
Public Library and the capitol build
ings at Albany. n. Y. and Harrisburg.
Pa.
Agent Identified Holt.
Holt refused to say why he lied in
the first place about the contents OF
the bombs and his movements. He re-
fused, also. to admit that he is the
man who, under the name Of Hendrick.
received a shipment of 40 pounds Of
dynamite at Syosset. L. l., although
George w. Carnes, station agent at
that place. identified Holt as Hendrick.
1t was said that Hollis admission that
he had lied as to the contents of the bomb
came after Capt. Tunney had told him
that he (Tunney) knew for q positive
fact that Illuminating caps had been used
in the making of the bomb. Capt Tun-
ney declined, however. to tell how he
reached this conclusion.
The detectives learned that Holt left
the bungalow last Friday morning with
the intention of taking the hrst train
toward New York. He missed it, but got
the next one at 7:19 am. The detectives
recalled that II was last Friday when
Holt went to Washington and set OF the
Capitol bomb
CAUSES DEATH OF TWO.