New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-07
Hollis Trunk, Filled
With Dynamite, Found

/ Frank Hollis store of bomb-msking
materials was found last night by the
New York police. In the warehouse
occupied by the John ". Griffith
/ Storehouse Company, at S42 West
/ Thirty-eighth Street, detectives care
fully pred the lid "A a trunk which
had come there three days ago from
Mineola, and from the sawdust which
/ filled it drew forth the most complete
outfit for the manufacture OF infer
nal machines ever seen in this city.
Enough dynamite Was concealed IT
the sober-loOking trunk to have
ripped apart the strongest building in
the city If the expressmen who
brought it into the building three
days ago had been q little more care
less tenements would have been
wrecked for a block around and the
warehouse itself reduced to ruins.
The trunk contained 1874 sticks of so
per cent dynamite, supplied with fuses
for firing, three large opened tin cans,
two boxes of electric fuses, one solder
ing iron and solder, one box of No 6
blasting caps, one package Of picric
acid, one package of gravel powder, one
coil and a piece Of fuse, one dry bat
terry, one package Of powdered resin,
one package of sal ammoniac, one
package Of sulphur, six boxes Of full
inmate Of mercury and one box Of
matches.
THE man who collected this outfit
must have been a student of explosives
for years" said Inspector Eagan OF
the Bureau of Combustibles, when he
arrived. "ln all my experience | have
never seen so complete set of mate
rails for bomb making
Late last night Captain Tunney who,
with Guy Scull, had gone down to
Mineola late yesterday afternoon to
see Holt, telephoned to Commissioner
{ Woods. What their conversation in
cluded is not known. but almost i'm
mediately afterward n squad Of detee-
tives presented themselves al the ware
/ house and demanded TO be shown the
/ trunk sent there for storage from F. n.
/ Hendrickson, of Mineoa. R. l..
Vaughan. superintendent of the ware
house, went white when the police
began stacking up the fat sticks of dy-
Mantle on the floor.
We've been shifting that trunk and
humping il around a good deal" he
said. Suppose il had gone Oft"
Shortly after the arrival Of the de
tectives Inspector Eagan appeared and
took charge. He had the materials
carefully replaced in the trunk and
himself superintendent its removal TO
the Bureau OF Combustibles, at 81
Third Avenue.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Woods
had called together at the Harvard
Club all of his deputies, together with
the men of the anarchist squad He
was closeted with them for some time.
and after the conference gave out a
statement concerning how the police
got track Of the trunk
Holt gave Tunney a check for his
trunk which. he said. was al the Penn
sylvsnia Station and contained all the
rest Of his explosives. There the police
learned that It had been taken away
three days before BY the New York
Express Company. BY whose orders
Il was removed is not known. Tonight
Tunney telephoned additional informa-
ton which made its discovery possible.
The most significant thing about the
affair" said the Police Commissioner,
"is the fact that Holt refused stead
tasty 20 tell who supplied him with
the explosives. He told us a few hours
before ne killed himself that he would
do il Tomorrow"
The police are hunting for another
case Of bomb-making materials. said 70
| be secreted in the neighborhood.