New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-09
Police Account for All but
80 Pounds of Dynamite
Bought by Him.
ITHACA LETTERS
OF LITTLE VALUE
Clippings Show Morgan Assail-
ant Was Interested in Insanity
and GreWsome Murders.

One tiny illuminate Of mercury cap
missing from the supply of explosives
known to have been bought by Frank
Holt may explain the explosion on the
Minnehaha.
The police finished checking up Holt's
explosives last night. The dynamite,
all except the sixty sticks he asserted
he had burned at the bomb laboratory
in Central Park, L. l., was accounted
for. So also were the 100 feet of fuse
and the 100 electrical fuses. OF the
100 illuminate of mercury caps only SO
were left. One, it is known, was
used to explode the bomb which dam
aged the Capitol in Washington last
Friday.
The other, in the opinion of the po-
lice, may have been used in a bomb on
the Minnehaha.
Late yesterday afternoon Police Com
missioner Woods turned over 10 Cap
tain Tunney, of the anarchist squad. a
large box belonging 10 Holt that had
been seized in the Cornell storehouse in
Ithaca. In it were clothing. an axe,
about 1000 letters in German, French,
English and Spanish. and a literary
chamber Of horrors in the form of
clippings on murder and insanity.
Letters Are Harmless.
mi
the police were able TO say after going
through about one-fourth of them, were
such as any college professor might
receive. The contents of none Of them
will be given out until all are exam
ined and tabulated.
None Of the letters thus far exam
ined throw any light on the question
of accomplices in Holt's terrorist cam
paign. IL was not expected, however,
that he would preserve letters that
would tend 10 incriminate others, even
had he 'eceived them.
The search for accOmplices, however
is still being ursued by New York de-
tectives working on Long Island. They
are trying to find a practically new
Ford automobile in which Holt or at
least three occasions drove 20 Syosset
Many people saw this car, but no one
can tell no the ruddy checked man OF
Gcrmanic appearance that on one oc-
/ casion drove was, nor can the place
where the machine was procured be
/ located.
/ No garage keeper has been found 70
admit that Holt was among his patrons
/ There are some things 'also in con
/ nection with the hiring Of the bomt
/ cottage in Central Park, l.. l.. that tn,
police wish 70 have explained. Evi
/ dence now in their possession tends tC
! show that when Holt went 20 Contra
I Park he expected TO meet some one a
/ the station, and his conversation al
| that time indicated that he knew al
/ least one man in the place before hC
went there. This mans story does no'
/ check up with the stories told by 9th
+ ers. He may explain everything "a
the police to-day. however.
Holt Pro-German.
4 As TO how Holt spent the time he
was in New York, Frederick Jonas, who
/ lives at the hotel Holt patronized, says
Holt was a frequent attendant at pro-
German meetings and particularly
meetings called by Germans for the
purpose of protesting against ship
ments Of arms TO the Allies.
Jonas, who is known at the hotel as
DR.. Jones is pro-German street
sneaker. He told Inspector Faurot yes
terday that Holt had often attended
such meetings and more than once
complimented him on his arguments.
Holt" said Jonas. "was at the Madl-
son Square meetings and was much
impressed. He thought the gatherings
were great and the Arguments much to
/ the point"
Il was in Madison Square Garden
/ June - that William J. Bryan defend
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