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passed out Of the wireless zone Of com
mupication.
The Saxonia has 324 passengers
aboard. of whom rs are in the cabins
The Philadelphia has aboard GIL Of
these 206 were in the first cabin 205
in the second and 200 in the steerage.
In Hollis letter to his wife he advis-
ed her to watch the newspapers OF
Wednesday, July z Ctoday) and told
her that she would see in those papers
just what he had done
Steamers leaving New York July 8
will be destroyed in mid-ocean by an
explosion" Holt IS quoted as having
written. On the margin Of the letter
there was a peDcilled admonitian 70
his wife TO say nothing about what he
had written.
Some Dynamite Missing.
Glen Cove. n. Y, July 1.-THE au-
tborities of Nassau county Joined the
New York city detectives today in
painstahng search for more than
twenty-five pounds of dynamite known
to have been delivered to and unac-
counted for ny Frank Holt, the assail-
ant Of J. p. Morgan and The man who
set the bombs IL the United States
capitol last Friday, who committed
suicide during the night by jumping 20
feet from an iron bar in the side Of his
cell 20 the floor.
in the belief that the missing explo-
siye might have been placed aboard
steamship leaving this port prior to
last Saturday. q warning by wireless
was spread over the Atlantic during
the night by plants along the eastern
seab0ard.
The trunk found last night in a
storage room above livery stable
and garage on West Thirty-eighth
street in New York city contained 134
sticks. 81 pounds. out of 200 sticks Of
dynamite known to have been shipped
to and received by Holt under the alias
Of C. Hendricks at Syosset. l. /. re
Gently. Six sticks were used, it seemed {
established today, by Holt when ne
went to Washington. Three Of these
sticks Of this dynamite were used &C
cording TO Hollis statement, in making
the bomb placed in the capitol. the
other three sticks were found in q suit
case and in the lawn of J. P. Morgan's
estate
Although the autopsy performed on !
Holt's body early today by Or, Guy
established definitely that
his death was due to a fractured skull. !
Walter r. Jones. the coroner. said that
he would hold an inquest into the man F
ner in which Holt met his death.
Morgan Commissioning.
New York, July ii P Morgan. I
in his home in Glen Cove /
from the effects Of Hcit's attack. was
in communication for some time with f.
his Offices in this city today, transact
ing business over the telephone He
said he felt much better and word
from the physicians in attendance at
bis home was that his condition con
inued to improve.
Thinks Holt Had Accompllces.
Washington. July Professor
Charles Monroe. the expert in eIpI0-
sives of the bureau of mines. who con
iucted the investigation here after Holt
lynamited a room in the capitol. de-
,Iared today he was confident Holt had
sccomplices, or at least some source
IF money for his operations. Professor
Monroe pointed out that Hollis pay
vas small but that his operations had /.
}een expensive. The kind Of dyua-
mite found in quantity on Hollis trail,
Professor Monroe said, cost about six
iollars a stick. in the way Holt was
luying II, and his operations revealed
ravel which was far beyond his ap-
parent means.