Evening journal., 1915-07-07
FEAR HOLT HID
Dynamite BOMB
ABOARD STEAMER
One of His Letters Fixed
July 7 AS Date of Ex-
plOSion at Sea
PHILADELPHIA 5 CAPTAIN
FAILS TO find trunk
BY The United Press.

NEW YORK. July Interest in
the whereabouts of the dynamite
trunk Frank Holt declared he placed
aboard a transatlantic liner, center
ed today on the Cunard liner Saxonia.
steaming across the Atlantic in the
direction OF Liverpool
A wireless from Captain Mills, of
the American liner Philadelphia. den
nitely disposed of the possibility that
the trunk was aboard his vessel Mills
messaged that every piece Of baggage
identified. following receipt of wire
less message Of warning, The Cunard
officials frankly admitted this after
noon that thoy have heard nothing
from Captain Diggle OF the Saxonia.
IN response to the warning flashed
to him. But they we're positive. they
declared, that Holts trunk of ex-
plosives could never have been snug
gled aboard the Saxonia. They pointed
out that the inspection of baggage at
their piers. particularly since the out
break of the war. precluded the idea
that such a scheme might have sue
ceeded The Cunard officials, too,
secuted the idea that Holt had plant
ed dynamite aboard any liner at all.
They accepted the story OF Morgan's
assailant as the fabrication of an in
sane man.
10 seemed unlikely today that the
mystery surrounding Holt. would ever
be cleard up Hollis suicide in the
Jail here last night has stopped tenn
porarily at least, all efforts to identi-
fy him as Erich Muenter, the long
sought Harvard professor who murd-
cred his wife. Hollis leap of 20 feet
TO the stone tagging beneath his cell
tier mutilated his head, making it very
improbable that old friends of Muen-
ter, now on their way here, can iden-
tlfy the peace fanatic and the wife
murdered as the same man.
Hollis suicide came with the dlscov
cry of one of the most important clue
in the case--the finding of a cottage
near Hicksvillo, whore Holt had live
apparently for weeks and CONSTRUCTED
the bomb that partly wrecked tn
Capitol and practiced shooting at !
target for the Morgan attack
From the Long Island cottage tho
detectives traced Hollis black trunk
10 a warehouse In East Thirty-eghth
street In which enough explosives to
wreck several blocks we're found.
In the Long Island cottage were
found much paraphernalia that show
ed Holt had experimental for weeks
with his combustibles. Burnt
matches, corks. acid stains and fuses
galore were found. Inspector Eagan,
of the Bureau of Combustibles, said
today that Holt must have been a
student of bomb making for years,
and that his equipment was the most
thorough he had ever seen. Hollis
neighbors. who knew him there as
"Totten" told the police today he had
been there for several weeks.
Coroner Walter r. Jones. of Nassau
county, who held an autopsy over
Hollis body early this morning. stated
today that Holt must have jumped
thirty feet The coroner's report
shows that Holt died from cerebral
hemorrhage, induced by a fractured
skull
"The entire skull. from just above
the eyes, TO the base, was broken and
crushed" said Coroner Jones. "His
death was practically instantaneous
The coroner received the story OF
Hollis death from Jerry O'Ryan
Hollis special guard.
81 was sitting al the door of his
cell about 10.45." said O'Ryan, "anC
apparently Holt was asleep. l hearC
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