New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-09
Hints at Pending Revela-
tons - Suicides Body
Shipped to Texas.
SHOOTING THEORY
STILL PERSISTS
Inquest Postponed Till To-day
Clarence Mackay Takes
Out Revolver Permit.

Warden William +. Hults Of the
Mineola Jail left yesterday for a
weeks vacation. Meanwhile the in
vostigation into the manner of Frank
Hollis suicide has Jagged noticeably.
The inquest arranged by Justice of the
Peace Walter R. Jones for yesterday
afternoon was postponed until 10
o'clock this morning owing to the alb
sence Of Jerry Ryan, the court at
tendant promoted temporarily to guard
Holt.
Why the man who planted a bomb
in the National Capitol and later at
tempted TO murder j. p Morgan was
guarded no more closely than an or
binary vagrant is still the cause OF
much speculation, and the theory that
Holt shot himself persists in certain
quarters.
The body Of the would-be assassin
was shipped from Hampstead on the
o'clock train for Dallas, Tex At the
same hour Jerry Ryan, the keeper
sat in his vine covered home at Valley
Stream and declared that there had
been a frame-up among the officials
connected with the case.
"Hults and those fellows are trying
to save their skin at my expense he
said. They want TO make a goat of
me. It's a frame-up, but II will all
come out some day when the affair
has blown over. | have never yet de-
cided whether Holt shot himself or
not. 1t sounded like pistol shot or
explosion 10 me
Replying to the assertions that he
had been asleep when Holt killed
! himself, Ryan shouted, That's lie!
He then showeS his pistol, which hadn't
been cleaned for two years, 70 prove
that the prisoner had not borrowed
his gun stealthily. Furthermore,
Ryan declared that Warden Hults had
came into the cell block only once
while he was on guard.
Sheriff Stephen 7. Petit IS also on
vacation. leaving Under Sheriff Wal.
ter Z. Raynor in charge. Raynor said
Yesterday that he did not know wheth-
er sheriff Petit and Warden Hultz
had arranged for the latter's vacation.
He added that he had conducted no in
vestigation concerning Hollis death,
and would not. So far as he knew no
charges Of misconduct had been lodged
against Ryan.
William Logan, who lives at the
Nash Hotel, declared Yesterday that
on the night of the suicide Ryan came
over and talked with him and that to-
gether they walked back to the jail
hedge. reaching there about 1910 p. m
RYAN said the meeting had been at s
Constable McCahill, Of Glen Cove
has q clew which he believes will lead
to the discovery of the remaining forty
+ sticks Of dynamite, and Deputy Con-
stable Campbell is going TO put in a
claim for the 81 900 reward offered by
p police of Cambridge. Mass, for the
capture of Muenter.
All the local police have been with
drawn from the Morgan grounds, and
their places are being taken by private
detectives. Junius Spencer Morgan
( son of the fnancier. refused TO give out
any further statements of his fathers
condition.
IN line with other wealthy residents
/ Of Nassau County, who have been arm
ing themselves with revolvers and post
ing guards on their estates to keep of
strangers, Clarence II. Mackay, Of Har-
Dor Hills, Roslyn, yesterday obtained a
permit from Justice William A. Dodge
20 carry a pistol. He said that he
feared an attempt on his life.
Dallas, Tex, July 8.-The Rev. q. F
. Sensabaugh, father Of Mrs. Frank Holt
announced to-day that the previous
/ plan to bury Holt az Ithaca had been
/ changed.
My daughter at first yielded to our
wishes that the burial be in Ithaca, SO
/ that she might be spared the ordeal
Of the funeral" he said, "but later she
insisted on Frank being buried here
where she expects TO make her home. u
The body is expected here on Sunday