Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-07
FIND SUICIDES EXPLOSIVES;
HAD PLANNED MANY GRIMES
Police Seize Trunk Filled With Bomb
making Material.

NEW YORK, July IA trunk filled
with dynamite picric acid, fuses and
other articles used in the manufacture of
bombs, which had been shipped from
Mineoia by Frank Holt. the suicide who
attempted to kill ]. p. Morgan. was found
today in a West Side avenue house
The shipment had been made under the
name of f. H. Henderson.
Letters found in. the dynamite trunk
show that Holt was born In Milwaukee,
and that his mother was a German, his
father being a German-American.
The police are searching for an &C
complice who helped Holt ship explosives
to the cottage at Central Park, l.. l.,
where he maintained a bomb making fac
tory. Holt practiced revolver shooting
constantly at the Central Park cottage.
AS developments come to light, 1t is
shown, that Holt planned a career or
terrorism more widespread than any
other ever attempted in America. He
intended to wreck the New York city
library. the Harrisburg and Albany cap
itols and the manufacturing plants OF
the Aetna Explosives Company and du
Pont Powder Company. His expectation
OF blowing up ammunition factories to
prevent shipment of munitions to Europe
was revealed by papers In satchel found
at Farmingdale by Pinkerton detectives.
Another trunk, filled with dynamite and
other materials similar to the one found
In this city, was shipped by Holt, It was
learned.
In the trunk found in the West Side
Storage House were about LIS pounds of
dynamite. II was one of the biggest hauls
of high explosives ever made by the New
York police. Powder In the trunk was
found to have been made by the Key
stone Company of Pennsylvania, the same
concern that manufactured the dynamite
found in Holt's suitcase at the Morgan
summer home on Long Island last Sat
urday.
This was the deadly array found in the
trunk; lS4 sticks OF 60 per cent. dynamite,
three large tin cans, two boxes of electric
fuses, one box OF blasting caps, one pack
age OF powder, one coil OF fuse. ono dry |
battery, one package OF powdered resin. |
one package Of sal ammoniac. one pack |
age OF sulphur, six boxes OF illuminate OF |
mercury and one box OF matches.
Inspector Eagan, OF the Bureau OF |
Combustibles, said that each stick OF |
had been fitted with a fuse,
-eady to be exploded. Eagan said the tin
'ans were evidently to be used as bomb
nurlauc acid, which, according to the |
abel on the bottle, was purchased from
he Christlanee-Dudley Pharmacy, Of
ithaca, N. Y.
IL was learned by the authorities that
when Holt decided to issue his warn
ngs' In the form OF explosions OF dyna-
mite, he began careful study OF hlkh
Explosives and bomb making He pur-
'hased books and made exhaustive re-
earches.
TRACE HoLTs ROUTE.
Inspector Faurot and Captain Tunney.
Who is In charge OF the bomb squad"
AVE been tracing Holt's movements since
le left Ithaca on June s. They find he
anne direct TO New York and went 10
. Mills Hotel He did not stay at the
otel long. but went to Central Park,
2. l., where he rented the small building
hat he subsequently occupied.
On June p he ordered from the Aetna
'owder Company 100 Illuminating caps,
% feet OF fuse. 100 electrical exploding
aps and two boxes OF dynamite OF 100
ticks each. The powder company re-
eived from him $3.50 for the goods on
une e. Holt posed as a Contractor and
ad no dihiculty Ia getting the explosive
he caps and fuse were delivered at
entral Park on June "a. the dynamite
rriviug five days later. II
Three days after receiving the dyna-
lite Holt left for Washington.