The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-07-08
Letter to Wife Tells of
Plan to Blow Up
Ships.
VESSELS WARNED
Philadelphia and saxons
Searched But No Bombs
Are Reported Found.

Dallas, Ten The admission that
Mrs. Frank Holt received letter
yesterday from her husband intimat-
ing that he had planned to blow up
one or more transatlantic liners with
timed bombs was made today by Mrs.
Holt S attorney here, j. r. Cockerell
Mrs Holt previously had denied re-
ceivillg the letter.
New York, City@lNranli Holt, who
attempted last Saturday to assinate
j. p. Morgan, after placing bomb in
the capitol at Washington, which eX-
nloded Friday night and who killed
himself in jail at Glencove last night,
planned to destroy the transatlantic
liners SaXonia and Philadelphia by
dynamite. which it is believed, he
had placed aboard the vessels before
they sailed from New York for Liver
pool ON July 3
Holt so advised his wife i'm letter
which was received by her at Dallas.
Texas. on or before yesterday. This
letter. Police Commissioner Moods
of the New York City police depart
ment announced was taken by Mrs.
Holt and her father to a former gov
whose name is withheld, communicate
ed with Major Pullman, head of the
WASHINGTON, ID. c. police force and
Major Pullman at once transmitted
the information to the United States
navy department and the police de
partment here.
Warnings by wireless We're sent
broadcast over the atlantic from
stations on the eastern seaboard, adj
vising the SaXonia and the Philadel-
phia 10 steer toward each other. The
navy department arranged to send =
fast cruiser after the liners immedi-
ately
Both vessels were reached by wire
less. The Philadelphia replied that
everything aboard had been identi-
fled and that all was Well. The San
ona also received the message, but
did not reply.
Rcportch Dynamite Struggled aboard
dlencove, N. Extraordinary
efforts are being made by wireless TO
determine whether a portion OF
hundred pound shipment of dynamite
sent to Frank Holt at Syosset Long
Island. is aboard the Cunard liner
SaXona, which sailed from New York
for Liverpool on July 3. 1t is re-
ported that Holt had written his wife
at Dallas. Texas, that the Saxonia
would be destroyed by an explosion
today.
Bombs in Automobile Cargo
New York City.-H. c. Hill. the
European representative OF an Amer
lean Automobile company that has
automobiles to the Allies arrived
here today on the liner Espagne and
said that a British ship. loaded here
in May for Havre, with cargo OF
Automobiles and grain for the
French army was found to have two
bombs on board when she reached
her destination. Hill refused to give
the name OF the ship, saying TO do
so might hamper the investigation
which is now under way. One OF the
bombs, consisting. he said OF two
metal cylinders. capped with wax was
filled with acid and the other with a
a highly inflamable chemical The
bombs were i'll an automobile case,
Hill said, and evidently We're design
ed to be exploded by the motion of
the ship, causing the chemicals to
mix. An unusually smooth passage
probably resulted in the failure OF the
plot. he thought.
Hill declared that attempts to
make useless automobiles shipped to
.he Allies were frequent. He said that
emery dust was found in cylinder
borings and in vital parts of machin-
cry and there has been other tam
pering He also said that it is neces-
sary to keep large force of mechan-
les at Havre to examine carefully
every machine.
Bombs on Three Ships.
Three steamships sailing from this
port to Havre. reaching there last
May. it was learned from an authora-
tive source We're found to have nneX-
ploded bombs aboard, the missiles
having been placed aboard ships in
this city before sailing.
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