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The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10
BELIEVED HOLT
HAD ASSISTANCE
u. S. Secret Service at Work
on Strange Case
CONSPIRACY is SUSPECTED

Suicide Of Morgan's AssaiIant Handi.
caps Efforts to Solve Mystery.
Strange Features Attend HoIt's
Death-JaiI Attendants Say Prison
er Cracked Skull In Dive; Examina-
tion Shows Hole Not Unlike Bullet.
New York, July 8.-Believing that
Frank Holt, who destroyed himself in
the Mlneola q. ID Jail, where he was
placed following an unsuccessful at
tempt to kill j. P. Morgan, was the
agent of conspiracy, the whole or
ganization of the United States secret
service has been brought into the case
in an effort to run down Hollis fellow
conspirators. The police departments
Of New York and Washington are also
actively at work.
His facility in getting wherever he
pleased until last Saturday morning
without detection and his ability to
move large parcels of dynamite and
bomb making materials from place to
place all seem to show, so the police
say, that Holt was not operating all
alone, but that he had the active and
passive help of others.
So much has been disclosed within
the past twenty-four hours of the cum
ming scheming, the elaborate prepara-
tions for violence and the destructive
plans of the extraordinary person who
called himself Holt that the authori-
ties needed living man to question.
The singular carelessness of a Jail
keeper at Mineola, which made it per-
fectly simple for Holt to end his life
has interpOsed what may prove to be
an insurmOuntable obstacle to an ah-
sOlute revealment of Hollis doings and
connections and the identity of the
plotters with whom it is now believed
he must have worked
The body of Holt, or Muenter, lay
today in an undertaking establish
ment in Hampstead awaiting the in
structions of Hollis family in Dallas.
How that body came there with the
head marked by one wound at least
such as is not ordinarily produced b,
fall together with the mass of con-
tradictions given out by the Jail au-
thorities makes a story of peculiar
interest
No newspaper man or independent
investigator was permitted to see
Hollis body on the night of his death.
Within two hours the body had been
hurried to a morgue and an autopsy
had been performed by DR.. Cleghorn.
The brain was removed. When the
autopsy was finished the body and es-
pecially the battered head was so
treated by the undertaken as to par
TALLY disguise the injuries that had
caused Hollis death.
When the newspaper men inspected
the body on Wednesday it was OBJ
served that the skull had undoubtedly
been fractured. The break ran from
the base of the nose to the center of
the top of the head, inclining slightly
to the right. 1t was indeed just such
a fracture as might have been caused
by hard fall. But there was another
new injury which provoked commen'.
1t was a small, elliptical hole just
above the right eye brow, something
of the sort of hole that bullet fired
at an angle could have made. The
edges of this wound were clean. The
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10
He Took IL.

'I1l not take NO for an answer. Miss
Bunker-Priscilla." he declared brave
ly as he persistently pressed his suit
Then, sir replied the cold and cul-
tured Boston girl, rising proudly to the
occasion, will you in lieu Of that much
hackneyed negative assertion accept
my positive declination to respond con
currently to the query propounded?'
And he did.-St Louis Post Dispatch.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10
Opportunitv Calls.

opportunity is at your door"
What is it, inquired the pessimis-
tic citizen. Opportunity to subscribe
to some worthy cause, or chance to
invest ?"-LCuiSville COurier-Journal
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Foresight.

Chauffeur-WOuld you kindly give
me reference as careful driver, sir?
Motorist = What! Are you going to
leave me? Chauffeur-Oh, no! / just
want it in case of accident. sir!-New
York Globe
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10
INDIANA MARKETS

FOE RENT, September New
Brick Store Building 25 X so, good
cellar % % by Z feet deep, located
in the heart of the business section,
large display window. Inquire of
Rosa Bevacqua, Johnsonburg, Pa.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10
Two Kinds.

"Pa," said Johnny, what is a book.
wOrmT
"a bOOkwOrm," said pa, lis person
who would rather read than eat, or q
worm that would rather eat than
read"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10
Harmony of Diet.

He-Why do you always have picked
beets when 1 bring any friends home
to dinner?
She-To match the kind of friends
you generally bring-BaltimOre Amer
lean.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10

FOR SALE-Corner lot in Chevy
Chase, 65x15O, for further informa-
ton, apply at this office
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10

the Family Pet.
You have no children?"
None"
Home doesn't mean much to a ms
without children"
"Oh, we have a family pet. It's on
motor car. L am going to present il
with new tires throughout, and M
Wife Is going to buy it a new win
shield. Chicago Herald.
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Some Reputation.

Binx-What kind of reputation has
Jones got?
Jinx-SO good that he can wear curr
buttons with other peoples initials and
get away with it--St. Louis POst-Dis-
patch.
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Sets Havstack Afire

Wheeling, w. Va, July 8.-A farm
ers boy, too poor to buy a balloon,
tied waste to crows foot and lighted
the waste at Short creek, near here.
The crow alighted on a haystack on
the Jacob Nause farm and set the hay
afire, destroying it and causing S65
oss. Heroic efforts saved the adjacent
3arn.
What He'd Done.
I've come to see if you can lend me
$25."
That so: Which way did you
Gomez"
Down GriSwOld street."
"Oh, you did, Ell? Did it occur to
you that you had walked right by
eight or nine banks that are in the
business of lending money to get to
me"-Detroit Free Press.
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Seekinu and Findino.

Two Scots with all the thrift of their
race met on the way home from mar
ket.
Why are We lukin' sac pleased VII
yersel?" asked Sandy.
"Weel, mon," replied Macpherson. 81
dropped a saXpence in the market
place, an, hunt as l might, 1 couldna
find it,"
That's naught to be lukin' sac gay
ABBOTT" said Sandy.
Aye, but We dinna KEN explained
MACPHERSON. Il found a Shilling."-
Ladies' Home Journal.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10

FOR SALE-Automobile in
good condition, at reasonable
price. Sam Maruca Mcintyre, Pa.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-10
Unnecessary Advice.

"Don't question my veracity, SIR
81 won't. 1t wouldn't answer"-BaI
timore American
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How They Do il.

Steve-They say that walters can al
ways size man up. Lillian-I sup
pose they measure him from tip to tip.
Judge.
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ne Family Pet,

Wealth is not his that has it. but his
that enjoys it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
BOARD ASKS Aid OF
TEACHER.MOTHERS
Maxwell Calls Them Into
Conference to Help
Form Rules.

William H. Maxwell, Superintendent
OF Public Schools, summoned the
mother-teachers 10 his Office yesterday
and asked their opinions in regard TO
future action by the Board of Educs-
ton in dealing with the teacher
mothers case. The conference was In
formal and the teachers discussed the
question freely with the supcrintend-
ent. Mr.. Maxwell explained that their
opinions were solicited as helpful
guide toward formulating definite
rules to govern future cases.
About twenty Of the teacher-mothers
attended the conference. The opinion
appeared 20 prevail that no compul-
sorry period of time should be estab-
lished during which the teacher should
absent herself from her duties.
Mrs. Sarah Breslow, Of Public School
81, Manhattan, whose appeal was re-
Gently denied by Dr. Finley, State Com
missioner OF Education, and other
teachers expressed the opinion that the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
MRS. ROGERS WEEDS
DAY AFTER ROGERS
Former Wife of Millionaire Is
Bride of Zinn Five Days
After Divorce.

Wilmington, Del, Feb. 6.--Josephinc
Pyle Rogers, who five days ago d.
vorced Theodore Beauclairc Rogers in
New York. was married to-day, IN
Baltimore, TO George Zinn, cousin Of
Rogers. Following the announcement
of the wedding yesterday of Rogers
and Miss Irene Vernon Watts, Ct New
castle, Del, at Princeton, y. j., the
news came as surprise to this city.
Neither Rogers nor Mrs. Iinn's rela-
tives knew of the remarriage. Zinn Is
a stepson of William du Point, of
Orange County, Va, brother of Sen
ator Henry A. du Pont, and is wealthy
in his own right. Several years ago
he was divorced from his first wife,
who was Miss Cameron, of Richmond,
Va, daughter of the tobacco man.
The Rogers divorce was granted Feb
ruary !, 1915, by Justice Greenbaum, IN
New York City. In 1909 the young
woman. who was prominent socially IN
Wilmington, eloped with Rogers,
granddaughter of the late Jacob ..
Rogers, manufacturer of locomotives;
Il was agreed that Theodore b.
Rogers, Sd, aged five, should remain
for six months in the care of Mrs.
James Salisbury, Mrs. Rogers's sister.
After that he was to divide his time
equally between his father and his
mother. No provision as to alimony
was made.
Beauclaire Manor, the extensive es-
tate of Rogers. on the Delaware River,
below Newcastle, was sold to-day at
sherif's sale. Rogers evidently did not
care to stay the sale. as he moved 10
px;,ca+op n fau days AGO II was At
This estate that the trouble which led
TO the divorce began. Last March Znn
was a guest of Rogers and his wife.
Not long after Rogers first mar
rage his mother surprised her rela-
tives and friends by marrying Charles,
Stockley. friend Of her sons and
much younger than herself She has
since died Jacob S. Rogers left 3d.
600. 900 to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. The father of Theodore Beau
claire Rogers received the rest of the
estate and left the bulk of his fortune
to his son.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
MOTHER TO SAIL;
SON MUST STAY
Plan to Take Him to See Aunt
in Paris Baked by Court
on Fathers Plea.

The scandal over the arrest in Paris
Of FRANCOIS Desclaux, paymaster of the
French army and former secretary Of
VI. Caillaux, eX-Minister of Finance,
whose wife killed the editor of "Le
Figaro" now figures in a proceeding
brought in the Supreme Court, in this
city.
benjamin F. Ducas, an importer Of
dyestuffs, obtained "a writ Of habeas
corpus from Justice Cohalan for his
thirteen-year-o son, Robert y. Ducas,
because. Ducas explained, his wife,
Mrs. Rachelle y. Ducas, who is sepa-
rated from him, intended 10 take the
boy 20 Paris to visit her sister, Nine.
Beshoff, who, it is alleged, is involved
in the military scandal. Ducas said
in his application for the writ of habeas
corpus that his wife was booked to sail
tomorrow. But the writ will restrain
her from taking her son with her, as
he must be produced in court to-mor-
row.
Nine. Beshoff, said Ducas, is a de-
signer Of gowns in Paris. Her hus-
band is at the front with the French
army. Il is alleged that search of
the home of his wife's sister, on the
Avenue Henri Martin, revealed guam
tity of military stores. Desclaux was
arrested on charge Of having appro-
priated these stores.
Under these circumstances Ducas OBJ
iects to having his son visit his aunt,
and, besides, does not want the boy TO
be in France during the war. Justice
blanchard has under consideration an
application by Mrs. Ducas to annul a
separation agreement under which she
receives $4,000 year from her hus-
band.
She alleged that she signed the
agreement on a misstatement by her
husband as to his income, which she
later found was much larger than he
had told her. She asked for an in
crease TO $4,000, saying that she and
her son could not get along on less.
Ducas tried to show that his wife was
extravagant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
TW0MBLY co. IN TROUBLE
D. Stuart Dodge Files Peti-
tions in Bankruptcy.

Involuntary petitions in bankruptcy
were fled yesterday against the Twom-
ply Car Corporation, the Twombly
Motors Company, the Twombly Taxi
cab Comany and the Twombly Power
Company. all of 1920 Broadway, by D.
stuart Dodge, who has been president
and financial hacker Of the concerns.
v. Irving Twombly, an inventor, is the
uee-president and general manager.
The claim Of Mr.. Dodge against the
!!Vombly Car Company, which manu-
,,astures motorcycles, is Sll4,439 for
cans and interest The company
vas Incorporated in 1914, with a
'apitSl stock Of 100000, but was not
hied in "Bradstreet's." Its factory was
y Nutley, ~ j. The Twombly Taxicab
Company was incorporated in June,
s.slS, with a capital stock of 100000
ne claim of Mr.. Dodge against his
s0neern is for S8.762, for loans, with
.a;srest. The Twombly Motors Com
lshy was incorporated in 1910 with a
'apiial stock Of 100000. The petit
,ssaer says he loaned this concern
&gl,609
The Twcmbly Power Company was
heorporated in 1904 with 100000 cap
,al stock, 70 manufacture an automo-
. sle engine. Mr.. Dodge's claim against
Ns company is for S223,a2S.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07

circumstances of each case should be
allowed 20 govern the period Of alb
sence. They were not in favor OF
fixed two-year period, as has been sug-
gested. They contended that baby
might not demand its mothers close
oere during all that time, while, on
the other hand, some babies might
need the care Of mother most .. two
years old, or even older
The tescher-mothers were pleased
that Superintendent Maxwell had called
them for a conference. IL gave them
confidence that the board would settle
the question properly when II came 70
take action. Mrs. Breslow and hrs'
Lora VI. Wagner, Of the Curtis hign
School annex. Staten Island. who also
lost her appeal to DR.. Finley, expect
20 be reinstated soon.
Miss Isabel A. Ennis. chairman OF
the committee on professional inter,
ests, has reported 20 the Tesehers
Council the attitude Of the teachers IN
the city toward the ten-payment plan
proposed by the Board Of Superinten-
dents. OF the 1915 teachers who re-
sponded TO the QUESTIONABLE sent out
only Alb favored the suggested plan;
while l0,403 want the present method
retained, whereby salaries are paid In
twelve monthly instruments.
The total registration in the high
schools Of the entire city is now 3d.
075. The number admitted last week
was $4,000, according 20 the figures
given out by the Board of Education
yesterday. These are divided between
the various courses thus: Academic,
1855; commercial, 1852, and technical,
. 1Ao
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
EACH ONE SAYS BURGLAR
Clergyman and Caretaker Ac-
cuse Each Other.

The Rev. Robert +. Norton, OF Mott
av., Far Rockaway, and his son, Gin
ton Norton, lawyer, of Fulton ST.
Lawrence, on one side, and Samuel J.
Smith, caretaker of house formerly
owned by the clergyman on Atlantic
av., Far Rockaway, on the other SIDE
were in the Jamaica police court. yes
terday afternoon before Magistrate
Harry Miller, each side charging burg
larry against the other. The Nortons
made an additional charge of assault
against Smith.
The charges grew out Of row. at
Far Rockaway yesterday morning
when the Rev. Mr.. Norton and his son
entered the house of which Smith Is
caretaker, using a key to gain entrance;
From the house the Nortons removed
a quantity of lumber. which the clergy
man said belonged TO him.
Smith is alleged TO have broken
lock 10 get into the house to prevent,
as he asserted, the carrying of OF some
of his employers property. An slterca-
ton followed his entrance, which was
carried from the house TO the, lawn
where Smith is accused OF having
committed the assault.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
SHIP MANGUVRES
FOR CANAL WATERS
Admiral Fletcher Inquiries About
Taking Atlantic Fleet
There Soon.

Panama, Feb. 6.-The Atlantic fleet
may come to canal waters for winter
man9uvres in February or March, &C
cording TO a wireless message received
to-day by Captain Hugh Rodman, SUI
perintendent OF transportation of the
Panama Canal, from Rear Admiral
Frank +. Fletcher, commander in chief
of the Atlantic fleet.
Rear Admiral Fletcher asked IL il
would be convenient for the mapu-
vres TO be held there, subject 10 the
approval of the Secretary of the Navy.
Captain Rodman answered in the at
firmative.
The canal employees, after having
held many meetings, have dispatched a
long letter to President Wilson re-
cuesting that ne rescind the recent
executive order providing that canal
employees be charged for rent. light and
fuel. The protesting employees say
that this in effect is reduction OF
wages.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
S4,OOO,0O0 THEFT FOILED
Checks Lifted Off Express
Wagon Were Cancelled.

Armed with his trusty umbrella,
William Mitchell, aged sxty-eight,
slipped up behind a Well-Fargo express
wagon and flched $4,000, GOO in cashiers
checks and vouchers. II was dead easy!
Bat il wasn't so easy TO stand up be-
fore Magistrate Deuel. in the Tombs pc.
lice court yesterday on a charge OF
petit larceny. Petit larceny? Yes. The
checks were cancelled.
Not wishing to have a crime of such
enormity laid at the door OF any par
ticular town, Mitchell gave his address
as New Jersey According 20 James
Keenan,. the driver of the wagon when
the bold deed was perpetrated, the man
fished the bundle of with his umbrella,
tucked il under his coat and dashed
down Broadway. He was captured at
John 81. The checks were being re-
moved from the National Park Bank.
Mitchell was held in 5000 bail for trial
In Special Sessions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
MUTES TALK WITH FISTS
Wordless Row at Ball Ends IN
Police Station.

Ability TO talk with their fists as
vol as their fingers WAS demonstrated
bv two deaf mutes in Brooklyn last
evening, when it become necessary 10
eject them from the annual ball OF the
Brooklyn Division, No, q, Of the Ma
tional Fraternity Of Deaf Mutes.
Few of the eight hundred guests at
the Imperial, Red Hook Lane and Full
ton ST, were aware Of the fact that
anything untoward was taking place
for the wordless dispute occurred
chiefly in the lobby.
Al the station, where the two were
taken on charges of disorderly conduct,
they gave their names as John Brandt,
Of 400 East 10th St, Manhattan, and
Henry Bohen, Of 1862 East Gath ST.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
THINKS ENGLAND
ISN'T VINDICTIVE
God Help Germans" if Blood
Lust Is Aroused, Writes Prof.
|. H. Hirsch, of London.

"To my mind, the most striking feat
ure of the situation is still the general
absence of vindictiveness, or even con-
tempt, for the German people"
The above view is written by Pro-
fessor |. II. Hirsch, lecturer of physics
and mathematics in Kings College,
London, in a letter to his nephew, Ben
jamin Harris, recording clerk in the
office of the County Clerk.
"Englishmen are joining the colors
by the hundred thousand" continues
Professor Hirsch, "but not in the lingo
spirit. You will perhaps remember the
type of man one meets 80 frequently in
Lancashire and Yorkshire the old
Puritan type,-the man who goes TO his
work with the sense Of duty dominant,
doing his work thoroughly, not Ieces-
sarily because he likes it, but because
the job is to be done.
at appears to be beyond the mental
powers of German TO understand this.
To him, apparently, war is part of his
religion or il is nothing. He cannot
understand that nation should 90 20
war because II is part of its religion
to destroy the worshippers Of Mars.
The war is God. II il fortunate for
Germany that England is not war mad,
for if the fighting blood of the country
were really reused if the Englishmen
were ever really stricken with the lust
for German blood then God help the
Germans. Personally am praying tLat
the Germans will have sense enough
not to repeat such escapades as the at
tack on Scarborough.
III you hear that England is deter
mined to crush Germany beyond re-
demption treat the report with cen
tempt. We cannot crush 100000 Of
people except at an enormous cost And
il would not pay. Nor would it pay us
to divide Germany into weak and small
states. The enemy is not Germany, but
autocracyF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
.DACIA LAST CHOICE
IN BREITUNC'S DEAL
Tried TO Purchase French
and English Ships, He
Declares.
NEED FOR MERCHANT
MARINE DISCUSSED
Hardy and Cragin Tell of Aid
for Shippers in Talks at
Republican Club.

Edward ~ Breitung, owner Of the
steamship Dacia. over which contro-
ycrsy is being waged regarding her
sailing under the American flag, told
the diners at the weekly luncheon of
the Republican Club Yesterday how he
came 10 figure in the incident.
81 got into the Dacia incident quite
innoccntly." hc SAID. "Gur company
lad first tried to purchase two French
ships and an English snip, but they
would not sell Then we bought the
Dacia.'
Mr., Rreitung said that he believed in
a merchant marine. but not IN subsi-
CIZed merchant marine. lie sald ne
believed the government might ald by
furnishing loans by bonds on the ships.
The sneaker declared that he was born
IN MICHIGAN, and that his father was
half Russian and half German. while
his mother was n French woman.
The general topic for discussion was
"Vow can we create an American mer-
chant marine commensurate with our
reeds ~ ~.
Representative Rufus Hardy, Of the
Congressional Committee on Merchant
Marine, said he hoped the people OF
this country would no longer be satiss,,
fed with being the apex Of the pyramid
on which has piled the coastwlSe snip
ping monopoly, the railroad interest IN
il. the shipyard owners, and, hnalIy' me
hugaboo Of the $4,000 men who work
in the private shipyards Of the nation.
MIR Hardy. who was introduced by
hn npTnnDs
closer 10 the Presidents policies than
any ono else" supported by statistics
mic argument that the increased cost
Of American operation would become q
myth from the time the seamen,s Dill
became a law. lie said shlpbullding III
This country could be made cheaper
than in anv other because OF the 10"
cost Of material
"Thc real remedy to help American
shipping" he declared, can only De
obtained by fearless resistance OF the
;rNuanco Of the coastwise shipping
monopoly and Of the short-sighted own
representative Humphrey, OF Wash
irgtnn. said Congress should defeat the
chin purchase bill. as it was great
and vital danger facing the American
puhIic. He pointed out the difference
between the government taking the yes
soils for itself and the making OF money
for private capital. . -
"There is no emergency at present
be went on. chat could obige US 70
purchase the informed ships of foreign
countries. Are we in such deplorable
condition that we need them? We have
sent 100000 bushels of wheat TO
Furope this year. and in the first week
of January we exported 100000 baleS
of cotton more than IN the same period
He ridiculed the proposition of the
United States embarking in the snip
ping business with secondhand vessels;
Other speakers included Collector OF
the Port Dudley Field Malone, former
Representative William Harris Douglas
and James T. McCleary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
Diving Man Saves Train.

Milford, Utah, Feb. 6.-MortaIIy
wounded by a pistol shot, Kihara. a
Jananese section foreman. used the
LAST of his strength 10 set torpedo
on the tracks of the Salt Lake Route
near here last night 10 save the east
bound Pacific Limited train from
wreck.
Kihara was shot through the sbdo-
won by Mexicans who composed his
force. They fed, leaving the handcar
~ tba rails. The wounded man tried
~ vain 10 remoye the car alone and
then dragged himself down the track
and placed a torpedo, Inc train
stopped in response TO the signal and
hro,,gbt Kihara 10 Milford. where he
died to-day. A posse is after his AS
sailants.