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Show COUNTY OFFICERS AID DETECTIVES i Painstaking Search Made for Balance of Holt Shipment of Dynamite. Glen Cove. N. Y., July 7. The au-, au-, thonties of Nassau county joined the ; New York City detectives today In a painstaking search for about thirty pounds of dynamite, said to have been dclnered to and unaccounted for by Einnk, Holt, the assailant of J. P. Morgan, the man who set the bombs In the United States capitol last Friday, Fri-day, and who committed suicide during dur-ing the night by jumping twenty feet from an iron bar on the side of his cell to the floor. In the belief that the missing explosive ex-plosive might have been placed aboard a steamship leaving this port prior to last Saturday, a warning by wireless was spread over the Atlantic during the night by plants along the eastern seaboard. Trunk Found at Livery Stable. The trunk found last night in a storage room above a livery stable and garage on West Thirty-eighth street in New York City contained 14 sticks 67 pounds out of 200 sticks of dynamite known to have been shipped to and received by Holt under un-der the alias of -C. Hendricks at Syo-sett Syo-sett L. I , recently Six sticks were used. It seems, by Holt when he went to Washington Three of these sticks of dynamite were used, according to Holt's statement, In making the bomb placed In the capitol; the other three sticks were found in a suitcase on the lawn of J. P Morgan's estate. Sixty Sticks Unaccounted for. This would leave sixty sticks or thirty pounds of the explosive unaccounted un-accounted for Although Holt was quoted as saying he had used the sixty sticks In his experiments In the house he rented at Central Park, L. T , this statement was not believed Nor did the condition of premises at Central park Indicate that explosives had been used, although it was believed be-lieved possible that Holt might have destroyed several sticks in his ex-p.iriments ex-p.iriments there Where the remainder of this shipment ship-ment was, engaged practically the entire en-tire attention of the district attorneys attor-neys detectives today. Jallkeeper Tells Story. Jeremiah O'Ryan, the keeper who was on guard at Holt's cell when Holt committed suicide, today gave a connected con-nected story of what happened. O Ryan said that he had been em-plcjed em-plcjed by Sheriff Pettlt to guard the prisoner with instructions to watch h'm from 8 o'clock at night till 8 o clock In the morning. Last night when O'Ryan went to the entrance of Holt's cell, Holt seemed to be cheerful. cheer-ful. "1 had some food today and managed man-aged to retain It," O'Ryan says Holt told him. "I feel much better now, but 1 must get some sleep. These detectives have been coming in and askiug me all kinds of questions and the have been bothering me day and night 1 must get sleep. 1 have got an important statement to make tomorrow tomor-row and I must be able to convince people that what I say Is true." Holt Feigns Sleep. O'Ryan said he told Holt to go ahead and sleep and 'that Holt turned over on his side with his back to O Ryan and remained there for about an hour. Then O'Ryan heard a noise In the next corridor. He glanced at Holt and saw that he was facing the door, but apparently Holt was sleeping. sleep-ing. O'Ryan then crept, he says, on his hands and knees down the corridor corri-dor to check the disturbance so that Holt might sleep. He looked into the other corridor and found there was nothing there. As he was about to start back, O'Ryan said, he heard a noise like revolver shot. "I ran back to the cell and said to myself: 'He's done it. Somebody slipped him a gun.' I looked into his cell and didn't see Mm. Thnn t , thought that maybe he had been shot from outside. 1 said to myself- 'He might shoot me and so I drew my revolver re-volver and went Into the cell expecting expect-ing him to jump at me. It was dark and I couldn't see him. J tripped and fell. When I looked down I saw that I had fallen over his body." Counsel Littleton Arrives. Martin W. Littleton, who had ben retained as counsel for Holt, reached Mineola today and examined Holt's cell closely. Mr. Littleton climbed up the Iron bars on the side of the cell, as Holt apparently had done before be-fore committing suicide, to see if it were possible for a man to kill him-self him-self in that manner. Mr. Littleton was convinced that It was. On leaving tho jail Mr. Littleton sent tho following telegram to Thomas Thom-as R. James at Dallas, Tex.: "Holt a sulcldo in jail here. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly demontod. Do you wish body shipped to Texas 7" |