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Show WARNINGS ARE SENT BROADCAST Holt's Letter to Wife Regarding Regard-ing Blowing Up of Liners Immediately Reported to Washington. TOLD TO WATCH PAPERS Cunard Officials Try to Reach Liners by Wireless Police Informed Yesterday. New York. July 7 Frank Holt, who attempted last Saturday to assassinate assassin-ate J. P. Morgan after placing a bomb In the capitol building at Washington which exploded Frldav night, planned to destroy the trans-Atlantic liners Saxonl? and PhiladelDh'a by dynamite v.hich it is believed, he had placed aboard the vessels before they sailed from New York for Liverpool July 'J. Holt so advised his wife In a letter let-ter which was received by her at Dallas, Dal-las, Texas, on or before vesterday. This iPtter Commissioner Woods of the New York police department announced an-nounced today was taken by Mrs Ilok and her father to a former governor of Texas. The former governor, whose uame was withheld, communicated communi-cated with Major Pullman, head of the Washington. D C, police force, and Major Pullman at once transmitted transmit-ted the information to the United States navy department and police headquarters here. Warnings Sent Broadcast. AVarnings by wireless were sent broadcast over the Atlantic froin, stations sta-tions on the eastern seaboard advising advis-ing the Saxonia and Philadelphia to steer toward each other. Commls- ..:-, -nr i,. i il.i unnn.-.r oiuuci huuub itnnouiiceu. inai uib umj . department had arranged ip send a : fast cruiser after the llners.v The Cunard line officials wore notified no-tified by Commissioner Woods and they also endeavored to reach the liners li-ners by wireless. At both offices it was said that it would be practically impossible for anyone to pass the many lines of guards at the piers and to place explosives ex-plosives aboard tho ships. The Cunard Cu-nard line stated that there were six lines of guards protecting Its vessels from Intruders. Advises Wife to Watch Papers. In Holt's letter he advised her to watch newspapers of July 7, today, and told her that she would see in those papers just what he had done. "SteamerB leaving New York July 3 will bo destroyed In mid-ocean by an. oxploBlon," Holt is quoted as having hav-ing written. On the margin of the letter thero was a penciled admonition to his wife to say nothing about what he had written. The fact that such a letter had been written by Mr. Morgan's assassin, presumably pre-sumably prior to his attempt on Mr Morgan's life, was known to the police at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, but no announcement was made of it until today to-day The first announcement came fiom Glen Cove. Its contents were divulged by a man who had talked with Holt in his cell for a long tim yesterday. This man refused to permit per-mit the use of his name, but because of his standing there was no doubt as to the authenticity of his assertions. |