The evening world., 1894-08-13
HOLT PLEADS GUILTY.
Little Doubt that the Wife-Eur-
derer Is Insane.
His eight-Year.0Id Daughter Tells
tho Story Of the Killing.
Hacked His Victims Throat After
Shooting Her.

THOMAS Holt. sexton Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of the Atonement
Fifth avenue and Seventeenth street,
Brooklyn. was arraingned before Justice
Walsh in the Butler Street Police
Court. Brooklyn. this morning. charged
with wife-murder. Holt pleaded guilty
and was held for the Grand Jury.
When Holt was called to the bar by
Justice Walsh the pen door was thrown
open, but Holt did not move. Detec-
tive Mccormick, Of the Fifth avenue
station. went into the pen and picked
| Holt up from a bench where he was
sitting staring vacantly out into the
courtroom.
The sexton walked out Of the pen
mechanically, practically dragged by
Mccormick. He Is about forty 1--WE
years old, and was dressed shabbily.
His head was bandaged, his collar blood
stained, his face was pale and ex-
pfessionless. and there was q vacant
stare In his eyes.
HIS elght-year-old daughter Sadie.
who was the only witness to the murder,
side the bar. Holt did not look at the
child. Justice Walsh had her removed
to seat outside the rail before he be-
SdIl " question fiOlt.
The sexton answered tho Justices
questions promptly, and without any
show Of emotion said GUILTY." when
asked:
killing your wife yesterday?S u
The charge against Holt was made in
the affidavit of his daughter, Sadie. She
Is bright looking, little thing. and APP
dressed this morning in a neat little
blue Bingham dress. Her face, which
was red from crying, looked all the red
der from. the large white straw hat
In making her affidavit she told Clerk
Neeson the following story Of the muir
Mamma and I were playing church
went, when papa rushed in. He did not
have his hat on. He looked very much
He said to mamma: That man on the
ing to kill me- Mamma saw a revolver
In papa's back pocket. She went up to
papa and tried to quiet him. She
reached round to his pocket and took the
Papa made a grab for 1t and took
the revolver from mamma. He then
At RsG snd the re door, Paps
picked up the bread-knife from the
throat sar She kept moving towards the
X.
reached the stairs and fell down.
Papa came out with q razor and q
revolver He shot her twice again. A
man came In and papa went out."'
Charles With. who lives just acrosi
street. was the man who ran Into the
II ran into the basement" he said thl.
morning, land saw Mrs. Holt lying or
the stairs. Her dress was burning
tried to put out the f!re: I tried to put
the dining groom. He had a revolver In
his hand. I bolted for the street He
fired one shot at me-"
Holt, while running through the
street, revolver in hand, was knocked
down and overpowered by Policeman
The Hoits had been married about
dren: Thomas. eighteen years; Frank,
sixteen years, and Sadie, eight years.
The boys were not at home when
their mother was killed.
Holt was formeiy a photographer, but
chuyrh Of which Rev. Dr. Homer E.
Wellman IL rector. The Hollis managed
TO save a little money and were fairly
well to do. or late Holt has shown evi-
dences Of mental trouble.
imagined that his wife and others was
trying to poison him.
During the last few weeks he seemed
to think that there was treasure buried
was digging for the "hidden wealth."
An examination Of Mrs. Hollis body
revealed three bullet wounds in the
breast; The dead woman's throat was
horribly hacked.
Mrs. Holt was about forty years old,
and was popular In church and charita-
BILE work. The arrangements for the fu-
neral have not been completed.