The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-13
HOLT PLEADS GUILTY.
Little Doubt that the Wife-Mur.
derer Is Insane.
His eight.Year-0Id Daughter Tells
the 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-five
years old. and was dressed shabby.
His head was bandag ed, his collar blood
stained, his face was pale and ex-
stare in his eyes.
His eight-year-old daughter Sadie,
who was the only witness to the murder,
was sitting In the witness-chair along
child. Justice Walsh had her removed
to a seat outside the rail before he be-
gan to question Holt.
The. sexton answered the Justices
show, of emotion said Guilty" when
asked:
L, How do YOU plead to the charge of
killing your wife yesterday"
the affidavit. of his daughter, Sadie. She
Is a bright-looking little thing, and APP
pears scarcely as old as she Is. She was
dressed this morning in a neat little
civ o IN M g. IT.
was red from crying. looked all the red
der from the large white straw hat
which she wore.
In making her AFFIDAVIT she told Clerk
Neeson the following story Of the muir
Mamma and / were playing church
went, when papa rushed in. He did not
excited.
HI said to mamma: That man on the
other side of Seventeenth street is try
ing to kill me- Mamma saw a revolver
papa and tried to quiet him. She
reached round to his pocket and took the
Papa made a grab for it and took
pointed It at her and fired. Mamms
picked aSfs up the the bread.knife from the
tSEos and sn began gan to ox cut her on the
door, and l was screaming. Mamma
reached the stairs and fell down.
revolver. He shot her twice again. 4
Charles With. who lives just acros,
street. was the man who ran Into tn,
Holts' house.
II ran into the basement" he said thi
the stairs. Her dress was burning.
out the. fire. ! saw Holt. coming out Of
his hand. I bolted for the street. He
Holt, while running through the
street. revolver In hand, was knocked
down and overpowered by Policeman
The Hoits had been married about
twenty years. They had three chill
dren: Thomas. eighteen years; Frank.
The boys were not at home When
their mother was killed.
Holt was formely a photographer, but
Of late years has been the sexton OF the
church Of which Rsy. Dr. Homer e;
to save little money and were fairly
we'll to do. or late Holt has shown evi-
dences Of mental trouble.
He had a dread of burglars. and
trying to poison him.
During the last few weeks he seemed
to think that there was treasure buried
In his cellar: Yesterday morning. he
was dssmf fGT the Of hl M1s T
revealed three bullet wounds In the
breast; The dead woman's throat was
horribly hacked.
Mrs. Holt was about forty years old
Bile work. The arrangements for the fu-
neral have not been completed