Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

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Muentcr-"Frank Holt the man who
shot ]. Picrpont Morgan. and set the
bomb that exploded in the capitol at
Washington,
Muenter's mother-in-law. Mrs, Jo-
ANNA Krembs. and his sistcr-in law.
- Mrs. Louise Krcrnbs Creamcr. who re-
stdes at 2s4 Diana Court. when shown
8 photograph OF "Holt" taken in the
Il Jail yard at Glen Cove. l. l.. said to-
!, night:
THAT Is Erich Muenter, who mar
r!ed and murdered our Leone"
:, This makes four women III Chicago.
all relatives of Nlucnter and knowing
him intimately for years. when he was
without a beard and mustache. and
after no had let them grow. who have
identified the photograph OF MorEan's
assailant. and who declare that Erich
Muenter and Frank Holt" arc one and
the same. They are:
Mrs Joanna Krembs. widow of Nor
itz Kremhs. ana mother OF Leone
Krenlbs Muenter. first wife OF Erich
Muenter, who was murdered with ar
senic in 1900
Mrs Louise l<yemhs Cramer, widow
Of Walter II Cramer. and sister-in-law
of Erich Muenter
Miss Bertha c Muentcr. teacher in
the Mann public School. younger sister
of Erich Mucntor.
Mrs. Louise Muenter Hughes, wife oc
Arthur f. Hughes. OF Los Angeles. elder
sister of Erich Mu"nter, now visiting
her sister, Bertha
Mrs. kremhs. who is siXtN-seNen
years az a-e, and white haired. took the
photograph OF Frank Holt in her
hands and looked at il long and earn
estly. Tears came 10 hcr eyes rs she
returned H. saying
Yes that is Erich MUenter, ! have
seen him scores OF times when he looked
like that. That was when he came
counting INV daughter, Leone five years
before they were married He had no
beard or mustache in those days. lie
grew them later. Ills chin. his mouth,
his eyes. his nose and the general cN-
preston Of his face were the same as
in this photograph
DlSTRUSrED HIM FoR YEARS
BEFORE HIS MARRIAGE
In speaking of Nucntcrs career in
Chicago. and his treatment OF the fam
lily. both mother ana daughter declared
they had disliked and dstrustcd him
years before his wife Leone died Of
poison. and even before he married
her They told Of n previous attempt
that he made in 1905 10 Kill! his wife
and baay daughter by turning on the
gas.
Erich Muenter was not worthy of
my daughter said Mrs. Krcmbs.
Leone was school teacher in the
Arnold and Schiller schools. She be-
came engaged to Mucnter before we
knew OF it, and We opposed her mar
riase 10 him rs strongly rs we could.
They got married at the residence of
~ I,n,1 .,s4r ~ of No re
Church. and neither ] nor my sons or
other daughters We're present.
After they were married Leone had
to keep h"r position IN school 10 help
support the household, a. Muenter did
no; earn enough by his tutoring.
When they had been married about
two years he tried To kill Leone and
her baby. little Helen. by turning or
the gas They were then living AT
$500 lnglcside Avenue. in fiat with
Professor John N. Grove and Mrs.
Grove Muenter turned ON three gas
jets in the room whore l-coue and her
baby were sleeping early on" after
noon, closed the windows and doors,
and went out. Tie lady In the fat
below smellcd gas. burst into the room
and found my daughter and the infant
nearly suffocatcd. Meanwhile Mucnter
sat on the porch calmly smoking lie
never explained why he turned on the
sas jets in daylight
The year before he Went to Ifar-
ward and for one year after he went
there, Leone continued TO teach in the
Schiller school Then In his second
year ~ Harvard, she went to him at
Cambridge. His behavior when he
came back to Chicago in April 1905.
Z after Leonc's death. bringing his two
little daughters was Very strange.
When We asked him how she came TO
die, and what doctor attended her. he