The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-07
Hollis EARLY LIFE
STILL A MYSTERY
Harvard Official Who Sees
Him Thinks He Is Missing
Prof. Muenter.
SCARS on BODY TALLY

Whether Holt committed suicide be-
cause he was Muenter and feared iden-
tircation and trial for murder or in or
der TO avoid the consequences OF his at
tack on Mr.. Morgan or whether he ac-
tualiy was insane will only be known
with time. II at all.
II will be recalled that Louis Ling. one
OF the Chicago anarchists, committed
suicide after conviction OF murder by
chewing a cartridge In his cell. The
cartridge exploded. blowing the top OF
his head of The Rev. Clarence V. T.
Richeson. In Boston, under conviction
for the murder Of Avis iAnnell. at
tempted TO hack himself with q knife he
had made out Of tinfoii.
DR.. Guy Cleshorn, County Physician
Of Nassau county. made a physical ex-
animation OF Holt and found several
scars which tally closely with scars or
the body Of Muenter.
This is the most important evidence
pointing TO the identity Of the two
men which a yet been discovered. In
height. weight. coloring and age the
two men are strikingly alike both
have a slight German accent and In
many other ways are similar but the
presence OF these scars IL regarded as
the most positive evidence yet found.
The scars were apparently the result
OF an operation. and they are on the
lower part Of the back. Erich Muentei
had such an operation performed.
AZ things in the Frank Holt-Ericf
Muenter situation stood last might
every one who knew Muenter and who
had seen pictures OF Holt vowed the tive
men we're one. hut those who knew
Muenttr who actually saw Holt were
not so sure. The published pictures OF
Holt all show bandages around his head
and the hair IL rumpled.
Charles r.. Apted. assistant custodian
of buildings at Harvard. went to Mineola
Yesterday. and induced District Attorney
Smith to permit him to see Holt. wher
he came out he said that Holt looked
exactly Ike Muenter would with min
years added 10 his life and the beard hs
wore at Harvard removed. bu; Aptet
said he couldn't be sure that Holt was
Muenter. Assistant District Attorney
Charles ! Wood. who studied German
under Muenter at Harvard in 1906 and
1906. has also said that he can't he sure
Many Points Of ResembIan
Hollis nose. eyes. chin. brow. hal,
and build are exactly like those o.
Muenter." said Wood. but I can't say
positively that he is Muenter."
To settle this point for the Bos,o-
authorities Theodore W. Hitler OF Bos.
ton. who knew Muenter well. lef; Boston
ut J o'clock last night with District At
torney Corcoran. They will arrive a.
Mineola some time this morning. Mayoi
Good OF Cambridge may also come 90
New York. He also knew Muenter and
1t strongly impressed with the likenes,
OF Holt's photograph.
Dispatches from Dallas. Ten. where
Hollis wife and two small children are
living-Mrs. ffolt's FRS, name. Leona. is
the same as that Of the murdered woma
quote Mrs. Holt ms saying that 1t I,
,nconceivable that her husband is Muen-
ter. out she admits that she knows little
of her husbands life before 1908. OFT.
mar Krembs Of Chicago. brother-in-law
Of Muenter, and Muenter's two sisters
are also much impressed by the like
nesses Of the two men. as shown by
Hollis photograph.
Although efforts had been made q
identity FRANK Hoit. j. y. Morgan's as
sailant. with Erich Muenter. a Harvar,
instructor who disappeared after beini
indicted for the murder Of his wife
I.eona. in Cambridge, Mass. in 1906
nothing definite regarding Hollis identit,
or his life prior to 1909 is known.
Holt said after his attack on Mr.. Nor
gan hat he was born in Wisconsin. hu'
he did not say where in that state. ~.
said that his father. of German descent
and his mother. Of French descent. wcr,
born in this country. According to hi,
ather-in-law, the Rev. q. +. Sensa
baugh OF Dallas. Tex. Holt was a gradu,
ate OF the Polytechnic College at For
Worth.
Holt was instructor in German a,
Oklahoma University la09-lO. at Van,
derhilt University la10-ll. at Emor,
and Henry College. Virginia. iail-l3
and at Cornell from 1876. He had
been hired by the Southern Methods,
University for the coming year.
As soon as the photographs and de
scription Of Holt appeared the Bostor
police suggested that Holt might h.
Erich Muenter. about whom the police
had heard nothing since 1905. AT the tim.
NJ his disappearance II was said tina,
Muenter had been born in Germany and
had come to America at the age Of 1.
and had settled in Chicago, graduating
from the University Of Chicago in 1879!
and later going to the University OF
Kansas.