Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-07-07
MORGANS ASSALANT KILLS SELF WITH
 DYNAMITE CAP
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walking up and down outside on the tier The guard went into the cell and found the prisoner almost In state of collapse He had not been able to sleep for four nights and all food that had been offered to him he had rejected.
 '1I want to sleep and I cant" was the agonizing cry that greeted O'Ryan.
 Keep right quiet and maybe you can,' the guard repEct:
 "No, you are all making too much noise," Holt replied ''Piease keep as quiet as you can and don't come near me-"
 This aroused O'Ryan's suspicians, he afterwards said, in view of Holt's attempt on his life earlier in the day and he did not leave the front of the cell for fully half an hour
 In the meantime, Holt was moaning and tossing ambout, and begging the guard to leave him alone.
 Guard Abseints Himself.
 At 10:30 o'clock O'Ryan found it necessary to go 10 the other end of the tier and for five minutes lie was busy at this other duty, His back was toward the cell occupied by Holt. Owing to the prisoners condition he had not been placed in regular cell but occupied ons of the several good sized rooms which adjoin the sheriff's office, where the prisoners especially ear l
 As O'Ryan turned to go back to Holt, he heard what .he says was either an explosion or the fall Of a pile of boards. Half the lights in the place were out at the time, and the tier was partly in darkness. The noise came from Holt's scell ana O'Ryan ran to the door. Only one light was burning inside and that in a corner. In the pool of light thrown by the single electric bulb, lay the body of Holt, doubled up, and from the top of his head, which was shattered, ran a rivulet of blood.
 O'Ryan ran to the body just as the warden, who was upstairs in bed when he heard the explosion, ran downstairs in his bathrobe
 Both men bent over the crumpled heap of flesh onathe floor, and found Holt dead. The upper part of his head seemed to have been blown away and his features were scared and distorted Aroused by the ex- plosion the inmates of the 1af1 were clamoring for an explanation and Warden Hultz told them there was nc explosion; that Holt had committed suicide by diving, from the trellis work at the top of tho ceile tier to the harrow courtyard below and had loos ened some boards in his cell. pr. Cleghorn was notified and word l also was sent to District Attorney Smith. After the body had been ex- amined. the physician gave out the statement that Holt had blown his I head eff, but afterward joined with 1 Warden Huitz and the district at torney in the trellis work story He explained his earlier statement by as- serting that he had only made a nasty
 examination of the body
 l Guard Hears Explosion. Tt would be hard to convince me that it was not a1i'explosion, was the
 statement of O'Ryan, the guard .1
 was only 15 feet from the man when he met his death. When I heard the | noisei entered his cell and looked around for him. 1 found his body lying in one corner. Holt had been very talkative earlier in the evening
 and had asked lie to keep things lquiet because he wanted to sleep" l All was confusion in the jail after the death of the prisoner was discov-
 cred. The authorities rushed around as though they were dazed and it was l impossible to obtain 2 coherent state me11t from any one of them, with the result that there were conflictine stro1es concerning the manner in
 which the crazed man met his death Although the officials at midnight
 stuck to their original story. they
 were investigating an endeavor te discover whether the prisoners death could have been caused by porous
 sisen cap and how he got t. It was I asserted that Holt had been stripped
 andexamined by the jail physician | several times since he had been made prisoner and that his clothing haf l been searched.
 I After his attempt to end his life \ this morning. there was another ex
 am nation of the prisoner and his Icoll. How these examinations failet to discover the percussion cap, if ons
 was used, could not be explained to-
 night.
 Il Officials Become Retieent. District Attorney Smith was thor
 oughly angry at the manner in which Holt's death occurred and was so agi. lated that he would make no state.
 ment.
 l Later in the night pr. Cleghorn ad. lmitted that Holt's head was terribly