The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-09
HOLT PROMISES TO
TELL WHOLE STORY
Doctors Have Declared Morgan
Out of Danger.
HOLT IN BAD CONDITION
Washington Chief OF Police Says
Prisoner Told Him OF Plan To
Dynamite Financier In
His Automobile.

Glencove, N. Y-Frank Holt, the
university professor who shot j. P.
Morgan, declared that when he is ar
raigned in court he will tell the whole
story of his life, particularly his recent
movements leading up to the placing
of the bomb in the United States Capt.
tol at Washington and his attempted
assassination of Mr.. Morgan. He will
also reveal, he said. where he bought
the dynamite found on him.
Holt made these declarations to DR..
Guy Cleghorn, the Jail physician, add
ing that he was anxious to tell his
story in open court DR.. Cleghorn
said, however, that Holt is in such a
weakened condition that unless the
prisoner shows decided improvement
he may report it inadvisable to remove
him from the Jail at Mineola to the
Courthouse here. District Attorney
Louis ]. Smith, of Nassau county, said
he would be guided entirely by the re-
port of DR.. Cleghorn, and will postpone
the arraignment if so advised.
Mr.. Morgan Recovering Rapidly.
Mr.. Morgan, who was shot twice by
Holt last Saturday at the financier's
home near here, showed such improve
ment Monday that specialists attend
ants announced he was out of all dan
ger. A bulletin to this effect was the
only one issued. 1t said also that the
patients temperature and pulse were
normal.
Mr.. Morgan spent restful day and
members of his family and friends
were very much cheered by his general
favorable condition. At night Mr..
Morgan received W. H. Porter, a bust
ness associate, and Police Commits
sioner Arthur Woods, the latter an old
friend of the family, and chatted cheer
fully with them. Later the two call
ers said Mr. Morgan appeared in the
best of spirits.
The favorable turn in the condition
of Mr. Morgan was in marked con-
trast to that of Holt, whose condition
became so grave that late in the day
orders were given at the Jail that he
was not to be disturbed and that no
one was to be permitted to see him but
his counsel and the jail physician.
Not Erich Muenter, He Says.
Holt helped to discount the theory
that he might be Erich Muenter, the
Harvard professor who disappeared in
1906 after his wife had died, it was
charged, of poisoning. Holt declared
mn y. fnoll hot he h06
in Cambridge, Mass. Holt told this
to T. j. Reidy, New York lawyer.
who visited him and then announced
that he had been Yetained as counsel
for the prisoner. Holt, according to
Reidy, said also that he was in Ger
many in 1906. Earlier in the day Holt
had told Sheriff Griefenhagen that he
could not remember where he was in
that year.
Charles Wood, Assistant District
Attorney of Nassau county who said
he was In the German department at
Harvard in 1906-06 in the same class
with Muenter, visited Holt and then
said that he was unable to identify
the prisoner as his classmate. Mr..
Wood said that Holt appeared to be in
such state of utter collapse that he
thought it best to look at him again,
when he improved, in order to satisfy
himself that he is or is not his former
classmate.
DR.. Cleghorn said Holt was suffer
ing chiefly from lack of nourishment.
His condition has also been weakened.
he said, by loss of blood from the
wound on his head received in the
scuff1e just preceding his arrest.
Holt wrote letter to his wife, who
is stopping with her father in Dallas,
Texas, in which he told her that he
didn't care to live any longer and
hoped she would bring the little ones
up to be God-fearing men and women"