The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-05
HOLT is MUENTER.
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bend how much sorrow came upon
us nine years ago when Erich was in
dicted for the murder of his wife.
She believed him innocent at that
time because he was always a good
son, but what she would think now
that he has confessed to these other
crimes 1 dare not guess.
Neither my mother nor Louise nor
have. ever heard word from Erich
since he brought his two little daugh-
tiers to Chicago, April IS, 1906, after
his wife had died from arsenic pois-
oning in Cambridge, Mass. His
daughters, Leona and Helen are now
with their grandmother, Mrs. Moritz
Krembs, 2464 Diana Court, on the
North side.
None of our family will go to Glen
Cove to see our brother or to take
part in his defense. The disgrace is a
heavy enough burden for US to bear
without more. I have been a teacher
in the Chicago public schools for II
years. I do not know shall have the
courage to face my scholars with this
disgrace hanging over me. Fortunate
ly it is vacation time. The school does
not resume until September.
Born in Germany.
Mrs Hughes, the elder sister set at
rest all doubt as to Frank Holt, or
Erich Muenter, being a German by
birth. She said:
This photograph of the man who
shot Mr.. Morgan, the banker. and set
the bomb that exploded in the capitol
at Washington, shows that my brother
Erich Muenter has taken the name of
Frank Holt for years past. We can
not be mistaken as to the identity
Surely we know our own brother. We
knew him when he had no beard on
his face and when he wore a beard.
"AIl our family, father, mother, we
two girls and Erich came to the Unit
ed States from Hanover, Germany in
When we landed in New York we all
came on to Chicago. Our father, Vic
tor Muenter died here in 1893. Erich,
who was about 16 years old when we
came, got work as stenographer and
supported all four of US.
Taught at 4. Q.
I'm 1894 Erich entered the UniVer-
sity of Chicago and worked his way
through college by giving German and
French lessons. He was afterward al
sity of Kansas. In 1902 he married
Miss Leona Krembs in Chicago, and
they had two daughters. Leona is
now IL years old and Helen is ter.
Erich went to Harvard university in
1904 to study for the degree of phi. d.
and for a course in Germany phil
ology. He got an appointment in
structor in German at the university
at 5000 a year. His wife earned S5o
a month teaching school in Chicago
until she went with him to Cambridge
in 1904. She died suddenly at Cam
bridge just as her third child was
about to be born.
II always believed Erich was inno-
cent of the crime of murder, though
I could not understand why he fled
the country. He was a splendid fell
low.
He showed no signs of being err
ratio, though he was deeply inter-
ested in sex problems and at one time
with others he formed a secret So
ciety for the study of medieval mys-
ticism. He never expressed any sym
pathy with socialism or anarchy
There was never any insanity in our
family to my knowledge"
Mrs. Eugene B. Stotts, OF Topeka.
stated this morning that she studied
German under Professor Muenter
when he was an instructor at Kansas
University.