New Britain herald., 1915-07-07
MARITIME WORLD AGHAST AT DEED
 PERPETRATEDB BY FRANK HOLT, WHO
 PLACED DYNAMITE BOMB ON LINER
Mogans Assaan Planned Destroy Either Liner Sxona Philadelphia With Many Souls BoardSucde Positively Identified Erich
 Muenter Harvard Professor Alleged Have Killed His Wife

out over the Atlantic today and menaced with dynamite two trans Atlantic liners with nearly one thou sand men. women and children aboard.
 Somewhere on the ocean, Holt wrote hsi wife, the liner Saxonia or the adelphia--he was not sure which would be destroyed today A dyna- mite bomb, containing thirty pounds of explosive which Holt is known to have received and which has not been accounted for, is believed by the po- lice to be the means Holt had chosen to destroy the ship. 2. $
 Wireless Craclxles Warming.
 While Holt today lay a suicide in his cell at Mineola, L. T., where he was taken after his attempted assassina- ton of J. P. Morgan, the wireless crackled warning over the Atlantic telling of his threat to blow up ship; and the mystery Of his life was cleared away with the positive Identification of Holt as Erich Muenter, the alleged wife murderer, who fled Harvard uni versity in 1906.
 Nothing more dramatic in the last few crowded days of Holt,s life has come to light than the warning of1de-s struction that was uncovered after his death. His confession that he placed the bomb in the capital at Washington last Friday his attempted assassina- ton of J F. Morgan, the growing be- lief that he was Erich Muenter, al- { legged murderer of his wife, culninat- : ing today in his positive Identification lin deathas Muenter and his sem sational suicide by leaping twenty s feet from the top of his cell to the floor, formed q series Of events ot which the threatened destruction of he F Philadelphia or. the Saxonia fitted as startling climax. ,f
 All we'll on PhiIadel pllia
 The powerful wireless stations of the navy department were enlisted in the effectors to prevent the threatened disaster at sea. In answer to the warning there was received today a. nessag ge from the captain of the Phila- delphia which said that everything ahoard had been identified and that all was we'll The Saxonia had not re- piled. Her failure to do so wass at tributed to the weakness of her wire less batteries which could not it was thought, span the distance from mid ocean to shore without relay
 The Saxonia has 324 passengers aboard, of whom 115 are in the ca bins The Philadelphia has aboard ell; in the first cabin 206 in the sec ond cabin 205 and in the steeraa,e 200. s,s
 Navy Department Informed.
 Holt advised his wife of the. inei- dent in a letter which was received ty her at Dallas Texas, on or before s yesterday. This letter, police Com missioner Woods of the New ori City police departm ent, announced today, was taken by Mrs. Holt and her father to a former governor Of Texas The former governor, whose name was withheld, communicated with Major Pullman, head of the Washington, D. C., police force, and Major Pullman at once transmitted the Information to the United tsates navy department.
 The Cunard line and the American line both were notified by Commis- sioner Woods and they also endeav- pred to reach the steamers by wireless
 Heavily Guarded at Piers.
 At both ofices it was said that it would be practically Impossible for any one to pass the many lines of guards at the piers, and to place ex-5 plosives aboard the ships. The Cun- ard line stated that there were six lines of guards protecting it's vessels from intruders.
 Tn Holt's letter to his wife he ad- vised her to watch the newspapers of Wednesday,, July ', ltoday) and she would see just what ne had done.
 Hteamers leaving New York July will be destroyed in mid d-ocean by an explosion, 7 Holt is quoted as hav- Ing written On the margin of the letter there was a pencilled admoni- ton to his wife to say nothing about what he had written.
 Known to Police Yesterday.
 The fact that such a letter had been written by Mr. Morgan,s assas- sin, presumably prior to his attempt on MT Morgan's life, was known to the police at 9 Q clock yesterday morning, but no public announcement was made of it until today, when it's purport was divulged by man who had talked with Holt in his cell for long time yesterday. This man re- fused to permit the use of his name. but because of his standing there was no doubt as to the authenticity of his assertions.
 Three ships sailing from this port to Havre and reaching there last May, It was learned from an authoritative source today, were found to have un- fCsonfiY,1lef efl rr, Tentl pa re