New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-07
MUENTER'S EYES
NOT LIKE Hollis,
PHYSICIAN SAYS
Reports from Many Points
Tell of Resemblance,
Despite Doctor.
PHOTO IDENTIFIED
BY CLERGYMAN
Cambridge, Mass, Man Adds TO
Links of Identification-Mor-
gan Assailant Shy.

From all over the Eastern United
States reports continued yesterday link
ing the identity of Frank Holt with that
of Erich Muenter, missing Harvard in
structor and alleged wife murderer.
All of them hold more or less firmly
20 the belief that the name by which
the woud-be assassin of J. P. Morgan
is known is merely an alias, and that
he is really the former Harvard in
structor. On the other hand, DR.. Guy
z. Cleghorn, the Nassau County Jail
physician, believes that Holt is not
Muenter.
"Muenter, the missing Cambridge
man, had, according to the descriptions
sent out Of him, brown eyes" said DR..
Cleghorn yesterday. Holt has gray
eyes. | know of no way in which the
color Of ones eyes may be changed.
Therefore | am inclined to think
that Holt is not Muenter. 1t is true
that there are scars Of an operation
upon his body, but that operation is
common, and may not mean anything
in this case"
Charles X. Apted, assistant supern-
tendent OF buildings at Cambridge, who
knew Muenter when he was at Harvard,
ten years ago, visited Holt in his cell
yesterday. The prisoners weakness
prevented Mr.. Apteds questioning him.
but afterward the Cambridge man as
serted that there was a striking re-
semblance between Holt and his former
acquaintance.
1T has been nine years since | saw
Muenter,' Mr.. Apted added, "and
cannot assert positively that Holt is
the man. He certainly looks very much
like Muenter, however"
The Rev. F. NJ. Bennett, pastor Of
the First Unitarian Church at Youngs-
town, Ohio, announced positively to-
day that Holt and Muenter were one
and the same person. Mr.. Bennett
knew the Harvard professor both at
Cambridge and at Lawrence, Kan. lie
has in his possession a photograph Of
Muenter, without r beard, which he
has compared with the newspaper pict-
ures of Holt. To his mind the two men
are identical.
Frank Holt, while French and Ger
man instructor at Vanderbilt Unlyer-
sity, always refused to have his picture
taken. he was never popular in the
university, citizens Of Nashville ex.
planned yesterday, and was therefore
never urged 10 have his picture taken
with any Of the student organizations.
Robert BrAnsford, who knew Holt
when the instructor was his next door
neighbor In Nashville, believes he is
Muenther. He pointed out yesterday
that the instructor displayed many of
the missing murderer's peculisritiss.
when Mrs. Holt was sick" Mr..
Bransford said, "he positively refused
10 call a physician, and expressed his
antipathy TO all medical men. He wore
gloves continually, in college or out"
From Cornell, where Holt served as
an instructor, comes the report that
two Cornell men, whose names are
withheld, were told few months ago
by a Chicago professor studying at
Ithaca, that the instructor was Erich
Muenter. Holt refused to have a ply
sician when, while at Cornell, his wife
gave birth to a child. He also left
town when Professor Kuno Francke, Of
Harvard, came to the university on
visit, and did not reappear until he had
gone.
Silas Smith and Theodore Hitler,
both citizens Of Cambridge, who knew
Muenter when ne was professor there,
leave for Mineola to-day. Hitler was
a neighbor of the Harvard professor
and says that the pictures of Holt
which have been published, closely re-
semble Muenter.