New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-10
Supervisors Angered by
Laxity of Gpard-Prose-
CutOr Not to Act.
COTTAGE LANDLORD
GETS DEATH THREAT
Schiff, Doubleday, Swan and
Others Ask Special Protee-
ton for Estates.


in inQuiring into the carelessness which
made possible the suicide of Erich
Nuenter, alias Frank Holt, has reused
the Board OF Supervisors to wrath
Since District Attorney Lewis ]. Smith
has washed his hands of the matter and
has refused to place the blame for the
dvnamiters death upon any one, the
hoard has determined TO hold an in
vestigation Of its own into the condi-
lions which existed in the Jail
The District Attorney has refused to
co-operate with the board in this move
and has asserted that it has no au-
thority TO act. but the laxity of the
Guard which was kept over Holt has
aroused public sentiment in Nassau
and the supervisors will meet to-mor-
row to try TO place the fault Were 1t
belongs.
Philip J. Christ. Of North Hampstead,
chairman Of the board. said yesterday
that since he and his associates au-
thorize the expenditures of the county
they believe that they have the right Of
inquiry into how their appropriations
are spent. lie pointed out especially
that two years sco i was called to
the attention Of the board that keepers
i'm the Jail were forced TO work twelve
hours a day. At that time money was
voted for the hiring of two more keep
ers and an eight-hour shift installed.
The board now wants TO know why
Jerry Organ stood guard twelve hours
over Holt.
II also wishes an explanation Of the
fact that while other prisoners were
kont behind locked doors Hollis cell
was open. The accusation OF laXlty and
carelessness aimed at Nassau County
oficials by the New York papers in
commenting upon Hollis death has been
responsible for the srousal of the
boards indignation.
Residents Ask Protection.
Fearing that the attack upon J. p.
Worgan nav be duplicated upon them,
various wealthy residents Of Nassau
circulated Yesterday petition 10 the
BOARD OF Supervisors, demanding that a
county police be established 70 guard
them and their homes. Among the
sicners are Mortimer /. Schif, who
ov,,s a country home at Syosset; Frank
y Doubleday. summering AZ oyster
Bav: Commodore William J. Swan and
MANY other owners of extensive estates.
Some criticism already has been di-
rected al the petition, the average tax
nsver being unwilling TO have his as
easements increased for the beneht or
q few wealthy persons. 1t is not known
vet what action the supervisors Will
take in the matter.
There was a fur Of excitement TO-
dav in Nassau when Lewis OFT, VINO
rented 70 Holt the cottage at Central
Park where the dynamlter prepared his
explosives, received a letter threatening
him with death unless he kept silent.
The communication is written upon a
sbeet of brown paper in an excellent
hand, and is embelllshed with clear
sketches Of a lighted bomb, a heart
with dagger thrust through II and
black hand. Ii says:
beware. you are going too far.
Frank Holt owed you nothing, you
sucker We viii get you if you don't
keep quiet, yet. You can't be much OF
a German or anything else. Tell dem
other yaps this morning. II this Is
published in the papers or you try TO
have it traced, you Will be among the
missing. The war must be stopped. so
beware, beware"
Although both Sheriff "Steve" Petit
and Warden Hulse of the Nassau Coun-
Nv Jail are absent on their vacations
the inouest into the death of Frank
Holt was held yesterday in Hampstead
before Coroner Walter R. Jones.
Holt Was Not Shot.
The fact that Holt was not shot, but
died from a fractured skull and cere-
bral hemorrhage, was the chief point
brought out by the investigation, which
was otherwise formal, with O'Ryan'
testimony furnishing the only pictu-
rescue note.
lie told Of his vigil over Holt on the
last night of his life. of how the would
be assassin of J. P. Morgan moaned
"Oh, / want to sleep so badly" and OF
how later he peered into the cell and
said 70 himself, Gee, he's in a nice
sleep"
"Then ! heard a little noise and said
Gee. he mustn't be walked up and went
away to quiet it,"
The witness related Of how he heard
what sounded like pistol shot, and re-
turned to Hollis cell TO find it empty
and the prisoner lying twenty feet fur
Their along the corridor, with his head
in pool of blood. When it was sug-
gested tina. O'Ryan might have slept on
duty, he denied this Indignantly.
c. +. Cornell. the undertaken, testi-
fed briefly that the wound in Hollis
head was not a bullet hole.
At the suggestion Of the Assistant
District Attorney the inquest was then
adjourned until July Is.
NHININEuHuh ETDEn