The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-07-14
SUICIDE Of HOLT
REVEALS A PLAN
Of His To Blow Up At
lantic Steamers.
A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION
AS Erich Muenter. An AL.
legged Wife Murderer.
Made After Death.
cARELEssNEss OF HIS KEEPER


New York, July S.-The dead
hand of Frank Holt, assassin, bomb
maker and alleged wife murderer.
reached out over the Atlantic to-day,
and menaced with dynamite two
transatlantic liners with nearly l.
900 men, women and children
aboard.
Somewhere on the ocean, Holt
wrote his wife, the liner Saxonia or
the Philadeiphia-he wasn't sure
which--would be destroyed. A dy-
Mantle bomb containing 80 pounds
of explosive which Holt is known to
have received and which has not
been accounted for. is believed
by the police to be the means Holt
had chosen to destroy the ship.
While Holt lay a suicide in his
cell at Mineola. L. l.. where he was
taken after his attempted assassi-
nation of ]. p. Morgan, the wireless
cracked warning over the Allan
tic telling of his threat to blow up a
ship, and the mystery of his life was
cleared away with his positive iden-
tification as Erich Muenter. the al
legged wife murderer who fled Har-
ward University in 1906.
Nothing more dramatic in the last
few crowded days of Hollis life has
come to light than the warning of
destruction that was uncovered af
ter his death. His confession that
he placed the bomb in the Capitol
at Washington last Friday, his at
tempted assassination of ]. p. Nor
gan, the growing belief that he was
Erich Muenter, alleged murderer of
his wife, eliminating in his positive
identification-in death-as Muen-
ter and his sensational suicide by
leaping IS feet from the top of
his cell to the floor formed a series
destruction of the Philadelphia or
the Saxonia fitted as a startling eli
max.
The powerful wireless stations of
the Navy Department were enlisted
in the efforts to prevent the threat
ened disaster at sea. In answer to
the warning there was received a
message from the captain of the
Philadelphia which said that every
thing aboard had been identified and
that all was well. The Saxonia had
not replied. Her failure to do so
was attributed to the weakness, of
her wireless batteries. which could
not, 1t was thought. span the dis
lance from midocean to shore with
out relay.
After an investigation of the cir
cumstances surrounding Holt death.
William Hulse. warden of the Mas
sau county Jail at Mineola. issued
the following statement to-day:
Holt met his death by plunging
from the bars of his cell. He fell
eighteen feet, His keeper Organ,
was in charge of him. and | always
believed that Organ was trust
worthy man. His orders from me
were never to take his eyes off the
prisoner. He was told that II he
wanted anything he should rap on
the bars with club. so that his
summons would be answered by an
other keeper.
I'm running along the corridor
to see what the disturbance was,
Organ disobeyed my positive or
ders. But did not employ Organ;
he was employed by Sheriff Stephen
p. Petit"
Sheriff Petit left Mineola Monday
in accordance with plans made some
time ago for his vacation.
At the undertaking establishment
where Hollis body was taken tele-
gram was received to-day from DR..
o. +. ssnsabaugh. OF Dallas. Tex.
Hollis father-in-law, inquiring II the
body was ready for shipment to Dali
las. District Attorney Smith said
that he had no objection TO the body
being removed to-day for burial. Ac-
cordingly telegram was sent Or.
sensabaugh advising him that ship
ment could be made at once. The