The Elbert County tribune., 1915-07-09


and explosive squad of the New York
City Detective Bureau, Holt confessed
setting the bomb, and described 1t in
detail Il made this bomb" Holt is
quoted as having said. in his confes-
sion, with three sticks of dynamite,
some match-heads and a bottle of sui
phuric acid
Mineola. N. Y. July Frank Holt.
the Cornell University professor who
shot j P Morgan in his home near
Glen Cove last Saturday and placed a
bomb In the Capitol at Washington
Friday night. committed suicide in the
jail here last night.
While several of the Jail authorities
declared that Holt killed himself by
climbing through the opening at the
top of his cell door and then plunging
to the narrow court below. Holt's
keeper said he was positive that the
prisoner was killed in his own cell.
where. he said, he found the body.
Hollis suicide followed an earlier at
tempt when he slashed his wrists
with the metal of lead pencil
There were many conflicting re-
ports as to the manner in which Holt
met his death, but it was definitely es-
tablished. through DR.. Cleghorn, the
jail physician. that Holt died of a frac-
tured skull
Several of those about the Jail said
they heard an explosion, the report
coming from Hollis cell. This noise.
it was believed, was due to the falling
of boards from the top of the cell.
Jeremiah Organ, the keeper who
was detailed to watch Holt, said he
was fifteen feet away from the cell,
when he heard loud report He
looked in the direction of the cell but
it was dark Entering, he found
Hollis body. in pool of blood, in the
corner.
DR.. Cleghorn denied a report that
Holt had killed himself by chewing a
percussion cap. He repeated that
death was caused by a fracture a.
the top of the skull.
An explosion which would have
blown his head off would have fol.
lowed an attempt by Holt to chew a
percussion cap, the physician said
A thorough examination of Hollis
cell failed to disclose. according to the
jail authorities. any weapon or imple-
ments of any kind which Holt could
have used to kill himself.
Coroner Walter r. Jones. after view.
ing the body, said: Undoubtedly q
suicide and undoubtedly the man
jumped
The body was taken to the morgue
in Hampstead. where DR.. Cleghorn
was prepared Immediately to perform
an autopsy.
Dallas. Tex-"We are all terribly
sorry, but there is little / can say.
shall not tell my daughter until to-
morrow | do not care to discuss the
matter further tonight"
This was the statement Tuesday
night by DR.. o. F. Sensabaugh, father
in-law OF Frank Holt. when told that
Holt was dead
Mr.. Sensabaugh said a physician
had told him ii would be unsafe to
tell Mrs II DIT OF the suicide until We'd
nesday
Holt's iather-in-law said no ar
rangement would be made for the
funeral until later
Il told her of the theory that Holt
was really Erich Muenter. who disap-
peared after the mysterious death OF
his wife and my daughter is pros
trated as n result" added Mr. Sensa-
baugh. But | had to tell her all To
morrow we will have to tell her of her
husbands DEATH
Mr. Sensabaugh added that he could
not believe Holt and Muenter were
the same man.
'If Holt really was a man who had
dropped to life's bottom-and I can't
believe It'll take my hat off to him
for the way he came back he added.