New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-08

road station on the night that he left
Cambridge. Both Whitman and Brown
knew of certain scars and physical
characteristics OF Muonter and they
found they were also Hollis.
Whitman was still further convinced
in his identification after talking with
District Attorney Smith Muenter had
q habit of inhaling his breath sharply
while talking He would pause in the
m DIST Of a sentence 10 run his tongue
along his lower lip. MIR Smith remcm-
bered that Holt had the same habit.
An application made b. Muenter for
position as instructor in the Univer-
sity of Kansas was brought along 1t
was compared with the notes written
by Holt in his cell, one OF which was
found after his death. The writing in
the notes was declared to be by the
same hand as that which penned the
application TO the University of Kan
sas.
The story Holt told to Dr. MacDon-
aid Tuesday was sad by District At
tCrney Smith 70 be an additional proof
that he dynamiter was NUcnter. The
cVasiOns and neSltations of the prisoner
were not the evasions and hcsitations
Of q maniac unable TO control his
thought, the prosecutor thinks, but
were cunning attempts to hide all mat
tiers which might connect him with
Eri,h Mlenter
Holt said he was born in Wisconsin,
worked in a store for while and then
went to private school. He went to
Berlin to study, and on his return went
TO Fort Worth University. For time
he taught school in Virginia.
"poODle doUr thorp " he said sneak
ing OF the Virginia school, thought me
crazy because ! made the students work
so hard. But | was not crazy then nor
am ! now. Six months ago, while was
at Cornell the bomb plan occurred to
me-"
In effort to verify or disprove Hollis
story, the records Of the Registrar of
Marriages in Milwaukee County, Wis,
were searched yesterday. No record
was found OF the marriage of Hollis
parents between 1870 and 1888. Holt
said he was born in 1871.
Hollis brain was cxcised yesterday
and will be examined by alienists.
II is not pretty story that those
s. no identified Holt as Muenter have
conjured up Il begins with wife muir
der, planned and carried out with the
perverted notion that thus he would
glimpse feeting soul.
The man thus accused had gold
tooth on the right side of his upper
jaw he walked stopping from the
waist. he bore certain sears on his
body. he sucked in his breath and
licked his lips when he spoke and ne
was a COLLEGE instructor.
When a death certificate was re-
fused MIN i'm Cambridge and discovery
was inevitable, the man fed. He
turned in his flight 10 send back to
his former companions defiance Of
them and Of their world, In every word
of which save his vow Of vengeance
lurked a hdeous humo:. lie fed 20
Mexico. Within a few months he re
TUNED to the United States. craven,
shaking at every sudden hail Then
he married again the daughter Of an
elder in church.
Again he sought employment az
teacher. He worked desperately. per
haps to increase his income. perhaps
to Kill memory with fatigue. But his
brain never rested. whatever the ia
tiGue OF his hody. And always ne was
a fugitive as he put il in his pam
Dhlet, "a wild beast that must be
hunted down and Gagged"
Then came the idea. the idea that
finally made him the subject of the
great experiment and left II for the
gold-capped tooth. the scars. the
stopped walk. the dry lips and insucked
breath, 10 write fms 20 the story.