The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-11

and persecution OF the law, which
par so brightly and painfully re-
fleet, has branded me as a criminal. In
the eyes of all who read the atrocious
accounts In the daily papers ! am a
brutal murderer. "A thing TO be despised
and shuddered at. an outcast OF society,
an enemy OF the community, a wild
beast that must be hunted down and
be either killed or Gagged up, for the
safety of the community
The lesson you teach me l will exc
cute and it shall go hard. But I will
better the instruction. Without knowing
whether I was innocent or guilty you
have reviled me, you a cast me out.
II | do not strain every nerve to get
revenge. the bloodiest. the most brutal
kind Of revenge, let me never prove my
innocence to you. My only witness ia
dead. Hence. IL | could annihilate all
of Chicago and Cambridge al. one blow.
that would be the thing 10 do. You wish
TO annihilate M. 1 must ann!hilate
you"
And yet. IL he held to that fierce and
lethal plan. he was "A long time carrying
It to execution. m closing years of
his strange creature who dreamed NO
weirdly and who acted so violently In
the final days Of his life were placid
and commonplace beyond belief. He left
Mexico city because his lungs were weak
and he could not stand the high alti-
tude.
There is something Of a hiatus here,
a few months IN which his move
ments have not been accurately traced.
but he appeared early in 1870, at the
Agricultural and Mechanical College at
College Station. studied chemistry and
mechanics there. went to the Polytech-
mic University in Dallas and was grad
uated in 1905. Nobody seems to have
considered II remarkable that this man
Of u~ndoubted atta!nments and 50 much
older than the other students should
have taken the trouble to enter for
courses Of study NJ the little Texas insti-
tuition. Muenter seems to have been the
sort of person who could do the most
unusual things without attracting es-
pecial notice or
WEEDS Minister'S Daughter.
II was at the Polytechnic that Ina
became acquainted with Miss Lcona
~Sensahaugh. a daughter Of the Rev,
q. i. Sen~sabaugh OF Dallas. u presiding
elder Of his church. a member of a
prominent family. The S~ensabaughs
were widely know and highly respected
After leaving the Polytechnic he taught
German at Oklahoma University and
in 1910 married Miss Sensabaugh al
Amarillo, Tex. The marriage was ap.
proved by the family. They mad com
to respect and admire the quiet. wei
bred teacher OF German. They liked
him for gifts of heart, AS well as OF
mind.
Even after he was arrested here fol
his attempt on the life of Mr.. Morgan
and II had become known that he hat
tried to blow up the Capitol and wa.
concerned probably In a plot to terroriz
officials and citizens who refused I,
submN to German pleas or threats tn,
Sensabaughs warmly defended anc
praised him, II was unbelievable. the,
said, that their Frank Holt could hav,
done such things. Their knowledge .
the man as a gentle. affectionate hus
band and father and as an indefatigahl,
student and teacher was totally ~inconsis
tent with the stern facts of Hoits Grim
inality, and even now his tombstone /
to have the simple inscription "Franl
Holt"
In 1910 and 1911 he taught Frencl
and German at Vanderbilt University
Fol the next two or three years h,
taught at Emory and Henry college
In Virginia. In 1913 he went to Cornell
and studied for the degree Of docto
OF philosophy, an honor which he wo,
with ease. He received appointment
Tor one year as AN instructor In tn,
German department, and his term ha,
, just expired when he came to this cit,
to develop his plans of violence. Hi
work AZ student and teacher was char
acterized by faithful application an,
capability.
. Generally, he was well liked. Man,
thought him peculiar in his ways, AN,