Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-06
FRANK HOLT !. !. !.
HAS IA TRAVELLED :
UNDER ALIAS
Has Had Varied and Checkered
Career Since Coming to
This Country.
ER1CK MUENTE.R ,.l rS ,,. @Gs =.
,sa.! A:- IS CORRECT NAME
Suspected Of Numbering Wife in
Cambridge Previous to His
=. a.s.oD Disappearance. zrtago9 4
Disappearance

/ Chicago, July 5.--Information point
ing to Frank Holt. the would-be assas-
sin of !. P: Morgan. as Erich Muerter,
a former student at the University Of
Chicago, Who disappeared from Har-
ward following the death Of his wife in
1906, was given to a newspaper, here
today by a college man, an associate
of Mlfnter during his Chicago days,
Irho says, he knew OF Muenter rehabil-
iating himself as Holt and that he
had known,o himEas Holt in&Vander.
bilr university, Nashville, and also at
LCornell. i. ts'Er8l IN r. ~" E#a
/ The informer, whose anonymity was
/ pledged, as quoted by the newspaper
said:
Frank Holt, who shot J. P. Morgan,
is the Erich Muenter who took his de-
gree of A. b., at the University OF
Chicago in 1899 and later fled from
Cambridge, Mass. following the death
of his wife and has since been a fugi'
tive. There is no doubt about Muen-
| Ter and Holt being the same. y
Worked in Mexico.
"He has kept hidden all these years
through a remarkable rehabilitation
OF himself under the name Of Holt.
z"Muenter was born in Germany, but
since his rehabilitation has Claimed to
have been born in Texas of German
Darentage~ For a time hestaught Ger
man in Radcliffe college for women.
"His wife was a pleasant German
American woman as ] remember her,
Muenter's mind ran on sex matters,
| With others he formed a secret organ.
ization for the study OF medieval mys
.ticism. 4
His wife was about to give birth
to her third child when her death cc'
Cured. Muenter ran away from Cam
bridge with the two children and
brought them to Chicago, where he
turned them over to Mrs. Muenter's
parents. Then, still undecided by
the authorities, he went to Mexico.
"He worked for a while in Mexico
City as a stenographer. He shaved
his full beard and ore a soft hat in
stead of the derby he had worn as
Muenter. A reward of $1,000 has new
err been claimed. While a fugitive, he
issued a badly printed review of his
case, couched in sarcastic terms anc
mailed it to some of his acduaintances
Under the name of Holt he showed
up at the agricultural and mechanical
college at College Station, Texas
passed the examinations there anc
was graduated. He married a class
mate in the Texas SCHOOL and ha:
three children by her 4
Glen Cove, july Crank Holt to
day declared that when arraigneG
Wednesday he will tell the whole
story of his life, particularly of recen'
movements leading to placing the
bomb in the National Capitol in Wash
ington and the attempted assassina
ton of Morgan. He will also reveal
he said, where he bought the dyna
mite found on him. Holt made These
declarations to DR.. Cleghorn,. the jai
physician, adding tina; he was. anxious
to tell his story in open court. Cleg
horn said Holt is in such a weakened
condition that unless the prisoner
shows decided improvement by Wed
nesday it will be inadvisable to re
move him from .ne Jail at Mineola tt
the court house here. District Alto.
ney Smith said that if Cleghorn deems
it hes. to postpone the a%rrafgnment
it will be done. J. P. Morgan contin
ned to improve today. so nfirrh a.. that