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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
HEAD CRUSHED ON
THE CONCRETE FLOOR
Holt, Morgan's Assailant, Eluded
Guard and Plunged Headlong to
Instant Death.

NEW YORK, July T. = Frank Holt,
the Cornell professor who shot J. p.
Morgan in his home in Glen Cove, N.
Y, Saturday, committed suicide there
last night by jumping from Jail
window to the concrete floor of the
courtyard about IA feet below
Holt was under the guard of Jere-
mlah Q Ryan, Jail attendant. The
prisoner apparently was sleeping sound
ly, and O'Ryan, hearing a noise on the
other side of the cell there, left his
place in front of Holt s open door and
started to investigate. o Ryan heard a
noise, which he said resembled an ex
plosion, and hastily returned to Holt s
cell, only to find it empty. Holt had
.sllpped through the open cell door and
climbed to the top of the cell tiers tC
an open window, through which h,
plunged to the narrow courtyard below
At midnight there was still consid
cradle confusion in the Jail, and con
flicting stories as to the manner il
which Holt was killed were told by
those attached to the institution. Tn,
attendants disagreed as to the plac,
where the body was found. O'Ryan de
Iclared that he was positive that tn,
body was in a pool of blood in the eel
when he first saw it.
! cit sounded to me like an explo
] sion," said Organ, in giving his yer
sion of what occurred. "You will hav,
hard work to convince me that it wa
not. The cell was in partial darkness
as the lights had not been fully turne,
on. Holt had been in remarkably goo,
spirits. He laughed and ioked earle
in the evening That made me suspi
cious.
A thorough examination of Holt
cell failed to disclose, according to tn
Jail authorities, any weapon or imple
ments of any kind which Holt coul
have used to kill himself
Coroner Walter r. Jones, after view
ing the body, said: Undoubtedly
suicide, and. undoubtedly the ma
jumped. cannot give an official vel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
FOUR YOUNG MEN SHOT.
Police Investigate Chichester's Live
Iiest Fourth

CHICHESTER, n. H., July THE
shooting of four young men during an
independence day frolic in this vii
lage Monday night was investigated
by the county attorney yesterday. Do
ran Sanborn was wounded in the tenn
pie and his condition is considered Sc
rious. Three of his companions were
shot in the legs. According to the
youths a shotgun was discharged at
them after they had disregarded the
warnings of Frank Brown, carpenter
to cease annoying him. No arrest has
been made.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
RAILROADS
ASK FAVOR
Three Petition to Be Ex-
cused from AbOlishing
Crossings
HEARD BY PUBLIC
SERVICE COMMISSION
Say Financial Condition Is Such that
They Are Warranted in Seeking Re-
lief Under State Law-Dutton Goes
Over Street Railroad

Attorneys for three railroad com
panies doing business in Vermont APP
tpeared before the public service com
mission at hearing in Brattleboro
lthis forenoon with a petition asking
that the Boston 6 Maine, st. Johnsbury
q Lake Champlain and White River
railroads be exempted from abolishing
grade crossings in Vermont the coming
year. The petitions were based on the
act of the last legislature which pro-
vides that the public service commits
sion may, in its discretion temporarily
suspend the operation of the state law
requiring the abolition of grade cross
lngs upon petition from the railroads
showing that they are not in a finan-
icial condition to comply with the law
The Boston & Maine road showed
that IN the past few years it had ex-
pended between 100000 and $500. 900
IN railroad improvements in Brattle-
boro, that it would have TO expend an
additional amount in connection with
the union passenger station to be
erected in Brattleboro this year bv the
Central Vermont road and that it was
already under orders to abolish two
III 1dl6uOHld county, winch
would be at an expense of about $1S.-
/ 600 to the railroad. 1t showed that its
business had been carried on at a loss
1.-THE past few years and that public
service commissions in other states had
eased up in the matter of requiring
the-rosd to abolish gruJfr -rr.ussfrrs II ffTr
two other companies also showed ad.
verse financial conditions
Thornton Alexander of Boston and
Harry Blodgett of ST. Johnsburv ap.
tpeared for the Boston & Maine and St
Johnsbury Lake Champlain roads.
State S Attorney o. B. Hughes of Brat
/ tleboro appeared for the state in the
absence of Attorney General ii. G. Bar.
Z Der of this town. On account of Mr.,
Barber not being able to be present the
nearing was not finally closed, but was
left so that Mr.. Barber could introduce
more testimony if he desired.
The full commission was present, in.
lcludlng Robert c. Bacon, chairman, OF
, Brattleboro, William r. Warner of Yer.
gennes and Walter B. Dutton of Hard.
wick. Mr.. Dutton went over the Brat
tleboro street railroad in order to note
llts condition before the commission
make its order on the petition recently
brought by Brattleboro residents for an
Improvement in the street railroad ser
vice. The other members of the board
Ialready had been over the road.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
She Will Be Compelled to
Testify in Court as to
Harry's Sanity
SAID SHE COULD
NOT STAND STRAIN
Physician Said She Was Nervous and
That It Would Be Unwise for Her to
Appear-Dddn Want Harry to Go
Back to 'sHell on Earth

| NEW YORK, July "A body at
Itachment was issued by Superior Court
Justice Hendrick today for Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw, who failed to appear to
testify in the proceedings yesterday
relative to the sanity of her husband.
She came down from her summer camp
yesterday and told Deputy Attorney
General Cook that she could not stand
the strain of testifying, at the same
time saying she did not propose to tes-
,tify against her husband.
She left for the Adirondacks last
night.
When the court proceedings opened
today Mrs. Thaw S physician was called
to the stand. He said he had found her
run down and in a nervous condition
and advised it would be unwise for her
to testify.
At this point Justice Henllrick in
terrupted and said if the attorney gen
eral desired that Mrs. Thaw be present
he would issue body attachment. Dep
.uty Attorney General Becker asked
that such an attachment be issued. Mr..
Becker then took up the proceedings re-
sardlng Harry Thaw s mental condi-
ton and read it into records.
Just before she left for Malone Mrs.
ihaw issued the following statement:
= came to New York in answer n =
subpoena issued by the supreme court.
but no woman wishes to testify against
her husband. l brought with me n
Doctors certificate showing that | am
not In fit condition to undergo the or
deal of testifying again. / had no
Intention of offending Justice Hendrick h
when | issued my statement at the
camp.
l do not want Harry to 90 back
ito that hell on earth-Matteawa =
but | do think some kind of restraint
should be placed upon him. / am 90.
ing back to the camp to forget it all. y
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07

SION until an autopsy is performed bv
the Jail physician, DR.. Cleghorn.'' -
The body was then taken to the
morgue in Hampstead, where DR.. Cleo
norm was prepared to perform an an
topsy Immediately. The autopsy is ex
pected to dispose of report current
IN Mlneola Immediately after the find
ing OF Holt s body that he had been
Killed from the outside This was only
one OF the number of reports reaebino
the authorities.
Dr. Guy Cleghorn, the jail physician.
and District Attorney Lewis I Smith
were summoned. DR.. Cleghorn examined
the body and found that the skull had
been crushed and that death had been
instantaneous. District Attorney Smith
searched Holt s cell immediatejv ! ftar
arriving at the jail and found n lettcr
written on yellow paper. This letter.
which Holt must have written before
be attempted suicide early Yesterday
morning, when the pencil with which he
tried to sever an artery was taken from
him, was addressed to "sTo Nv Dears. },
and follows:
must write once more. The more
think about it, the more I see tbe
uselessness of living under circum.
stances such as these. Bring up the
dead babies in the love of God and
man. God bless you, my sweet Affec-
tionately, Frank. p S-AlI please
pardon me for all the heartache | have
brought you. Pray with me that the
slaughter will stop. My heart breaks.
Good -bye.''
Holt admitted to detectives early
last night that he lied when he said he
'TF1 1C + 4ol
acid and match heads, and also that he
d1d not tell the truth about his move.
ments in Washington and New York
Holt made these admissions when con
fronted by evidence tending to show
J that he made the capitol bomb in ;
bungalow which he rented near Mineol;
about 10 days ago. They followed the
positive Identification by Lewis OFT o1
Holt as the man who had rented the
bungalow. Detectives who searcbe,
the bungalow had found numerous bot
ties with corks punctured in the center
small walls and pictures of dozen pub
llc buildings throughout the country
three of which were marked
Frank McCahill, a Mineola constable
who accompanied the detectives in th,
search of the bungalow, said that th,
marked buildings were the New Yorl
'{publlc library and the capitol buildino
at Albany, n. Y, and Harrisburg. Pa
Holt refused to say why he lied in th
first place about the contents of th
bombs and his movements. He refuse,
Ialso to admit that he is the man who
iunder the name of Hendrick, receives
a shipment of 100 pounds of dynamit
lat Syosset, L. l., although George w
Carnes, station agent at that place. las
night identified Holt as Hendrick.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07


GLEN COVE, /. l., July Frank
Holt, who attempted to take the life
of J. P. Morgan, was today positively
identified as Erie Muenter, the Har-
ward instructor who disappeared after
being indicted as the murderer of his
wife in Cambridge, Mass, in 1906.
The Identification was made by S.
P. Smith, state detective of the dis
trict attorneys office of Middlesex
county Mass, Theodore Hitler, an au-
tomobile man of Cambridge, and A. T
Brown, a Boston newspaper man.
The Identification of Holt and Muen-
ter came after the men named had
made careful examination of Holt s
body. His teeth were carefully exam
ined by Smith, who said that the
bridge work in the upper jaw was the
same as that in the mouth of Muen-
ter. Smith said there was no question
in his mind that Holt was the missing
Muenter. Hitler, who lived with
Muenter and who drove him to the
railroad station the night he disap-
peared was positive the dead man
was the former Harvard instructor
Brown, after looking over the body
agreed with Smith and Hitler in their
identification.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
TODAY'S WAR SUMMARY

The force of the Teutonic thrust in
South Poland seems to have ceased
and there is less apparent anxiety on
the side of the allies over the outcome
of the campaign in this region
The latest official statement from
Vienna claims the Austrian advance is
continuing in one part of the front
south of Warsaw. Conflicting claims
come from Vienna and Rome as to the
situation on the Austro- italian front
losses on the Austrians, the repulse OF
attacks and determined assault on the
Italian position and Avostano peak.
The most recent Austrian official
statement declares the Italians have
been on the offensive and have been
.repulsed at several points
In the Caucasus the Russians report
the check of a Turkish attempt at an
offensive
Last night saw a continuance of the
heavy fighting on the western front
The French claim to have repulsed an
attack north of Arras and on the
heights of the Meuse. Near ST. Mihiel
German troops were successful in pen
etrating the line of French trenches
along a front of 700 yeards.
Turkish troops in a general attack
on the Dardanelles expeditionary force
on July were moved down in masses
and failed to drive home an assault
according to the French war office in
a statement issued today.
The statement declares the attack
was the most important since early in
May. A Turkish cruiser in the Dar-
danelles took part in the engagement
Aviators were active, Turkish airmen
bombarding French and British lines
and French and British fliers throwing
down bombs on the Turkish positions
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
SUPERVISOR OF
MUSIC IN SCHOOLS
Prudential Committee Engages Miss
Lucy A. Proctor OF Brookline.
Mass.-Is Soprano Singer.

The prudential committee of the in
eorporated school district has engaged
Miss Lucy A. Proctor of Brookline.
Mass, as supervisor of music in the
schools for the coming year, beginning
at the opening of the school year in
September. She win succeed Miss
Emma j. Gregg of Brattleboro re.
signed.
Miss Proctor has been supervisor of
music in the Barre (Vt.) city schools
the past year, taking the place OF the
regular supervisor, who was away on
year S leave of absence. She has
had much experience as a vocal in
structor in private, having taught in
New York and Boston, and she pos
sesses very pleasing soprano voice.
The engagement was made after an
interview with Miss Proctor, who came
here to meet the committee. She
comes with excellent recommendations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
w. A. Low FOUND DEAD.
hlverslde Stock Food Salesman Vic.
tim of Heart Trouble.

TURNER'S FALLS, July Will
liam A. Low, 81, of Riverside, was
found dead last night on the steps of
his barn. He was a stock food sales
man, native of Chesterfield, N. H..
and had made his home in Riverside
the past % years. He had been away
on business trip and returned late in
the afternoon, and death is thought
to have been due to heart trouble. He
leaves wife and two sons, Henry E
OF Springfield, George I'll. of Orange
and sister, Mrs. D. A. Bascom OF
Riverside.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
TOM TAGGART ASKS
FOR CHANGE OF VENUE
Democratic National Committeeman
Wants Trial Outside Indianapolis
Seven Plead Guilty.

! INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July Z.
Seven Of the 1872 men who are facing
charges of election fraud in the regis.
tratlon primary and election of 1914
pleaded guilty when arraigned in the
criminal court today. One hundred and
thirteen others, including Thomas Tag
CART, Democratic national committee
man, Joseph E. Bell mayor of Indian
aPoiis, and Samuel Perrott, chief of
police, asked for a change of venue
from Judge Collins
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
REPRESENTATIVE OF
GOVERNMENT ARRIVES
Charles r. Marsh Will Have Charge of
Construction of Federal Build
ing in BrattIeboro.

Charles R. Marsh, the government
supervisor who will supervise the CON
struction of the federal building at the
corner of Main and Grove streets. has
arrived in Brattleboro to remain until
the building is completed, which viii be
IN little over a year from now if
present plans are carried out. He is
engaged today in trying to find tempo-
rary quarters. His family will come
later. i''e
Mr.. Marsh has had charge of the
construction of the federal building in
plymouth, Mass, which has lust been
completed. The work in Brattleboro
has progressed thus far satisfactorily
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07

NEW YORK, July Frank Holt
lay dead today in an undertaken s es-
tablishment at Hampstead L. l., and
the New York police had in their pos
session his trunk, containing l34 half
pound sticks of dynamite with which
they believed he planned to wreck
public buildings in New York and
and other cities
An autopsy early today established
the fact that Holt committed suicide
by leaping from rail to the
floor in the Mineola Jail, while the
keeper s back was turned last night.
Walter r. Jones, the Mineola coro-
ner, issued q statement saying: Holt
came to his death by compound frac-
ture of skull and cerebral hemorrhage
caused by fall.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
FOREMAN FALLS 20 FEET
Horace w. Smiths Skull Fractured at
st. Johnsbury.

ST. JOHNSBURY, July 7.-WhiIe
at work on the new Calderwood block
yesterday, Horace w. Smith, the fore
man, fell 20 feet from a wall to the
ground. He was picked up in a semi
conscious state and removed to the
st. Johnsbury hospital, where it was
found he had four broken ribs and a
slight fracture of the skull. He is in
dangerous condition.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
WILSON'S QUIET DAY.
Played Golf on Private Course Near
Summer White House.

CORNISH, n. H., July l.. A golf
match, consideration of official bust
ness and an automobile drive were on
President Wilson s program today. The
golf was played early today on a pri.
vate course near the summer White
House.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

Friday, July 9, p. m.-Union meet
ing of all the women in the town. Mrs
Helen B. Montgomery will speak. Ev,
cry woman is urged to attend.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07

letter yesterday from her husband in
timating that he had planned to blow
up one or more trans Atlantic liners
with timed bombs was made today by
Mrs. Holt 5 attorney here, james E.
Cockrell. Mrs. Holt previously had
denied receiving the letter.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
HALIFAX.

Twelve young people are rehearsing
for the play, Red Acre Farm, to be Civ
en- soon in Grange hall in West Halifax
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07

Excursion to Watch Hill and Block
Island, July 10. See advertisement on
page 5.-Adv. 10S-111
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07
IN ODD FELLOWS HALL.

There will be regular meeting of
Palestine canton Thursday evening,
July s, at 7.30.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07

GLEN COVE, l.. l., July 7.-Extra-
ordinary efforts were being made by
wireless, it was reported here, to de
termine whether a portion of the 100
pound shipment of dynamite sent
Frank Holt at syosset, L. l., wa,
aboard the Cunard line, Saxonia
which sailed from New York, for Liv
crpool July 3.
In letter alleged to have beer
written by Holt to his wife Holt as
serted that either the Saxonia or Phil
odelphia would be destroyed by an ex
plosion July Z.
Announcement that such a letter hat
been written was made by one of th
men who called on Holt Yesterday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-07

DALLAS, Texas, July z. - Admis-
sion that Mrs. Frank Holt received a
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-23
WEST BRATTLEBOR0

Mrs. L. NJ. Allbee has returned from
a visit in Townshend with relatives
Miss Laura Smith, who has been ill
in the Melrose hospital several months
is improving.
w f. Chase has finished work at the
Richardson meat market, where he was
employed as bookkeeper.
Rev. and Mrs. E. s. Harrison and
two children spent the weekend in
Bernardston, Mr.. Harrison preaching
there yesterday.
Miss Donoghue, head nurse in the
Melrose hospital, returned today from
two-weeks' vacation spent at her
home in Holyoke, Mass.
Mrs. Leroy Wilder and son, Richard,
went to her home in Dummerston Sat
urday to visit a few days with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson.
Homer Higley is expected to sail
Aug. % from Panama to spend va
cation Of several weeks here with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles llgley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Moves and son,
Milton, of Darien, Conn, who We're
guests of her sister, Mrs. Ruel Boyd,
q few days, returned to their home to-
| day.
Miss Eleanor Richardson is visiting
here few days with her grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Eleanor Richardson, who Is
spending the summer at her home in
| town.
DR.. and Mrs. G. b. Hunter and
daughter, Vivian, returned yesterday
from two-week s xyisit at his home in
Hon, \. y, making the trip by auto
mobile. They were accompanied by
Mrs Hunter S brother, William Pen
dell of Baltimore, Md, who Joined
them at Albany for visit here.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-23
italy Strikes at Turkey.
springfield Republican,

Italy's declaration Of war against
Turkey, almost precisely three months
after beginning war upon Austria, goes
far to disprove the theory that its part
in the war is limited to reclaimine
Austria s Italian provinces. In this
war, indeed, there is hardly room for
limited participation Italy is lost un-
less the allies win, and the most eff
ficacious way to help them to win may
be to send an army to the Dardanelles.
Possibly 200, 900 men can be spared
for that purpose, and the timing OF the
stroke, coming as it does with the
mobilization of the Bulgarian ermy,
suggests that it is hoped by the allies
that at last the Balkan states will
move.
\ fresh attack on Turkey, applied
at a point where it would most help
the allied forces on the peninsula OF
Gallipoli, would inevitably have q
great effect, and might quickly cleaz
the way for shipping TO Russia the
supplies which she so urgently needs
The moment is intensely critical, and
much will depend upon the events now
taking shape in the Levant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-23

Vermont is being well advertised in the
trip suggested by the Automobile club Of
America, which points out to prospective
tourists the charms of journey from New
York through western Connecticut, the
Massachusetts Berkshires, thence up the
west side of Vermont, through Benning-
ton, Manchester, Rutland and Burlington,
across the state either by way of Mont0el,
Ter or by Newport and Willoughby lake to
LIttleton, \. H., and down the Connect
cut valley via Claremont, Walpole, Brat
tleboro and Northfeld Vermont auto
mobilists who desire short vacation
would gain new ideas about their own state
If they made the trip from their homes
over the course in this state as outlined
'by the influential club. See America
first is popular slogan at the present
time, and the way to start is to see your
own state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-23

By electing Elihu Root president of its
the American bar association
paid high compliment to one of the most
distinguished American citizens, and Incl
dentally reflected credit upon itself. When
Col. Roosevelt was president and Root
was secretary of state the former stated
that the latter was the greatest statesman
OF the present generation. Mr. Root has
turned the 20 mark, but Is still man Of
great energy and activity. He Is possible
Republican nominee for president next
year, and but for the fact that he had been
associated with great corporations before
he went to Washington as 4 cabinet oi'i-
Ger he would undoubtedly have been Sc
lected as Roosevelt's success in the presi-
Dental chair instead of ldlt, who a. tGat
time seemed to be the logical candidate.