Goldsboro weekly argus., 1915-07-08
IS FRANK HOLT
ONE ERICH MUENTERf'
There Is No Doubt About Holt and
Muenter Being the Same Says
Informer- 1000 Reward
For Him.

Chicago, July 4.-Information point
ing to Frank Holt, the would-be assas-
sin of ]. P. Morgan, as Erich Muenter
a former University of Chicago stu
dent, who disappeared from Harvard
following the death of his wife in
1906, was given to a newspaper hers
today by college associate in Muen-
ter's Chicago days, who says he knew
of Muenter rehabilitating himself as
Holt The informant added that he
had known of him as Holt in Wander
bilt university and Cornell.
The ,informer, whose anonymity was
as saying:
Frank Holt, who shot J. P. Nor
gan, is the Erich Muenter who took his
degree of A. B. at the University OF
Chicago in 1899 and later fed from
Cambridge, Mass, following the death
of his wife, and has since been a fngi-
tive
There is no doubt about Muenter
and Holt being the same man.
"He has kept hidden all these years
through a remarkable rehabilitation
under the name of Holt.
''Muenter was born in Germany, but
since his rehabilitation has claimed te
have been born in Texas of German
parentage. For time he taught Ger
man in a Chicago private preparatory
institution. He also taught German in
Radcliffe college for women.
His wife was German-American
woman, as | remember her. She was
about to give birth to her third child
when her death occurred. Muenter ran
away from Cambridge with the two
children and brought them to Chicago
where he turned them over to Mrs
Muenter7s parents. Then still undetect-
ed by the authorities he went to Mex
leo.
He worked for while in Mexico
City as stenographer. He shaved his
full beard and wore soft hat instead
of the derby he had affected as Muen
ter A reward of 81 900 for his arrest
has never been claimed. While fugi-
tive he issued a review of his case
couched in sarcastic terms and mailed
it to some of his acquaintances.
"Under the name of Holt he showed
up at the Agricultural and Mechanical
college at College Station, Tex, pass
ed the examination there and wat
graduated. He married classmate in
the Texas school and has three chill
dren by her.
"He later taught German in Van
derbi1t university at Nashville, AID
attended Cornell university, where he
obtaind his Phi. D. degree.
"He was elected head of the depart
ment of German of the Southern Meth
odist university of Dallas, Tex, and
was to begin his work there next fall
81 always considered him odd, but
to talk with him you would not sus-
pect his eccentricities.
Muenter's sister, Miss Bertha Muen-
ter, teacher in the public schools
here, who lives with her aged mother
said she never had heard from her
brother since his disappearance nine
years ago.
His poor mother is "a years DID,"
she said. "She has nearly forgotten
the terrible times of his disappearance
in 1906. 1 hope he has not turned up
to bring it all to the surface again"
Mrs. Muenter died in Boston on
April 25, 1906. Only her husband was
present at the time of her death, as
the Muenters did not believe in doc
tors, it was said.
The undertaken was suspicious and
the stomach and internal organs were
sent to Prof. Whitney, of Harvard, for
analysis, but Muenter was allowed to
leave for Chicago with the baby.
Prof. Whitney found traces of pois-
On in the stomach and a warrant was
issued for Muenter Before the Chic
ago police were notified he had dis
appeared.
At Harvard Muenter was instructor
in three elementary German courses
did some private tutoring and prepar-
ed a thesis On insanity in German