Middletown transcript., 1915-07-10
HOLT PROMISESTO
TELL WHOLE STORY
Doctors Have Declared Morgan
Out Of Danger.
HOLT IN BAD CONDITION
Warrington Chief OF Police Says
Prisoner Told Him OF Plan To
Dynamite Financier In
His Automobile.

Glencove, N. Y.-Frank Holt, the |
university professor who shot J. P.
Morgan, declared that when he is ar
raigned in court he will tell the whole |
story Of his life. particularly his recent |
movements leading up to the placing |
Of the bomb in the United States Capt. |
tol at Washington and his attempted
assassination Of Mr.. Morgan. He will
also reveal, he said, where he bought
the dynamite found on him.
Holt made these declarations to DR..
Guy CleghOrn, the Jail physician, add
ing that he was anxious to tell his
story In open court. DR.. Cleghorn
said, however, that Holt is in such
weakened condition that unless the
prisoner shows decided improvement
he may report it inadvisable to remove
him from the jail at Mineola to the
Courthouse here. District Attorney
Louis ]. Smith, of Nassau county said
he would be guided entirely by the re-
port of DR.. Cleghorn, and will postpone
the arraignment if so advised.
Mr.. Morgan Recovering Rapidly.
Mr.. Morgan, who was shot twice by
Holt last Saturday at the financier's
home near here. showed such improve
ment Monday that specialists attend
ants announced he was out of all dan
ger. A bulletin to this effect was the
only one issued. 1t said also that the
D patients temperature and pulse were
normal
Mr.. Morgan spent a restful day and
members OF his family and friends
were very much cheered by his general
favorable condition. At night Mr..
Morgan received w. H. Porter. bust
- ness associate, and Police Commits
sioner Arthur Woods, the latter an old
friend of the family, and chatted cheer
fully with them. Later the two call
ers said Mr.. Morgan appeared in the
best of spirits.
The favorable turn in the condition
of Mr.. Morgan was in marked con
trast to that Of Holt, whose condition
became so grave that late in the day
orders were given at the Jail that he
was not to be disturbed and that nc
one was to be permitted to see him but
his counsel and the jail physician.
Not Erich Muenter, He Says.
Holt helped to discount the theory
that he might be Erich Muenter, the
Harvard professor who disappeared IL
1906 after his wife had died, it wai
charged, of poisoning. Holt declared
emphatically that he had never beer
in Cambridge, Mass. Holt told thii
to T. ]. Reidy, New York lawyer
who visited him and then announced
that he had been retained as counse
for the prisoner. Holt, according t.
Reidy, said also that he was in Ger
many in 1906. Earlier in the day Hol
had told Sheriff Griefenhagen that h
could not remember where he was Il
that year.
Charles Wood, Assistant Distric
Attorney of Nassau county, who sal
he was In the German department a
Harvard in 1905-06 in the same clas
with Muenter, visited Holt and the
said that he was unable to identif
the prisoner as his classmate. Nj
Wood said that Holt appeared to be i
such a state of utter collapse that
thought it best to look at him agar
when he improved, in order to satisf
himself that he is or is not his forme
classmate.
DR.. Cleghorn said Holt was suffe
ing chiefly from lack of nourishmen
His condition has also been weakened
he said, by loss of blood from tn
wound on his head received in tn
scuhie just preceding his arrest.
Holt wrote letter to his wife, wh
is stopping with her father in Dalla
Texas, in which he told her that h
didn't care to live any longer an
hoped she would bring the little one
up to be God-fearing men and women