The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-06
Frank Holt, Morgan's As
sailant Tried to Kill Him.
self Last Night
THE GUARD NOTICED
PRISONER IN PAIN
Examination Showed That Blood Was
Flowing Freely-Prisoner Weak and
May Be Removed to the County
Hospital-Mr Morgan Is Improving.

GLEN COVE, n. Y, July Crank
Holt, J. P. Morgan S assailant, who has
also confessed to setting the bomb that
lexploded in the capitol at Washington
lattempted to kill himself at midnight
| by trying to open an artery in his left
wrist with lead penGil. The attempt
was unsuccessful.
! Holt spent restless night. His
keepers had taken from him his belt,
i isuspenders and every other article with
winch they thought he could attempt
suicide, and strict watch had been
| kept on him after several hours passed
without sleep.
Holt called to an attendant and ask
| ed for lead pencil saving he wanted
ito write to his wife. The attendant
fgaye him a pencil and some paper
Within five minutes, as the attendant
was passing the door of Holt IS cell. the
Iguard noticed that Holt seemed to be
| IN pain. He entered the cell and found
| blood flowing from a cut in his wrist.
After the flow of blood had been
| tchecked and the wound bandaged. Off
GERS looked for the pencil and found
it on the cot
| Holt had extracted the rubber erasure
L
rubber in position until the edges met.
/ The result was fairly sharp weapon
with blade perhaps one-fourth of an
inch long. 1t was with this that Holt
mad attempted to open, but apparently
he had not reached, the artery He had
cut vein and from this the blood was
flowing
To questions as to why he attempted
ITO XIII himself he refused to reply. He
was cheered somewhat today by a tele-
gram from his wife in Dallas. Tex.
! The condition of Mr.. Morgan. who is
recovering from two wounds in the left
| hip inflicted by the bullets from Holt 5
revolver, continued to improve 1t was
+ said Mr.. Morgan felt so much better
that he wanted to get up, but was not
permitted to do so. The physicians feel
so encouraged that they will assure no
more bulletins on his condition.
| Holt was considered in such serious
physical condition FROM loss of blood
land refusing to eat that forcible feed
| ing and his removal to the county hos
Ipital at Mineola was considered at
conference of the county officials today.
= have never seen a man in a worse
condition, District Attorney Smith
| said. {" He Is Very weak and | should
not be surprised if he died. / do not
know whether he is trying to starve
| himself or not.
Charles R. Apted, assistant superin-
itendant of buildings at Cambridge,
Mass, who knew Muenter nearly 10
lyears ago, reached Mineola today to
see whether Holt and Muenter was the
same man.
Mr. Apted visited Holt in his cell and
remained there few minutes, but did
not attempt to question him.
| FThere is a remarkable resemblance
/ between this man and Muenter,' Mr..
| Apted said, "but it has been nine
years since I saw Muenter and / cannot
| say positively that Holt is the man. He
certainly looks very much like Muon
+, ter .
Charles R. Wood, assistant district
Iattorney of Nassau county, who knew
Muenter at Cambridge, visited Holt
again today in an effort to establish his
identity if possible. Mr.. Wood was
istill unable to say whether Holt and
Muenter were the same.
| Holt helped yesterday to discount tne
/ theory that he might be Erich Muen-
| ter, The Harvard professor who disap
Ipeared in 1906 after his wife had died,
| it was charged, of poisoning, by de-
claring most emphatically that he had
never been in Cambridge, Mass. Holt
told this to t. j. Reidy, a New York
lawyer, who visited him and then an
nounced that he had been retained as
counsel for the prisoner. Holt, accord
ing to Reidy also said that he was in
/ Germany in 1906.
The evidence that has been accumu
lating to support the theory that Holt
and Muenter are the same was strength
pOpl nv the annoI1Dcamnu+ fadau that
Ian examination of Holt s body had re-
vealed scars which corresponded to the
description received by the arthori
ties here of sears which Muenter bore.
The sears in Muenter's case We're
said to have been due to an operation
Alienists have been asked to come here
and make an examination of Holt IS
mental condition to determine whether
he is sane. DR.. Cleghorn said he be-
heved Holt was suffering either from
lparanoia or dementia praecox.