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WILSON REP
WARNS BERI
Cables Gerard C?
promise Not Acce
able on Lusitan
Issue.
GERMANY SOU IN
OUT OFFICIA
Seeking Clew to Acce
bility of Conditions 1
fore Commitment.
SEES PLAY FOR Tl
Waiting for U. S. Note to Br
to \\d Contention, Wash
intfton Believes.
? BMNSII 1
v\aah : n<?*? July '"'? Prei
aen hi ???fused to compre
with thi Merman government ir
Luslt?: ia ?"fine er to yield any o
poin'< he has insisted ii
two no'e? sent by thi* governt
This was the interpretation place
hit } r to Ambassador
ard's ? isage of to-day, n
:? underi i have contain??
the German proposals t
cmbo-, forthcoming repl
ths American demands.
tasador Gerard has been in <
touch ?erman Foreign C
for twn weiN?. During t;
effort has been made to sound the
d States writh a
to propos'.rg a conditional recogni
of the American demands. Offl?
e Preside] I
entertain sny proposal looking to
or compre-.
lausediately on receipt ol
? ? ? ? ce from Ambassador <
?rd Secretar*? Lansing t?l?graphe,
?he. President, who i
hack a cipher reply within a few ho
prompt response is ta
?o indicate that the message contai
lions co
be ?cc?
sa on th?
? government to Gen
?
n:gh seas of a'.! American? boi
ful errands and th?
of the established rule? of mariti
wtrfere When **hts of Americi
?? ? It is declared inc
? tust President Wilson sho
? any part of these demand?
permit them to be conditioned on act
b] any belligerent.
Tning to >ound America.
the American government bl
? rm is regare
? . conciliate tl
nstion, and officials expect h?
mark sn advance toward a sat.stactc
adjustment of the problem confronti
the governments, Officials do not i
liaee, ' at Germany will u
?:er en* eirenmstanees offer to aband
submar.ne warfare, as they point o
this e lid arouse German public opi
?at, whatever the military value of su
opara*
Th* note * not yet romple'e, it
?hough*, but embodies thus far on
eertais -.rein points on which the tv
ents have up to this time be.
st wide rariaaea. Ambassador Gerarc
manare 'ndieates. officials think, a d
Bits of the Foreign Office to proloi
' its contents before su
mitt-ni* It m final form.
Irfor*ral exchanges preceding a no
rs unusual, and in mur
quarter? It la thought the German Fo
e;gn Off?,. ? uncertain concerning t)
fhsrae'er of the note, with various n
finances at work at cross purpos?
d the German naval author
, re at odds with the diplomat
? ? favoring the latter.
N.-tr Kx. pec ted Next Week.
?" ? xpeetation that th
eived here before th
"id k. (?fficials, though ?
snt of the delay, are begil
?hil.it irritation at ?
? nunts. B> some it )
? ermany i? deliberate!
I tu forre the I'nited State
'?rent Hritnin its propose
??tir.g against m'erference
reply to this government'
was doing to indue
lin to conform to eMabli'he
respect. The American gov
el it be known then that n?
' th? two cases would b?
but lt is assumed German:
n understanding of th'
ie toward (?rent Brit
g its reply.
many proposed througl
i Gerard to-day ha?? no
. ulged Secretary Lan
aid nut be proper foi
?? Germany's poaitior
.' authorization from the Berlii
-.thai
there had been no exchange of riewi
er informal negotiations between Ger?
many and the I'nited States, and de
' to predict whether there woulc
Kaiser Approves Draft.
?i Berlin dispatches and from
authoritative sources here it is learned,
however, that the note, as drafted by
the German Foreign Office with Fm
peror William's approval, would five
assurances that Americans might tra\el
safety on the high sea? on e?
conditions imposed by Germany, such
?? 'he marking of'belligerent vessels
carrying Americans, notification by ?he
I'nited States to Germany of the date
?f departure and character of such ems
?els, and an inspection insuring their
ion-carnage of munitions of war.
President Wilaon has before him ?he
views of g?rerai Cabinet officers, some
?* whom believe it is cv.-.?n?ial to have
Aoabss'adnr Gerard make clear to the
t**turned on page ?1. cuiiuua S __
r
Secret Base for U-Boats
Planned on Canada Coast
Troopships and Munition Transports Would Be Special
Targets for Sea Prowlers Lurking Under Rocks of
Islands North or South of Newfoundland.
Germany plan- to cnrrv her suhma- i
?nrfarc into Amfrrrnn writers, ae
?serdiBg to a reserve officrr of the (?cr
man navy, ?'ho is understood to be
ropi liant of the intention?, of (ireat
Admiral von Tiroit-, ?hirf of Staff of
Ttnan Admiralty. The plan ai
? H provi.lf. for the establish
ment of submarin?? bases off the Cana
' (.iin eonst with a view to sinking every
.vessel leaving Halifax and Quebec for
lh pot's
The scheme can he carried out. the
Germans are sure, without any ques?
tion arising as to the legality of the
or the violation of the Mon?
roe Doctrine. The latter will not be
effected, It ;s pointed out, because it:
enr he shown thai the establishment
of such bases would be in the enemy's
r y and would not be done with
a view to territorial conquests. Also '
no question of the neutrality of tha '.
States would be involved.
In well informed (?enriar circles ru?
mors of an important submarine cam- \
rn'p- against contrabard laden ships
have bean rife. It has been generally
k"own 'ha? von Tirpitl has bent all
hii energies to devising methods by
his undersea fleet can prevent
th? great quantities of munitions
??hipped from Canada to England from
nachitig their destination, it is freely
iiilmitfed also that German** is loath
ih another such controversy with
trc United Slates as that brought on
by th?? Lusitania affair.
1
Plan Logical, Say Experts.
Thnt the German plan is not only
I but comparatively simple il
cone? ?led by Simon Lake, president of
ake Torpedo Boat Company, of
Conn. Officers of the
State* submarine service think
i? ?I the logical step for Germain- to
tfike. " I
Further. United States naval officers [
ill command of war vessels say that
JOHN BULL TURNS
SALOONKEEPER
British Government to Retail
Liquors in Districts Turnini*
Out War Mateiial.
London, July 6. Under the powers
conferred by the Peftnce of the Realm
act the British government to-day, by
an Order in Council, decided to take i
over ?he control of the sale and supply !
of intoxicating liquors in many dis- ?
trie's where war material is being i
made and loaded or otherwise dealt
with.
The districts affected include the
city of Bristol and surrounding towns,
Avonmotith, N'ewhaven, Southamp?
ton. Newport. Cardiff. Barry, Barrow
ir.-Furnoss, Liverpool and adjoining
towns, and most of the munition and ;
shipbuilding centres in Yorkshire.
Members of Parliament of all parties
have undertaken a campaign to thank
the employers and workmen in mu- |
r.ition contracts for the work they al- :
ready have done and to urge upon them,
the vital importance of turning out as
groa? a quantltv of munitions as the ?
country i? capable of producing.
BRITISHERS FOREGO
THE "KAISERS PINT"
Royal Dragoons Get No Beer
from Emperor to Celebrate
Waterloo Day.
London. June 28. For almost a een- :
i fury the l?t Koval Dragoons, of whom ;
the Kaiser was colonel in chief, hav?
celebrated the anniversary of the bat
tie of Waterloo bv toasting the health j
of the F'mssian monarch in a pint of j
beer provided bv his imperial majesty. ,
but the old custom was broken thit '
year, and there were no cries of "Hoch,
hoch, the Kaiser! "
On several occasions, the last at
eliffe. in 1?-04, the Kaiser has at?
tended in person to go through the
' annual ceremony of addressing 'he
? regiment on parade, t?r??-?nting it with
a laurel wreath to ???l?brate the vio
torv won side bv side with the Prus?
sians, and entertaining the m?n with
th" time Honored pint.
On other i he has been rep?
resented bv the German Consul of 'he
town in which the dragoons happened
tied.
SULLIVAN ASSAILS
ANTI-SALOONLEAGUE
General Miles. Who Wouldn't
Speak. Shouldn't Be Jealous
of Him. Fighter Says.
H. T.->i?a; h ??' 'I ' ' '?
Atlantic City, July 8. Several day
ago General Nelson Miles, former com- j
mander of the Cnited S?ates Army, de?
clined to occupy the same platform
with John L. Still.van. of roped ring
fame, when invited to attend the open
,,f the National Ann Saloon
; League, which held its first meeting on
the $1,0.1(1.(1110 pier to-night. Sullivan
heard of this yesterday, and irnme
1 diatelv wired ?he following:
"New York City, July 6.
"Chairman. Ai.ti-Snloon League:
"I have no desire to address a con
I vention of bigotry and narrowminded
ness which holds sway with a pre?
tence of ?ioing Rood, and which is pre
i sid.?d over bv an arrogant, prejudiced,
self-centred, strutting old peacock now
in his dotage. I have never been teaL
| ous of any fiffhter. so why should
oe iealous ?f me
?"lours for temperance ..
"JOHN I. SI LLIVAN.
Bat Oeneral Miles has not arrived at
' Ue convention yet. ?
I there is little that could be done i
I thwart the Germans. The only meth
i ode that could be employed, they say
an embraced in the use of destroyer
and aircraft, neither of which ha
proved highly effective.
Germans who profess to be aware o
the intentions of the Admirnltv derlar
that there ir no doubt th.it the cam
raign will be under way very soon an?
ate certain that it will succeed. Mor.
than that, they see no objection t?
talking for ths reason that they ?I?
not believe ?hat Fngland ran preven
the consummation of von Tirpitz'i
pirns, however much the Rritish Ad
miralty knows about them.
Since the beginning of the war. an?
especially since the establishment 11
Februar} of a wnr zone around thi
British Islet, by G ermany, the bulk o
arms and other munitions of war har
been shipped via Monteen! and Quebec
This has been particularly true o
shipments of wheat, horses and mules
Since the I.usitnnia was sunk man;
business men of the United States bavi
preferred routing their product;
through ('annda to shipping them m
steamer? leaving ports in this country
To Sink Troop Ships.
Another feature that has made th?
Germans especially desirous of sta
tionir.g submarines off Canada is th?
opportunity that would thus be of
lorded of sinking transports conveyinj
Canadian troops to Fngland and France
Information gathered by The Tribun?
indicates that the campaign, ?her
started, will be conducted along th?
following lines:
A flotilln, of the largest and most
powerful Germnn submarines will be
sent across the Atlantic Ocean U
blockade the two principal steamship
routes between Canada and Furope
The shortest route leads through the
Strait of Belle Isle, which connects th?
Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic
The other great waterway is through
? abot Strait, which separates New?
foundland from Nova Scotia.
Those who profess to be in posses?
sion of this new plan of the German
Admiralty point out that the latest
type Germnn submarines have a cruis
ing capacitv of at least 0,000 miles.
They say that it will be possible for
Continued en pa?e 4, column S
POSTERS DOWN FOR
LACK OF MONEY
Billboard Protests of Women's
Strict Neutrality Organiza?
tion Fast Disappearing.
Efforts of the "Organixation of Amer?
ican Women for Strict Neutrality" to
arouse citizens to protest against the
exportation of munitions of war are
evidently failing. The posters which
have covered the billboards of the city
for a month are beginning to dissp
pear. Sufficient funds were not con?
tributed by those interested in the
cause to rent the valuable advertising
space any longer.
Already several of the posters on
Riverside Drive have been pasted over;
on Broadway, out of seven in one lo
cality only two remain, and the bill
g companies are using the space
for other patrons. No more can be
poste,-! until the organization will have
collected the money necessary to rent
the ?pace
The committee of clubwomen, led by
Ml George De Witl Moulson, who pe?
titioned Mayor Mitehel to have the
posters removed as bring misleading
and detrimentil to public morals, were
delighi??! last evening that their fight
was won througn ?he lack of pecuniary
munitions of their opponents,
Space on the boariis had been leased
for one month from .lune 1 to July 1.
The pioclamatmi, called .ipon Ameri
C ?n . itixena to ' uphold the noble efforts
of the President by urg.ng * ongress to
empower him to prohibit the export of
arms and ammunition." The New York
clubwomen declared that the movement
was backed by German funds.
Baltimore, July 6. Miss Nellie Mil?
ler, presiden'., of the "Organir.ation of
American Women for Strict Neutral?
ity," stated this evening that the dis?
appearance of ?lie posters irom the
New York billboard? was not due to
any action of the municipal authorities,
but to the expiration of the leases. She
intimated that the organization was
sorely in need of funds, and expressed
the hope that enough money could be
raised to enable the organization to use
?he poster? once more.
POLICEMAN IN WAIT
HIT BY SPEEDING CAR
One of Machines for Which He
Was Watching Knocks
Cavanaugh Down.
His skull frac'ured and his bicycle a
wrick. Patrolman John B. Cavanaugh,
of ?he Kint'-briuee station, was found
last night unconscious on Sedgwick
Avenue, near Kmgsbridge Road, bv
Edgar !.. Kirh?,. an architect, of 160
\\ i -,{ Tremont Avenue. The Bronx,
while driving with hi? wife in an auto?
mobile.
The headlight picked up the proa
tra'.i bodv of the patrolman just in
time for Mr. Kirbv to throw on the
I nikc? and bring his car to a halt be?
side it. With the aid of Mrs Kirbv
he lifted Cavanauirh into his car and
sped for the Kinesbridge police sta?
tion.
There first aid treatment brought no
results and Mr. Kirbv made another
fast trip with Cavanaugh. this time to
the Fi.rdham Hospital. It was found
'hat the patrolman was seriously ?n
i u rod.
Cavanaugh i? fortv-three vears old
und lives at .IlL'T Se Igwich Avenue It
is thought that ore of the speeding
automobil"? for which he was keeping
wat h came upon Cavanaugh unawares,
howled h'm over and sped on without
pauMnir to 'nquire into the damage
dore Detectives mere sent to the
?pet *o -re ?hu? '-ares 'he car m?rht
ha\e left.
WAR OFFICE POST
FOR DUKE OF TECK
London. Julv ??. The Puke of Tack,
brother of Queen Mary, has been ap
pointed temporary assistent military
lau.Ur' at the \?ar Office.
RILEY ATTACKS
OSBORNE AFTER
SEEING WHITMAN
The Prison Superintendent
Gives Lie to Warden and
Repudiates Reforms.
SHIFTS BLAME IN '
TRANSFER TROUBLE
Lays Doubling Dp System at
Sing Sing to Obstinacy of
Subordinate.
(Bt T?l?fT?rli te Th? Trlbunt 1
Albany, July ?.John B. Riley, Su?
perintendent of Prisons, gave the lie
to Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of
Sing Sing, to-day.
"The statement made by Mr. Osborne |
in a speech at Ardsley on Saturday,"'
said Mr. Riley, "that when he took
charge at Sing Sing keepers brought in
draga and whiskey and they could be
bought by any of the prisoners is un?
true. It is a gross slander upon a
body of men who are, upon the whole,
honest, capable and efficient officers."
With the head of the prisons of the
state calling the warden of the state,
prison for the metropolitan district a
tallar of untruths, it is thought that
Governor Whitman will soon have to
act in the interests of efficiency. As
Mr. Riley's statement was issued aft^r
a conference with the Governor, few
doubt where th? Chief Executive's sym
pathies lie. Steps looking toward War?
den Osborn?. 's remOTa) are momentarily '
expected.
No sparks flew from Mr. Osborne
when he wrni told of the statement.
Although the Prison Superintendent
implied throughout his statement that'
the present warden of Sing Sing hnd
been taking credit for reforms estab?
lished before his time and had been
continuing the "barbarous practice" of
putting two prisoners in a single cell,
Mr. Osborne decided to read the whole
attack carefully before making any re?
ply.
"There's i.o friction on my side," he
declared. "Further than that I jn i
make no statement for publication un- '
til I read what the dispatch from Al?
bany contains in to-morrow's papers.
Ther, if it warrants it, I may prepare a
statement for the press."
That Warden Osborne is willing to
fight for hi? "boys," even to the extent'
o? risking his ow n position, is brought'
out cicarlv by Mr. K?ley himself in nis
description of the differences arising
from the transfer of prisoners ordered :
by himself.
"He (Warden Osborne )," says Mr.
Riley, "informe?! me that if I persisted
in arranging for the transfeis he would
resign."
Superintendent Riley's statement is
as follows:
"The statement made by Mr. Osborne :
in a speech at Ardsley on Saturday,
thnt when he took charge at Sing Sir.?
ra biought in drugs nn?' whiskey ?
and they could he hough? hy any of
the prisoners, is untrue. It is a (tross
slander on a body of men who are, upon
the whole, honest, capable and efficient '
officers. If it were true Mr. Osborne
should have discharged the guilty offl
cers and reported conditions to me. ,
He has done neither. More than a i
year before he took charge I made a
thotough investigation and found sev?
eral officers were guilty of such prac?
tices. They were immediately dis?
charged. Prisoners addicted to the use
of drugs were transferred to Clinton
and Auburn. Dr. Farr, the prison
physician, will verify my assertion.
"Mr. Oshorne's intimation that he
was not ?T.nsulfed in selecting men for ?
transfer is unfounded. All transfers {
made prior to the last two were from ?
lis's submitted by him. He was re?
peatedly urged to submit names for ;
these, but failed ?o do so. He was ,
urged to co-operate with my represen- .
tatives in making the last two drafts, i
but refused. After orders for these
transfers were issued he suggested ?
changes, which were made, substan- !
tially as requested.
"Abont 75 per cent of all convicts >
n-1* from the 1st and 9th Judicial Dis- I
tricts and are, under the statute, sen?
tenced to confinement in Sing Sing
When 'he population exceeds 1,450 it
becomes necessary to 'double up.' or, in
other words, to house two prisoners in
one cell. When Mr. Osborne took'
charge on December I, only one in?
mate was confined in each cell. Early
in January, finding that nearly two
hundred men were doubled up, I imme?
diately instructed Warden Osborne to
submit a tentaive list from which trans?
fers could be made All the criminal1
.courts in grea'er New York being in
seasion, the population increased rap?
idly until more than five hundred men
were doubled up on February 1, In the
meantime I had repeatedly called War-.
den Osborne's attention to these dis-?
graceful conditions and insisted upon
his complying with my instructions to
submit lists from which transfers,
could be made. Such lists as I was
able to obtain did not equal the new
arrivals, and on May 1 there were 1.741
it mates confined at Sing Sing, making
It necessary to double up 674 inmates.
Finding it impossible to have my in-,
itructions obeyed, I warned him that in
the event of his failure to send list?
for transfer, I would be obliged to send
men from my office to prepare them.
These conditions continued, and on ;
June 17, I wrote Warden Osborne, call?
ing his attention to my repeated de
mahds and warnings and advised him
that Messrs. Baker and Farnsworth, of
( entlnned on page S, rolnma 4
What Will Bulgaria Do?
Which way will Ferdinand th* Fox, a? thr King of
the B?lgara is called, throw the might of Bulgaria?and
of the Balkans? In next Sunday's 1 ribune Thomas
Lathrop Stoddard, the authority on Bulgaria, clears the
haze of conflicting cable dispatches and crystallizes the
situation which all Europe is watching. Tell your news
d??ler to-day to put you down for
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Holt Kills Himself in Jail;
Leaps to Death from Cell;
Get His Dynamite Cache Here
EVELYN THAW,
HERE YESTERDAY,
GOES BACK HOME
Returns to Chateaugay
After Conference with
Cook and Flint.
FORMER TESTIMONY
TO BE READ TO JURY
"I Did as I Was Told to Do,"
Says Dancer, Leaving for
the Montreal Express
Twenty minutes before the Montres!
express train 'BufTalonean" pulled out
of the Grand Central nt 9:34 o'clock
lnst night a slender young woman, in a
fetching black and white ??jit, strolled
into the station In company with three
friends. She chatted with them amiably
about a ?core of unimportant things,
laughed a farewell and then r=aid:
"Come, porter "
I'nnoticed by ?persons in the huge
terminal biiildinr. Mrs. Evelyn Nesblt
Thaw, the woman brought hundreds of
miles, supposedly 'nidcr subpoena to
testify again?? her husband, started
back for ?he refreshing woods around
Chateaugay I.ake. With her departure
another element of mystery was added
to the Thaw
She was leaving without testifying
against her husban?! bv permission of
Deputy Attornev General Cook. Hi?
deri?ion to allow Mr?. Thaw to return
north after getting S rcrti'U-nte of ner?
vousness doe* not mean that her star**
will not be u?e?l against Thaw. Inder
the law th? '????imonv he gave at pre
viou? hierin?? can tie read into ?he
record.
The advantage or* this to the state
il *hat Mrs. Thaw cannot be cross
examined on many things the lawyers
for Thaw might like to know about,
things that might put her in an odd
light before the jury. Another ad?
vantage is ?hat her testimony, given
in this way. is le?s likely to be of the
boonv-rang kind than i? that of a wife
delivered n p?'r-on for the purpose of
keeping her husband in a madhouse.
From F.velyn N'esbi? Thaw's own
pom? of view-, she had a busy but un?
eventful day. "The most important
?lung 1 did wai to buy a new hat and
some shoes for Russell," she said in an
inter lew arranged lute in th?? after?
noon
All shopping consideration? aside,
however, a remarkable series of epi?
sodes happened to the wife of Harry
Thaw between l:?tl a. m., when she ar?
rived in 'he elty, and 9:34 last night,
when she went away
Ski had breakfast at the Waldorf.
After breakf??t there was a telephone
talk with Dr. Austin Flint, who ar?
ranged to have Deputy Attorney Gen?
era! Frank K. Cool, come to his office
'or a conference with Mrs. Thaw.
As a result of this conference, and
with the consent of the Deputy Attor?
ney General and Dr. Flint, she was ex?
amined in the afternoon by Dr Ber
nays Livingston, of 536 West 113th
Street, who confirmed the contents of
her medical certificate, brought all the
way from Chateaugay Lake. She was
in a highly nervous condition, the phy?
sician said, and it would be unwise for
her to atiempt tne ordeal of taking the
witness stand ?against Harry Thaw.
After this ?medical opinion had been
reg'stered F.velyn \>'sbit Thaw went
shopping. She spent the latter part of
the afternoon at her home, 21 West
Eleventh Street, where she received a
del. nation of newspaper reporters and
told them frankly all the events that
had preceded. She dined with friends,
had plenty of time to catch the Mon?
treal express and made good her prom?
ise of the early morning that she knew
what ?she eras about when she made
reservation* for the return trip last
night. S? much for Evelyn's day in
the city. j
Over in the Supreme Court building,
where witnesses were telling about
Harry K Thaw's "college cut up" days,
Justice Hendnck and twelve jurymen
waited all morning for Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw
When court reopened after luncheon
Deputy Attorney General Cook gravely
ann ?unced that Kvelyn had disappeared
and that all efforts to tind her had been
unsucoessf.il. Juror* and spectators
glanced significantly at one another
when the court was informed that no
one could be found who had seen her
after she had started ostensibly for her
I ontiniinl on pase IS. column t
MUENTER'SEYES
NOT LIKE HOLTS,
PHYSICIAN SAYS
Reports from Many Point!
Tell of Resemblance,
Despite Doctor.
PHOTO IDENTIFIED
BY CLEROYMAIN
Cambridge. Mass.. Man Adds t(
Links of Identification?Mor?
gan Assailant Shy.
From all over the Kastern Unite?
States reports continued yesterday lmk
ing the identity of Frank Holt with tha
of r'rich Muenter, mis.ing Harvard in
? dor and allegad ?rife murderer
All of them hold more or less firmi?
?o the belief that the name by whicl
the would-be assassin of J. P. Morgnt
is known is merely an alias, and tha
he is really the former Harvard in
struetor. On the other hand, Dr. On?
F. Cleghorn, the Nassau County jai
physieiar, believes ?hat Holt is no'
Muenter.
"Muenter, the missing Cambridg?
man, had, according to the description?
seat out of him, brown eyes," said Dr
Cleghorn yesterday. "Holt has gra*,
??yes. I know of no way in which th?
color of one's eyes may be changed.
"Therefore I am inclined to thinl
that Holt is not Muenter. It is tru?
that there are ."cars of an opcratlor
upon his body, but that operation ii
'?ommon, and may not mean any'hint
in this case."
Charles K. Apted, assistant superin
tendent of buildings at Cambridge, whe
? knew Muenter when he was at Harvard
i ten years ago, visited Holt in his cell
yesterday. The prisoner's weaknesi
pirvented Mr. Apted s questioning him
, but afterward the Cambridge man as?
serted that there was a striking re?
semblance between Holt and his formei
acquaintance.
"It has been nine years since I saw
Muenter,'' Mr. Apted added, "and I
eannot assert positively that Holt ii
the man. He certainly looks very much
i likt Muenter, however.''
The Rev. F. M. Bennett, pastor of
1 the First Unitarian Church at Youngs
town, Ohio, announced positively to?
day thut Holt and Muenter were one
and the same person. Mr. Bennett
knew the Harvard professor both at
I'amhridge and nt Lawrence, Kan. He
? hat in his possession a photograph of
Muenter, without a beard, which he
has compared with the newspaper pict?
ures of Holt. To his mind the two men
are identical.
Frank Holt, while a French and Ger
mar instructor at V'anderbilt Univer?
sity, always nrfused to have his pieturu
i taken. He was never popular in the
| university, citizens of Nashville ex
I plained yesterday, and was therefore
never urged to have his picture taken
, with any of the student organ nations.
Robert Bransford, who knew Holt
when the instructor was his next door
; r.eignbor In Nashville, believes he is
Muenther. He pointed out yesterday
that the instructor displayed many of
? be missing murderer's peculiarities.
"When Mrs. Holt was sick," Mi.
Bransford said, "he positively refused
to call a physician, and expressed his
antipathy to all medical men. He wore
gloves continually, in college or out."
From Cornell, where Holt served as
an instructor, comes tf?e report that
two Cornell men, whose names are
withheld, were told a few months ago
by a Chicago professor studying at
: Ithaca, that the instructor was Krich
Muenter. Holt refused to have a phy?
sician when, while at Cornell, his wife
, gave birth to a child. He also left
town when Professor Kuno Francke, of
I Harvard, came to the university on a
visit, and did not reappear until he had
gone.
Silas Smith and Theodore Hillier,
; both citizens of Cambridge, who knew
Muenter when he was a professor there,
i leave for Mine?la to-day. Hillier was
a neighbor of the Harvard professor
and says that the pictures of Holt
which have been published, closely re?
semble Muenter.
HOLT'S WIFE NOT
TOLD OF HIS DEATH
Under Doctor's Care. She Will
Not Know It Till To-day.
Her Father Says.
(Br Til.frtph ?- T*ht Trll.nn? |
Dallas, Tex., July 6. *?I shall not
tell her until morning," was the com
| ment made by the Rev. O. F. Sensa
baugh, father-in-law of Frank Holt,
when informed to-night of the latter's
death in the prison at Mine?la, Long
Island.
Mrs. Holt, who has been under con?
stant care and attention of physicians
: and members of the family since the
I first news of the shooting of J. P.
Morgan on Saturday. l?*ft the house for
I the first time this afternoon, going out
? with her father for a long drive
through the country, in the hope that '
, it would strengthen her somewhat. Her ,
condition has cause?! much alarm, and
fears have been entertained that she
mif-ht have a nervous breakdown fol?
lowing her trials of the last few ?lavs.
Lr Sensabaugh said:
"Of course, we are terribly sor
hear of Frank's death, but there is so
little I can say. I ?hall not tell my j
?laughter until naming."
He said he did n"t care to discuss
the case further.
?
FRANK HOLT.
As he appeared when arraigned in
Court Saturday.
WOODS HOPES
TO TRAP POLICE
BOMB-THROWER
No Occasion for Public
Alarm Now, Declares
the Commissioner.
The bomb that shook Police Head?
quarter? ?tirred the municipal authori?
ties to unusual activities yesterday.
Where are 'hey goin? t? strike next?
That was the question on the lips of
city officials and citizens alike. There
was some dread expressed rnat another
public building might be the next ob?
ject of attack.
The Mayor an?! the Police Commis
*ioner refrained from any extensiv?
comment on the latest bomb outrage.
Publicity, ?he Mayor said, made it
harder for the police to solve ?he bomb
cases. Commissiorei Woods said he
might make a reassuring s'atement on
the situation to-da?.
It is understood that the Police Com
raissionei feels there is no occasion for
public alarm. It was <aid ?hat while
the recent bomb explosions were per?
petrated in a spectacular manner, and
therefore directed more attention to
that particular crime in the public
eye in reality such occurrence?
fewer than ever before. It was pointed
out that it didn't require a great .legre?
of boldness to set the bomb a* the time
and place that the explosion occurred
at Headquarters.
"It was a grand way for the anarch?
ists to celebrate the Fourth of July,"
said one police official. "That it wa*
an act of theirs is almost certain. They
have 'hreatened ?o blow up Police
Headquarter? ?'.er sinee the bomb in?
cident at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and
because of 'he activit) of the police
against 'hu l'alran anarchists in the <
city. Everything was ?|uiet around
Headquarters Monday night, ?inly the
few necessary men were on duty. There
were few people in ? entre Street when
the bomb man appeared. [I wa? an eas\
matter to *!:p up and place it in the
unused doorway. The man might ju?*
a? well have thrown it through the open
window into the Detective Bureau if h?*
had sought to take life
Blame Bomb to Anarchist.
Commissioner Woods and Inspect ir
Faurot, in charge 'if the Detective Bu?
reau, both feel satisfied 'hat ?t wa- ?
work of in anarchist as a protest
%
( ?mliiiiini "i! pase 'J. column 4
'?FATHER ALL RIGHT."
SAYS MORGAN'S SON
Reports from the Glen Cove home
of J. P. Morgan yesterday were that
the banker bad so far recovered
from the effect* of his wound* that
he objected rather whimsically to
the light diet that the physician*
have allowed him since the shoot?
ing
Junius Spencer Morgan did not
refer to this in describing hi*
father's condition last night. He did
?isy. however, that recovery la eo
nearly absolute that he ?.mid. with?
out worry on that score, leave for
the l'a?-1ti. Slope on Friday, as he
had planned.
"Father"? condition is the very
best. He i* all right," said the young
man. "He I* progressing most fa?
vorably In eierv respect. Hi* pulse
and temp?rature are normal. The
doctor* are moat confident that all
danger ha* pa**r?l.
"There i? no significan- e to the
return of m> grandmother and sunt.
The?. iu*t ?ame, that is all."
While Guard Is Away
Dives to Floor ?n
Corridor
LANDS ON HEAD,
CRUSHING SKULL
Crash of Fall Starts Ru?
mor of Suicide by Bit?
ing Fulminating Cap.
FIRST ATTEMPT FAILS
Police Find House in Central
Valley. L. I., Where He Plot?
ted Reign of Terror
Frank Holt, who on Saturday
tried to murder J. Pierpont Morgan
in his home at (ilen Cove, comn
suicide in the Nassau County jail
in Mine?la at 10:26 o'clock
night. According to the prison au?
thorities. Holt killed himself by ?liv?
ing head first from h:? call to the
floor. An tarlier report, baaed on
the statements of Keeper O'Ryan.
asserted that tho prisoner bit*** tha
top of his head off with a fulminat?
ing cap.
District Attorney Lewis J, Smith
and Jail Physician Cleghorn
proved to their own satisfaction
that he had dived from the grill
outside of his cell, and that I
was no foundation for the theory
that Holt had placed an exp'
in his mouth before leaping.
Dr. Cleghorn explained this re
port by saying that thesoun:
of an explosion heard b) !??
Sheriff Jeremiah O'Ryan. Holte
, keeper, was probably cauated by the
t prisoner's tVad striking a
I board.
The first report of Holt's suicide
was made public just before 11
o'clock. It was then said that he
had died about 10:30 o'clock,
momentary absence of Jeremiah
O'Ryan, his guard.
Right there reports begin to
fer. One of these was that |
was a loud explosion, loud enough
to bring Warden H?lst i
jail officers rushing to the call
O'Ryan was quoted as saying
the noise of Holt landing on the
was like that of an ?
his insistence upon this point u
! volume of th?? noise heard
was 'he one sustaining ftature of
the report that Holl ex pi? :? d I
in his mouth, much as did on* of the
Haymarket anarchists a few
before he was to have bean ha: .
Immediately after *he pril
was found unconscious, l?r. Gujf F.
Cleghorn, the prison physician,
called. He found Holt ah- i
heart heats continue?! only ?i
minutes. His skull, the doctor
was hornhly crushed. Coroner V\ ?
ter R. Jones, notified, began an in?
quiry and order. At
the jail it was said early this D
ing that thi? would in? hi
daybreak.
Uncertaintj as to 'he manner m
which Holt met death
early this morning by a report from
Washington that the Neu York p?.
lice had notifie?! Superintendent Pull?
man that Holt ha?! I ? -rom
outside the jail.
Over the long-??.->t. : hone
Sergeant Week?, on duty in Police
Headquarters in W ?? told
The Tribune that a dispatch, timed
11:40, had been received from Com?
missioner Woods declaring that.
Holt had been shot from outside *h"
jail. Police Headquarter?- here knew
nothing of the report, ami until
Commissioner Woods could be
reached at the Harvard Club
feature, too, was a mystery.
Commissioner Woods final!?- ex?
plained that he had telephoned
Washington that Hi1' an?!
that, apparently, he ha?! been mia
upderst(><>d.
I)r. (iuy (leghorn after perform?
ing an autops\
Hempstead. stated at 2 o'clock
morning that Holt had ?iied ??f a
hemorrhage of the brain, caused by
n ????pressed fracture of the skull.
Or. Cleghorn said that hi
large con'useii wound, which ex
ed from the top of the head to I I
the eyes, and that both th? I
? red.
He found no evidenc? s of an ei
p n or bullet are
Mr. Wo?. ;
i ad
of his deputies and a numb' ?
' first-grade d) to
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