Medford . Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDITION
WEATHER
HIiomcm Thursday, Max, Wfl;
Mln. fJ7; Pro. 3X2; Hum. 70.
Forty-flfth Tear.
Dally Tenth Year.
MEDFORD. OREdON, "WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1015
NO. 91
DEAD HAND
I
In Letter to Wife, Mornan's Assail
ant Admitted Placlno Dynamite
Aboard Saxonia and Philadelphia
Twenty-five Pounds of Dyna
mite Purchased Still Missing
NEW YORK, July 7. Tho dead
liutitl of Frank Hull, assassin, bomb
innkcr n ml allowed wife murderer,
reached mil over the Atlantic today
nml menaced with d.vnnmito attacks
two trnns-Allnntie liners with near
ly 3000 men, women and children
aboard.
Somewhere on tho ocenn, Holt
wrote to bis wife, (ho liner Sa.onia or
tho Philadelphia bo was nol sine
which would bo destroyed today. A
dynamite bomb continuing thirty
pounds of explosive, which Holt is
known to have received, and which
lias nol l)ccn accounted for, is believ
ed by tho police to bo the means Holt
bad chosen to destroy the ship.
While Holt lay today a suicide in
bis cell nt Minonln, L. I., whore he
was taken nft or his attempted assas
sination of ,1. 1 Morgan, the wireless
crackled a warning over the Atlantic
tolling of his threat to blow up a
whip, and the mystery of his life was
cleared away with his positive identi
fication as Erich Muenter, the alleged
wife murderer, who fled Harvard uni
versity in HWfl.
Identified as Mucutcr
Nothing mote dramatic in the last
few crowded days of Hull's life than
tho warning of destruction was un
covered after his death. His con
fession that bo placed tho Immli in
tho cnpitol at Washington last Kii- J
day, bis attempted assai-Miiatjon of i
.1. 1. Morunii, tho growinir belief that
be was Erich Muenter, nllcged mur
derer of bis wife, culmhiiiting trtdnv
in bis po-dtivc identification in
death as Muenter, and his sensa
tional suicide by leaping twenty feet
from the top of bis cell to the floor,
formed a seiies of events to which
the threatened destruction of the
Philadelphia or the Saxonia fitted as
a startling climax.
Tho powerful wireless stations of
tho navy department wore enlisted in
tho effort to prevent tho threatened
disaster at sea. In answer to the
warning there was icooivod today a
message from tho captain of the
Philadelphia which said that every
thing aboard bad been identified nml
that all was well. The Saxonia had
not replied. Her failure to do so was
attributed to tho weakness of her
wireless batteries, which could nol, it
was thought, span tho distance from
mid-ocean to shore without delay.
Dynamite Is Missing
OLK.V COVK, N. Y July 7. -Tho
authorities of Xassau county joined
tho Now Yoik C'itv detective today
in u painstaking search for more
than twenty-five, pounds of dynamite
known to have been delivered to and
unaccounted for by Frank Holt, tho
nsMiilnnt of .1, P. Morgan, tho man
who set tho bombs in tho United
Slates capitol last Friday, and who
committed suicide iliirinjr the night by
jumping twenty feet from an iron bar
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IDENTIFY HOLT
Man Who Attempted Murder of Mor
gan and Who Dynamited Capitol
Identified as Harvard Instructor
Who Disappeared After Indictment
for Murder of Wife.
CM2X COVE, X. Y., July 7 Frank
Holt, who attempted to take tho lifo
of J. I. Morgan, and who committed
sulcldo Inst night In tho Mlncoln jail,
whh todny IdontltlcdirJ Erich Muen
ter, tho Harvard Instructor, who din
npKarcd nftor being indicted as tho
murderer of his wife Lcona, In Cam
bridge, Mass., In 190G.
Tho Identification was mado by S.
P. Smith, sttito detective of tho dis
trict attorney's office of Middlesex
county, Massachusetts, Theodora mi
ller, an nutomobllo man of Cambridge
and A. T. Urown, n lloston nowRpapor
man.
CIIICAOO, July 7. PobUIvo Iden
tification of Krnnk Holt, nssallant of
J. P. Morgan, as Professor ICrlcli
Muontor, tho missing Harvard profes
sor, alleged to Imvo murdered IiIh
wife, Is mado hero by Professor Ches
ter X. Oould of tho Unlvorslty of Chi
cago. Former Pupil at Chicago
Professor Could, In n statement
mado public todny, admitted that ho
had Identified .Muenter, who wnB a
former pupil nt tho University of
Chicago, whllo at Cornell unlvorslty
last November. Ho wild ho decided
for several reasons not to expose tho
man nn "ho seemed to bo getting
nlong so nlcoly."
Profosfor Oould's Btntomcnt In
pnrt I
"W
follews:
hen I arrived at Cornell uni
versity last November to oiigngo In
roHyarch work, I was Introduced to
Frank Holt but paid little attention
to him ill tho tlmo. Ho asked mo
how Cutting and Allen, two Unlvor
nil)' of Chicago professors, woro get
ting along. I told him nnd asked If
ho know thorn. Ho wild ho did not,
but hnd honrd of them,
Itccoguicd Mucutcr
"Holt'H cnrrlago and speech had
8ta)od with mo nnd reminded mo of
somoono, but I could not romombor
whom. Then my mental associations
bogan to work nnd I said, 'I know
who It Ih. II Is Muenter.'
"Tim next tlmo I saw him ho look
ed uqutirely at mo nnd said, 'Hollo
Could.' IIIh words had tho attitude
of a man stopp'lng buck Into an old
fnmlllnrlty. Ho never avoided mo,
except on ono occasion, whon I saw
him with his wlfo nnd family
"I had ovory opportunity to ob
serve him nnd hear him speak CJor
ninn nndiKngllsh nnd there can bo no
doubt that Frank Holt wns Krlch
Muenter."
800 BRITISH COLUMBIANS
HAVE GONE TO BATTLE FRONT
VANCOUVER, IlTc., July 7. Up
to Juno 220, 10,122 Ilrltish Colum
bians had been recruited In the prov
ince, of whom 7800 had gono for
ward, the remainder being In train
ing at Victoria nnd Vernon. This
does not lucludo Ilrltish Columbians
who enlisted in England and olso-whoro.
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LEAPED FROM
TOP OF CELL TO
Despite Guard Maintained, Holt Com
mits Suicide Skull Is Fractured oh
Iron Floor Last Words of Assas
sin to Warden Stated That He
Needed Rest and Sleep.
NEW YOKK, July 7. Frank Holt,
who shot J. P. Morgan, lay dead to
day in an undertaking establishment
at Hempstead, D. I., and tho Now
York police bad in their possession
his trunk, containing JIM half-pound
sticks of dynamite with which they
believe ho planned to wreck public
buildings in New York nml other
cities.
An nutopsy early today establish
ed the fact t hut Holt cotnmitttcd sui
cide by leaping from tho top of his
cell door in the Mincoln, I. 1., ,pul.
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ATLANTIC CITY, X. J.. July 7.
Tho national bomd of directors of
the Auti-Kaloon l.cuguo of America
at an executive session today adopted
resolutions urging congress to sub
mit to the states the propobed amend
ment to tho federal constitution pro
viding for national ptnhihitinu.
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NEW YORK', Julv 7. -The rumn.i
I.iuo late today icceived u reply b.
wireless to the muutto hcuI to the
Saxonia, l'JOII miles .it nun, icgtird
ing tho HUHpicion that Hull had plac
od u bomb on tho omq1. Tho mom
sage read:
"Search made, Nutklijtf foiuiU."
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SHIPS
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IJisI hide or capitol in Washington
U recited liy explosion. I'i'ons nun lis
ivccpllou room hcrt explosion oc-rill-mi.
Helniv, nl left, i'barlcn V.
Iligglus, M'uale Mi'geaiil-al-arins, ami
lit right, Klllot Woods, Mipriut'iid
cut or lulled Stales Cnpitol. These
men are in chaige of tlie building.
IIOOI.t'l,T, T. II .July 7- A new
alllauco between Japan nnd IMihmIii
U reported by Toklo dUpatchca to
local JapaneKO iihikts to bo Imuilneut,
Advices received today nuy thai tho
wldnr KlMloniiien Hpont OMtonIay In
complotliiK dutiills of the reported ul
IIhiico ami that it in In noarly final
form.
H ARE NOW IN MID-OCEAN
l. l'lci'M)ln( Moigiin, tho IlitrliesK
of C'oiimnighl, and nl Morgan's left,
(lie tliike of Coimaiigbt, Tho tluko
and duilicss aiv members of tho Hell
ish royal family, Tho photograph,
lias taken ulille tliey weiti In Amer
ica. Ilelow Is Morgan nnd Ixird llal
ilnne (again 'it Morgan's left) former
ItiltMi iar minister.
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NEW YOKK, July 7 - A body at
tachmout whh iKimed by Hupromo
Court JiiHtlco llondrlelc today for
Evelyn Xonlilt Thnw, who fulled to
appear to totfy In tho procccdIngH
yiwtordny relative to tho sanity of
her liiiHhand, Hurry IC. Thnw. Mrs.
Thaw yesterday told Deputy Attor
ney (iunoral Cook that she could not
Htiind tho Htriilu of toHtlfylng and
milil olio did not propoBo to toatlfy
uifaliiHl hor hiiHband, film loft for
tho Adirondack lout night.
Dr. Ilormird I.lvlngstoii, Mm,
Thaw'u iiliyttlcluu, wna culled (o tho
stand today. Ho nnld ho had found
.Mm. Thaw run down and In n ner
vous condition and udvUcd hor It
would bo hum I) for her to testify.
Jutitlou Hcudrlck then tmld that if
tho attorney gonoral doHlred Mrs.
Thnw to bo proiout Unit bo would
Ihsiio n body attachmont, whoreupon
Doputy Attornoy flonoral Hooker ask
ed that such an attachmont bo lssuod.
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ATTACHMEN
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MRS
TON IHAW
French ncrtqrt Most Sanguinary Bat
tle Since Landing Cathedral at
Arras Burning Fierce Attacks by
Germans on West LlncBombard
ments Continue With Honors Even,
TARIS. July 7. Tho French do
partment Ibis nltcrnoon jjnvo out tho
following .statement in Tofercnco to
recent opemtimm in tho Dnrdancllcs:
"In tho Dardanelles on tho fith of
July tho Turks delivered u general at
tack, the most iumnrtnul tbov have
undertaken since their effoit.s in the
early days .of .May. Their purpose
was to drive us into Ihu ben.
"At I o'clock iitllio morning n vcly
intense nrlilhjry. fire whh opened on
our first linen, as well as on tho lone
behind Ihesu lines occupied by French
and llritnsh troops. Tho enemy sub
soiicntly endciivored to deliver hov-
oral infiuitry utlnuks, but not ono was
KiicecsHfiil in imuiing an Tnr as our
trenches. Decimated by our artillery
fire and mowed down bv nor t-ifliw
nnd nmclilnu guns, most of our ns
sailants uovor left tho battloficld.
During tw action batteries of the
enemy on. tho Asiatic const fired
without intorriintion. A TurkiHb
cruiser also took part in the engage
ment. jWllitors of the cnemv bom.
baided our lines.
"At the end of the liny -Tgroup of
about fifteen Rritihli and French
iivinlorH :riow over Hie Turkish aero
drome at, rimnnk, threw down heventl
bombs and struck the tirineiivil
hnngar with n big bomb."
Krench Ktiilemeut
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ml report states that the bombard
ment mirth of Arras continued nil
night. Two (loriunu nttacks were re
pulsed. On Mouse he'iulita two at
tucks wcro repelled. After a bom-
bardment near St. Michael the Gor
man took tho offensive on n ton"
front, and at ono noint Kiicccedcd in
lwielnJlini: tho first French lino on
n front of 7(10 yards. Klsow.hero tbov
were repulsed with heavy loss. In I.
I'rotro forest u fiesh (termini attack,
preceded by throwing fliiiuliitf liipiids,
was rcpuUcd.
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(icrmaii Ktatement
' HEIM.IN, July 7,The (Icrman
statement reports progress on tlm
wes bunk of the Vistula.
"During pursuit of tho Russians to
the Zlntn I.ipn river from Julv ;i to
July ,1, tho Hermans captured H8.V)
men. Tho number of prisoners made
south of Ilialo Illoto lias been in
creased to -seven officcru and ubout
800 men.
"Ninth of Ypies (IlelKiuni) lint
ish trnnM yesterday invaded on
fJeiman trench, but were elected m
the evening.
"While wo wore shollinjr enemy
troops guthered at Anns, the town
took fiio mid tho cathedral is hum
big.
"Iletween the Moiibo and tho Mos
elle rivers lluue wna lively lighting.
There u!o was somo activity to tlm
southwest of I.es Kpnrgivs, wheie th"
enemy eoutinued bin efforts to win
back the positions recently lost. At
the find attack ho French got into
u part of tlie(!onuin lino of defense
A eountor-attiiek won back all the
trenches with the exception of mio
piece of 100 viirds. Tho enemy aban
doned one machiuo nun."
10 PAY SEA LOSSES
LONDON, July 7. Tho lritili
Movoiumuut "cannot uudertako to pa
ouiapuiikution for Iotaos at bcu ow
ing to I ho notion of tlm enemy," Iicg-
iunld MoKunua, tho ohamtvllor of th
avuhoquur, today informed u (pie-
Honor1 hi the houo of uomuious, who
wanted tho survivor?, of thy Canard
liner I.u.itniiin coinpcnsated for their
sfi
JJ
lofet effect.
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