Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-07-09 | Page 6 | Holt Ends own Life in Prison

iHOLT ENDS 01 LIFEJN PRISON CORNELL PFfOFESSOR WHO SHOT J. P. MORGAN SUICIDES RATHER THAN FACE TRIAL. . Left Note Addressed to His Wife Ir Which He Expressed Desire That i His Children be Brought Up i in Right Way. . Mineola. N. Y. Frank Holt, the Cornell university profe.-s.or, who shot J. P. Morgan in his home near Glen Cove, on July 3. committed suicide in the jail here Tuesday uight. While several of the jail author! ties declared that Holt killed himself by climbing through the opening at the top of his cell door and then plunging to the narrow court below Holt's keeper said he was positive that the prisoner was killed in his own cell, where he aid he found the body. There were many conflicting re ports as to the manner in which Holt met his death, but It was definitely established through Dr. ("leghorn, the Jail physician, that Holt di"d ot a fractured skull. Keeper O'Kyan declared that Holt appeared unusually cheerful early In the evening. He couldn't understand why Holt should write a letter which w.is found after his death, in which Holt addres-ed presumably his wife and children as follows: "My I iia: s I must writ" to you once more. The more 1 think about i the more 1 see the utter useless-toss useless-toss of Ilxing under these crcuin s'ances. Itriug up the dear babies In fear of Gcd and man. Good by. my sweet. Aflecti. natelv, FRANK."