Impression sketch
of Eric Muenter after his arrest - by Jamie.
See the original at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Muenter#/media/File:Erich_M%C3%BCnter.jpg
In words sent to New Orleans
Times-Picayune, openly told
Of an
assassinations plot and
Plans to destroy
British ships,
Moving from
American Ports.
The writer of the
letter, under
The name of Pearce
- a scholar
And partner of the
assassin -
Erich Meunter, openly
told
Of intentions to
kill two men.
German-American
Meunter,
With false Name
Frank Holt,
A known dynamiter,
targeted
Ambassador Sir Spring
Rice,
And the financier
J.P. Morgan.
2 July, Meunter, on
discovery
Of the senate
chamber locked,
Hid a package of
dynamite in
Senate reception,
for a midnight
Explosion - to blow
at 11.40 p.m.
In Meunter's given
explanation
Was making noise in
an appeal
For peace - fleeing,
Meunter put
A time bomb on SS
Minnehaha,
A ship carrying British
munitions.
Travelling on to
Glen Cove Long
Island and home of
Mr Morgan -
Meunter intended to
murder
'The Ambassador to
hell', Cecil
Spring Rice with
the US financer.
Meunter had been
enraged
By Morgan's
assisting British
Against Germany,
with large
US finances - Meunter stood
Before Mr Morgan
with a gun.
In two shots at the
financer,
Meunter wounded his
groin,
Before being hit by
the butler,
With a lump of coal
- arrested
The assassin was
charged.
Jailed for his
crimes, Meunter
Committed suicide -
then two
Days later an
explosion took
Place on the SS
Minnehaha -
Making only minor
damage.
Pearce went on to
say how
Bombs were on other
boats -
The navy acted with
warning
Both vessels - as
his apostle
Stated, Meunter was
no crank.
Pearce proclaimed Meunter
Gave him principles
and ideals.
How he was a true
German,
Who advised many
passengers
Against travel on
the Lusitania.
Meunter had actually
warned
The famous theater
producer,
Charles Frohman,
against
Sailing on the fated
Lusitania;
In belief Meunter
calls on him.
The dead man urging
Pearce
To act - who claimed
to have
Dynamite stores to
destroy city
Of New Orleans - prompting
US
Secret Service set to
find Pearce.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. German
Murder Plot - Ambassador Menaced - Bombs in British Ships. The Daily Telegraph,
[online] 13 July. P.9. Col.4. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11732016/Daily-Telegraph-July-13-1915.html
[Accessed: 13 July 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100
years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 13 July
2015).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11732016/Daily-Telegraph-July-13-1915.html
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