Anarchist Eric Muenter fled Washington D.C. to New York City where he planted a bomb on the munitions ship SS Minnehaha. He then traveled to the home of J. P. Morgan Jr. with more dynamite and two revolvers, invaded the house intending to take the family hostage and force the Morgan company to stop financing munitions shipments to Europe for the Allied war effort.
He was clearly deluded.
Morgan was at home with his wife and butler and they subdued Muenter despite the anarchist shooting Morgan twice in the groin and leg.
Morgan recovered within the month. Muenter was arrested.
Muenter was decidedly odd, but very intelligent. Born in Uelzen, Province of Hanover, he immigrated with his parents and three sisters to Chicago at the age of 18. While still a student, Muenter worked as a German and French instructor at Racine College and Kenwood Preparatory School between 1895 and 1896,[5] then graduated with his A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1899. He was a German instructor during this period, but went back to Europe for fourteen months. He taught German at the University of Kanas in 1902, and then began instructing German at Harvard while he was a student there.
In 1906, while still a student at Harvard, he murdered his first wife by poison. He went on the run after that, but in those pre Internet, pre drivers license, per Social Security days, he managed to actually resume teaching and studying. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1909 and taught at the University of Oklahoma,Vanderbilt University Emory and Henry College and Cornell University, where he earned a PhD. He remarried during this period.
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