The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-04
Rips Rosary From Neck and
Hurls Beads at News
paper Reporters Sit
ting Near Him
OUTBREAK CAUSED
BY CORONER, SAYS
PRISONERS COUNSEL
Millionaire Jury Finds Priest Re-
sponsible for Murder of Anna
Aumuller-Is Remanded to
Tombs to Await Action
of the Grand Jury

New York. October 3.--Hans Schmidt,
the priest, who murdered Anna Au-
muller. became frenzied today at the
corOner's Inquest into the death of his
his neck the rosary he had worn ever
since his Incarceration, tore il into
many bits and hurled them all at news
paper reporters. sitting half dozen
steps off.
The jury found him responsible for
the girls murder
Schmidt's outburst of temper oc-
CURED in the presence of jury of mill
lionaires impaneled to conduct the in
quest.
as follows:
1--WE, the jury. believe that Anna Au-
muller came to her death on Septem-
Der 2. 1913, at No. 6S Bradhurst ave-
nue. at the hands of Hans Schmidt
Awaits Jury Action
Schmidt was Immediately remanded
to the Tombs without bail to await the
hNeiDii Va hhC hilu
Theodore p. Shonts, president of the
Interborough Rapid Transit company,
was foreman of the jury. His fellow
jurors included Vincent Astor B. J.
Greenhut, merchant; Mortimer Regens-
berg, tobacco manufacturer, aud %. S
Marston. banker
During examination of witnesses not
a trace of emotion crossed the face of
Schmidt Coroner Feinberg's charge
seemed to lash the prisoner into a sud
den temper of fury
Jumping to his feet, Schmidt tore tbe
rosary from his neck and, before de-
tectives could stay him, had snapped
it into many beads.
Torso Identified
lie hurled them at the reporters. The
torso of the victim was identified bv
Anna Hirt, who roomed with the Au-
muller girl at the parish house of st.
Boniface's church.
The HIirt woman was followed on the
stand by detectives. the physician wnu
made the autopsy and finally by In
spector Faurot, in charge of .he de-
tective bureau here. to whom Schmidt
confessed.
Faurot detailed in a hundred words
or more the substance of the confess
sion.
DO you wish to place your client on
the stand?'' Coroner Feinberg asked
counsel for Schmidt.
The answer was negative and the
coroner, apparently expecting thai
Schmidt would
priest had nothing to say.
Nothing, whatever" answered the
lawyer
Within Is minutes from the time the
first witness had taken the stand the
jury had withdrawn.
Within 10 minutes more it had re-
turned with its verdict
Believes Schmidt Sane
District Attorney Whitman expressed
the positive conviction today that Hans
Schmidt was sane and consequently
would be placed on trial for the mur-
der of Anna Aumuller. whom Schmidt
slew as she slept, dismembered and
sank In the Hudson river on Sertem
Der 2. last
Mr.. Whitman's opinion 1t is alleged
Is based on the finding reached by the
four alienists who have examined
Schmidt in the Tombs. Their formal re-
port will be made within a few DAYS
Coroner Feinberg today impaneled
his jury of Inillionaires and com
menced an inquest into the slain girls
death. Only three portions of She body
the upper and neither parts of the torso
and one leg, have been recovered from
the river. These were viewed by the
jury.
Names of four of the iury were
given out in advance of the inquest
They are Theo. p. Shonts, Vincent As
tor, j. B. Greenhut and Mortimer Reg
ensberg.
A great crowd stormed the CONNER
cial courts building where the inquest
was held. but relatively few we're ad-
mitted to the room.
Consel for the prisoner issued
statement. He said his clients out
break had been provoked by the cor
oner, who had made a holiday of the
inquest and had appealed to public
charities for funds to bury Anna Au-
muller He said Schmidt resented this
The priest hurled some coins at the
men with the rosary He
thought they were laughing and Jest
ing a. his plight.