The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-20
They Would be Happier in
Another World and There's
No Reason Why They
Should Live. He Says
READY FOR EXECUTION
Hopes There Will be No Red
Tape About His Conviction
and Electrocution, He Tells
His Lawyer---Did it All Him
self

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NEW YORK, Sept 1s.--Hans
Schmidt. the slayer of Anna Aumuller,
took a new mental tack in his cell at
the Tomos today. He declared that
not only was he alone responsible for
the killing of the girl he loved, but
he had been planning TO do away
with the hopelessly insane. the per-
manently crippled and diseased in
curables by poison or the knife.
Furthermore, he was anxious, he
said. to go to the electric chair and
hoped that the district attorney
wouldn't go through lot of unneces-
sary red tape to send him there. He
made these statements to Alphonse
Kloebel, his lawyer. during the course
OF hts daily chat and to Detectives
McKenns and Thompson. who visited
him for an explanation of the pur-
pose to which he intended to put
book Of blank death certificates stolen
from a physician, which were found
among his belongings.
Had Death Certificates.
The book of certificates issued by
the board of health, had already con-
WINGED Inspector Faurot and his men
working on the case OF Schmidt and
his partner in the counterfeiting bus
mess, Ernest Muret, the fake dentist,
that Schmidt had hit upon what he
believed an easy way OF getting his
victims under ground without exc!t-
Ing suspicion
Koehel said he was positive that
to nut folks out OF their misery for
their own good was further admls.
sion Of his insanity.
Schmidt showed spirits today for
the lrst time" said Lawyer Kloehel.
He was mad and very excited. He
was disturbed because he said the
newspapers were dragging in limo
cent people and touching them with
scandal
Schmidt said to me. 7 don't see
why there is SO much red tape about
this I'm ready this minute TO go
to the electric chair. Anybody who
thinks that this life is worth while is
mistaken. | have faced death many
times and would face the chair with
out culver of the muscle
Schmidt said he didn't want to
answer the questions of the district
attorney at trial, but would simply
say: I did IT meaning that he killed
Anna Aumuller. He said that no
body would understand anyway that
the matter was matter between him
self and his God.
Whats the Use of Living.
Then he made this astonishing
statement when | asked him about the
death certificates. i was planning to
do away with knife or by poison
| a number OF people for whom life
wasn't worth while. What's the use
OF living II life is worthless? The
/ quicker one goes the better for them.
I | believe that the next world Ia bet
! ter for the hopelessly insane. the hope
lessly crippled and the hopelessly dis
eased'
He told me that he wanted death
to he painless. and thought that
/ death by the knife would be painless,
Have you ever killed anybody
other than Anna Aumuller?' l asked
| him.
Nobody he said.
Schmidt told me that he had a
death certificate photographed, and
said 1t was his intention Of signing it
with the name Of DR.. Molliere. He
insisted hat he intended to do a kind
ness to the insane, the crippled and
the diseased
"He admitted that he had taken
small boy to ia West Eighty-fourth
street but denied that II was his son.
He said he wouldn't tell who the boy
was because he didn't want to drag
his family in.
HE also strenuously denied that
! Muret Is his brother or cousin or
any relation whatever. I have known
him only ten months, and not day
longer he said He said that he went
to Muret one day about some plates
and the dentist told him he was
crazy because he spoke about 81
Elizabeth. whereupon they had a
quarrel
LAS for the girl, Helen Green. for
whom the police are looking. Schmidt
said that he had met her casually
and described her as a girl of the
streets
To Sanitarium To Rest,
Schmidt said that his father did
send him to a sanitarium in GERMANY,
not because he was insane, but to
take a rest but he got away. He
said he understood that his confne-
ment took place because the court had
considered him not insane. but weak
minded He refuses to have ANYTHING
to do with the idea that he ia now
insane.
'As for the knife as means for
removing those whom he said he be
lieved would be ha npier In the other
world, he declared that the knife was
more certain than poison. He wouldn't
bulge one second from the thought
that the sacrifices he planned were all
for Jesus. He doesn't see why suf-
ferines should stick to this mortal coil
when there was n much better place"
Mr.. Kloebel said he wanted to have
Schmidt examined for his insanity
t'The 1uickar tho battar" ha aSda5