Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-17
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Story of Alleged Accomplish Re-
veaIs Priest Who Killed Anna
AumuIIer as Counterfeiter.

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-In the be-
lief that he has committed other muir
ders than that of Anna Aumuller, the
girl whose torso was found in the
Hudson River, the police to-day plan
ned to put Hans Schmidt, the priest
who confessed 10 staying the girl,
through an examination intended to
force him to reveal every act of his
shrouded past
That Schmidt was a cOunterfeiter,
as We'll as murderer. came to light
to-day through the arrest short
ly after midnight of Ernest Ar
thur Muret, a bogus dentist, and Ber-
tina Zech his girl assistant.
1t also was developed by the Cath
Ole clergy that Schmidt was an i'm
poster, having forged the credentials
as a priest which he used in this
country.
Nuret, under merciless grilling by
the police, not only admitted that he
knew both Schmidt and the murdered
girl, but also confessed that Schmidt
had been a partner of his in coun-
terfeiting scheme
After the arrest the police raided
Murets fiat and also another fiat
which it had been found was rented
jointly last June by Muret and
Schmidt In the latter fiat was found
a complete counterfeiting outfit, in
GLIDING chemicals, tools. a printing
press, several half destroyed bogus
bills and a loaded revolver.
In the fat in which Muret lived
were found a number of surgical
tools. such as are used to perform il
legal operations.
Girl Held as Witness.
Whether Muret will be charged
with direct connection with the muir
der and the dismemberment of the
Aumuler girls body, is matter
which the police would not discuss
o-day They claim they are holding
the Zech girl as a material witness,
while Murets confession that he at
tempted counterfeiting is sufficient to
hold him.
The discovery of the counterfeiting
establishment will of course bring the
United States Government into the
priests case.
Muret told the police to-day that
shortly before the death of Anna
Aumuller the girl had visited Central
Park and was bHstered by poison
ivy.
When he asked Schmidt September
+ three days after the murder, how
the girl was, the priest replied, Ee
says, oh, she's in great shape. Poi
son ivy will never bother her again"
Priest Sleeps Well.
Schmidt spent restful night in as
cell. The enormity of his crime does
not seem to bother him. He ate d
hearty breakfast and seemed calm
and undisturbed.
lie still refuses to see reporters,
denying interviews on the ground that
mo one can understand the acts %
great men,
While police officials, the Coroner
and the Prison Warden held different
views concerning Schmidts sanity.
the prisoner continued to ridicule the
idea that he is insane
Il am sane; there never mas been
any insanity in my family" he re-
peated time and again.
Warden FaIlon declares Schmidt is
the most dangerous lunatic confined
in the Tombs prison in forty years
The Catholic clergy here to-day de-
voted most of their time to tracing
Schmidts past. They now are con
WINGED that he is a regularly ordained
priest but that his past has been a
shady one, both here and in Europe.
As far as they have been able TO
learn, Schmidt was ordained in 1907
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