Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-04

taken from the river some weeks ago:
CHAPTER ONE.
An old gray-haired woman, sitting
by the fire in her little home in As
chaffenburg, Germany, two weeks
ago, was handed a photograph by the
mailman, and the picture proved to
be that of her long-absent Johannes
Schmidt in America. On the back of
the card was the sentence in Germans.
.Auf elm frohes wiedersehn. lTo our
happy meeting.)
On postcard that came two days
later was the encouraging promise:
Il rejoice that soon may be with
you.
Tears of joy came into the old
frau's eyes, as she told the news Of
her SON and his plan to return, to her
neighbors and to her husband Helm
rich Schmidt, who is SIS years of age,
one year older than Frau Schmidt.
Yet Hans Schmidt, when he sent
the likeness and the message, was un-
doubtedly already planning the cruel
murder Of Anna AumulIer, the comedy
girl he said he loved He had looked
at flats and stolen a death certificate,
had copy, made of 1t by photography
and had obtained in some way blank
death certificates.
CHAPTER TWO.
Frau Schmidt sat gazing into the
flames in the CRATE and thought of the
youth of her boy, Johannes. Time and
again, In those days, he had brought
tears to her eyes. At Mainze Semi
nary his pranks had scandalized her.
He had even, on one occasion, sat in
"a bathttlb naked playing a guitar while
other students and the learned teach
ers looked aghast through the open
door
At Muniah, again, where he was
sent for further schooling, his love af-
fairs with women of questionable
character became a public scandal,
and led to his disgrace. Nevertheless
he was ordained and sent to officiate
at st. Elizabeth's Church.
He abandoned the altar in solemn
part of the services at Gonzenheim,
and ran crying through the aisles, and
later Disappeared from the town. Then
he was involved in forgery, and dis
missed. :. rs. ri -
A close companion of Johannes.
Schmidt in these youthful days Of
reTelry and affairs with women was,
a cousin, Adolph Mueller, none other
than the dentist and associate of
Schmidt in New York under arrest
and booked by the police as DR.. Err
nest Muret. 4
/ Mueller fled to England and Schmidt
fled to America. Constantly they kept
in touch, but secretly, of necessity.
Mueller became first DR.. Estein,
and in that guise was employed to-
teach languages in the Hugo Lam
guage Institute in London. He pad
ded his accounts and was discharged,
afterward launching out
in another and poorer quarter of the
city as DIR. Ernst" teaching a fair
knowledge of a foreign tongue in one
month
Next he became surgeon, DR.. Mu-
ret, and was an organizer of a medi-
cal aid society that, provided families
with medical attendance and medicine
for three pence weekly.
The Medical Defense Union caused
his arrest and Muret dropped out of
sight, while Scotland Yard held war;
rants for white slavery, illegal opera
tons, attacking a girl, and fraudu-
lently posing as physician.
CHAPTER THREE.
In Louisville, in 1909, young man
appeared in clerical garb, and intro
duced himself as the Rev. Hans
Schmidt to the priests. of St. Johns
He was not appointed to any
place, but to his new friends the