The Sentinel=record., 1913-09-19
POLICE WORK ON THEORY THAT HE MAY HAVE FAXED HIS
 PRIESTS CREDENTIALS.
GIRLS HEAD IS NOT FOUND
Double Defense is Being Prepared for Priest Who Confessed to Brutal
 Murder of Grl--i4s Companion an
 Enigma.

New York, Sept 1S.-While steps were being taken today to have a jury pass on the sanity of Father" Hans Schmidt, bit upon bit evidence is piling up, linking closer and closer the lives of the slayer of Anna Au- muller and his alleged counterfeiting partner, Dr. Ernest Muret.
 Muret was the central figure in the days developments in the case. The priest, whose very right to the name he claims and to the cloth he wore is being called in question. grew morose in his cell and talked little. Muret appeared in court to plead guilty and be held on the charge of having dangerous weapon in his possession. But this charge was more of a formality than any thing else, serving merely to hold him in the hands of the state authori- ties while the mysterious twists and turns of his manysided life are being followed up and his association with the Aumuller girls murder traced to it's beginning. The pseudo dentist, who appears from information the authorities already have acquired in their search to have practiced med- cine under other names in Chicago, in England and on the Contin ant. has been thought by the police almost from the beginning to bear some blood relationship to Schmidt. Thus the advices tonight from Aschaffen. burg, Germany. Schmidt's birthplace. that Muret is now believed to bs the murderer's cousin, Adolf Mueller, caused little surprise among the in- yestigators.
 This development bringing with 1t the statement that the cousins were close friends and that Mueller long ago disappeared, perhaps was the most important of any along the line of inquiry which seeks to establish a connection of long standing betwe en the two men.
 It came out also, however, through the discovery of an engraver who made copper plates for Schmidt, that Muret, as he now calls himself seem
 ngly has far closer knowledge than he has at any time admitted of Schmidt's counterfeiting operations. having accompanied Schmidt to the engraver's shop when the plates were secured.
 As for Schmidt himself, the many aliases he used, led Inspector Faurot in charge of the case, to suspect that the clerical prisoner might not be 1t- .l.- -F gl., fe.,v, ,lNttt- but an imposter This theory, while somewhat at cross purposes with that which has brought out the sup. posed blood relationship between the real Hans Schmidt and Murat, was considered by the inspector worth while following up.
 There is no certainty that this fellow is the real Schmidt" said the inspector. Schmidt is natural forger and could easily have fixed up the clerical credentials through which he obtained positions in St Boniface's church and St. Joseph s church"
 Schmidt, when this matter of iden- tity was pressed on him today by his counsel, Alphonse Koelble, insisted the latter said. that he was not an imposter.
 ''He told me he was Hans Schmidt, the priest" said the lawyer.
 MT. Koelbel began today laying the groundwork for an insanity de- fense of his client He let District Attorney Whitman know that he pro posed asking court inquiry into Schmidt's sanity. This would neces- sitata the appointment of commis- sion or the bringing of the confessed murderer before laymans jury.
 Another line of defense, however seems likely to be resorted to in a secondary way.
 This is an asserted absence of ab- solute proof of Anna Aumuller's death Parts of the girls body, cut up by Schmidt and thrown into .he Hudson, have been recovered. but the head, which would afford proof posi- tive of identity, still is missing. 1t is this contingency which is leading the police to keep mp a persistent search for the head of the victim. A diver has been engaged to go over every foot of the river bottom in the vicinity where yesterday fishermen dragged some object close to the sur face and then lost it, only a strand of human hair remaining on the hook