Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-09-18
JekyEHyde Priest Presumably
Planned to o'Conceai Him
self There.
MORE LEARNED ABOUT MURE7
Evidence Found That Links
Closer the Lives of Alleged
COunterfeiter and
Murderer.

New York. Sept. 17-Hans Schmidt. tn,
Jekyl-Hyde priest whose double life was
exposed last Sunday when he was arrest
ed for and confessed the murder Of Anna
Aumuller. had, after killing the girl and
dismembering her body in a Bradhurst
| avenue flat, hired another apartment IN
which he presumably planned to conceal
himself. This developed from police dis
coveres to-day.
Evidence also was found linking closer
and for longer period than had been
supposed, the lives Of Schmidt and hii
alleged counterfeiting partner the un
licensed dentist Dr. Ernest Muret.
Papers found to-day In the dentists
office indicated that Muret had left Lon
don for some offsnse committed while
practicing medicine there, and had prac-
ticed in Chicago under the name of "Dr.
Arnold Held" and that he had left that
city and dropped the name of Held some
time subsequent to July 1909. Although
Muret has claimed he had known Schmidt
only six months. evidence has appeared
which shows that they had business re-
lations two years ago and that the den
tst long had knowledge Of Schmidt's
counterfeiting experiments
WHITMAN TAKES UP CASE
District Attorney Whitman to-day took
the Schmidt investigation in hand Coin
cdentally the federal authorities served
warrants on the warden of the Tombs.
where Schmidt and Muret are confined.
calling for the detention of both men on
the grounds that they had in their posses-
sion implements with which to make
counterfeit money. On the coroner's side
of the inquiry into the murder. it was an
| nounced that the inquest will be held
some time next week.
| The detectives, still securing the Har-
! lem neighborhood in which Anna Au-
muller wa murdered on September .
found to-day that three days after the
crime man resembling Schmidt but Civ
ing another name rented an Eighth ave
nue. apartment. paid a months rent anc
left two suit cases there. The fiat was
opened and the suit cases found this aft
ernoon. In them. with photographs of
Miss Aumuler and Schmidt were numer-
Gus little feminine belongings evidently
those of the murdered woman. Baby
clothes made up and patiently emhroid
cred and material for the making OF
many other garments, enough for com
plete outfit for an infant, were among the
contents of the grips. Some of Schmidt's
things were there, too. A pair of trousers
and a waist coat to match. both marked
with the name ivan Dyke" one of the
aliases Schmidt is known to have as
sumed; n false moustache and false goa
tee and numerous other articles
DISCOVERY SPOILED PLANS.
Schmidt may have intended to re-
move all the bloody, tell tale evidence
from the Bradhurst avenue flat to his
new quarters but he was not there
after September c. il appears. The
discovery Of Anna Aumiuller's body in
the Hudson river and the consequent
police search in the neighborhood
where it was soon found the girl was
killed. must have spoiled his plans.
Some of the letters bearing London
post marks found in Murets office
were signed Vera the writer de-
scribng herself as your loving wife"
one urged him to come home, as he
had nothing TO fear from the detec-
tives"
You can come back in safety il YOU
wear n false moustache and spectacles,"
another passage in the letter read.
Muret himself admitted to-day that
he had known Schmidt at least year
Schmidt frequently came to the dem
lists office to change from clerical
garb to citizens clothes Muret told
Assistant District Attorney Murphy.
In an earlier statement to Police Cap
tain Henry Murot admitted according
to Henry, that he knew that Father
Schmidt was making preparations 10
print spurious bills ana that he advis-
ed the priest not to do So
NO OTHER SON IN AMERICA
AschnfTenburg. Germany Sept IL
Degrading the reports from New Yo-k
mat Hans Schmidt, tho self fess 81
murderer, ana the dentist Ernest A
Muret, an alleged counterfeitine ac-
complice, may possibly be hrothcrs
Schmidt's father declared to-day that
he had no other son in America He
talked freely of his sons career ard
said that he vas known during his
Mainz seminary days as the NAL doc,
tor" He began to show signs OF in
sanity sever years ago and repeated
ly made statements from che pulpi,
which caused his hearers to laugh
loudly.
Schmidts mother is prostrated by
the affair and is pronounced danger
ously i'll with heart disease.
INSANITY IN HIS FAMILY
Frankfort, Germany, Sept 1.-THE
Frankfurter Zeitung says that
schmidt brother has repeatedly
shown signs of mental alteration and
that his maternal uncle committed
suicide. The latter's daughter is in
an asylum for the insane.
BRYAN DRAWS A FULL TENT
Staunton, Va. Sept. l6-Secretary Bryan