The San Francisco call., 1913-09-24

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In his fantastic tale of DR..
veloped an ingenious theory OF
sonaiity. In one character he
was a man of honor and Integrity,
full of generous and kindly hu-
man impulses, while in the other
character he was g fiend capable
of any iniquity and who delighted
in torturing and Staying the weak
and helpless.
Hans Schmidt has discounted
the novelists fanciful idea. fer he
has shown that he had not dual
personality, but a quadrurle per-
sonality, and that under different
names. and in different garbs, and
in different parts of the city. he
lived lives as separate and dis
tinct as If he were. indeed, diff
ferent man each time.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE CHANGED
More: So completely was the
man changed in his different per-
sonalities that it is claimed by
those who knew him that even
his physical appearance under
went an alteration. as Stevenson
describes Mr.. Hyde's look chang
ing from that of Doctor Jekyll
It was remarked by several who
saw Hans Schmidt as he was
brought into the Tombs after his
arrest that he resembled Albert
Wolter, who was electrocuted for
numbering little Ruth Wheeler.
Yet nothing could be less like
the pasty faced. ferret eyed. low
browed Wolter than the picture
Of Schmidt that was found among
Anna Aumuller's belongings. That
photograph was the picture Of
handsome. bold and dashing man.
the way he looked to the woman
whose heart he had won
In his desperate plight in
prison with the electric chair ap-
parently waiting to receive him
IN it's deathly clutches. Schmidt
Is showing every evidence of in
sanity. He is talking wildly
about having been commanded
by gentle St. Elizabeth to slay
a young girl, and drink her blood
as a sacrifice of atonement, and
declaring that God and Abraham
directed him to commit forgery
and manufacture counterfeit
money, and that they would take
care of him in his forthcoming
trial.
A CRAFTY SCHEME
1t is clever and crafty
move to escape the consequences
of his deed. and 1t is just what
a high priced lawyer would ad-
wise him to do were he rich
enough to indulge In the luxury
OF alienists.
Before. however. too much faith
is placed in his stories of super
natural advisers being the result
of a disordered brain, 1t is well
TO consider how consummate an
actor he Is and how perfectly he
has carried out the other roles
that he has filled.
BY day he was a minister. wear
ing the garb OF his sacred Office.
and bearing, according to Father
Braun. his superior. a face Of
peculiar meek piety. AS a MIN
lister he said mass, he preached
sermons that were full of fiery
and brilliant eloquence; he per-
formed marriage ceremonies and
baptized little children and lis
tened to confessions and shrived
the dying.
BELOVED as MINISTER
As Father Schmidt he was known
and respected and beloved. No one
doubted his piety or his religious
fervor. No one of his parishlon-
ers who noted his modest, down
cast eyes ever dreamed that they
were wandering in unholy passion
after pretty servant maid. No one
who saw his white hands seleYat-
ing the host ever suspected that
they were stained with blood
All day he lived the life of a
priest, reading holy books, saying
prayers. ministering to the ahllct-
ed. rebuking sin. but when night
came his personality changed as
he changed his clothes. He was
no longer the good priest, but a
cunning and daring criminal. or a
bourgeois householder, or sensu-
alist indulging in orgies of the
flesh, or he was a physician per-
forming operations outside of the
law for desperate women, which-
ever character he elected to I'LL
for the time being.
Immediately dressed IN profess
sional garb, Schmidt was DIR.
Emil Molliere," the graduate OF
the woman's department of a
Paris hospital, and not only per-
formed Illegal operations. but en-
dangered the lives of his patients
IN addition by surgery which he
had neither the skill nor knowl-
edge to do. He also devoted him
self to the study Of motherhood.
WEIRD METAMORPHOsIs
Good DR.. Jekyll. as Mr.. Hyde,
breaking little girls bones, is not
weirder metamorphosis OF
character than that Schmidt, a
priest. should change into DIR.
Emil Molliere, professional mall
practitioner.
Presto. Another turn of the
kaleidoscope, and Schmidt is no
longer either priest in gown and
cassociS. nor the spic and span
physician. He Is part owner of a
bachelor establishment In West
One Hundred, and Thirty-fourth
street. His partner is dentist by
the name of Muret. and the janitor
and the people in the house notice
that they bring in queer furni-
ture. a little printing press, and
engraver's tools, and plates OF
copper.
AND THEN A CoUNTERFEITER
The woman who manages the
house sees only plainly dressed
man, looking like skilled arti-
san. who Is very busy, and who
strangely enough never comes to
F, work except at night, but she
never once suspects that his work
is making bogus money, or that
the ordinary appearing man is
eitsSgr a counterfeiter. or priest.
or Doctor Moiliere, the physician.