Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-20
SCHMIDT'S PAL
IDENTIFIED
ABROAD
CABLE FROM HAMBURGE SAYS MUnET
IS ARTHUR HEIBING FOR WHOM
WARRANTS ARE 0UT==SCHMIDT
BECOMES VERY TAIkATIVE
TELLS OF PREPARING
BLANK CERTIFICATES

Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 20.-Th
police here today identified as Arthu
Heibing the man now detained in NeN
York as ''Dr. Ernest A. Muret" and ur
der suspicion of being concerned wit
the confessed murderer, Father Jc
hanness Schmidt, in his counterfeitin
operations.
Heibing was born at Nakel, in tn
province of Posen In 1887. He resid
ed at Hamburg from 1904 to 1909 pos
ing variously as a merchant and in
suranCe agent and a physician.
He lived in about twenty differen
lodgings here.
Heibing became a member of tn,
Hamburg Young Mems Christian as
scciation under the name of Muret ant
! was repeatedly in trouble in the
courts, He disappeared from Ham
burg at the end of 1909 and warrants
! for swindling frauds are still oul
against him, both in Hamburg and
Berlin.
! New York, Sept 20.--All the death
certificates filed since the first of the
| year 1900 in number, We're examined
| today to ascertain whether they in
cluded any paper forged by father
Hans Schmidt to conceal the murder
ot other persons besides Anna Aumil.
Ter.
Schmidt has confessed that he pre-
pared these blank certificates for the
purpose of accounting for the death of
persons hopelessly sick or crippled
whom he meant to kill painlessly for
their own good. He denied, however,
that he had put his plan into effect or
that he had any victims besides the
girl, portions of whose body still lie
beneath the waters of the Hudson riv-
er.
Revolvers found in the quarters of
Schmidt and of Ernest A. Muret, his
dentist friend, gave the detectives to-
day additional reason to believe that
the association between them was
closer than they have admitted The
weapons are alike in nearly every de-
tail and made at the same factory in
Germany. The ammunition with which
they were loaded, is the same make
Muret says he bought his pistol eight
years ago in Germany, The police be-
lieve that Schmidt got his revolver at
the same place and at about the same
time.
Hans Schmidt, slayer of Anna Au
muller, asked for quick death in a
statement today.
THE district attorney wants me to
go to the electric chair and | want to
60" he said. Whats the use of de-
aying?"
Schmidt afterward expressed ideas
)n the taking of human life that
illed in with the theory of Inspector
Faurot, in charge of the murder in
'estigation. that he might have been
planning a series of homicides. He
declared himself a believer in euthan-
,sia and that he believed he would be
,oing right in taking the lives of the
,rippled and of persons undergoing
mental or physical suffering, de-
rctives who talked with him this af-
ernoon reported
81 believe | would be carrying ont (
;od's will" Schmidt said, "if | put /
mt of the world all such poopla I ,
yould end their lives without their
utferng any pain"
Faurots suspicion of Schmldt's pos
ible homicide plans were strength
ned by the discovery among
chmidt's effects of book of physi
ians' death certificates and other
tanks necessary in disposinr of the
cad. Schmidt declared these were
r use only in the case Of Anna Au-
lulior He had stolen the certificates
ON reputable physician up town.
o told the detectives. because hn had
ltended to kill the girl in Il way that
ould make it appear she had died
natural death But afterwards he
id decided to cut her throat and dis
se of her body as best he o@uld (,
"Schn.idt's papers have given us
fly clues,' said Faurot .oday, ANY
10 of which is liable to tuir up sone-
ing new about his activities His
dustry was amazing and his re
wonderful Ru I am
"a bic to say now whether we caught
n, at the beginning or at the end Of {
series of homicides'' +,
The parts of Anna Aumuller's body f
at were picked up in the Hudson t
yer and kept in HoboheI for tho
quest of the JERSEY authorities '
I'D last night. were brought to this /
'y today and placed in he Bellevue
orgue. A coroner's examination of I
e body, preparatory to the New
ork inquest, will be held tomorrow. v
Whats the difference if I killed t
e or a half dozen?" said Schmidt l.
is afternoon v
1t was the first opportunity the
wspaper men had been given to talk
It'll the prisoner, and in the inter
ew the priest made number of "
artling statements. Il
"Why don't you be quick and put "
g in the electric chair?" he de-