South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-20
Confessed Slayer of Anna Au-
muller, in Statement, Says
He Wants No Delay in Met
ing Out His Punishment.
EXPRESSES IDEAS ON
TAKING HUMAN LIFE
Discovery of Death Certificate
Strengthens Suspicious That
Priest Had Homicide Plans
in Mind.

NEW YORK. Sept. 2O.-Hans
Schmidt. slayer of Anna Aumuller.
asked for quick death in a statement
Friday.
The district attorney wants me to
go to the electric chair and want
20 CO." he said. What's the use of
delaying?"
Schmidt afterward expressed ideas
on the taking of human life that
filled in with the theory of Inspector
Faurot. in charge of the murder in
vestigation, that the renegade priest
might have been planning a series of
hOmicides. He declared himself be-
lever in euthanasia and that he
would be doing right in taking the
lives of the crippled and of persons
undergoing mental or physical suf-
fding, detectives who talked with
him Friday afternoon reported.
L believe / would be carrying out
Gods will" Schmidt said If put out
of this world all such people. II
would end their lives without their
suffering any pain"
FaurOt's suspicious Of Schmidts
possible homicide plans were
Strengthened by the discovery among
Schmidt's effects of a book of physi
clans death certificates and other
blanks necessary I'm disposing of the
dead. Schmidt declared these were
only for use in the case of Anna Au-
mu Ter. He had stolen the certificates
from a reputable physician uptown,
he told the detectives. because he
had intended to kill the girl in a way
that would make it appear she had
died a natural death. But afterward
he had decided TO cut her throat and
dispose Of her body best he could.
Papers Give Many Clues.
"Schmidts papers have given us
many clues said Faurot, ANY one
of which is liable to turn up some
thing new about his activity. His
industry was amazing and his re-
sourcefulness wonderful. But l am
unable TO say now whether we caught
him at the beginning or at the end of
a series of homicides"
The parts of Anna Aumuller's
body that were picked up in the Hud-
son river and kept in HOboken for the
inquest of the New Jersey authorities
held Thursday night. were brought to
this city Friday and placed in the
Bellevue morgue a coroner's exam
ination of the body preparatory to the
New York inquest will be held Satur-
day.
Statement to Reporters
Schmidt Friday made the following
statement TO newspaper reporters:
You people can say what you
please, l have only known Ernest
Muret for II months The papers
: Friday say | am his cousin and that
I we were friends in Germany. Those
statements are untrue.
Reference also is made 10 note
for $500 given TO me by Muret in
1871. II the note bears the date 1911
why that's a mistake"
Schmidt paused here, cleared his
throat, and began replying 10 a theory
advanced that he had killed Helen
Green. young woman whom he met
in a Broadway restaurant.
As for Helen Green he said, "she
is only a casual acquaintance I do
not care TO say anything more of her.
But she is alive, that is sufficient"
Among your belongings" re-
porter said, was found a postal card
addressed to you, mailed in London,
Sept y. and signed kathleen O'Mal-
, ley What of her."
The O'Malley woman I do not
know" was the solemn response OF
the discredited prisoner. Then. ap-
parently. as the question sank deeper
into his brain. il seemed to nettle him
and he blurted out with these words.
why do YOU newspapermen and the
district attorney question me SO much;
why don't YOU be quick and put ME in
the chair? The district attorney
wants me 10 go 10 the chair: 1 want
TO 20 10 the chair. So why all this
delay?"
Il am sorry for any man who
thinks life in this world is worth liy-
ing.
I have faced death many a time
and I viii face death in the electric
chair without moving q muscle
I am ready at this moment. or in
months time. so what is the use of
delaying?
Wants No Red Tape
Everything is known. Then why
all these formalities and all this red
tape. Nothing has been concealed by
me from the police. Nothing has been
concealed from the district attorney.
I have denied nothing and viii deny
nothing about the death OF Anna
Il know OF nobody else in this mat
ter | do not think il fair for YOU
men and the district attorney 10 make
suspects OF them. The stigma is
bound 10 stick.
Il am the only man concerned. and
am willing 10 please the district at
torney Il any time BY going 10 the
electric chair For death is really a
step to another life and / have done
my duty.
The explanation given By Muret
as TO our quarrel is correct. / told
Muret I wanted 10 be like the Savior
and that I had the aid OF ST. Eliza
beth in my undertaking"
Schmidt was here asked regarding
charges that nc had killed other per