The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-20
WANTS TO GO To
THE ELECTRIC
CHAIR
HANS SCHMIDT ASKS WHAT is
THE USE OF DELAYING AND
ASKS FOR DEATH.
RIGHT TO TAKE CRIPPLES' LIVES
Renesrade Priest Says He Believes He
Would Be Carrying Out Gods WiIIp
IT He Put All Such People Out of
This Worid-Muret in Tombs.

New York, Sept. 20.-Hans Schmidt
slayer of Anna Aumuller, in a state.
ment Friday asked for death.
The district attorney wants me to
go to the electric chair, and I want
to CO." he said. What's the use of
delaying"
Schmidt afterward expressed ideas
on the taking of human life that fitted
with the theory of Inspector Faurot. in
charge of the murder investigation.
that the renegade priest might have
been planning series of homicides.
He declared himself a believer in ell.
thanasia and said that he would he
doing the right in taking the lives of
the crippled and of persons undergoing
mental or physical suffering, detectives
who talked with him reported
Il believe I would be carrying out
Gods WILL" Schmidt said, "If put out
OF this world all such people. l would
end their lives without their suffer-
ihs any PAIN.
Schmidts papers have given us
fifty clews," said Faurot, "any one of
which is liable to turn up something
new about his activities. His industry
was amazing and his resourcefulness
wonderful. But l am unable to saw
now whether we caught him at the be.
ginning or at the end of a series of
homicides."
The parts of Anna Aumuller's body
that were picked up in the Hudson
river and kept in Hoboken for the in.
quest of the New Jersey authorities
were brought to this city and placed in
the bellevue morgue. A coroner's ex.
animation of the body, preparatory to
the New York inquest, will be held
today Z,
Concerning Ernest Muret, implicated
with schmidt in counterfeiting opera.
tons, Inspector Faurot said.
i have learned that DR.. Muret was
IN Chicago at the time of the inves.
ugation into the life of Johann Hoeh
lhe 'bluebeard of Chicago in 1905.
Hoeh was arrested after it was cbars.
ed he had killed eighteen of his wivas
mere was report that the number
Oh wives would reach fifty"
No charge in connection with Anro
Aumullers death or of counterfeiting
mas oeen made against Muret He is
IN the Tombs awaiting sentence for
violating the law in having a pisto, in
his possession.
In addition to death certificates and
undertakers' permits found IN
schmidt's effects, there were photo.
graphic reproductions of the death
certificate issued in the case of Robert
smith, who died of heart failprs los+
April. Schmidt. in his capacity as
priest offciated at Smiths funeral
What's the difference if I killed one
or half dozen?" asked Schmid, ri
day afternoon.
II was the first opportunity the news
paper men had been given to talk with
the prisoner and in the interview the
priest made a number of startling
statements.
Why don't you be quick and nut
me IN the electric chair?" he demand
ed The district attorney wants me
TO go to the electric chair, and want
TO CO. and what's the use of all this
delay am sorry for anyone who
thinks this life is worth the living 7
have faced death many time. and 7
Will face death in the electric chair
without moving a muscle"
Schmidt was asked about the mur.
der of Alma Kellner in Louisville
Il could convince the Louisville an.
: thorities that murdered that little
: girl" he asserted. but that would he
I false and laupbshi.