Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
Mind of Slayer of Anna AumuIIer
Works Perfectly, Declare Doc
tors Who Examined Him.
KNOWS HIS LESSON WELL
Phrenologist Visits Cell and As
serts That Former Priest Has
Highly Developed Cunning.

NEW YORK, Sept 27.-Doctors
who went to the Tombs to-day and
examined Hans Schmidt, self con-
fesed slayer of Anna Aumuller, pro-
nounced him sane
The physicians were DR.. Michael
Erlwein, of No. 10 Convent avenue,
and DR.. John H. Branth, Of No. 1873
West Eighty-seventh street. With
them was Charles w. F. Horn, a
prominent phrenologist who lives at
No. 220 West One Hundred and
Twenty seventh street.
DR.. Erlwein knew Schmidt when
lie was priest in st. Josepn's par
ish, Harlem.
Schmidt greeted DR.. Erlwein cor
daily, and after they had shaken
hands the physician remarked:
We'll, you are in a nice fix"
i know it" replied Schmidt.
vein
Il have no cause for sorrow"
answered the priest. This matter
was between me and a higher power.
There IS no use discussing it. You
would not understand. But l want
W uit DIS SOOH dS possible.
After the interview with Schmidt
Dr. Erlwein and Dr. Branth said with
much positiveness they did not be-
leve he was insane.
Thinks Priest Shamming.
Il think he is only shamming in
sanity" added DR. Erlwein. He is
very shrewd man"
DR. Branth, who has handled many
cases of insanity, said he observed
Schmidt carefully.
Il found he has a mind that works
perfectly" said the physician His
reasoning power is clear and his abil-
ity to show insanity is not good be
cause his mind has too large a grasp
of things to make itself appear i'm
becillic.
"As one instance Of his sanity I
might say that Schmidt told
me OF what he said was
command from a higher power to
as if it had been learned by heart
He showed no disposition to ramble
In his conversation.
THE man also is cunning. As to
stories which have been published
that one side of mis- face shows right
eousness and the other sinfulness,
that is absurd
"One side of the face almost always
differs from the other in appearance,
when each side is taken separately
That, however, does not prove every
one is a criminal"
More Alienists Retained.
1t was learned at the District At
torney's office this afternoon that Drs
Carlos F. Macdonald and William
Mabon have been retained by the
State a1iaDiStS tp Schmidt
The inquest into the death of An
ma Aumuller has been postponed I'M
til the latter part of the week, by
which time, 1t is believed, the alien
lists for the State will have COM
pleted their preliminary examinations
of Schmidt.
The prisoner expressed joy to-day
when he learned that his father, who
lives in Aschaffenburg, Germany has
decided to come to New York to help
him.
Il knew it," exclaimed the priest
II knew he would stand by mel"
Dispatches from Aschaffenburg say
however that Schmidt's parents still
are clinging to the hope that the
man under arrest in New York is not
their son, but has been posing as the
real Hans Schmidt. Schmidt, the dis
patch further says, is the father of
two children who now are living in
Munich Most of the relatives of
Hans Schmidt in Aschaffenburg be-
ieve he is sane
Boyhood Friend a Visitor.
A boyhood friend of Schmidt visit
ed him in the Tombs to-day and af-
terward declared the prisoner is the
man whom he knew in Germany
as child in Aschaffenburg, and later
as a priest. He said Schmidt's par
ants had not seen the man since he
disappeared under a cloud several
years ago.