The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-09-16
ANOTHER ARREST
IN AUMULLER CASE
NEW YORK DENTIST DETAINED
IN CONNECTION WITH GIRLS
DEATH.

New York, Sept. 15.--Announce
ment was made late tonight by Po
lice Inspector Faurot that another
man was under arrest here in con-
nection with the murder of Anna
Aumuler, the crime with which
Hans Schmidt the priest, is charged
Faurot declared the new develop
ments would prove fully as SEN
sational as Schmidt's arrest.
The inspector, as he left head
quarters with Detectives OGill and
O'Connor, said they were going 70
upper Manhattan, where they had
unIoc arrest, in his own home, a
prominent physician.
Dentist is in Custody.
The Inspector later arrested nr.
f. Muret, a dentist, of 3Ol St Mich
olas avenue. The doctor was taken
at hls home, which was left in
charge of detectives.
Letters and Documents Translated.
Inspector Faurot spent the latter
part of the early night with a corps
of mon IN translatine a number Of
letters and documents found in
Schmjdts trunk. One document was
a copy of the affidavit lodged in
the Munich court against Schmidt
nearly four years ago charging him
with forgery and attempted fraud
Schmidt was acquitted of the charg
however, following testimony OF
alionists to the effect that Schmidt
was mot responsible
An important witness has been
discovered Inspector Faurot said to-
night. in a contractor who saw
Schmidt carry the mattress to the va
cant lot where it was burned.
A search of the lot whore the
mattress was destroyed resulted in
the finding among other things CT
a blood stained bone. three inches
long and thought to be from the head
of a human being.
Warden Declares Schmidt Insane.
Hans Schmidt, the priest who con-
fessed that he killed the Aumuller
woman with a butcher knife "as a
sacrifice to be consummated in blood
is IN the observation ward of the
Tombs prison tonight under the
watchful eye of DR.. Mcclure, the
prison physician.
Warden Fallon of the Tombs de-
clares the man is insane-one of
the most dangerous men ever con
fined in the prison-and in this view
he was upheld by Deputy Commls-
sioner of Corrections Wright.
From far off Maiz, Germany there
came today to Monsignor Joseph +.
Mooney, vicar general of the Arch
Diocese of New York, cablegram
from the secretary of the bisnop
which said Schmidt has been declar-
ed insane there and suspended by
the bishop. The message read:
Schmidt born at Aschaffenburg.
Priest of Diocese of Maiz. Ran away
from Maiz because of attempted
fraud; arrested by police; declared
sane by court and discharged, Sus-
pended by bishop for acts and for
presenting falsified document re-
earding studies he pretended to have
made. Then left diocese
In his cell today Schmidt told and
retold the story of his crime; that
after the woman was dead ne cut
up the body and sank it, portion by
portion, in the waters of the Hudson
river, from the stern of ferry boat.
THE Lord told me to dc it, or
st. Elizabeth, my patron, demanded
the sacrifice were the only reasons
he gave for his deed and he invar-
iably added
God in his own time will clear
it up. God and Abraham knew why
| killed her"
Alphonse Keolble, SchmidtF attor-
ney, indicated today that insanity
would be the defense at Schmidts
trial.