Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-16
SCHMIDT INVESTIGATION LEADS
70 EXPOSURE or NEST OF
CRIME.
SLAYER or ANNA AuMuLLER
MAKER or spURIous MONEY
Ernsst Murst, Dentist by Day, Alleged
coun4ssssitee BY Night, Believed 40
complies Of eehHsldA-Raid Of Apart
msnts Loads 70 pisoevsry Of coun-
tsrfsitjns Plant.

New York Sept 16-Sn4pping
from New Yoriks river murder Ats
mysteries tho police barred today q
nest of crime. feathered. they claim.
by the Rev. Hans Schmidt. confessed
slayer OF Anna Aumuller. and DR..
Ernest Muret dentist by day. by
night alleged counterfeiter.
Mu1et u under arrest on q technical
charge Of having in his possession
pistol In violation OF tho Sullivan law.
He was arrested this morning after de-
tsc,dva0 ransacking Schnddt'S apart
ments had uncovered evidence to show
Schmidt was counterfeiter. This dis
covery led them to nat. rented by
:.,an under the name OF George Miller.
which contained all the apparatus nee
eGsary for the counterfeiting work.
Muret was brought face TO face with
tho 1anhress OF the nat unaware and
she recognized him az Miller. Muret
recognized tho woman and said SO.
Posed % Medical Students.
Schmidt and Muret, the janitress
said, ana Muret admitted. had spent
long hours together In the fiat. They
told the renting agents that they were
medical students and wanted the fat
as . place for making experiments
necessitated by thar studies What
they really did. the police allege, was
10 experiment in counterfeitins. The
kitchen was htted up as a dark room.
a camera. printing press and photo
graphic supplies and other equipment
were found there. but waht the police
relied on 10 strengthen their case was
bundle OF charrel counterfeit bills
undoR Z kitchen sink and bits OF ether
bills scaaersd thru the four rooms
49, 0e4octives had arrested Nuree
fl,ay aook into Gust ody ~ material
vftaaae ths nsald employed ~ his den-
III olRtcs. She said she Was Bertha
Zech.
ptnd surgical Instruments.
Tho police. busy with Muret. had
found littlA time TO question her this
morning but expected to pry from her
during the day whatever she might
know concerning the counterfe1tms
operations.
With Muret locked up detectives SET
about searching his office. There they
found in addition to such equipment
AZ dentist uses IN practicing his
nro,e.sion. a revolver and all kinds OF
obstetricaa Instruments. several sur
,ns OF these instruments caused the
detectiyes 10 press with renewed vigor
The search for something which might
1irecsIy connect the dentist with the
Aumalller murder.
In spite of q strong physical re-
certblance between Schmidt and Mur-
q, he later claimed there was no re-
lationship
"The foreheads are the same" said
the inspector. 1.-The eyes are the same.
the noses are the same. the ears are
the same. II these two men are not
brothcrs they are at least closely re-
lated"
essk For AeeompIies.
The copper plate from which the
spurious bills were struck was made.
IN the opinion OF detectives. by an ex-
nert engrayer The maker may have
been tho priest or the dentist but de-
tectiyes believe that II was neither.
They sought an expert today as an ac-
complice. The bills were in imitation
of $50 yellow backs.
Schmidts pretentions Of insanity in
the opinion OF Coroner F'einberg have
been dealt a death blow by the barring
of his record as - .o3-.e-se!tes.
'.Father Schmidt impresses me as an
unscrupulous man with master
mind" said the coroner. Think OF
man capable of qualifying for the
priesthood. who Is a great counterfeit
Grand who might have dabbled with
medicine. That indicates no ordinary
mind"
mu,st Held For Trial.
william Flynn. chief OF the United
states secret service. reached New
York today and began an Investigation
OF schmidt and Muret's counterfeiting
plant
Muret told the police that he was
born in Chicago. Framed in his ofice
was membership certificate issued IN
Chicago In 1911 by the Dental Pro-
tective 81 Association OF the United
states Of America,
When arraigned today on the techni-
cal charge of having a pistol in his pos
session. Muret was held for trial on
s5. .COO bail. He waived examination.