The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-09-19
That's Why Schmidt Slew
Anna AumuIIer.
SHE THREATENED TO TELL ALL.
Chief of Secret Service Flynn Says
Clergyman and Dentist Resemble
Men Who Flooded New Eng
land With Counterfeits.

New York, Sept 17.-Developments
in the murder and dismembering Of
Anna Aumuller are:
The motive for the crime was fear
of exposure and not "for love-" as de-
clared by the Rev Hans Schmidt, the
murderer.
Anna Hirt has supplied to the police
information to support the conclusion
that Miss Aumuller was about to con
fess her relations with Father Schmidt
at meeting arranged for the very
day on which she was killed and hack
ed to pieces.
Coroner Feinberg and Father Braun
are convinced that Schmidt is sane.
but q monster and a pervert.
Inspector Faurot has positively con
nected Schmidt with the dentist, Ern.
est A. Muret, in an elaborate counter.
feiting scheme.
Schmidt has confessed that he treat
ed women as "Dr. Emil Molliere, form
erly of Paris"
The assertion of the dentist that he
first met Schmidt in New York has
been shattered by the discovery Of pho
tographs of Muret taken in Mainz,
Germany, the place where Schmidt
was arrested for forgery.
Schmidt and Muret have been init
mately associated since the former ar
rived in this city in 1910.
Passed Counterfeit Bills.
Evidence was obtained by secret ser
vice agents that Schmidt and another
man not only made counterfeit ten and
twenty dollar bills in a fiat at 516 West
One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street.
but passed them in Boston, New
Haven and other New England cities
Schmidt, the federal officers say, work
ed the counterfeiting scheme with
cdr" Ernest Arthur Muret, bogus
dentist. who was arrested in q raid at
301 st. Nicholas avenue, where he
lived
After comforting with Captain Henry
of the secret service in the customs
liam II. Flynn announced that he had
temporarily taken charge of the gov
ernment's end of the counterfeitinG
case. The chief made the following
announcement:
"The priest and the dentist resemble
and nearly answer the description of
two men who have recently passed
counterfeit twenty dollar bills in Bos-
ton and neighboring places and in New
Haven and other cities in the vicinity"
The government agents have in their
possession thirty-five Of the bills pass
ed in Massachusetts and Connecticut
In the majority of cases the counter
feits were given to bartenders in sa-
looms.
Passed or Bartenders.
''The bills Of which l speak," said
Chief Flynn, "were made by a photo
mechanical process. Two pieces of
paper, printed separately, were pasted
together after silk threads had been
distributed between. The work was
not completely turned out on the print
ing press as far as the printing goes,
but pen and ink were used to make
the counterfeits more perfect. The
bills We're cleverly made, l will admit
that, but they were not the kind Of a
bill that would deceive, under any cir
cumstancces, persons expert in the
handling of currency.
"In the case of bartenders and other
uninitiated people the bills would have
easily passed muster, as the men do
not possess the feel which is acquired
by money experts after years Of hand
ling.
at will be impossible to tell whether
or not the bills collected in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut are similar
to those run off in the Harlem fiat un-
til or my men examine the plates of
the counterfeit bills tomorrow.
"At present the whole matter is In
the hands of the police, and we cannot
get at the plates and recovered bills
just yet. You may rest assured, how
ever, that l will take care of this den
tist fellow as soon as the plate is turn
ed over to u.s."