The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-09-25
Horrible New York Murder

OF St. JoSeph'S Roman Catholic
church, charged with the murder
of Anna Aumuller, a domestic,
the mystery surrounding the
finding, twelve days ago, of parts
of the dismembered body of a
girl in the Hudson river was
solved. Schmidt, according to
the police reports, has confessed.
and at the time of his arrest at
tempted to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with a safety
razor blade.
Il killed her because | loved
her so much" Schmidt is alleged
to have tod his captors. but the
police version of the motive for
the crime is that the young wom-
an was about to become moth
er. He had married her through
a ceremony of his own perform
ing, without witnesses.
According to the police and
the district attorneys office,
Schmidt's confession was full and
absolute. In it he is quoted as
saying that he killed his compan-
ion with butcher knife and cut
the body up with the knife and
a saw. The deed was commit
ted, the police say while the
woman slept, shortly after mid
night on September 2, in an ap-
artment in Bradhurst avenue.
where the priest had placed her
five days before.
When her heart had ceased
beating, according to the alleged
confession, Schmidt carried the
body from the bed to the bath
room and, placing it in the tub.
began Immediately his CORY task
of cutting it up. With the keen
knife and the saw he cut off the
head. arms and legs. Still fear
full of detection, he then cut the
body in two.
Five bundles, wrapped in bed
clothes and papers, was made of
the six parts. Five times
Schmidt left the apartment house
with a bundle to cross the Hud-
son river to the Jersey shore.
Five times he leaned over the
stern of the ferry boat in mid
stream and gently gave the riv-
err his burden. Then he returned
to his church.
New York, Sept, 16. Strip
ping from the river murder its
mysteries, the police barred today
a nest of crime. feathered, they
claim, by the Rev. Schmidt and
his pal, DR.. Ernest A. Muret,
dentist by day, by night alleged
counterfeiter.
Muret is under arrest under
the technical charge Of having a
pistol in his possession in viola
ton of the law.
He was arrested today, after
detectives, ransacking Schmidt's
apartments, had uncovered evil
dence to show that Schmidt was
a counterfeiter.
This evidence led them to a
fiat rented by a man giving the
name of George Miller" in
which we're found all essentials
to the counterfeiters' art.
The janitress of the building,
when brought face to face with
Muret, named him as Miller.
Muret recognized her.
Schmidt and Muret, the jani-
tress said, and Muret admitted it,
had spent long hours together in
the fiat, claiming to be medic
al students and saying that they
wanted the flat for the purpose
of making experiments.
The police say they expert.
mented in counterfeiting, The
kitchen was fitted up as dark
room, A camera, a printing
press. Photographic supplies and
other equipment handy to coun-
terfeiters were found there, but
what the police relied on most to
rivet their case was a bundle of
charred counterfeit bills found
under the sink and bits of other
charred bills in the other rooms.
Whlstler's House,
Whistler wrote jestingiy over his