Evening journal., 1913-09-15
GIRL MURDER
COMMANDED AS
A SACRIFICE"
Priest Says He Slew Anna
AumueIIer, Then Drank Some
of Her Blood
MURDERER DECLARES ~
VICTIM WAS HIS WIFE
BY the United Press.

BY the United Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 15.--"I was
commanded by my patron saint st.
Elizabeth of Hungary TO offer a sac
riiice. Like the sacrifice Of Abraham,
il must be one of blood. So I killed
Anna Aumuellcr and drank some Of
the blood to consummate the sacri-
fee"
With this remarkable statement
from the lips of Hans Schmidt who
has been acting as a Catholic priest
in New York and whose confessionl
has cleared up one OF the mostl
bafiling murder mysteries in the his
tory of the city. police and alenists
alike, who have followed criminal his
tory were puzzled today over tho
mental makeup Nof this man who
committed the fiendish crime
Coroner Feinberg declared today
that he had never before seen a man
whose face showed such evidences Of
a double personality.
zone side OF Schmidt's face pre-
sents a sanctiiied appearance such as
a priest might have" said Feinberg-
But the left side of his face Is en-
ltirely different There are the marks
of the devil on that side. Brutal in
stnct seems to be marked about the
mouth About the eye on one side
there is a diabolical sneer on tho
other there is a beautihc express
sion"
The pillow slip that led directly to
the apprehension of Schmidt as tho
murderer of the woman. fragments OF
whose body had lain for days in the
4 Hoboken morgue unidentified had
the mark Of a new Newark manu-
facturer on H. The man who
bought the pillow slip from the man
ufacturer was found in George Sachs.
a Harlem dealer. Then the trail lod
ito a partly furnished nat which
Schmidt had provided for Anna
lAumucller, formerly a servant In tho
rectory of St BOniface Church.
i There traces OF the crime we're
found when the detectives entered. A
knife and saw used In dismembering
. the body were found as we'll as wire
similar TO that found by a part Of
J the body. Schmidt was then sought
IN st. Joseph's Church, lie appeared
IN his clerical robes.
4 picture Of Anna Aumuellcr found
, in the fiat was shown him. Inspector
Faurot asking where she was. Schmidt
, collapsed. A detailed confession
followed and at police headquarters
he marked with pencil on diagram
Of human body just how he had
/, dismembered the body of Miss Aum-
ueller. II was cut into nine parts.
First the young woman's throat
was cut as she lay sleeping. Then
the body was carried 10 the bath
room and Schmidt began the task of
cutting il TO pieces. The arms were
severed at the shoulder. the torso
was cut in Two at the waist line and
the legs we're severed first. at the
thigh and then just below the knee.
This work took time and when il
was completed. Schmidt returned to
his church and proceeded with his
duties as assistant priest. When his
work there was done, he returned to
the job of dismembering the body Of
the young girl who had trusted him
who was about to bear him q child,
and who all the time had been salts
fled with a marriage ceremony which
Schmidt performed himself. A mar
riage license issued last February
was found i'm the fiat which Schmidt
had provided for The girl
II was after Schmidt had been
taken to the Tombs that the Rev
Father Luke j. Evers. the prison
chaplain asked to see Schmidt IN
order 10 question him as to his
standing as a priest It was then
Father Evers said that Schmidt dc.
clared he murdered the girl as a
"blood sacrifice"
Father Evers questioned Schmidt
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