Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-03
SCHMIDT CAUSE
Of DEATH OF
GIRL
THE CORONER'S JURY AT THE IN.
QUEST OF DISMEMDERED ANNA
AUMuLLER FINDS HANS SCHMIDT
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HORRIBLE
CRIME.
TEARS ROSARY FROM
NECK AND THROWS IT

New York, Oct 3.--Hans Schmidt,
the priest who murdered Anna Au-
muller. became frenzied today at the
coroner's inquest into the death of his
victim, rose from his seat, ripped
from his neck the rosary he had worn
ever since his incarceration, tore it
into many bits, and hurled them at
the newspaper reporters sitting half
a dozen steps away The jury found
him responsible for the girls death.
District Attorney Whitman express.
ed the positive conviction today that
Hans Schmidt is sane. Schmidt will
be placed on trial for the murder of
Anna Aumuller, whom he slew as she
slept, dsmembered and sank in the
Hudson river on September 90 last.
Mr. Whitman's opinion is based on
the conclusion of the four alienists
tombs at Mr.. Whitman's behest. Their
formal report will be made soon
Schmidt's outburst of temper occur
red in the presence of jury of mil
lionaires empaneled to conduct the
inquest.
The verdict was quickly found. 1t
follows:
eve, the jury, believe that Anna
Aumuller came to her death on Sep
tember 2, 1913, at number 6S Brad
hurst avenue, at the hands of Hans
Schmidt"
Schmidt was Immediately remanded
to the tombs without bail to await the
action of the grand jury.
Theodore P. Shonts, president of
the marlborough Rapid Transit com
pany, was foreman of the jury. His
fellow jurors included Vincent Astor,
B. j. Greenhut, merchant; Mortimer
Rogensberg cigar manufacturer, and
F. S. Marston, banker.
During the examination of Witnesses
mos a trace of emotion crossed
Schmidt's face, but Coroner Fem
berg's charge seemed to lash the pris'
Onpr into a sudden tempest of fury.
Jumping to his feet. his eyes blaz
ing, and his lips moving, Schmidt tore
the rosary from his neck with SIN
gle sweep of his arms and before de-
tectives could stay him had snapped
it into many parts and hurled them at
the newspaper men. The torso of the
victim viewed by the jury was iden-
titled by Anna Hirt, who roomed with
the Aumuller girl at the parish house
of st. Boniface's church. Detectives,
the physician who made the autopsy
and Inspector Faurot, to whom
Schmidt confessed, testified. Faurot
detailed in a hundred words or less
the substance of the confession.
do you wish to place your client
on the stand?" Coroner Feinberg next
asked counsel for Schmidt The an
swer was negative and the coroner,
apparently expecting that Schmidt
would testify, asked if the priest had
anything to say
Nothing whatever" replied the
lawyer.
The coroner's charge was brief. He
told the jury that it could find that
Anna Aumuller came to her death at
the hands of an unknown person or
that she was killed by person to be
named by the jury.
"Hans Schmidt does not appear be-
fore you on trial for the murder,
he said. "You are simply to find
verdict as a coroner's jury
Within the fifteen minutes from the
time the first witness had taken the
stand, the jury had withdrawn. With
in ten minutes more, it had returned
with it's verdict.
Counsel for Schmidt issued state
ment this afternoon saying that his
clients outbreak had been provoked
by the coroner's jury who had made
a holiday of the inquest and had ap-
pealed to public-spirited citizens for
funds to bury Anna Aumuller. Schmidt
resented this, he said. and hurled his
rosary and some coins at the newspa-
per men because he thought they
were laughing at the coroner's jury
unusual appeal.