The Washington times., 1913-09-19
SCHMIDT KILLED
TWO, IS BELIEF
Police Think Helen Green Was
Also Victim of New York
Murderer.
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= neither he had murdered another girl:
v neither Muret was related to him, and
lrious other questions relating to the
{ Use.
Schmidt wrote in German on the back
OF this note the following, as near as II
could be translated:
WHO never ate his bread in tears,
Who never through the dreary night
Upon his pallet weeping sat,
Knows not the Almighty power"
The body of Anna Aumuller will be
brought to the New York morgue today
from Hoboken, and Schmidt probably
VIII be taken to identify it. The detec-
tves have been assured by Schmidt that
he could identify the body beyond any
doubt Schmidt appeared much de-
pressed TO-DAY after reading the papers,
death certificates He refused to talk
and was sullen.
Has Death Certificates.
.,st of victims might have rivaled that
of H. H. Holmes, the notorious Phila-
'ielphia murderer, who was hanged in
1916. This was the belief expressed by
the detectives today. following another
.earch of Schmidts trunk, which re-
veAled that he had a supply of blank
Ccath' and burial certihcateS.
It is believed that Schmidt planned to
crge these certificates in doing away
with his victims, and in this manner
could have returned a report to the
.it alth authorities indicating that the
nerson died a natural death. This in
a measure was the method used by the
notorious Holmes, who killed at least
eleven persons before he was captured.
The police found photographs of both
sides of the death certificate issued for
nobert Smith. sixty-nine. who died last
April, Schmidt visited Smith twice, ad-
Hlinistsred extreme JUNCTION. and Off,
ciated at the funeral. The family did
rot know how Schmidt obtained pos
session of the certificate to have it
photographed.
Utter Degenerate.
The utter depth of the degeneracy of
,h hs,priest was indicated yesterday when
Il became known he had confessed that
he was suffering from an incurable dis
ca sc. and that in some respects his
crimes against Anna Aumuller paral-
;e.ed those in the case OF Jennie Bos-
S heiter, the Paterson mill girl, who
WAS killed in 1910.
-lmong the letters which Inspector
f;-urot found in the rectory room OF
Sc hmidt at st. Joseph's, 400 West 18th
street, are said TO be several from wom-
pa rishoner would write to spiritual
adviser, but in a way to indicate that
he spiritual relationship was an incon-
sequential quantity. Detectives are at
work on these letters with a view TO
obtaining more light on the worldly
activities of schmidt.
The theory advanced to the effect that
Schmidt was not Schmidt, but that the
original Johannes Schmidt, ordained q
priest in Germany. had been murdered
and his credentials stolen by his muir
derer, was not credited yesterday by
ATTORNEY Alphonso G. Koelble, who Is
Atcing for schmidt ~
Doubts Theory.
Il don't take q bit of stock in this
theory he said "A Johannes Schmidt
scs ordained a priest, according to the
.ecords, and 1 nave no doubt that the
man who has confessed to the murder
Of Anna Aumuller is the original
That two more arrests are impending
n the case was admitted yesterday by
The. police One of these is a woman,
. no already has been questioned by the
detectives, but who is believed to know
more of the operations of cchmidt and
"Dr" Muret than she has told.
The other person under suspicion is
A man. Inspector Faurot has been in
,elsphonic communication with Chief of
Fo1Ce FRANK THUS, Oh EHSieWoou, N j.
Ii 10 known that the police of Engle-
wood and New York have been working
together to effect an arrest.
While admitting that he had been
trying to make money" Schmidt in
sisted that he had never passed any
of the counterfeit bills for two reasons:
First, because he had not brought the
counterfeit to the degree of perfection
: here he thought it would be passable.
an6, 6,-second, because he never had in
tended to shove. any of the spurious
bills until he had accumulated a large
enough quantity of them TO enable him
to carry out his plan Of ameliorating
the condition of the poor n-this coun-
Try Ind Germany.
He declared there was no insanity in
his family. and that II was not nice"
on the part of the newspapers to print
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