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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER 1.

An old gray-haired woman, sitting
by the fire in her little home in
Aschaffenburg, Germany two weeks
ago was handed photograph by the
mail man and the picture proved to
be that of her long-absent Johannes
Schmidt in America. On the back of
the card was the sentence in Ger
man "Auf Elm frOhes wiedersehen"( To
our next happy meeting) In post
card that came two days later was
the encouraging promise, Il rejoice
that | soon may be with you"
Tears of jov rose in the old frau's
eyes. Probably she told the news
of her son and his plan to return to
her neighbors and to her husband
Heinrich Schmidt, who is 65 years
old, one year older than Frau
Schmidt.
Yet the Rev. Hans Schmidt when
he sent the likeness and the message
was undoubtedly already plotting the
cruel murder Of Anna Aumuller, the
comedy young girl he said he loved.
He had looked at fats and stolen -
death certificate, had copy made OF
it by photography and had obtained in
some way blank death certificates.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

J married life But was worried. II
our relation became known, how
could l explain7
Il thought il all out alone and de-
cided to Kill my wife.
My decision made, il was time,
thought to act. l went out and hunt
ed for tools. I came downtown.
thought ! could best do 1t with a
butcher knife.
Il went to a little shop in Center
street, just south of Worth street, or
near that street. and bought the
butcher knife and the saw.
Il took the tools with me to or
apartment on the night Of Septem-
Der /. Anna was lying in her bed.
do not know whether she was asleep.
stepping over to the bed with the
butcher knife, l seized her and told
her quickly that l had come to carry
out my threat.
Il cut her throat with the butcher
knife while held her. While the body
was still warm rushed into the bath
room with it. I threw her into the
bathtub. And then l cut her up.
Il cut the body into five or six
pieces.
Then I went out and bought tar
moth paper in which to wrap the
Il used the first things that came to
my mind to use as first coverings for
the parts I damned one section into
the pillow slip. l used, l think, part
of the bedspread to wrap about the
legs or arms. I may have used some
of Annals lingerie.
MY work was rapid. I wanted to
get rid of the head. 1t was the first
thing I took away. l wrapped It IN
paper and tied It up like a package.
with the head under my arm, I
made my way to the river ! bought
a ferry ticket and got aboard the fer
~ to Fort Lee I laid the package
down on the seat beside me in the
waiting room and again on the ferry
boat. No one noticed. There were
many passengers.
LAS the boat neared midstream
picked up my package and sauntered
to the stern of the boat. AS no one
paid attention to me, and l felt sure
that I was not observed. | dropped the
head into the river. It disappeared.
Z hurried back to the fiat as soon
as the boat brought me back TO Man
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CHAPTER v.

While the detectives and newspa-
per men sat listening the Rev
Schmidt told the story of his crime,
a tale never equaled in the annals 81
crime. He told of his relations with
Anna Aumuller and went on: But
Anna talked to me about our child
soon to be born. The full realization
of our sin became apparent 10 me-
The fact began to worry me,
at first l could not think out my
course. Anna pleaded. Then l de-
cided that we should be married. Sew
eral days before I killed her we were
married at the City Hall. We gave
our true names. You viii find the
records.
I'VE decided then that we should
have a home. I set about finding q
location. We knew that for a time,
until we decided how to declare our
selves before the world, IT must be a
secluded one.
II engaged the apartment at No. So
Bradhurst avenue. l fixed it up with
a little furniture. | bought the fur
niture we thought we required.
Anna went there and 1--we began our
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER II.

Frau Schmidt sat gazing into the
flames in the CRATE and thought Of
the youth of her boy, Johannes. Time
and again in those days he had
brought tears to her eyes. At Mainz
Seminary his pranks had sCandalized
her He had even on one occasion sat
in a bathtub stark naked playing a
guitar, while other students and the
learned teachers looked aghast
through the open door.
At Munich again, where he was sent
for further schooling, his love affairs
with women of questionable character
became a public scandal and led to
his disgrace. Nevertheless, he was
ordained and sent to officiate at st.
Elizabeth's Church. He abandoned
the altar in a solemn part of the
services at Gonzenheim and ran cry
ing through the aisles and later dis
appeared from the town after an af-
fair. Then he was involved in forgery
and dismissed.
A close companion Of Johannes
Schmidt in these youthful days of
revelry and affairs with women was
than the dentist and associate of
Schmidt in New York under arrest
and booked by the police as DR.. Err
nest Muret.
Mueller fed to England and
Schmidt fed to America. Constantly
they kept in touch. but secretly Of
necessity.
Mueller became first Doctor Estein,
and in that guise was employed to
teach languages in the Hugo Ian
guage Institute in London. He pad
ded his accounts and was discharged,
Immediately afterwards launching out
in another and poorer quarter of the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
HANS SCHMIDT
DETERMINED To
FIGHT FOR LIFE
Supposedly Mad Priest Suddenly
Changes From Martyr Air When
He Sees the Death Chair.

NEW YORK, Sept. Suddenly
abandoning his air of resignation and
perverted martyrdom, Hans Schmidt,
the supposedly mad priest, who con-
fessed numbering and dismembering
Anna Aumuller, declared in the
Tombs to-day that he would fight for
his life.
For the first time look Of terror
came into the prisoners eyes at a
mention of the death chair and, while
exercising in the corridor, Schmidt
confded to fellow prisoner:
81 will fight for my life. II District
Attorney Whitman expects to get
anything out of me he will find him
self up against a stone wall"
On account of Schmidt's erratic
mental condition, a sudden change of
attitude with revelations of more
CHASTITY crimes would not surprise the
police.
When Schmidt was asked about a
confession he is alleged to have made
Yesterday relatives to euthanasia he
shrugged his shoulders and refused to
talk. One of the beliefs of SChmidt's
disordered mind is in the doctrine of
painless death for cripples or persons
who suffer.
The police believe that If Schmidt
had not been arrested he would be
dealing in wholesale murder. Schmidt
intended to make beginning in his
dreadful work of blood among the
parishioners of st. Joseph's Church,
where he was assistant rector. In or
der to dispose Of his victims Schmidt
had stolen book of death certificates
from a physician and these were to
have been forged.
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CHAPTER VI.

Following the confession. rapidly
came the police discovery that the
cousins, who in youth connived to-
gether at Mainz. were together still.
In ST. Nicholas. not far from the
church of the Rev. Schmidt, was the
dentist office of DIR. Ernest Arthur
Muret II was there that the two
men had plotted crime
One Of the plans Of the Rev.
Schmidt was to make counterfeit
money, and to relieve the poor of
this country and Germany" as he
says. The minister engraved the
plates, crudely enough at first. but
better as he practiced. The place of
safe-keeping for the counterfeiting
outfit was in the laboratory OF DR.
Muret, the dentist.
Nights, after his clerical duties were
done, the priest hurried to his friend
and in his office changed his clerical
garb for a business suit of gray.
Not all is yet told Of the deeds done
by the two cousins. Strange stories
Of midnight revelry are reported.
Women were heard at night scream
ing and seen running in the Railways
crying for help.
There may have been other muir
ders. Helen Greene, who had been In
the company of the Rev Schmidt
when he posed as a VanDyke, has not
since been seen. Trenton. where the
Rev. Schmidt served as assistant
priest, reports a missing girl.
But the old mother, back in AS
chaffenburg. has but one explanation
now that she knows the truth:
MY poor boy Is insane. He was
insane in his youth. He was in an
asylum. He IS to be cured -not pun
ished."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER III.

In Louisville, KY, in 1909 a young
man appeared in clerical garb and
introduced himself as the Rev. Hans
Schmidt to the priests of st. Johns
Church. He was not appointed to any
place himself. but to his new friends
the young priests, he showed what
purported to be dismissorial letters
from Munich proving him a priest
That same year the body of Alma
Kellner, s years old, dismembered and
cut into 25 pieces, was found in an
old cellar under the school building Of
St Johns Church. About that time
Joseph Vending, a F'renChman and
the only person known to have the
keys 10 the building, left his home
and disappeared. He was pursued
II, 900 miles, brought back and sem
fenced to life Imprisonment, always
protesting his innocence.
Also at that time the Rev. Hans
Schmidt left Louisville and present.
ing letters believed to be forged, in
Trenton, was received as a visiting
priest and allowed to assist at a
church.
While the Rev. Hans Schmidt was
in Louisville Dr. Arnold Held appear
ed in Chicago and registered at a col
lege of mechanic therapy. He was an
especially brilliant student and talked
of having been educated at the Gym
nasium at Koenigsberg, in Germany
So brilliant was he that in May, 1909,
he was given a certificate or diploma.
He lived on the North Side in a
family where there was a pretty
young girl The family disappeared
and DR.. Held left Chicago about the
same time and no trace of either
could afterward be obtained.
In Germany there is a famous DR..
Held who was educated at Koenigs-
berg. He does not know of the Chi
cago DR.. Held.
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Alec Shriners to
Visit Columbus
Savannah Temple viii Initiate Big
Glass on Trip to West
Georgia.

SAVANNAH, Sept. 2O.-To initiate
a large class Of prospective mobiles
Into the mysteries Of the Shrine and
treat them to a real camels back ride
over the hot sands the official divan
and mobiles of Alec Temple will make
pilgrimage to Columbus on Octo-
Der 7.
The ceremonial win be one OF the
most important of tho year for Alec
Temple Special Ambassador ]. E
Chancellor is making big preparations
for the event. A great barbecue and
numerous automobile rides will be
some of the entertainment features,
and the session will wind up with
banquet at one Of the hotels.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Mayor DaVant After
Old Tax Collections
Savannah Executive Believes City
Has Been Deprived Of Thou
sands Of Dollars.

SAVANNAH. Sept. 2O.-Mayor
Richard ]. Davant has taken steps to
enforce the collection Of a large num-
Der OF tax executions which were Ell
Their Cancelled or not collected by the
last administration. He has in
structed the City Marshal to trace all
executions to determine just how
each was disposed or
These executions never have been
satisfied, and the Mayor believes the
city has been deprived of thousands
OF dollars that should have been re-
ceived in the general revenues. The
Mayor now has before him q list Of
the executions which have accumu-
lated for several years
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER w.

1t was at st. Boniface's Church,
New York, established as assistant
as assistant pastor on letters from
Trenton that Hans Schmidt first met
the young girl, Anna Aumuller, then
a maid in the church house. The
young man was so brilliant, and when
he talked of St. Elizabeth and of his
right to Oficiate at their own mar
riage this in the name of the saint,
every word seemed true.
Trusting, believing, the girl soon
found herself in deep despair. She
talked to her family and friends of
the charity Of the Rev. Schmidt and
Of his gifts to the poor. She said
nothing more. But finally the day
came that the housekeeper suspected,
and Anna had TO leave the rectory.
But at that time the Rev. Schmidt
had already gone to another church,
and at st. Joseph's, in 125th street,
preached at the services for night
workers
Then came the strange disappear
ance Of Anna Aumuller, the finding
on August 81 Of the torso and limbs
pillow slip-wonderful detective work
and finally the visit of the detec-
tives to the church house soon after
midnight last Sunday.
Father Schmidt was in bed. He was
awakened. In his black cassock of
confessional he strobe slowly down
the stairs-a man Of middle age and
middle height, Of high forehead, low
ering eyes, firm jaw and weak mouth.
He saw the six strangers at the foot
Of the stairs. He saw Father Hunt
mann's wondering, shocked face. But
he came on, slowly, steadily
All were silent until he reached the
foot Of the stairs.
Like a flash. Faurot sprang for
ward He held a picture Of Anna
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Nelson's Greatniece
A Michigan Senior
Death of Husband Prevents Her
From Taking Title of Brit
ish Naval Hero.

BATTLE CREEK, MICH, Sept. 20.
Mrs. Katherine Nelson, Of Battle
Greek. widow of John Frye Nelson,
greatnephew of Lord Admiral Nel-
SON. will re-enter the University OF
Michigan as a member of the senior
class this month. She would have
been Lady Nelson had not her hus-
band died in London last winter. His
will bequeathed her a considerable
portion of his English estate, but she
decided to return to Michigan and
resume her old life where it was in
terrupted by her romance.
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Aumuller before the eyes of Schmidt.
Did you kill that girl?" snapped
the inspector
The priest held up his hands, shift
ing his eyes from the face of the
woman ne had slain.
YES, YES, l KILLED HER" he
said in a choking whisper
His arms fell. He reached them
pleadingly toward the good gray
priest, his master in the church. Fa-
Their Huntmann shrank from the prof
fered embrace as from a thing stain
ed. With a swing of his arm he swept
him aside. Schmidt staggered back.
-Because l loved her" he said.
as If he were finishing his first words.
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city as 'Dr. Ernst, teaching tongue
in one month"
Next he became a surgeon. Dr. Mu-
ret, and was an organizer of a medi-
cal aid society that provided families
with medical attendance and medi-
cine for three pence weekly. The
Medical Defense Union caused the ar
rest Of the bogus doctor, and Muret
dropped out of sight, while Scotland
Yard held warrants for white slavery,
illegal operations, attacking a young
girl and fraudulently posing as ply
siCian.
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haitian. did up each part Of the body
in package small enough to carry
conveniently without attracting too
much attention. | made sure that no
blood showed. Then ! went to the
river with each piece.
My course was the same with each
package. | laid them on the seats
whore other passengers sat on the
ferry boat when l sat down. I tossed
them into the water whenever the
first opportunity presented. II was
done"
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CUBlST PAINTINGS AND
SEPTEMBER MORN BARRED

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2O.-Cubist
enacImens Of artistic brainstorms
and September Morn" the. Chabas
naintIng, have been barred from the
fan exhibition of the Corcoran Art
Gallery.
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SECRETARY DANIELS AFTER
SECONDHAND BR0UGHAM

WASHINGTON, Sept 20-Secre-
+erv Of the Navy Josephus Daniels
is advertising in a local newspaper
"a second hand brOugham, with
5ork green interior trimmings"
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WHEAT RECEIPTS. So
Duluth 444, against $50. :
Winnipeg 1.243. against 691.
Minneapolis wheat 4O4, against 3Sl.
B~RoOMHALL CABLES.

nxtOON16AAA CABLbS.
Liverpool wheat-The market
opened steady but dull. Offers were
light being influenced by the steady
American cables and firmer Canadian
offers and prices were UNCHANGED.
Following the opening there was q de.
cline Of is to Ia with moderate real.
izing. Worlds shipments other than
America are expected to be light, Gar
goes in fair demand, India offers firm
and the demand from France con.
ttnues with more urgent request for
cargoes. Those. however. were Offset
by free Russian offers at q decline and
continued free American and Cana.
dian receipts. At 1880 p. m. the UNI
dertone was easy. 1-S to Ia lower.
Corn opened unchanged to Is low
or. Later there was covering by Octo.
Der shorts on the rejection Of deliv.
cries owing to the unsatisfactory con.
ditiOn of same and this month advanc.
ed 1-2. b.
Argentine-Our agent cables that
he now increases the former estimates
on the available %exportable surplus Of
corn for the remainder of the season
this week were much larger than gen.
orally expected out Broomhall says
these were made at the expense OF
stocks which decreased this week l..
100000 and tn quality Of arrivals -
poor. Wheat shipments $50. 900.
against GIG. 900 last week and l,06l..
900 last year. Oats $40. 000-nn@
5000 Corn 5.033. 000-5.0 33. 900
4,O44,O00.
Visible: Wheat 100000. against
100000 week ago, $4,000. year ago
and 1,68S,000 two years ago. Corn
$4,000. s.11S.00o. ~11.135.ooo. 49,
600.
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MARKET GOSSIP.

Chicago 1nter-ocean y Gossip
on wheat last night was mixed al
though there were a great many trad.
ers who were mor friendly to tho
buying side. but the bears said they
saw nothing to induce them to change
their position. Argentine conditions
are coming in for O attention.
Corn: The trade at present is mix.
ed in its opinion and is disposed to
sell on rallies. Those who are buliish
are buying a little and keep them
selves In a position to take on more
on any good declines. Cash Gales
were $4,000 bushels Of wheat. 1885,
600 corn and 225.000 oats. Seaboard
reported 100000 bushels Manitoba
and $4,000 bushels red mainly No. 2
red wheat sold for export.
Minneapolis stocks wheat increase
week.
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SUMMARY.

SUMMARY.
New York-Tarin bill passes senate
by vote Of SO to II. Senate receies
from Clark amendment taxing cotton
futures and disagreed to amendment
voted bill by house.
Railroad operating in South Texas
crippled by food; damage heavy.
Russia said to have prevented pro-
posed Standard Oil deal with Turkey.
Pittsburg companies received from
New York Central orders for S., 800.
0 steel passenger coaches.
New Haven reported In market for
$30.000,000 equipment. i
Americans in London Irregular.
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WHEAT PRICES
Lower TODAY
Session of Market Was Very
Dull-Clearances Were
Fair.

Minneapolis. Oct. 3.-rhe wheat
market has ruled lower throughout
showing a loss of 3-4 to 7-s of q cent
from last nights figures. Closing
prices. however, show a net loss Of 3-8
of a cent for the day. Clearances Of
wheat and flour equalled $1,000 bush
els. Bradstreet's clearances for the
week were 6,213,000 bushels.
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TEACHERS WANTED

A five WIRE" SCHOOL MAN WANT
ed in every county in North Dakota,
south Dakota, Minnesota and Mont
ana, to handle a proposition that will
pay well without interfering with
formation. The International system.
Dept. II. James H. Batten, Manager.
BOX 613, Grand Forks. N. Dakota.
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LIVE STOCK

chicaso-Hogs 1900. left over e.
400, steady; light 1855 900; mixed
Ss.10@9.0O; heavy $500 $50: rough
$500 to $40. Cattle 1000; sheen:
$4,000.
Kansas city-Hoss $500; cattle La
500; sheep 5000.
omaha-Hogs 5000: cattle 1,soosi
sheep $500.
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GRAIN OPINIONS.

Lamson Bros & Co.-Investment
purchases appear safe on setbacks
from present levels.
Ware & Leland-We suggest sales
wheat on the hard spots.
Shearson Hammill-The wheat
market has a we'll liquidated appear
ance to US and the breaks look like
the expression of bearish ideas rather
than the pressure of supplies.
Logan & Bryan-While the wheat
trade has some bullish features to
consider, the underlying situation 10
not changed.
CARS RECEIVED.
Chicago.
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SOUTHWEST RECEIPTS.
st. Louis today 10000, last M
$4,000.
Kansas City 10000. last year 177,..
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A man will remember to his dying
day the things he learned at. college
unless he happened to learn them
from bookk
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LIVERPOOL

Liverpool openingNWheat un.
changed. Corn unchanged to Tel
lower.
Liverpool. 1880 p. m.-wheat 1-s toll
Ia lower. Corn 1-S to 1-2 higher.
Liverpool close-Wheat UNCHANGED |
to 3-s lower. Corn ! higher to l.a
lower. i
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SECOND HAND o

NOTICE OF REMOVAL. r. PAR
SOM dealer in new and second hand
goods, has removed from 302N to PIG
South Third street. where he will be
pleased to meet old and new GUS
toners.
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INVESTIGATE OUR NEW MODEL NO
3. Also typewriters to rent. Special
rates to students. I. G. Smith Bros.
street. Phone N. w. 644J.
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CLOSING CABLES

OA61lES. j
Paris opening-Wheat unohauRed
to Sd lower. Flour I to 3 lower.
Paris ciose-Wheat 1-2 to 3-4 lowsl
er. Flour 1 to / 1-2 lower.
Antwerp wheat unchanged,
Berlin and Budapest holidaH \
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SHOE REPAIRING

It's dihcult for a newly married
man to generate much enthusiasm
owe his brides beautiful hair after
he has seen her pile 1t Or tho bureau
for tho night
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TO BUY

WANT TO BUY-WE ARE IN THE
premium paid. Submit samples. East
Grand Forks Brewing Co.
GREAT NORTHERN CLEANING SHOP
Buys Second Hand Clothes and Shoes
Phone 7s4J, It's.
WANTED TO BUY-GOoD SECOND
hand range: o I'll Northwestern.
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PRIMaRLH

PRIMARIES.
Wheat 100000. last year 1,473,0 00.
Shipments $4,000, last year 1,l24el
BOO.
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Phone 500
TRANSFERS

NJ: w. DAY MAKES A SPECIALLY On
handling heavy freight. household
Sooas. pianos. safes. drayage. Large
b N. w. SET: It's. SSH.
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TAILORS

FRENCH DRY CLEANING, DYEING,
Dressing and repairing done at the
Chicago Ladies' Tailoring and Dry
Cleaning Shop. 218 South Third ST.
Phones: N. w. SIS, T-S. $3.50.
sui: made as you want IT. made
a which wouldn't fit another person
in the world but you IL "worth while"
the cost Will surprise you-agreeably.
.THO8.. GRIFFITHS. TAILOR