Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-16
DENTIST. ADMITTING He WAS SLAYER'S
FRIEND, DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF CRIME
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Francis Church in Trenton, n. J.,
during the illness of DR.. Rathner.
Ordered from Trenton.
Bishop James A. McFaul, of the
dioeest Of trenton. today made pub
lie the following letter which he sent
to Schmidt in December, 1910:
You are hereby notified to leave
this diocese Immediately. 1t is evil
dent that you are wanting in COM
mon sense and therefore I do not
desire to have anything more to do
with you"
The offense committed by Schmidt
directly before his banishment from
the diocese of Trenton was that OF
performing marriage ceremony
without the proper diocesan dispen-
sation The diocesan authorities at
Trenton suspected that many of
Schmidts letters of dispensation were
forged.
Schmidt came from Trenton to
New York. and despite the fact that
he had Just been banlshed from the
diocese of Trenton, he was taken into
the church Of st. Boniface as a GU
rate. There he met Anna Aumuller,
and there took up the double life he
found quite easy in the teeming CITY,
The better to carry on his Mr..
HYDE existence. Schmidt equipped
himself with wigs and false whiskers
and various other forms of disguise.
1t is believed that the fiat he rented
in Bradhurst avenue under the name
of Hans Schmidt for the purpose of
doing away with Anna Aumuller is
not the only nabltation he had out
side the parish house where he lived
as priest.
Strangely enough his forged ere
dentials and his false representations
were never questioned in this arch
diocese. An inquiry directed to the
bishop of Mainz, whose signature ap-
peared on Sehmidt's papers, would
have brought forth the facts about
him. as is shown by developments
since his arrest for murder. In the
absence of inquiry as to his pre-
vious career. Schmidt gave full play
to his perverted bent in New York.
He found the priesthood a veritable
cloak of armor for his operations.
. In the guise Of a priest he went to
Psf Loseph's Church at 10th street
and Morningside avenue and, despite
the fact that he had not been con-
nected with any church for five
months. his forged papers got him a
place as curate-one of four assist
ants to the pastor. In violation to
his VOWS and of the rules of the
church. he celebrated mass. per-
formed marriages, baptized children,
heard confessions and performed the
other offices of a man in holy orders.
He conducted himself in these activi-
ties before the pastor and congrega-
ton as a man Of holiness and sane
tity.
But in the night time, when the pas
tor was asleep, Schmidt snaked out
Of the rectory of the church, Invested
of the habiliments of his ostcnsiblc
calling, and prowled after women in
the streets OF Harlem. He deceived
Anna Aumuler, a servant in the rec
tory of the Church OF st. Boniface,
performed O mock marriage ceremony
with her last February, and killed her
when he was tired Of her. In his con-
fession to the police and the district
attorney are revolving details Of his
life, showing that he possessed a dual
personality
Coroner Feinberg and the police arc
of the opinion that Schmidt's confess
sion, while il Encompasses all tine de-
| tails of the murder, and the dismem-
| berment of the remains,is not complete
| In covering the events previous to the
night of September 2. They believe
| that Schmidt, ten days before he
killed the girl, was instrumental In
criminal operation.
| In view of the fact that a piece OF
the right leg of Miss Aumuller was
| found on the beach at Keansburg, N.
| j., several days ago, 1t is recalled that
when a shark, killed about that time
at Deal, was cut open, part of wom-
ans leg was found in its stomach, and
! It is supposed that this was part Of
the dismembered corpse of Anna Au-
| muller, swept by the tide from Fort
Lee.
| Dangerous Madman.
Schmidt is in the observation ward
of the Tombs prison, under the watch
| full eye of DR.. MCGUIRE, the prison
physician. Warden Fallon, of the
| Tombs, declares the man is insane
one of the most dangerous men ever
confined in the prison, and In this
| view he is upheld by Deputy Commits
sioner of Corrections Wright.
The district attorneys assistants
declare that Schmidt is a criminal
and not an insane man in the eyes OF
the law. They say his excuses for his
action are framed along the lines OF
religious MANIA but that previous to
his arrest his acquaintances never
had observed such mental characters
tics in him.
The portions of the body of Anna
Aumuller in the Hoboken morgut
were positively Identified by Anna
Iirt, who formerly had served as G
Domestic with the dead girl. She alst
identified clothing and trinkets at pc
lice headquarters.