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yield exceeding the greatest previous
yield by more than 100000, 900 bushels. 1t
will mean more than 2o0,0oo0O0 bushels of
wheat for export Kansas produced in
1911 total of less than 100000 bushels
or wheat. or less than half the estimated
crop of the present year. I
The greatest wheat year In this coun.
try was 1909, when the total yield-win-
ter and spring areas-was 737,179.00O BUSH
els. 1t seems now within reasonable ex-
pectation that the total yield of this year
will exceed S5o,00o0o0 bushels The winter
wheat crop is so near made that the dan
ger from drought, grass-hoppers, army
worms and little green bugs is regarded
as being past. Last year was, In re-
spect to all crops, a record-breakinR wear.
but 1t Is within the possibilities that 1919
may oyertop the 1912 record
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Lager Beer
Can Be Made at Home
For One Cent a Glass


Cincinnati Ohio. June s, 1913.-
Through a recent invention of an expert
Brewmaster Of this cityya sparkling and
foa ming Lager Beer can be made right
at home for one cent glass. He mas
concentrated Barley, Malt and Hops the
principle ingredients of Beer, SO. that
simply by the addition of water and
sugar a genuine and pure Lager Beer
can be made. Easily made in any kitch-
en-, no apparatus no experience neces-
sary. a few minutes does the work. It
is claimed by many that the Beer made
the best Brewery Beer, and above all
saves thet Brewers enormous profits.
The question of the legality OF his
by the highest authorities and found to
be legitimate in. every respect, He has
ing the Secrets Of Brewing Beer at
Home" and by writing to Brewmaster.
A. s. Shuh, 1898 Sycamore St.. Cincin-
to mall his booklet absolutely free to
anyone sending their name and addresA
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HOW TO MAKE CANARIEss ss.,t. SING G.

HOW TO MAKE CANARlES siNH
nv keeping them free from orails anu
Tn the sunshine your bird will. II
-,,,.r,v fed on p. B. F. Co.'S Bird
neyeiop into a rare sonsster
moreover, a cake of Bird Mamma should
A. all times be kept in his cage.
N1ever, If you value your birds life
NJeglect to have at least one cake on
Al druggists sell it for IS cents per
"A cake. =. a.
Bird Food Company, No. 400 North sra
Street, Philadelphia, Pa
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the dmnutve musical
plays married
for several and
by
that she really
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established
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

ANNOUNCEMENT
The regular and advisory board of the
Mercy Home will hold its regular meet
ing at the home Tuesday morning at
1890.
Miss Malam's voice students will be
presented in a recital tomorrow evening
in her studio, % Watts building.
Pettus- Roden Chapter, U. d. C., will
meet Wednesday afternoon at o'clock
at Octavia White home. Officers will be
chosen and full attendance is requested,
The regular monthly meeting of the
board of the Young Women's Christian
association will take place Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock Attention is espe-
cially called to the change of date and
hour.
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PERSONALIA

Opie Read the distinguished writer
and lecturer, who is to be the attrac-
ton this evening at the chautauqua'
is the guest during his visit to Rirmins-
ham of his niece, Mrs. M. w. Searight
Society has been enriched by the addi-
ton of another charming debutante in
the person of Miss Mary Brockman. Ehe
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Society

CONTINUED from Page Thirty
in honor of the confirmation of their son,
Jack Link.
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Mr.. Henry Fowlkes expects to leave
the latter part of the month for Lake
Chautauqua. n. Y, to spend the remain
der of the summer
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Miss Jean Williams, who planned to
leave last week for New York, Washing
ton and Philadelphia, was detained be-
cause of the Illness of members of her
family. She will leave next week, ac-
oompanied by her sister. Miss Libbie
Williams
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Factory Outlet Sale
Factory Outlet Sale

New modish white pique
skirts of splendid good
quality, $3.50 values, OQo
hours .........'.. voS
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But If this conception of sport is to
lake way, We must be prepared for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-08

Mrs. r. A. Click of Columbus, o. il
the guest of her daughter. Mrs. Edgar
Gold, on South Fourteenth avenue.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Worlds Arch Criminal Revealed
In Life Story of Hans Schmidt

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-since the
apprehension Of Schmidt as the muir
derer Of Miss Aumuller and his con-
fession, not a day has failed to add
some details of the mans strange life
story. 1t seems to the police that the
whole world is interested. A thread
has been picked up here and there,
this tangle has been unravelled. and
from the warp and wool the nara
tives of his career has been woven.
The police and the court authorities
now realize that they have to deal
with one of the arch criminals of the
age.
Inspector Faurot is not alone in be-
neVing that time will rank this as the
worlds most celebrated murderer. As
the inspector says, the Rev. Hans
Schmidt has been shown to be one
of the brainiest criminals in any
land.
If this man had not made one little
mistake and bought pillow different
from any other pillow sold, Faurot de-
clares that Schmidt would have de-
Veloped into master plotter for a
band of smaller criminals around him.
launching out and abandoning half
way criminality to make himself a
factor In the big crimes of the world.
Here is his story so far as it is
known:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER Y.

While the detectives and newspa
per men sat listening the Re7.
Schmidt told the story Of his crime,
tale never equaled In the annals Of
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 to 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 l 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 a
location. We knew that for a time,
until we decided how to declare our
selves before the world, 1t must be a
secluded one.
Il engaged the apartment at No. IS
Bradhurst avenue. l fixed it up with
a little furniture. I bought the fur
niture we thought we required.
anna went there and we began our
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 q priest
That same year the body of Alma
Kellner, years old, dismembered and
cut into % pieces, was found in an
old cellar under the school building of
st. Johns Church. About that time
Joseph Vending, a Frenchman and
the only person known to have the
keys to the building, left his home
and disappeared. He was pursued
II, 600 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 heTapy. 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. 1903,
he was given certificate or diploma.
He lived on the North Side in
family where there was 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.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER I.

An old ray-haired woman, sitting
by the fire in her little home in
Aschaffenburg, Germany, two weeks
ago was handed a 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"( ITO
our next happy meetingD In a post
card that came two days later was
the encouraging promise Il rejoice
that I soon may be with you"
Tears of joy 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 flats 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
RAMS SCHMIDT
DETERMINED To
FIGHT FOR LIFE
Supposedly Mad Priest Suddenly
Changes From Martyr Air When
He Sees the Death Chair.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-Suddenly
abandoning his air of resignation and
perverted martyrdom, Hans Schmidt,
the supposedly mad priest, who con-
fessed numbering and Remembering
Anna Aumuller, declared in the
Tombs to-day that he would fight for
his life.
For the first time a look Of terror
came into the prisoners eyes at a
mention of the death chair and, while
exercising in the corridor, Schmidt
confided to a 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 Schmidts erratic
mental condition, a sudden change of
attitude with revelations of more
CHASTITY crimes would not surprise the
police.
When Schmidt was asked about q
confession he is alleged to have made
yesterday relatives to euthanasia ne
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 a 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 a book of death certificates
from a physician and these were to
have been forged.
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. 20.-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 Of.
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 a list OF
the executions which have accumu-
lated for several years.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

, married life. But I was worried, II
our relation became known, how
could I explain2
Il thought it 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. / came downtown.
thought | could best do It 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 l. Anna was lying IN her bed. ]
do not know whether she was asleep.
stepping over to the bed with the
| butcher knife, / seized her and told
! her quickly that l had come to carry
out my threat.
II cut her throat with the butcher
knife while held her. While the body
was still warm l rushed into the bath
room with il. / threw her into tue
bathtub. And then cut her up.
Il cut the body into i've or SIX
pieces.
Then I went out and bought tar
| moth paper in which to wrap the
pieces.
81 used the first things that came to
my mind to use as first coverings for
the parts. l damned one section into
the pillow slip. ! used, l think, part
Of the bedspread TO wrap about the
| legs or arms. l 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. I wrapped II IN
paper and tied It up like a package.
with the head under my arm. I
made my way to the river. / bought
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.
"As the boat neared midstream I
picked up my package and sauntered
to the stern OF the boat. AS no one
paid attention to me, and | felt sure
that I was not observed dropped the
head into the river. 1t disappeared
Il hurried back to the fiat as soon
as the boat brought me back to Man
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER VI.

Following the confession, rapidly
came the police discovery that the
cousins, who in youth connived to-
gether at Mainz. we're together still
In st. Nicholas, not far from the
church Of the Rev. Schmidt, was the
dentist Office Of DIT. Ernest Arthur
Muret 1t 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 we're 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 I'm
the company Of the Rev Schmidt.
when he posed as a VauDyke, has not
since been seen. Trenton, where the
Rev Schmidt served as assistan.
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
lshed."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

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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 FRANKS 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
a cousin, Adolph Mueller, none other
than the dentist and associate of
Schmidt in New York under arrest
and booked by the police as DR. Err
Mueller fled 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

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 he 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 q swing of his arm he swept
him aside. Schmidt staggered back
because | loved her" he said
as If he were finishing his first words
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 AumulleT, 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 offiCiate 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.
II sill ha
foot of the stairs.
Like a flash, Faurot sprang for
ward. He held a picture of Anna
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Alec ShrinerS to
Visit Columbus
Savannah Temple VIII Initiate Big
Glass on Trip 10 West
Georgia.

SAVANNAH. Sept. 20.-To initiate
a large class of prospective mobiles
into the mysteries Of the Shrine and
treat them to real camePs back ride
over the hot sands" the official dlvan
and mobiles of Alec Temple viii make
a pilgrimage to Columbus on Octo-
Der 7.
The ceremonial will be one Of the
most important of the year for Alec
Temple Special Ambassador ]. f
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 a
banquet at one Of the hotels.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

city as 'Dr. Ernst, teaching a 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 a ply
Sician.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
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
Creek. widow of John Frye Nelson,
greatnephew of Lord Admiral Mel
SON. win 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
win bequeathed her 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.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

/ haitian, did up each part OF the body
in a package small enough to carry
conveniently without attracting too
much attention. l 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
where other passengers sat on the
ferry boat when l sat down. l tossed
them into the water whenever the
first opportunity presented. 1t was
done"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CUBIST PAINTINGS AND
SEPTEMBER MORN BARRED

WASHINGTON, Sept 2O.-Cubist
snecimens Of artistic brainstorms
and September Morn" the Chabas
painting. have been barred from the
fan exhibition Of the Corcoran Art
Gallery.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
SECRETARY DANIELS AFTER
SECONDHAND BR0UGHAM

WASHINGTON, Sept 2O.-Secre-
+erv of the Navy Josephus Daniels
is advertising in a local newspaper
Tor "a second hand brougham, with
dark green interior trimmings"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-27
NOTRE DAME TO MAKE TRIP EAST
Will Play Yale, Syracuse and
 West Point at Football. 7e


 Notre Dame, Ind, Dec. 27-Athletic Director Harper announced yesterday that Notre Dame would play Syracuse University in football at Syracuse next Thanksgiving Day. The booking of this game is following out the Hoo siers policy to look to the east for their tbig= contests. Notre Dame will also play Yale on October IT at New Haven, and no doubt will again meet the Army. The Syracuse tilt should command great interest for it will give critics a chance to dope out intersectiona1 champion. Notre Dame will also meet Syracuse in basketball on February 12, 1914.
 The Gold and Blue will take eastern trips in basketball and baseball. De- cember 30 and 31 Harper will be in New York attending the meeting of the National Athletic association. As coaches and athletic directors from all prominent schools will be present there he hopes to fill some open dates in his baseball and football sched- uleS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-27
SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAGUE
 BASKETBALL GAMES

The Sunday School basketball lea que expects to have a busy time this season. An extensive schedule. calling for games at the T. M- C. A. and at Presbyterian hall, has been ar ranged. The list of contests:
 Dec. 19.-At Y. M. c. A.,Universalist vs First M. E.; First Pres. vs. Park St. At Presbyterian EaH-SOuth vs- Wash. Park; Olivet vs. Y. M- C. sA-
 Dec. 26.-At Y. M. C. A.-SOuth vs- Park St.; Olivet vs. Wash. Park. First M. E., vs. Y M. c. A; Universalist vs- First Presby.
 Jan. At Y. M. c. A.-Universaa- list vs. South; First NJ. E. vs. F'irst Presby. At Presbyterian HalI,-Oli- vet, vs. Park St; Wash. Park vs. r. M. c. A.
 Jan. 9.-At Y M. c. A.-First Pres vs Y M. c. A; Wash. Park vs. Park St At Presbyterian HaII-Uuiversa- list vs. Olivet; First M. F. vs. South.
 Jan. 16.-At. '. N- c. A--Universa- list vs. Wash. Park; First M. F. vs- Olfvet. At Presbyterian Hali-First Presby. vs. South; Park St. vs. r. M. c. A.
 Jan. 2s.-At Y. M. c. A. - First Pres. vs. Olivet; South vs. T. M. C. A. At Presbyterian Hall-Unfversalist vs- Park St; First M. E. vs. Wash Park.
 Jan. 3O.-At Y. M. C. A.-Uufversa.- list vs. Y M c. A; First n. E. vs Park St. At Presbyterian Hall First Pres vs. Wash. Park; South vs- Olivet.