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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-02-25

c. L. Stone left this morning for
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Worlds Arch Criminal Revealed
In Life Story of Hans Schmidt

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-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 unraveled, and
from the warp and wool the nara
tiyes 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
II this man had not made one little
mistake and bought a pillow different
from any other pillow sold, Faurot de-
clares that Schmidt would have de-
veloped into a 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 I.

An old gray-haired woman, sitting
by the fire in her little home in
AschafTenburg, 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"( To
our next happy meeting) In post
card that came two days later was
the encouraging promise, u 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 tho
cruel murder Of Anna Aumuller, the
comedy young girl he said he loved.
He had looked al flats and stolen p
death certificate, had a 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

married life. But was worried. II
our relation became known, how
could I explain?
Il thought il all out alone and de-
Cided to kill my wife.
My decision made, IL was time, I
thought, to act. l went out and hunt
ed for tools. I came downtown.
thought l 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 orr
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, l seized her and told
her quickly that l had come to carry
out my threat.
II cut her throat with the butcher
knife while l held her. While the body
was still warm l rushed into the bath
room with II. 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
pieces.
Il used the first things that came to
my mind to use Is first coverings for
the parts. I damned one section into
the pillow slip. l used, / think, part
Of the bedspread TO wrap about the
legs or arms. I may have used some
Of Annals lingerie.
MY work was rapid. ! 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.
made my way to the river. I bought
a ferry ticket and got aboard the fer
ry to Fort Lee l 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 | 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 al 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. It was there that the two
men had plotted crime,
One Of the plans OF the Rev.
Schmidt was 10 make counterfeit
money, and to relieve the poor of
this country and Germany" as ne
says. The minister engraved the
plates. crudely enough at first. but
better as he practiced. The place of
safe-keeping for the couuterfeiting
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 VaiDyke, 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 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 to me-
The fact began to worry me.
AT first l could not think out my
course. Anna pleaded Then ! 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 will find the
records.
we 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, it must be a
secluded one.
Il engaged the apartment at No. Sc
Bradhurst avenue. l fixed it up with
little furniture. l 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
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
confided to a fellow prisoner:
q will fight for my life, IF District
Attorney Whitman expects to get
anything out of me he will find him
self up against stone wall"
On account Of SChmidt's cratic
mental condition, sudden change Of
attitude with revelations of moro
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 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
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
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
nest Muret.
Mueller fed to England and
Schmidt fled 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

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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
puTpOTted to be dismissOrial letters
from Munich proving him a priest.
That same year the body of Alma
Kellner, 8 years old dismembered and
cut into rs 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
1000 miles brought back and SEN
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 DIR. Arnold Held appear
ed in Chicago and registered at a col
lege of mechanic herapy. 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
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
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER ".

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 OffiCiate at their own mar
riage, this in the sname 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
in the river the tracing of the odd
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 We're silent until he reached the
foot Of the stairs
Like flash. Faurot sprang for
ward. He held a picture of Anna
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

city as DIR. 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

Aumuller before the eyes of Schmidt
Did you kill that grip" snapped
the inspector.
The priest held up his hands, shift
ing his eyes from the face of the
woman he had slain
YES, YES, 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 | loved her" he said
as if he were finishing his first words
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 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
Alec Shriners to
Visit Columbus
Savannah Temple VIII Initiate Big
Class on Trip to West
Georgia.

SAVANNAH. Sept. 20.-To initiate
a large class of prospective mobiles
into the mysteries OF the Shrine and
treat them to a real camel's 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 will be one Of the
most important of the year for Alec
Temple. Special Ambassador ]. z
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
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. viii re-enter the University of
Michigan as 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.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

haitian. l 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. I laid them on the seats
where other passengers sat on the
ferry boat when sat down. I tossed
them into the water whenever the
first opportunity presented. II was
done"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CUBIST PAINTINGS AND
SEPTEMBER MORN BARRED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Cubist
specimens of artistic brainstorms
and September Morn" the Chabas
painting. have been barred from the
fall exhibition of the Corcoran Art
Gallery.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
SECRETARY DANIELS AFTER
SECONDHAND BR0UGHAM

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20,-Secre-
tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels
is advertising in a local newspaper
for "a second hand brougham, with
dark green interior trimmings"
The Washington times., 1913-04-12
Near.Urban.

Rock Creek Church road and New Hamp-
shire avenue-John A. Wineberger ct al
TO William c.. Taylor. part of Pleasant
plains, $40. William c. Taylor conveys
same property to Louis Hartig, io.
Addition to lie Droit PARTICIPATES W. Ge-
rard et ux. to Nellie Weller, lot s., block
81, SO.
Addition to lie lie Droit parkc:-harles l.
Tankersey ct ux. TO Lewis ana Eva. Nos-
eIsberger, lot So. black q, SO
Thurber ct ux to Minnie X. Niemeyer. lot
ISi. square y. SIC
TO Moses. Jacob. and Abraham Eisenmann,
lot s. block 5. SO; ,,,-, =,
Holmead Manor-William J. Vickery ct al
trustees to Merton A. English lot III.
petworth-EwaId Schneider ct ux TO John p.
Bowling, lot g. square 90 slo.
Matilda T. Mcdonald. part lot T. block 1s
Columbia Helghts-charles selden. jr: ct ux
to Della G. Smallwood. part lot u. block
Petworth-Luther A. Swartzell TO Thrift
Building Company lot q nSs,ra- block -; slS u, ny
to Sarah Diener. lot 152 square ISIS. $40
Petworth-Thomas Bones ct al. TO theresa 7"
Rose, lot 50. block 81 $40. Theresa T. Rose
CONVEYS same property to John L. McDoh-
Nj. PIeasant-Harry Wardman ct al: to Ellen
o. Riordan. lot 81. square s OF vt sio. O.,
Mount Pieassnt-Harry A. Kite et ux. 10
William s Phillips and Walier +. Simpson
trustees lot 50. square 3gs'. slo.
whitney Close-James F. Brennan 10 Thomas
G. and Catherine !. Fox. part lot 81. block
pctworth-ILaura NJ. O'Neill to Edward l.
and Helen D. Glenn. lot 35. block 20. $40.
1854 KiIbOurne place northwest-Elizabeth A.
Ieatzow to Francis II. and sallle II.
Weller. Tot a. block 10. Ingleside: $40:
Mount Pleasant-Eleanora Franz to Lloyd G.
Henry. part lot 2s. block 5. $40:
BelIeVUe-Agnes Henson to Catherine J..
Widmayer lot 5f. SO.
The Washington times., 1913-04-12
FINE OLD RESIDENCE
TO Be IMPROVED
Dr.. John Dunlop Will Change
Connecticut Avenue House
r-.F s...- -
Into Office Building.

A decided improvement in a section
which Is rapidly being converted from
fashionable residence section into
business properties will be made by Dr.
John Dunlop. 1871 Connecticut avenue
northwest.
DIR. Dunlop purchased the property.
which is now improved with fine old
four-story red brick residence. for a
consideration approximating $40.008 and
plans are now being drawn for con-
verting the building into an office
structure, especially adapted for ply
sicians and dentists.
The property fronts forty-four feet on
Connecticut avenue, but the building
itself is only about twenty-five feet
broad. leaving q side lot which will be
valuable to physicians who demand an
abundance OF light in their Office prac-
tice.
The plans which are under way will
call for conversion of the Basement
into one Of English type. and in this
way the entire five floors Of the build
ing will be available for offices.
Story & Cobb represented DIR. Dunlop
in the transaction and Tyler & Ruther-
ford represented the seller.
The Washington times., 1913-04-12
.WH|TEORD BUILDING
STARTSDEVELOPkN
Many improvements. Now in
Progress in Ola Section
of Fifth Street. --

While a large majority OF real estate
promoters and Investors are devoting
their attention to property in the sub
urban and rapidly developing sections
Of the city, the tendency toward de-
veloping certain business blocks that
have long been neglected seems to be
growing. st
No block in the city illustrates this
fact better than Fifth street. between
d and e streets northwest. where there
have been fve pieces Of proprty par-
chased within the past few months for
the purpose Of remodeling or erecting
new buildings on the site Of the old
ones.
The first property purchased was at
"a Fifth street, where George L. Whit
ford has erected one Of the most unique
and attractive small Office buildings IN
the city. This improvement seemed to
start q wave of development in the
block. Horace Westcott purchased and
improved the southwest corner OF Fifth
and E streets northwest. Wilton ].
Lambert and J. ]. Darlington have pur-
chased and are now remodeling the
property at 406 Fifth street. adjoining
their offices. J. NJ Manghum has pur-
chased and is remodeiing the building
at f06 Fifth street, and the building at
q Fifth street has also been modern
lied into an ,up-to-date little office
building.
The Whitford building is conspicuous
in this block because II Is the most
modern. but 1t would attract attention
in almost any block because Of It's un-
usual type Of architecture.
1t ID built along the Spanish plan. and
the doors entering from either side. in
stead Of the conventional center-door
entrance. the iron bars across both
doors and windows, and many other
features seldom employed In modern
Office building. make the whitford
building especially attractive.
II fronts twenty-seven feet on Fifth
street and has depth Of seventy-nve
feet. The ground vas purchased Tor a
consideration of $3.50 or little less
than n per square foot. The building.
which cost about about $4,000 Is three
stories high. and the first floor 10 oc-
cupied by Mr.. whitford and j. Dawson
Williams. while the second and third
noors have been leased for a long
term Of years to Smith & Hultz, court
reporters. The space. On these floors
was divided into small rooms, SO that
each stenographer may have his in
dividual work room.
The architecture Is the work of Ar
thur B. Heaton. and the construction
was done bv the Boyle-Robertson Con.
struction Company.