Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-09-23
HAD THE PAPERS
READY FOR some
more MURDERS
Police Find Blank Certificates to
Dispose Of Six
Bodies.
HUNT FOR MISSING GIRL.
Woman Vanished After Writing Let
ter to Schmidt. Body in
Morgue.
HUNT FOR MISSING GIRL.


Schmidt. slayer Of Anna Aumuller,
asked for quick death in a statement
yesterday.
1.-THE district, attorney wants me
to go to the electric chair and / want
to CO." he said. Whats the use Of
delaying?"
Schmidt afterward expressed ideas
on the taking of human life that fill
ed in with the theory of Inspector
Faurot,. in charge of the murder in
vestigation, that he might have been
planning series Of homicides. He
declared himself a believer in en-
thanasia and said that he believed
he would be doing right in taking
the lives Of the crippled and of per-
sons undergoing mental or physical
suffering, detectives who talked with
him yesterday afternoon reported.
II believe would be carrying out
Gods will" Schmidt said, "if l put
out of this world all such people. I
would end their lives without their
suffering any PAIN
Faurot's suspicious of Schmidt's
possible homicide plans were
strengthened by the discovery among
Schmidt's effects of a book of ply
sician's death certificates and other
blanks necessary in disposing of dead
bodies.
Schmidt declared these were for
use only in the case of Anna Aumul-
Ter. He had stolen the certificates
from a reputable physician uptown,
he told the detectives, because he
had intended to kill the girl in a
way that would make lit appear she
had died 4 natural death. But after
wards he had decided to cut her
ssAhsess and dispose 81 hsr body as
best he could.
"Schmidt's papers have given us
fifty clues" said Faurot yesterday,
"any one of which is liable to turn
up something new about his activi-
ties. His industry was amazing and
his. resourcefulness wonderful. But
am unable to say now whether we
caught him at the beginning or at
the end of a series of homicides.''
The parts of Anna Aumuller's
body that were picked up in the
Hudson river and kept in Hoboken
for the inquest of the New Jersey
authorities, held Thursday night,
were brought to this city yesterday
and placed in the Bellevue morgue.
A coroner's examination Of the body
to the New York in
quest will be held today.
Raking over the past of Ernest
Muret, the dentist implicated with
Schmidt in counterfeiting opera
tons, Inspector Faurot, head Of the
detective bureau had this to say:
II have learned that DR.. Muret
was in Chicago at the time Of the
into the life OF Johann
Hoch, the bluebeard OF Chicago, in
1905. Hoch was arrested in that
year after, it was charged, he had
killed eighteen Of his wives. There
was report that the number Of
wives would reach fifty"
The discovery OF the certificates
made the police redouble the vigorI
II their search for Helen Green, who
sanished month ago after writing
Schmidt she could not live without
lim. She rented room In an apart
nent at 201 West One Hundred and
Ninth street In January, where,
keeping much to herself she lived
Until she left month ago, saying
hat she was going to Chicago. De-
ectives found that Schmidt about
he same time rented an apartment
lear by to which he sometimes
5 year old boy, who. he
old the janitress. was his son.