Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-09-19
CHARGE PASTOR
MURDERED GIRL
Priest ConfesSeSF He Slew NEW
York Woman.
BODY CUT IN NINE PIECES
Minister Declares He Was infatuated
Murder Committed While Vic
tim Was AsIeep-PilIow Slip
Leads to Arrest

New York, Sept. 16.-With the ar
rest Sunday Of Rev. Hans Schmidt or
st. Joseph's Roman Catholic church,
charged with the murder Of Anna Au-
miller, a servant. the mystery sur
rounding the finding of the dismem-
bered body of a girl in the Hudson
river was solved. Schmidt, according
to the police, has confessed. He at
tempted to commit suicide by cutting
his throat.
ct killed her because loved her so
much" he said. "She was SO beauti-
full. so good. | could not let her live
without me. had made up my mind
that she and | could live together. l
was a priest and must remain with
my church. / could not let her go
away from me-"
Sobbing out this confession of his
crime, the priest was locked up In
cell in the Tombs prison, where, In
stead of collapsing, as might have
been expected, he calmly went to
sleep.
The solution of this, the most baff-
ling murder mystery Of years. was
brought about by tracing the pillow
slip in which the upper section of the
dgmembered torso had been wrapped.
At police headquarters Schmidt was
subjected to a severe grilling by In
spector Faurot. The inspector, when
this was over, said
Schmidt has admitted to us that
v paf Nd fnn1Y tho GIRL
there. He said he had known the
girl for more than two years and was
infatuated with her. At midnight, on
August 81, he said, he quietly let him.
self into the fat with his own key
Miss Aumiller was asleep In bed, but
he crept over to her side. He had
large butcher knife in his hand. He
cut her throat before she could make
an cutlery. He believed he had killed
her and carried her into the bath
room"
The autopsy had shown that the girl
was dismembered while still alive,
and the absence of blood in her veins
had given rise to the belief that the
prison, who had cut her to pieces had
drs ined her blood vessels SO that In
4.sposing of the body there would be
no trail to follow.
"He said he went to neighboring
store and bought quantity Of brown
wrapping paper and then wrapped up
each part separately.
The next day-September L
Schmidt said he took part Of the body
- 90 To norInd EIuhth
avenue car, rode down to One Hun
dred and Twenty-ffth street, took
cross-town car to the Fort Lee ferry.
Then he boarded a boat and when in
midstream threw the bundle into the
river. He did this five times until he
had disposed OF the last vestige Of the
body"
The police searched the rooms Of
Father Schmidt in the parish house
and found marriage license issued to
Anna Aumiller and Hans Schmidt"
The address given was a number In
East One Hundred and Fffty-nlnth
street and the police declare that 1t
IS fictitious. The license was issued
on February &c. 1918
NSN' fdIueI LUXE y. hNeES, Cndp
lain of the Tombs, after an hours
talk with the slayer, gave another
reason for the murder. He says he
ask Schmidt why he had murdered
the girl and that he replied:
Il was commanded by my patron
saint. St. Elizabeth of Hungary, to Of
fer a sacrifice; like the sacrifice of
Abraham it must be one of blood.
''St. Elizabeth also told me that In
order to consummate the sacrifice, /
must drink some of the blood of the
offering. So l killed Anna Aumiller,
and after | had done so, drank some
of the blood in order to consummate
Che sacrifice"