Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-19
SCHMIDT GETS
DEEPER IN
Tolls
LETTERS FOUND FROM ANOTHER WO.
MAN WHO SAID she COULD NOT
LIVE WITHOUT HIM ALTHOUGH She
CAN NOT Be LOCATED
PHOTOGRAPHED DEATH
CERTIFICATE OF FRIEND

New York, Sept. 1y.-.Detectiyes
Schmidt. confessed murderer of Anna
Aumiller, were strengthened today in
their belief that he had planned other
murders by finding complete sets of
to dispose of six bodies, from death
certificates to undertakers permits.
Such blanks are issued by the de-
ipartment only to physicians in good
standing, whose records have been
lrigidly investigated. How Schmidt got
them was unknown.
Raking over the past of Ernest
Muret, the dentist implicated with
Schmidt in -counterfeiting operations,
Inspector Faurot, head of the detec.
tive bureau, had this to say:
Il have learned that Dr.. Muret was
in charge of the investigation into the
life of Johann Hoch, the bluebeard Of
Chicago, in 1905. Hoch was arrested
in that year after, il 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 redoube their vigor
Of the search for Helen Green. who
vanished IA month ago after writing
Schmidt that she could not live with
out him. She rented a room in an
apartment at POI West 109th street
in January, where, keeping much to
herself, she lived until she left a
month ago, saying that she was going
to Chicago. Detectives found that
Schmidt about the same time rented
an apartment nearby to which he
brought -year-od boy,
who, he told the janitress, was his
son.
New York Sept. 19.-Detectives
delving further into the past of Hans
Schmidt, the priest who murdered An
ma Aumiller, sought today to fathom
what was in his mind last April when
he photogra phed the death certificates
of Robert Smith, one of his parishion-
ers.
Photographs of this certificate and
Of blank forms issued by the board of
health were found in Schmidt's trunk. /
The find led the police to believe that
the priest was making preparations to
dispose of the Aumiller girl or planned /!
other murders. Inspector Faurot an |
hp lrr i,,ty fnr
another woman in the case. He gave
no details of what her connection with
the matter might be. The only other
woman whose name has thus far been
associated with Schmidt's is known as
Helen Green, from a letter found in
Schmidt's trunk, in which she said she !
could not live without him.
Despite protestations of both |
Schmidt and Muret the detectives
are convinced that they are relatives
and today investigated a report from !
Aschaffenburg, Germany, Schmidt's !
native town to the effect that Muret !
is really Adolf Mueller, Schmidt's !
cousin.
No Trace of Helen Green.
Chicago, Sept. 19,-Detectives were /
unable yesterday to find any trace of
he woman known as Helen Green /
whom the New York police believe
was a companion of Hans Schmidt,
confessed slayer of Anna Aumuller,
md Dr. Ernest A. Muret and who is
to have left New York for
Chicago month ago i
Sold Certificates Not Work of Schmidt
Washington, ID. c., Sept. 19.-united
States secret service officials reported
oday to Secretary McAdoo that they
we're convinced, after investigation,
hat the $40 and $40 gold counterfeit
certificates, which have circulated eX-
ensively in New England, were not
he work of Hans Schmidt priest, and
confessed murderer and counterfeiter
inder arrest in New York