Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15

| fiat. 1 awakened her. I told her |
had come to fulfil my threat. Then
drew the knife across her throat
six Rides on Ferryboat
Il cut the body into six pieces. I
made trips to the Fort Lee ferry,
each time with a part of her precious
body In q bundle. When the ferry
| boat reached the middle OF the
stream 1 would throw a piece into
the water, and when the boat reached
| the other side of the river | would
return and go back to the fiat.
after l had disposed of the body
| wanted to destroy all evidence OF
the crime. / took the mattress on
which | had slain her and carried 1t
to vacant lot, and there l burned II.
At am guilty; that is all can say.
l must pay the penalty. There is
nothing else for me to do. But L
loved Anna Aumuller.
she wanted me to marry her and
I procured a marriage license. she
trusted me. ! am priest and or
dained to perform the marriage GER
emony, SO when she insisted upon
ceremony I married myself to her.
There was no need of any other priest
doing it, II was just as absolute as
if had called in another person with
authority to perform a marriage GER
emony. She was my wife.
Awoke Her to .'PrOve" Love.
Anna was asleep" Schmidt is said
to have told his captors soon after
his arrest. II entered softly and she
arose and recognized me. Anna
said, I love you dearly. i am now
going to prove it, He said he seized
her by the hair and cut her throat
from ear to ear, then dragged the
body 10 the little bathroom and pro-
ceeded to dismember it. First" he
said, II cut off her arms. and. hav-
ing laid them aside, cut off her legs
close to the trunk
While the priest was telling this
part of the story Inspector Faurot
could hardly credit his ears. Schmidts
eyes blazed and his voice broke as he
related these grewsome details of his
cold looded deed
A gayly- colored FELLOWSHIP of I'M
usual pattern led to Schmidt's appre-
hension. This pillow, stained with
blood and soied with the filth of
the river. was wrapped around por-
ton of the torso. The detectives
traced the pillow to it's manufacturer,
the manufacturer traced IL to the
dealer. the dealer traced it to
Schmidt. And the police, tracing
Schmidt and the girl, knew all about
both of them hours before they ar
rested him.
Posed as "A. Vandyke."
It was George Sachs, a secondhand
furniture dealer of PIGS Eighth ave-
nue.. who told of having sold the pill
lowslip. together with some furniture,
TO "A. Vandyke," of IS Bradhurst ave-
nue.. He remembered after consulting
his books. that he. had sent one of the
much advertised pillowslips among
other furniture to the apartment. Act
ing on this information, the detectives
quickly followed the clue. and it re-
suited a few hours later In obtaining
the confession from Schmidt.
From Carlton Brooks, superinten-
dent of the apartment house. the de-
tectives learned that on August rs a
man had rented the rear apartment on
the third floor He had made q IS de-
post, and paid the remainder, Sl4, on
September 2. But, while he and a
woman, who was introduced as his
wife. had moved in on August rs,
neither had been seen about the house
since September g.
L
quickly, and they questioned e. j.
Keefe, who had the adjoining apart
ment, and he said he had heard no
noise nor any disturbance of any kind
in the fiat. Mrs Keefe remembered
having seen a man sneaking out of
the apartment early in the morning.
He always held his head down, so he
could not be recognized.
Found Letter to Girl.
Then it was that Inspector Faurot
acted. He broke down the door of the
apartment. and as he entered he saw
in the bedroom to the left of the hall
way the evidence of the crime, and in
that room he also found the letter ad-
dressed to Anna Aumuller, care of st.
Boniface's Church. that resulted in
the crime being traced directly to
schmidt.
In the apartment the detectives
found trunks containing underwear.
1t was found to tally exactly with
the chemise in which the first part
of the body was wrapped. There was
also found embroidery such as the
FELLOWSHIP with the initial "A" en-
broidered on it, which was regarded
last Sunday as the only clue to So
luton of the mystery. Then came
the letter addressed to Anna Aumul-
Ter and the photograph, and the de-
tectives were satisfied that before
long they would have the solution of
the murder which for a time seemed
to battle all attempts to solve.
Moving quickly and losing not d
minute after receiving their leads, In
spector Faurot, accompanied by De-
tectives O'Neill, O'Connell, Cassasa,
McKenna and Koran, satisfied them
selves early that they had sufficient
evidence upon which to arrest
Schmidt and they went to the par
ish house and demanded to see him.
Schmidt, nervous and rubbing his
eyes, received them