New-York tribune., 1913-09-15

and said he did not even know Miss
Aumuller and that he did not rent
fiat in Bradhurst avenue or anywhere
else. He went too far. however. in his
sweeping denials and involved himself
i'm contradictions both Of his own
stories and Of the evidence the police
previously had gathered in the fiat.
That evidence. incidentally. disclosed
the strangest mixture of the profess
sional criminals careful destruction of
evidence. combined with the amateur
and first offence criminals utterly
neglectful attitude toward evidence.
which a big murder mystery has ever
offered in this city.
The blood of the victim, which ap-
parently spattered all over the floor and
walls of the little hall connecting the
bedroom with the bathroom, was care
fully cleaned from floor and walls, ex-
cept i'm the corners The body so bru-
tally dismembered, was carefully re-
moved and the mattress burned, but the
telltale letters and photographs were
left behind.
The results OF the. murder were
cleared away with almost scrupulous
care. but the tools, which bore testify
ing finger-prints. were left behind. All
in all. it was a curious mixture OF su-
nreme carefulness with utter careless
ness. and these contradictions gave the
detectives the basis for grillins WHICH,
they say. Father Schmidt was not apie
10 combat for very long.
Manner Becomes Callous.
When the break came and he began
to tell the story of the murder the po-
lice say. he came near to collapse
hut once over the brink OF confession
the nriest talked freely, and as the
storv progressed his manner became
callous.
According to the detectives, ne
shocked even their case-hardeheh
nerves with the brutal frankness OF
detail with which he described his ac-
tions. When he went to the fiat on
the night Of September >, the detectives
say, he found the young woman asieeP'
and murdered her with powerful
slash across the throat.
The detectives last night SAID that
Schmidt, I'm his second version OF the
murder story, at Police Headquarters
told them that he tasted the blood OF
his victim.
Along this line, Inspector faurot'
whose years of experience as an IN
etructor i'm BertillOn methods and as
student of facial characteristics OF
criminals qualities him as an expert,
said that Father Schmidts face offered
. contrast in itself Of the sublime and
the bestial, if viewed from different
angles.
This peculiarity. Faurot said, was a
different proposition from the usual
one Of facial characteristics being gov
erned by the mood, because the con-
trast in Schmidt, he said, was always
present. Coroner Feinberg, who ex-
amined the priest at Police Headquar-
ters. described it technically as an "as-
symetricar face.
The details Of his revolving story,
completed as it was by his police ex-
animation in the parlor of ST. Joseph 3
rectory, at the fat in which the murder
was committed and in the open field
where he burned the mattress, were
repeated yesterday morning at Police
Headquarters, with Coroner Feinberg
and Assistant District Attorney Dea-
con Murphy present.
1t developed in this subsequent ex-
animation also that Schmidt rented
room in a neighborhOod near the
church where he went to change bis
clothes. When he left the rectory he
was. Of course, dressed in his clerical
vestments. But when he went TO the
fiat which he rented for the Aumuler
girl he would not risk the conspicuous
| ness OF his priests garb.
In the fiat the police found several
hundred cheap cards on which the fol-
| lowing inscription was printed:
"Dr. Emil Moliere, Assistant Sur
geon. Municipal Woman's Hospital,
Paris. France. Representative of the
Chemical HYGIENE Manufacturing
Company. Demeralle Freres.'