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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER v.

While the detectives and newspa -
per men sat listening the Rev
Schmidt told the story of his crime.
tale never equaled in the annals Of
crime. He told of his relations with
Anna Aumuller and went on: "But
Anna talked to me about our chill
soon to be born The full realization
of our sin became apparent to me
The fact began to worry me.
AT first I could not think out my
course. Anna pleaded. Then l de-
cided that we should be married. Sew
eral days before ! killed her we were
married at the City Hall. We gave
our true names. You will find the
records.
I'VE decided then that we should
have a home. | set about finding a
location. We knew that for a time,
until we decided how to declare our
selves before the world, it must be a
secluded one.
II engaged the apartment at No. IS
Bradhurst avenue. fixed it up with
a little furniture. I bought the fur
niture we thought we required
anna went there and we began our
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
HANS SCHMIDT
DETERMINED To
FIGHT FOR LIFE
Supposedly Mad Priest Suddenly
Changes From Martyr Air When
He Sees the Death Chair.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-Suddenly
abandoning his air of resignation and
perverted martyrdom, Hans Schmidt,
The supposedly mad priest who con-
fessed numbering and Remembering
Anna Aumuller. declared in the
Tombs to-day that he would fight for
his life.
For the first time a look of terror
came into the prisoners eyes at a
mention of the death chair and, while
exercis .ng in the corridor, Schmidt
Confdl to fellow prisoner:
81 will fight for my life If District
Attorney Whitman expects to get
anything out of me he will find him
self up against a stone wall"
On account of Schmidt's erratic
mental condition, sudden change of
attitude with revelations of more
CHASTITY crimes would not surprise the
police.
When Schmidt was asked about a
confession he is alleged to have made
yesterday relatives to euthanasia he
shrugged his shoulders and refused to
talk. One of the beliefs of Schmidt's
disordered mind is in the doctrine OF
painless death for cripples or persons
who suffer
The police believe that if Schmidt
had not been arrested he would be
dealing in wholesale murder. Schmidt
intended to make a beginning in his
dreadful work Of blood among the
parishioners of st. Joseph's Church,
where he was assistant rector. In or
der to dispose of his victims Schmidt
had stolen a book of death certificates
from a physician and these were to
have been forged.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER III.

In Louisville, KY. in 1909 a young
man appeared in clerical garb and
introduced himself as the Rev Hans
Schmidt to the priests of st. Johns
Church. He was not appointed to any
place himself, but TO his new friends,
the young priests, he showed what
purpOrted to be dismissorial letters
from Munich proving him a priest
That same year the body of Alma
Kellner, 8 years old, dismembered and
cut into % pieces, was found in an
old cellar under the school building of
st. Johns Church. About that time
Joseph vending, a Frenchman and
the only person known to have the
keys to the building, left his home
and disappeared. He was pursued
1000 miles, brought back and SEN
fenced to life imprisonment, always
protesting his innocence.
Also at that time the Rev. Hans
Schmidt left Louisville and present
ing letters believed to be forged, in
Trenton, was received as a visiting
priest and allowed to assist at a
church.
While the Rev. Hans Schmidt was
in Louisville Dr. Arnold Held appear
ed in Chicago and registered at col
lege Of meChano therapy He was an
especially brilliant student and talked
of having been educated at the Gym
nasium at Koeuigsberg, in Germany.
So brilliant was he that in May, 1909,
he was given a certificate or diploma.
He lived on the North Side in a
family where there was a pretty
young girl The family disappeared
and DIR. Held left Chicago about the
same time and no trace of either
could afterward be obtained.
In Germany there is a famous DR..
Held who was educated at Koenigs-
berg. He does not know of the Chi
cago DR.. Held.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER w.

1t was at St. Boniface's Church,
New York. established as assistant
as assistant pastor on letters from
Trenton that Hans Schmidt first met
the young girl, Anna Aumuller, then
a maid in the church house. The
young man was so brilliant, and when
he talked Of st. Elizabeth and of his
right to OffiCiate at their own mar
riage, this in the name of the saint,
every word seemed true.
Trusting, believing, the girl soon
found herself in deep despair. She
talked to her family and friends of
the charity Of the Rev. Schmidt and
of his gifts to the poor. She said
nothing more. But finally the day
came that the housekeeper suspected,
and Anna had to leave the reCtory.
But at that time the Rev. Schmidt
had already gone to another church,
and at st. JOseph'S, in l25th street,
preached at the services for night
workers.
Then came the strange disappear
ance of Anna Aumuller, the finding
on August 81 of the torso and limbs
in the river, the tracing of the odd
pillow slip-wOnderful detective work
and finally the visit of the detec-
tives to the church house soon after
midnight last Sunday.
Father Schmidt was in bed He was
awakened. In his black Cassock of
confessional he strobe slowly down
the stairs-a man of middle age and
middle height of high forehead, low
ering eyes, firm jaw and weak mouth.
He saw the six strangers at the foot
Of the stairs. He saw Father Hunt
mann's wondering, shocked face. But
he came on, slowly, steadily.
A n zi1 Mt hE 10
foot of the stairs.
Like fash, Faurot sprang for
ward. He held a picture of Anna
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Alec Shriners to
Visit Columbus
Savannah Temple VIII Initiate Big
Class on Trip to West
Georgia.

SAVANNAH, Sept 20.-To initiate
a large class of prospective mobiles
Into the mysteries Of the Shrine and
treat them to a real oamel's back ride
over the hot sands" the official divan
and mobiles Of Alec Temple will make
a pilgrimage to Columbus on octo-
Der 7
The ceremonial will be one OF the
most important of the year for Alec
Temple Special Ambassador j. e.
Chancellor Is making big preparations
for the event. A great barbecue and
numerous automobile rides will be
some Of the entertainment features,
and the session will wind up with a
banquet at one of the hotels.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Mayor Davant After
Old Tax Collections
Savannah Executive Believes City
Has Been Deprived Of Thou
sands of Dollars.

SAVANNAH, Sept. 2O.-Mayor
Richard J. Davant has taken steps to
enforce the collection OF a large num-
Der OF tax executions which were Ell
Their Cancelled or not collected by the
last administration. He has in
structed the City Marshal to trace all
executions to determine just how
each was disposed Of,
These executions never have been
satisfied, and the Mayor believes the
city has been deprived of thousands
of dollars that should have been re-
ceived in the general revenues. The
Mayor now has before him list of
the executions which have accumu-
lated for several years
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

Aumuller before the eyes of Schmidt.
Did you kill that girl?" snapped
the inspector
The priest held up his hands, shift
ing his eyes from the face of the
woman he had slain.
YES, YES, l KILLED HER." he
said in a choking whisper
His arms fell. He reached them
pleadingly toward the good gray
priest, his master in the church. Fa-
Their Huntmann shrank from the prof
fered embrace as from a thing stain
ed. With a swing of his arm he swept
him aside. Schmidt staggered back
because | loved her" he said,
as if he were finishing his first words.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Nelson's Greatniece
A Michigan Senior
Death of Husband Prevents Her
From Taking Title of Brit
ish Naval Hero.

BATTLE CREEK, MICH, Sept. 20.
Mrs. Katherine Nelson, of Battle
Creek widow of John Frye Nelson,
greatnephew of Lord Admiral Nell
son, will re-enter the University of
Michigan as a member of the senior
class this month. She would have
been Lady Nelson had not her hus-
band died in London last winter His
will bequeathed her a considerable
portion of his English estate, but she
decided TO return to Michigan and
resume her old life where it was in
terrupted by her romance.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

city as DIR. Ernst, teaching a tongue
in one month"
Next he became a surgeon. DR.. Mu-
ret, and was an organizer of a medi-
cal aid society that provided families
with medical attendance and medi-
cine for three pence weekly. The
Medical Defense Union caused the ar
rest Of the bogus doctor, and Muret
dropped out of sight, while Scotland
Yard held warrants for white slavery,
illegal operations. attacking a young
girl and fraudulently posing as ply
sician
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

/ haitian. did up each part Of the body
in a package small enough to carry
conveniently without attracting too
much attention. ] made sure that no
blood showed Then ! went to the
river with each piece
MY course was the same with each
package. | laid them on the seats
where other passengers sat on the
ferry boat when ! sat down. ! tossed
them into the water whenever the
done"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CUBIST PAINTINGS AND
SEPTEMBER MORN BARRED

WASHINGTON, Sept 20.-Cubist
specimens of artistic brainstorms
and September Morn" the Chabas
painting, have been barred from the
fall exhibition of the Corcoran Art
Gallery.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
SECRETARY DANIELS AFTER
SECONDHAND BR0UGHAM

WASHINGTON, Sept 20-Secre-
tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels
is advertising in a local newspa per
for "A second hand brOugham, with
dark green interior trimmings"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-15
TO RID FOWLS OF VERMIN.

To get rid of vermin, and to keep
rid of it are two different problems.
You can easily prevent vermin from
getting good foothold in your chick
en- houses, whereas it is sometimes a
task to rid the houses of these pests
once they are present. A we'll light
ed, we'll aired house, together with
plenty of sunlight, will prevent their
getting a foothold. There should be
a good dust bath provided Also
paint the under side Of the roosts
and the inside of the nest boxes with
carbolinum or zenolium, once or
twice a year. Dust the fowls that are
infested with the vermin with Persian
insect powder. Give at least three
applications about week apart. Do
thorough work in busting and you
will have no difficulty in Kidding your
fowls of the vermin that may be on
them. 1t is good plan, in case your
houses are infested with vermin of any
kind, to apply the whitewash as hot
as you can handle it.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-15

several years should not be pruned too
severely at one time. 1t is better to
reform the tree in three years than to
try to give it all the pruning it should
have at one time. 1t is also better to
distribute the pruning over the entire
tree. In cutting back new growth
apples and pears can be pruned heav-
Ter than cherries and plums while
peaches should be pruned more Sc
verely than apples. In this locality,
young wood OF the apple or pear can
be removed to one half it's length
which would be too severe for the
plum or cherry. Where the wood
growth is heavy pruning should also
be heavy. In general we like an open
headed tree to allow all of the sun
shine possible in the center of the
tree, but an open headed tree does
not call for the removal of all the
branches and fruit spurs which are
produced in the center Of the tree.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-15
BOYS AND GIRLS STATE FAIR.

SEATTLE, July 9. State Superin-
tedent of Public instruction jose
chine Preston wishes to send the
following message to the boys and girls
of Washington suggesting the manner
in which they should spend their
summer vacations:
CHOW that the long summer days
have come and with it the long we'll
earned vacation, you will feel quite
strongly the call of the woods. the
swimming pool, and the trout streams.
1 hope you enjoy many of these
things, for they will give you healthy
tan and good muscle. But l should
like to have you spend good portion
of your time feeding your chickens,
hoeing your gardens, or practicing at
baking, canning. sewing or carpen-
tering, for remember that the boys
and girls state fair comes in October,
and that you must exhibit at your
county fairs before tina. time.
"Now, if you haven't prize list,
write to your county uperintendent
and he will send you one. American
boys and girls have an Unborn love for
racing. Now, there is big race in
Washington, not to determine who is
fleetest of foot, but who can grow the
best produce, do the best sewing or
cooking, or make the best useful ar
ticles. In this race some will win
prizes, but all will gain experience
which will be of lifelong value.
Owing to the fact that this is our
first statewide fair, all you need to do
to get your exhibits entered at Spo-
kane is to do the work yourself, and
exhibit at one county or local fair first.
If you have gardens your county
superin tendent will instruct you to
take only half for the county fair
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-15
Horticulture
Continued from page 81

high yielding hills. When the crop
is harvested these hills should be dug
first and the best tubers saved for
seed. Placing piece of lath near
each selected plant is good way of
marking the hills.
Tubers in the selected hills should
be smooth, uniform in shape and have
shallow eyes. The more tubers of
marketable size the more desirable is
the hill.
By careful hill selection very high
yielding strains of potatoes may be
produced and every grower of this
crop should practice some such meth
cd to get the best results.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-15

leaving the other half to grow larger
for the state fair. You will also be
allowed to bake fresh bread for the
state fair. Clip this letter and save
it, and your county superintendent and
| will send you other messages from
time to time. So, have a good time,
keep your gardens green, and watch
your newspapers for more news Of the
biggest and most interesting race the
schools of Washington have ever taken
up.''
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-15
SUMMER PRUNING.

It is about time to summer prune
fruit trees. A cool rainy season pro-
longed the twig growth and the ter
minal buds will soon appear.
Under natural development of
plants some buds produce twigs and
leaves and others form flowers and
fruit. There is sort of balance
between top and roots of a plant.
The leaves act as a manufacturing
establishment to receive the sap as
it is carried from the root and re-
moval of part of the top and foliage
forces an excess Of sap into the re-
naming portion of the top. On the
other hand if the roots fail to per-
form their functions the plant soon
dies of starvation,
A theory is held by some horticul-
turists that if pruning is done at a
certain time in summer or when most
of the wood growth of the season has
stopped, that the excess of sap forced
into top will cause the undeveloped
leaf buds to form fruit buds instead.
SO far as we are able to find out this
theory has never been actually proven
but we do know that by careful and
consistent pruning during the sum-
mer, young trees can often be forced
into fruit earlier than they otherwise
would fruit. Whether this is true for
all fruit trees under all conditions has
not been worked out.
In Western Washington where we
have long growing season and an
excess of wood formed in the trees
pruning during the summer is very
feasible practice.
The time to prune during the sum-
mer is when the vigorous wood
growth has stopped and the bud at
the end of the young wood is form
ing. This time will vary in different
localities and in different seasons.
In this locality, in general, we con-
slider from about the middle of July
to about the middle of August the
proper time to do such work.
Ii summer pruning is done too early
the buds below the cut (wound) will
break out and a cluster of water
sprouts or useless twigs will be formed.
If done too late the effects is the same
as winter pruning.
The amount of wood to remove will
depend on the kind of tree and
amount of pruning it has previously
had. All dead or diseased wood
should be removed from any tree at
any time; branches which interfere
should be removed; useless wood such
as water sprouts should be cut out.
All wood should be removed close to
the branch or trunk from which they
spring so that no stubs are left.
Trees which have not been pruned for
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-06-17
ITALY'S NEW SINGER.
indianapolis News.) }

A dozen years ago a celebrated ma
estro paid visit to one of his friends
who filled a modest position in Milan.
They talked of music. They evoked
memories of the great cantatrices
They recalled the success of La Pas
ia, who, by the charms of her voice.
aroused Rome, London and Paris,
who created the Anne Bolyn" of DON
izetti and the role of "Amine" in the
'omnambula of Bellina. The CONVEX
s. i'm was suddenly interrupted by a
ch singing. 1t was the little daugh-
ter or he Italian who was putting her
sheep 10 sleep. The maestro was
struck r. the purity of this child
voice. e 'ivined another Pastra and
charged hi "elf with the vocal edu-
cation of this future rival of the H.
lustrious prima donna. Thus. it hap
pened that Olga Aleardi came to be
the idol of Italy. She will make hel
appearance at St. Petersburg and al
Paris at the end of the season. It /.
said that Massenet and Wagner hav,
never had more charming interpre
ter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-06-17

no bounds The gentleman whose re-
marks We have already quoted, a con
gresham from Pennsylvania and nat
urally supporter of General Harri-
son for the presidency. thought that
the luxury introduced by the Van
Buren, family would debauch the ma
ton your house glitters," he cried
out in congress, with all imaginable
luxuEies and gaudy ornaments; you
set an example which all Your sub
ordinates are eager to initiate. and the
result is shameful and ruinous prodi-
gality in every branch of the public
service"
Despite these Nominations we may
be quite sure that young Mrs. Van
Ruren, always accustomed to have
every want administered to ana with
recent experience of the grandeur
of the Court of st. James, enjoyed to
the full her situation as the first lady
of the land. The gold plates and the
costly furniture of the White House
formed pleasant background to the
! view of Pennsylvania avenue and the
capitol from the portico of the exc
! SutlNS iliHSltil, al Sttie lfldl mas Deen
preserved for us in the oil print which
was first published in 1910.
After Van Buren's retirement from
the presidency his son and daughter
in-law went with him to his New York
estate, where they remained until lS4S
when they removed to New York.
Here, unused as ever to want, she
lived contentedly, shining for many
years as a leader of society. All that
she craved was hers without the
slightest effort on her part to obtain
or to deserce. Today We find little
sympathy for life so empty, yet. so
diversely do different epochs look up
on the same aims. one biographer OF
a generation ago remarks complac-
emily that "her career is a delightful
one to chronicle" She died in New
York on Dec. %, 1878.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-06-17
CHANGING THE RULES.

A man who had been ailing for
some time visited a new doctor. Aft
er examining him and listening to an
account of his symptoms the doctor
said:
IF you follow these rules I'VE writ
ten down you'll soon get we'll"
But I've been following them for
a year" replied the man. after he had
read them They're the same my
old doctor recommended"
Hand them over and I'll give you
some others Cleveland Leader.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-06-17

In his announcement regarding the
new administrations attitude toward
power development
Conservation for on streams con-
The Consumer. trolled by the fed
eral aut h critics
Secretary of the Interior Lane gives
recognition to the idea that the con-
servation policy should seek to serve
the consumer; it should not look pri-
marily to raising revenue for the gov
ernment.
In passing on the case of those who
want to develop power on the Pend
d'Oreille the following general rules
were announced as showing the views
of the new secretary and presumably
of President Wilson:
l. The greater development of
horsepower, the lower the charge per
horsepowerito be made On the part Of
the government This is intended to
secure the full use Of the stream.
2. The lower the rate to consumers
the lower the charge on Tne part Of
the government.
8. No charge whatever for a period
Of five or ten years, during which the
power company is finding its market.
4. Acceptance by public utility of
the states jurisdiction over intrastate
rates and services and of federal juris
diction over interstate rates and ser
vice.
5. Absolute prohibition Of combina-
ton or monopoly and the right of re-
vocation on the part of the govern
ment in the event that it is estab-
lished to the satisfaction of the secre-
tary of the interior or the courts that
such combination has been made. or
that prices have been fixed by agree
ment with competing plants
The policy that the lower the price
to consumers the lower should be the
national governments tax is unmis-
takably correct. The idea that the re-
sources should be utilized chiefly for
revenue raising purposes is unsound
because in operation that plan re-
solves itself into tax on consump-
tion. not on the power companies at
all. A tax on wealth is more just
than a tax on the necessities of the
people. In this day Of colossal for
tunes the income tax and the inheri-
tance tax are the taxes that should
be pressed hard on the tariff tar
and on all other taxes that fall
eventually upon the consuming pub
lie the government should go lightly.
But while Secretary lanes position
is theoretically correct and If carried
out in a genuine way with reference
TO the whole conservation problem
will accomplish good results that poll
icy cannot be expected 10 bring the
benefits that would follow from dlrec,
wv HtI5IlD anu DptI dtIDH u ShCN ullII-
ties as power plants 1t is probably a
stepping stone to such ownership ant
operation by the general government
However. a city or a town having un-
developed power resources close al
hand-as has Pendleton-need not
wait for this evolutionary process tc
work itself out. If the people of Pen.
dleton wished to do so they could
secure power resources themselves
and maintain a municipal plant
thereby eliminating the dividends
they now have to help pay on watered
stock and the overhead charges thai
go with all large concerns muni-
cipal electric plant would ethe sam,
solution Of the problem for Pendie-
ton and for any other town having
power resources near at hand.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-06-17
RniIf Tint Way

Rankin-Every time I get up to try
TO make speech I can feel my knees
knocking together
Byle-Naturally. If your legs bent
outward. as mine do. instead of bend
ing inward, you wouldn't have any OF
that trouble.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-06-17
Amusement.

You get a great deal of amuse-
ment out of your new canoe. I sup
pose "
well, my wife does
But she never rides in it,
mo. She says it's safer and fun
nier to watch me from the shore.
Washington Star.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-06-17
Models Inexpensive. Anyway

Artist wish my dear, that you
would order some kindling wood and
shingles this morning.
His wife-what in the world do
you want kindling wood and shingles
for7
Artist am going in for cubism
and I want to construct a model
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