The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-04
HURLS ROSARY AT
CROWD AT INQUEST
Hans Schmidt Creates Scene
During His Hearing Before
the Coroncr's Jury.
THINKS HE HEARS SMOKERS
Crucifx Strikes Reporter Over
Eye, lnilicting Cut-Pricst
Held for Murder.
THINKS HE HEARS SMOKERS
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New York. October 3.-IIans schmidt
priest and self-confessed murderer OF
the grand jury following an INQUEST
OF miilionaires. with Theodore T.
Shonts as foreman. The other Jurors
E E9w,n Marcus MnnlsoI LoeW. y; J. Greenhvt
HIegensberY. G. ". Fairchiid. Inward I'd
Weir. Latham X. Reid and r. A
The verdict rendered was that Anna
Aumuller came to ner death ION sep
tcmner 2. at Is Bradhurst Avenue. New
4 iof TX lily y, from hemorrhase caused
Hurln hosnry Mt Crowd.
Schmidt. whose unkeinpt. dishcveled
uproar just before the jury retired by
leapinE to his feet and hurting rosary
whom he accused OF laughing at him
The beads Of the rosary scattered like
over the eye infiicting a painful cut
The detectives guarding the pris-
oner sprang uPon him and hurled him
II. the courtroom scrambled for the
beads and coins as souvenirs.
Thinks Crowd Snickern.
Until the moment of his startling
outbreak Schmidt had sat motionless.
When he stood up TO throw the beads
and coins. he was shaking with anger.
and exclaimed:
are w 1aa q 95sr EGu Laughing at7 What
had been and
schmidts attorney. in a statement is
sued later, said his client had heard
to the jury that the dismembered re-
mains of the dead girl would be buried
in potter's field unless somebody volun-
Schmidt. the lawyer explained had
| concluded that laughter at such mo-
inent vas siur on the memory Of
MS dead sweetheart.
Six Witnesses Examined.
Only six witnesses were questioned.
and the actual taking of evidence last
The discovery OF tho first fragment
OF the dismembered torso was de-
scribed by Mary Bann. and Anna HART.
the churn Of the dead girl told of how
she had identified this section OF the
torso by brown spot upon the right
breast.
and confession OF Schmidt and how the
latter claimed to have disposed Of the
BODY after dismernbering, it. Coroners
I,hSsician King. of Hudson County
autopsy. testified that death had re re-
suited from hemorrhaEe.
Grows heard Since Arrest.
since his arrest Schmidt has grown
n reddish beard fully an inch long lie
shirt His single; breasted black frock
coat was the only suggestion OF the
clerical In his attire. His hair was
uncombed. and hung down over his
forehead. He walked to his chair with
shufiing gait, looking neither to left
nor right. shook hands with his counsel
exchanged n few whispered words. and
sat down He seemed to keep his gaze
hxcd on Anna HART, the chum OF the
gin he had slain. and on Inspector
Faurot. who placed him under arrest
DR.. King. who testified n the Inquest
declared later that he doubted Schmidt's
tions of the body from n North River
fferryboat. The physician said that the
fact that part of one OF the legs was
the slayer may have dropped some OF
the severed sections from r Coney
Island or Sandy Hook boat He also
declared that II the head should ever
be found II can be fitted to the trunk
because of the Jagged cuts made by
The murderer In severing the vertebrate