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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-07-31

November -. 1912 90
Petticorf. 4. W.
Petticord. Edward.
o%.toner -. 1912 ........... gao
November :. 1912 $3.50. 800
re;'cord. Geo. W. ~
November : .ie1: ........ 1910
October -. 1912 .......... $3.50
pIg"~. tohn.
October IS. 1912 .......... 1850
runtnbergcr. ~.
November .. 1912 ......... 800
Vogue. Robert II.
October IS. 1912 .......... - 50
November :. 1912 ......... 400
Total s5i- SO
November -. 1912 ........ 1000
November :. 1912 ......... 100
Porter. Paul.
Noyewher 1913 .......-. 1900
Poscv. c. n.
NovcInber :. 1912 ......... 800
? Prettyruan. Char.
Notemhe- 1912 ......... 400
Priofa-d. Robt.
Q%uiriey. II. 5.
%%c sJ5Ss: 4. ! i' i;, :..: :::: 's.ScSs
Total $500
>~o' emh"- =. 1912 ......... 800
No,cmher :. 1912 ......... 400
NOVEMBER :. 1912 ......... 800
Rankin. Jos. W.
No,euhe- =, 1912 ......... 100
O Racscter. =. 4.
NoVer..- =. 1912 ......... 30
Ray. Tros. =.
Noyomhe- 1914 ......... 800
y, rmier 1912 ......... 1900.
Noi.r.as- 1911? ......... 1900
Reed. : ~.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

I fear from the electric chair. am
willing to have it all ended right
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.
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 DIR. Arnold Held appear
ed in Chicago and registered at a col
lege of mechanic 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 pretty
young girl The family disappeared
and DR.. Held left Chicago about the
same time and no trace of either
could afterward be obtained.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

they kept in touch, but secretly of
necessity.
Mueller became first Doctor Estein,
and in that guise was employed to
teach languages in the Hugo Ian
guage Institute in London. He pad
ded his accounts and was discharged,
Immediately afterwards launching out
in another and poorer quarter of the
city as 'Dr. Ernst, teaching a tongue
in one month"
Next he became a surgeon, Or. Mu-
ret, and was an organizer of 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 a ply
stefan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER I.

An old gray-haired woman sitting
by the fire in her little home in
Aschaffenburg, Germany, two weeks
ago was handed a photograph by the
mail man and the picture proved to
be that Of her long absent Johannes
Schmidt in America. On the back of
the card was the sentence in Ger
man "Auf elm frohes wiedersehen"( ITO
our next happy meeting) In a post
card that came two days later wa2
the encouraging promise, Il rejoice
that l soon may be with you"
Yet the Rev. Hans Schmidt when
he sent the likeness and the message
was undoubtedly already plotting the
cruel murder of Anna Aumuller, the
comedy young girl he said he loved.
He had looked at fats and stolen q
death certificate. had a copy made Of
it by photography and had obtained in
some way blank death certificates.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Worlds Arch Criminal Revealed
In Life Story of Hons Schmidt

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-Slnce the
apprehension of Schmidt as the muir
derer of Miss Aumuller and his con-
fession, not day has failed to add
some details of the mans strange life
story. 1t seems to the police that the
whole world is interested. A thread
has been picked up here and there
this tangle has been unravelled, and
from the warp and wool the nara =
tives OF his career has been woven.
The police and the court authorities
now realize that they have to deal
with one Of the arch criminals of the
age.
Inspector Faurot is not alone in be-
lieving that time will rank this as the
worlds most celebrated murderer. AS
the inspector says, the Rev. Hans
Schmidt has been shown to be one
Of the brainiest criminals in any
land.
If this man had not made one little
mistake and bought a pillow different
from any other pillow sold, Faurot de-
clares that Schmidt would have de-
veloped into a master plotter for a
band of smaller criminals around him.
launching out and abandoning half
way criminality to make himself a
factor in the big crimes of the world.
Here is his story so far as it is
known:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER II.

Frau Schmidt sat gazing into the
flames in the CRATE and thought of
the youth Of her boy, Johannes. Time
and again in those days he had
brought tears to her eyes. At Mainz
Seminary his pranks had scandalized
her. He had even on one occasion sat
in bathtub stark naked playing a
guitar, while other students and the
learned teachers looked aghast
through the open door.
At Munich again, where he was sent
for further schooling, his love affairs
with women of questionable character
became a public scandal and led to
his disgrace. Nevertheless, he was
ordained and sent to offiCiate at St
Elizabeth's Church. He abandoned
the altar in a solemn part OF the
services at Gonzenheim and ran cry
ing through the aisles and later dis
appeared from the town after an af-
fair, Then he was involved in forgery
and dismissed.
A close companion of Johannes
Schmidt in these youthful days Of
revelry and affairs with women was
a cousin, Adolph Mueller. none other
than the dentist and associate Of
Schmidt in New York under arrest
and booked by the police as DR.. Err
nest Muret.
Mueller fled to England and
Schmidt fled to America. Constantly
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

I fear from the electric chair. l am
! willing to have it all ended right
now
Rely on Insanity Plea.
Despite Schmidts belief that the
District Attorney will not be able to
prove the corpus deficit, Assistant
District Attorney Delehanty tonight
pointed out that there is sufficient
evidence now in hand to prove the
murder of Anna Aumuller, aside from
Schmidt's confession.
Attorney Koelble, on the other
hand, is confident that the reading Of
the confession in court will prove to
any jury that Schmidt is insane. He
will confer with Mr.. Delehanty Mon
cay on the appointment of an alienist
to examine Schmidt.
Whatever the alienist says, I'll
stand by" said Mr.. Koelble tonight
Schmidt refused to-day to answer
any questions regarding the stolen
death certificate blanks which were
found in his possession He admitted
that he had marked certain members
of the congregation of St. Joseph's for
Staying because ne believed they
would be better off dead
Il intended to help them to a bet
ter world" he said Many of them
know would be better off in the next
world than in this
Willing to Kill Sufferers.
II believe in euthanasia | know
many persons wish to die, but can not.
This is one of the great social prob
lens.
ITO help into a better world the
incurableS and those who wished to
die but could not was a part of my
general plan to benefit the world.
For long time l have thought
there We're too many children in the
world and too little money so I sold
medicine under the name of DIR. Mol
liere to reduce the birth rate and
planned to manufacture money to re-
lieve those already overburdened with
children"
Schmidt denied having made any
list of those whom he had selected
as victims, but said that he had in
his mind several men, women and
children, and that he soon would have
begun his work Of determination if he
had not been arrested for The murder
Of Anna Aumulier.
Witnesses were found to-day by thu
police who are believed to have seen
Schmidt carrying away the torso Of
the murdered girl on the evening of
September 3, about "a hours after he
had killed her and dismembered the
body. These witnesses will be CON
fronted with S-hmidts in the Tombs
tomorrow or Monday
Muret Tells of His Life.
Or" Nuret, alleged confederate of
Schmidt in his counterfeiting scheme.
stated o-day that he was born in
Chicago and left there for Germany
with his parents when he was about
three years old.
He denied many of the police
charges concerning his record in Lon
don and elsewhere, but declined to
volunteer any facts concerning him
self. The police, he said, wanted, this
information and should be compelled
to dig it up" themselves. He de-
MED that he had ever used an alias.
and said he had never been in trou-
bic with the police before now.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
SCHMIDT, GIRL SSLAYER,
DEFIES STATE To PROVE
IDENTITY Of HIS VICTIM
Priest Declares District Attorney Can
Not SendE1im to ElectricChai Until
Head of Anna Aumuller Is Found
and Corpus Deficit Is Established.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-Although
he had expressed a desire to be placed
on trial Immediately, Hans Schmidt.
confessed murderer of Anna Aumuller,
to-day made a slight change of front.
In a conference with his counsel.
Alphone Koelble, Schmidt exclaimed:
THE District Attorney will never
be able to put me in the electric chair.
Hes up against it, and he knows it"
What makes you say that" asked
the lawyer.
why he hasn't found the head Of
that body has he, and he can not
prove its Anna Aumuller unless he
can show the head, can he? Sun
pose I did admit the killing? What
of that? He's got to show in court
that l did it, and without the body be q.
ing positively identified, he IS going
to fail
q won't try to stop him from con
victing, however. l have nothing to
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
a tale never equaled in the annals q
crime. He told Of his relations with
Anna Aumuller and went on: But
Anna talked to me about our child
soon to be born The full realization
Of our sin became apparent to me
The fact began 10 worry me.
AT first l could not think out my
course. Anna pleaded. Then I de-
cided that we should be married. Sew
eral days before / killed h-r We were
married at the City Hall We gave
our true names. You will find the
records.
we decided then that we should
have a home. I set about finding q
location. We knew that for a time.
until we decided how to declare our
selves before the world, 1t must be a
secluded one
81 engaged the apartment at No. IS
Rradhurst avenue. | fixed II up with
a little furniture. I bought the fur
niture we thought we required
Anna went there and we began our
married life. But l was worried II
our relation became known, how
could l explain?
Il thought it all out alone and de-
cided to kill my wife.
My decision made,sit was time, l
thought, to act. I went out and hunt
Ell for tools. / came downtown.
thought | could best do it with A
butcher knife.
81 went to a little shop in Center
street, just south of Worth street, or
near that street, and bought the
butcher knife and the saw.
Il took the tools with me to oar
apartment on the night Of Septem-
Der l. Anna was lying in her bed
do not know whether she was asleep.
Stepping. over to the bed with the
butcher knife. | seized her and toll
her quickly that | had come to carry
out my threat.
i cut her throat with the butcher
knife While ] held her While the DO ~
was stIIl warm rushed into the bath
room with II, ! threw her into tl2
bathtub. And then cut her up.
cut the body into five or six
pieces.
Ihen l went out and bought tar
moih paper IN which to wrap the
pieces.
i used the first things that came to
my mlnd 10 use as hrst coverings for
the parts. ] TANNED one section into
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CHAPTER w.

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

Following the confession. rapidly
came the police discovery that the
cousins, who in youth connived to-
gether at Mainz. were together still.
dn st. Nicholas not far from the
church OF the Rev. Schmidt. was the
uehIlst office Of DR., Ernest Arthur
Muret. 1t was there that the two
men had plotted crime.
One Of the plans Of the Es..
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

ing his eyes from the face of the
woman he had slain
YES, YES, | 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 l loved her" he said.
as if he were finishing his first words.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

Schmidt was to make counterfeit
money, and to relieve the poor Of
this country and Germany" as he
says. The minister engraved the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

where other passengers sat on the
ferry boat when l sat down. l tossed
them into the water whenever the
first opportunity presented. II was
done"
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-07-24

According to the report just issued
by the government for the fiscal year
ending March 81 last, the gross
amount that passed at death during
the year was over $1,575, 100000,
which produced in death duties about
100000. In Great Britain i'm
mense fortunes are less common than
in this country. In the year 1905,
which was notable for the number
of millionaires that died, Of twelve
estates probated only two reached
SIS, 100000 and the entire twelve
barely amounted to 100000, 1000.
In this country two estates recently
appraised, that of Russell Sage at
$64, 100000 and that of William B.
Leeds at $40,000,000, together ex-
ceeded that sum, and neither was
subject to Federal tax.
The British income tax, according
to the same government report, pro-
duced $159,000. At the same time
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-07-24

only twenty persons had incomes as
sessed at at more than$25O,00 241
persons between $4,000 and $780,
600, and SIT persons between $685.
900 and $4,000. For the year 1906
Z the gross income was nearly $4,-
720, 100000 and the income on
which the tax was collected $780,
1000, the difference between the
two sums showing in a way the ex-
tent to which small incomes are
favored.
These two taxes on wealth which
produce two-fifths of the British
Government receipts from taxation
are virtually unknown in this coun-
try save where an occasional State
imposes a small inheritance tax. No
taxes are more easily adjusted from
year to year according to the needs
of the government and none tends to
equalize more justly the burdens of
government. Yet both Mr.. Taft and
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BRITISH TAXATION OF WEALTH.

Approximately 40 per cent of the
entire receipts Of the British Gov
ernment from taxes are derived from
two sources-death duties and the
income tax.
In both cases certain exemptions
are allowed. There is a differentia-
ton of the income tax on earned and
unearned incomes, so that earned
incomes under $4,000 for instance,
pay Is cents, while unearned in
comes pay "a cents in the pound
sterling. By the revision last year
of the death duties millionaires' es-
tates are more heavily taxed than
before, so that above $750,000 the
rate is per cent, above $1,250,0O0
8 per cent, above $2,5OO,000 8 per
cent, and SO on until estates of $751;
100000 or over pay 10 per cent on
the first $5,000,000 and Is per cent
on every other 100000.
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Mr.. Bryan, in discussing the ques-
ton of taxation, ignore the inherit
ance tax. Mr.. Taft only approves of
the income tax as a last resort when
the tariff and internal revenues
prove insufficient, while Mr.. Bryan
would now postpone it's adoption
until after the amendment of the
United States Constitution.
York World.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-07-24

'"The Church, empty it: the Jail.
fill it: the Gallows, feed it. From
me and my blazing lights, run
straight the dark roads to the sIums.
to the prisons, to the bread-lines, to
the mad-house, to the Potter's
Field"
From ''The Song of the Bar
Room" in Watson's Prose MisceIla-
MES, second edition. Price $1.25,
postpaid. THE JEFFS, Thomson, Ga.
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acted upon-it made the Democrats endorse
his making money for private gain while he
was neglecting his public dut1es-while he
was neglecting the japanese question, the
Mexican question and the Panama. dispute.
The Democrats have also shelved the
motion to look into the postponement of the
California white slave and Trust cases.
Like the shelving Of the Bhistow resolu-
ton forced them to endorse Mr.. Bryan, the
choking off of the California investigation
forced them to endorse the actions of CANT
netti, Wilson and McReynolds in postponing
fornia, irrespective Of party, declare would
have meant the defeat of justice.
What kind of campaign material will this
make for the enemies of the Democratic party
when they go before the people again?
If the question stopped with the killing of
the resolutions it would be bad enough but it
will not stop there by any means.
The people changed administrations
because they wanted the new administration
to put stop to what the old administration
was doing, not because they wanted the new
administration to continue where the old one
left off,
If that had been the case Mr.. Taft would
still be President, and Mr. Wickersham
would still be trying big criminals before the
Department of Justice at Washington, and
turning them loose.
DO not think for moment that the Repub-
llcans will fail to use the official O. KS of
Bryan and McReynolds for all they are
worth when the next campaign comes on. for
that is the reason they forced the Democrats
to show down.
And it will not do the Democrats much
good to reply that Wickersham did it too. for
the Democrats were put in charge to clean
house from garnet to cellar.
s.
While Mr.. Bryan is away lecturing-mak-
ing enough money on the side to make tongue
and buckle meet-yOu wonder if the thought
has ever struck Mr.. Bryan that he has left
the work which he is being paid to do for
another to do
You wonder if he isn't taking his salary
as Secretary of State for the time he is away
just as he takes it while on duty?
You also wonder if Mr. BRYAN ever stons
to think that the other man he is leaving to
do his work while he is away making money.
only gets half the salary for doing it that
Mr.. Bryan gets?
Mr.. Bryans salary is $4,000 per year.
while his assistants is $4,000.
Yet Mr.. Bryan can't lice on $4,000, but
@a0hes the assistant not only Mve on $4,000
but do both has and Mr.. B4ya,a'8 a0ork.
That's some financing on the part of the
Secretary of State
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TIE .JEFFERSONIAN

n n i
subordinates, and for other officials, to do so?
We not peevish about it, We simply, like
Hashimura Togo, TASK to know"
Suppose now, that attache OF the consul
lar service, even an ambassador, and they are
miserably paid, felt, like Mr.. Bryan, that they
could not make buckle and tongue meet on their
government pay, and decided to sell groceries,
wine, automobiles collins? Could the State
Department logically complain when there stared
it in the face the precedent of it's chief?
New York World. which has been trying to
Guido all other papers in praising Mr.. Bryan,
and cruelty remarks:
1t is with the most profound regret that
have to note the position into which the Secretary
of State has drawn himself and the explanation
now given which only makes it
Whether Mr.. Bryan afford to take pro-
1onged vacation at just this critical time for the
administration and his own high Office may be
question but minor one. Whether, under the
frankly admitted circumstances of personal for
tune, he can only afford a mOney=making
tion must be something less than "a question
with the great masses of the people whose life
he has lived in sympathy
The real question is whether the government
for such position his may not justly claim an
undivided service, and whether any other view
is compatible with worthy ambition. We have
had men in high Office who have sacrificed per-
SOnal fortune TO render Such UNDIVIDED service
and could afford it. We have had many more
men there who have done this and could not
afford it.
We cannot think of the President of the United
States doing otherwise. We should not be able
to think of any of his Cabinet doing otherwise.
And in this connection it is interesting to
know what other Secretaries of State have
been paid.
Here is the list with the amount of sala-
ries:
1889 to 1799-Thomas Jefferson and Ed
mund Randolph; salary $4,000.
1899 to 1819-John Marshall, James Madi-
son, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams;
$4,000.
1919 to 1853-Henry Clay, Martin Van
Buren,, Daniel Webster, John G. Calhoun,
James Buchanan $4,000.
1853 to 1911-William H. Seward, James
G. Blaine, Thomas F. Bayard, Walter @.
Gresham Richard Olney, John Sherman,
John Hay, Elihu Root; $4,000.
In 1911 the salary was raised from $4,000
to $4,000 yearly.
The Senate has defeated the Bristow reso-
luton calling on the President to furnish
Congress with an estimate of what salary
Secretary of State should be paid to enable
him to live without having to leave his post
Of duty and deliver lectures for money
The resolution was defeated, Just as Bris-
tow expected it to be defeated when he
introduced it, but it served the purpose for
which it was introduced-it put the Demo-
Gratis on record as officially sanctioning Mr..
Bryan's abandonment of his post of duty
while important questions were waiting to be
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-07-24

There two books every American fatber
and mother should read. One is the story Of
Maria Monk, and the other is "Why Priests
should We'd" The Jeffs sell both
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effects of his oratory will be more than counter
balanced. Mr.. Moore has knowledge of inter-
national law and calm, judicial mind All the
same it is poor policy for the chief officer in the
cabinet to go away a Chautauqua lecturing
tour; or, to put the matter in different light, it
is poor policy to have confirmed orator of the
Chautauquas in the Office of Secretary of State.