The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-15
ANNA AUMULLER
NAME OF VICTIM
Young Woman Had
Been Living with the
Clergyman as His Wife
and Was Butchered in
Bed; Body Cut Up Be-
fore Life Was Extinct.
By international News Service.

By International News Service.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14,-Rev. Hans
Schmidt, curate OF St Joseph S Roman
Catholic church in West One Hundred
and Twenty-ffth street, today con
fessed the murder of Anna Aumuller,
parts OF whose dismembered body were
found in the Hudson river and are now
in the Hoboken morgue.
81 killed her because I loved her
so much he said. 'iShc was so beau
without me. I had made up my mind
that che and ! could not live together.
I was a priest and must remain with
DIV church I could not let her 20
away from me,
Sleeps After Confessing.
Sobbing out this confession OF his
crime the priest was locked up in a
cell in the Tombs prison. where. in.
stead of collapsing as might have been
expected, he calmly went to sleep.
The victim OF this most grim and mys-
terous tragedy OF two decades was
beautiful young German girl OF IL Up
10 two weeks ago she had been employed
as g servant In the parish house OF St.
Bonlface's r. z. church at Forty
street and Second avenue II was there
that she met the man who now faces the
electric chair as the penalty for her brutal
murder. TWO weeks ago the girl had been
discharged from the parish house because
OF her physical condition. the result OF
her relations with the young German Gu
rate who at that time had been trans
fcrred to another parish, St Josephs. in
Ha rlem, but had continued to meet the
girl clandestinely at various places.
Crime Committed Sept. 2.
The murder was committed on the
night OF September IN fiat which the
priest had rented at 6s Bradhurst avenue
under the name Of "a Van Dyke" and
TO which ne had brought the girl intro
ducins her as his wife.
According to his own confession. one
OF the most amazing documents in police
annals In this city, the young clergyman
killed the girl while she lay asleep By
dra wing knife across her throat with
such swift and unerring skill that her
eyes never opened. Carrying his uncon-
scious but still breathing victim into the
bathroom OF the fat, he proceeded to dis
member the living body first slashlng
through the neck muscles and vsrebrae
until the head had been removed and
aIl Of h,tfc
carpenters saw. cutting through the mid
die OF the body. Next he removed the
legs and arms and finally severed the feet.
Talks Without Tremor.
All of these sruesome details were mar
rated bv the priest murderer as he stood
in custody of the detectives In the fiat In
which he had planned and executed the
citement when the man attempted TO
commit suicide by cutting his throat WITH
"A razor after he had been arrested In
the roctory or st Joseph s. ne vas tns
csImest and most composed member OF
the party.
lip or eye he told OF wrspping UP ,he uls
membercd remains in nine separate pack
ages covered with wrapping paper pur-
chased In nearby store and how he than.
only n few hours after cutting the sleep
Ing victims throat. made 1--WE trips back
and forth across the Hudson on the Fort
Lee ferry. dropping one or TWO OF the
bundles into the river on each hlP u,Sl
he had disposed of all. He described his
return To the fiat and his efforts 10 re-
move evidence Of tire butchery and finally
pointed out the vacant lot where he had
tried to burn the blood stained mattress,
fragments Of which were sun lying there.
Detectives Weaken,
This JckyIl. Hyde IN real life was an alb
solute puzzle To the detectives. Usually
IL is the criminal who weakens when con-
fronted with details OF his crime This
time II was the detectives who weakened.