Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
anna AUMULLER'S A PSEUDO
PRIEST, CHURCH SUPER|ORS DECLARE
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ohtain from Schmidt some statement
of what he might know of this crime
From August, 1909. till March, 1910
schmidt was a visitor in LouisVillt
as the guest of a priest there. Alma
Kellner disappeared in December
1909; her body was found nine months
after and the janitor OF st. Jonn
Church is now serving a HE term ~
prison in Frankfort, KY, for MS
crime.
According to Inspector Joseph Fau-
rot in charge of the detective bureau,
and Assistant District Attorney Mur-
nhv schmidt has made complete
confession and admits having kIlea
the girl in an apartment at SO Brad
hurst avenue, about midnight on Au-
pust 81. using a butcher knife TO cut
her throat, after which he dissecteu
her body in the bathroom, put the
hody IN into six bundles and carried
them from the house, one bundle at
= time to a Fort Lee ferryboat and,
when in midstrean threw inc
bundles into the river.
The priest met the girl. who was
81 wears of age at the rectory of ST.
Boniface's Church, Second avenue
and Forty seventh street, where ne
was stationed before going to st;
.Tosenh's Church. she was employed
nc servant there. He is said 10
have admitted having been on terms
of intimacy with her and to nave
married her, performing the cere-
mony himself without witnesses A
marriage license was found among
his belongings in his room. 1t was
issued last February %. but Schmidt
said that he married her only rev
weeks ago. &.
Coruered. He Tries Suicide.
schmidt was arrested yesterday by
Insnector Faurot, the detectives at
work ON the case having discovered
th.. evidence in the fiat Schmidt had
hired on August 26. at So Bradhurst
avenue. He had tried to destroy all
cleys. but had overlooked a photo
graph and a letter addressed to the
girl.
Accused of the crime and con-
fronted with the photograph OF the
Girl. which he had left behind, ne
collapsed, but when he regalned MS
composure he hastily put his hand IN
his pocket, drew out SAFETY razor
blade and attempted to slash his
throat. Inspector Faurot seized him
by the wrists and thereafter he was
restrained. Another razor was found
in his pocket, after he had requested
permission to go TO the bathroom.
When told that there was no doubt
In the minds of the detectives of his
guilt. Schmidt, it is said. broke down
and confessed his crime. He even told
how he had disposed of the body and
how he had taken the mattress on
which the girl was lying when ne
killed her to a vacant lot at Seventh
avenue and Hath street and there at
tempted to burn it. Scraps of the
charred mattress were found by the
police there, Schmidt taking them to
the spot Twenty feet from where he
had made his fire was a tent in which
gospel services were being held.
willing TO Pay the Penalty.
Coroner Feinberg, after Schmidt had
been grilled for several hours by In
spector Faurot and Assistant District
Attorney Murphy, remanded him To
the Tombs without bail. He protested
that there was nothing for him to do
but to pay the penalty, and that he
loved the girl and wanted to join her.
IT killed her because l loved her so
much" Schmidt is alleged TO have told
his captors, but the police version of
the motive for the crime Is that the
Young woman was about to become
mother. The deed was committed, the
police say, while the woman slept.
When her heart had ceased beating,
according to the confession. Schmidt
carried the body from the bed to the
bathroom, and, placing 1t in the tub.
began Immediately his CORY task of
cutting 1t up
With a keen knife and a saw he
cut off the head. arms and legs. Still
fearful of detection, he then cut the
body in two. Six bundles, wrapped
in bedclothes and papers, were made
of the six parts. six times Schmidt
left the apartment house with
bundle to cross the Hudson river to
the New Jersey shore. Six times he
leaned over the stern of the ferryboat
In midstream and gently gave the
river his burden. Then he returned to
his church.
Blood stains stiII In Tub.
The stains of the girls blood still
discolored the bathtub when detec-
tives searched the apartment. Here
the police also found the marriage Ii
cense bearing the names of the priest
and the murdered woman. The con-
fession, which the police say Schmidt
signed. follows;
IL met Anna Aumuller two years
ago at the parish house of St. Boni-
face Church. She was employed as a
there. ] was attracted by
her beauty. | became infatuated with
her I loved her. 1 killed her because
I loved her so much. She was so beau
tiful, so good, could not let her live
without me.
81 had made up my mind that she
and ] could not live together. ! was
a. priest and must remain with my
church. I could not let her go away
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