New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-17
German Priest Shown To Be a
Jack -of-AII-TradeS in Mur-
der, Counterfeiting and
Illegal Medicine.
POLICE FIND FLAT PLANT
Doctor" Muret, Arrested in
Case of Anna Aumuller, Re-
leased in S5,000-Girl
Tells of Women Visit
ors to Apartment.

dtlleT l1dUS SCllIlllut, tHt pit VI
st. Josephs Church who IS In the
Tombs charged with the murder Of
Anna Aumuller. ST cd revealed yester-
, day. after Inspector Faurot's invest!-
cations resulted In the arrest OF his as
sociate. Ernest Muret. as criminal
jack-o -all-trades.
Murderer. counterfeiter, fake medical
practitioner. forger and impostor were
the ter.:s written after his name in the
police record, and the detectives who
disclosed this pentateuch OF crime in
sisted that the priest. far from being
insane. in reality .,as the possessor ~
a master mind.
| Alphonse G.. Koelble, his lawyer. after
talk with the priest in the Tombs
last night, said Schmidt admitted that
he committed the murder. or. as he
termed II, performed the sacrifice;
that he was preparing to manufacture
| counterfeit $40 and $50 bills, and that
| he had another impersonation in which
he posed as "Dr. Emil Moliere,' in
which capacity he was working on a
medicine which would reduce the
number of children in the world"
Admissions by the priest also estab-
lished the other charges, and as t. the
counterfeiting and illegal medical prac-
tice. Koelble said. Father Schmidt in
sisted that he was following out those
lines under God-givcn commands.
A;or- in Crimes, he Ayers.
Ernest Muret. man who was prac-
tising dentistry at No. 30l ST. Nicholas
avenue, was associated with Schmidt
in the counterfeiting affair at tiat
they rented at No. 5l6 West 13ith
street, according to the police, but
| Schmidt told both Koelble and Father
Luke J. Evers, the Tombs chaplain,
that Muret vas not an acconplice in
the counterfeiting business and that he
Inspector Faurot is not entirely sat
isfied q this point. however. and while
he had Muret held in 5000 bail on the
technical charge of q violation Of the
Sullivan law, ho is actually holding
him for the purpose of investigating
his entire association with Schmidt
Faurot has received information tend
ing TO show that Murct was in the
Bradhurst avenue fiat after the murder
of the Aumuller girl there.
There IS a striking resemblance be-
tween Schmidt and Muret which In
spector Faurot believes may lead To
establishing the fact that their asso-
citation was predcated on blood rela-
tionship, but 50 far nothing has been
learned from either man to substan-
tiate this theory.
The United States Secret Service
will take Muret in hand on the coun-
terfeiting charge II the New York po-
lice decide he cannot be of any service
20 them i'm the murder case. Accord
ing 10 William J. Flynn, chief of the
Secret Service. some poor limitations
of $40 and $50 bills recently were passed
at several places in New England, and
in "a general way the descriptions OF
the men who circulated them corre-
,pond to those OF Schmidt and Muret.
In this connection Koclblc asked
Schmidt where ne spent the three
months intervening between his service
as a priest at 81. Bonifaccs Church
and his later service at St JOscph's
But Schmidt insisted that he remained
in New York in that time, except for
Jersey.
Inspector Faurot's Investigations yes
terday disclosed that Anna Aumuller
threatened 10 kill Father Schmidt In
the presence of a doctor on whom they
had called a month ago. The doctor
told Faurot that the threat while given
In a sort Of half-serious way. might be
taken into account as bearing on the
motive for the murder. When Schmidt
called on this physician he was in cit
izen's clothes. and the doctor had no
idea that he was a Catholic priest.
Bertha Zech, the servant in Muret's
fiat, who was taken into custody early
yesterday morning under Faurot's or
ders was released upon her promise to
hold herself in readiness to testify as
q witness.
Shammins Insanity, Says Coroner.
Coroner Feinberg. who participated
in the examination OF Father Schmidt
Sunday. yesterday said that In his be-
lief the priest was shamming insanity.
'IIe appears TO me to be man who
Is perfectly sane" said the Coroner.
He is an INSCRIPTIONS man with
master mind. Think OF man who was
able to qualify for the priesthood who
was a forger OF great skill. mechanic
enough TO coin money, who dabbled In
medicine. and who was the possessor
OF the ability 10 commit the crime with
which he is charged. A man of his
versatility easily could sham insanity
In his own defence
The arrest OF Doctor" Ernest Ar
thur Muret and the linking of another
charge against Hans Schmidt. the Ro-
man Catholic priest who confessed thai