Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-09-16
another ARREST
IN MURDER CASE
DENTIST HELD IN CONNECTION
WITH MURDER or MUL.
LER GIRL.
Priest RETELLS HIS STORY
Freely Admits the Horrible Details
of the GruCSomc Murder
OF the Girl.

NEW YORK, Sept. 16,--Inspector
Tamot, who on sunday arrested Fa-
thcr Hans Schmidt. who later con-
fcased TO having murdered Anna a.
Muller and cut up her boy casting
IL piece by piece into the Hudson
river, early this morning arrived at
police headquarters, having IN custody
Or. f. Muret, a dentist of 3O1 st.
Nicholas avenue, and his housekeoper,
Bertha Zcck
Or. Muret Is being held on a tech
nical charge Of counterfeitng and
the woman as a material witness.
It IS alleged that under the name
Of George Miller, Muret hired an
apartment in West hath street and
that in this apartment were found
plans and presses and portions OF
partially destroyed proofs Of $50 gold
certificates,
llans Schmidt. tho priest who con-
frssed that he killed Anna 4. Muller
Mi'h a butcher knife, as a sacrifice TO
be cOnsummated In blood, is IN the
observation ward of the Tombs prison
tonight under the watchful eye Of DR..
Mcclure, the prison physician. War
den Faljon Of the Tombs declares the
man is nsane-0ne Of the most dam
gcrous men ever confined IN the
prison and in this view he was upheld
by Deputy Commissioner Of Correc-
tions Wight.
Believe Him insane.
From far off Mainz, Germany there
came today to MOusignor Joseph +.
Mooney vicar general of the arch
diocese Of New York, q cablegram
from the secretary of the bishop,
which said that Schmidt had been de-
Ciarcd insane there and suspended by
the bishop. The message read:
Schmidt born at Aschaffenburg;
priest of diocese Of Mainz; ran away
from Mainz because Of attempted
fraunds; arrested by police; declared
insane by court and discharged. Sus-
pended by bishop for acts and for pre-
scnting falfisfied document regarding
studies he pretended to have made.
Then left diocese"
In his cell today Schmidt told and
fetold the story of his crime; that aft
er The woman was dead he cut up the
body with a knife and sank It portion
by portion in the waters of the Hud-
son river from the stern of a ferry
boat. THE Lord told me to do IT," or
'St, Elizabeth, my patron, demanded
the sacrifice were the only reasons
he gave for his decd and he invar-
iably added
God in his own time will clear It
up. God and Abraham know why
killed her"
To Plead insanity.
Alphonse Keoble, Schmidts attor-
ney, insisted today that insanity would
be the plea at Schmidts trial. On the
other hand, however, the district at
torney's assistants are preapring for
a quick trial Of Schmidt
They declare that Schmidt is
criminal and not an insane man in the
eyes of the law They say his ex-
cuses for his action are framed along
the lines of religious mania but that
previous TO his arrest his acquaint-
Rnces never had observed such men
tai characteristics.
The portions Of the body of Anna
A. Muller in Hoboken morgue were
positively identified today by Anna
Hrt, who formerly had served as
domestic with the dead girl She also
identified clothing and trlnkets taken
to police headquarters from the apart
ment where the murder was commit
ted as having belonged to the Muller
woman.
Inspector Faurot spent the better
part OF the early night with a corps
Of men in translating a number Of
letters and documents found In
Schmidt's trunk. One document was
copy Of the affidavit lodged in the
municipal court against Schmidt
nearly four years ago. charging him
with forgery and attempted fraud. He
was acquitted Of this charge, how
ever, following testimony Of alienists
to the effect that Schmidt was mot
responsible" An important witness
has been discovered, Inspector Faurot
said tonight. in a contractor who saw
Schmidt carry the mattress to the va
cant lot where II was burned.
A search OF the lot where the mat
tress was destroyed resulted in the
finding Of. among other things, a
blood stained bone three inches long
and thought to be from the head Of
N human bpinE.