The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-09-25
HANS SCHMIDT IS
SANE ACCORDING
TO TWO DOCTORS
Test Conducted at Request OF PRS
oner's Lawyer Produces no
Signs OF Insanity,
UNITED STATES INDICTS
SLAYER AND DR.. MURET

Nea YORK, Sept 24--ilans
schmidt is sane aaording to alien
sts. who examined him at the re-
quest OF his ;,wyer Adolph Koelbe,
The mental tests OF the confessed
slayer OF Anna AumulIer. forger,
ounlcrfeiter ana master criminal,
were made In the Tombs today by
Or Michael f. Erlw.n and DR.. John
/. Branth.
They declared the prisoner show
d no signs OF insanity
Professor Charles w. f, Horn, a
ohrenologist. who accompanied the
loctors and who carefully examined
'chmidt's head, said
Schmidt has not the head nor
ace of a criminal His head shows
imagination, love O. the beautiful
enderness and constructiyeness. He
an enigma. He is the diverse OF
u we have 5ccn taught. The man
cunning but there is nothing
lrik'ng about his chronological
ualities
Schmidt and DR.. Ernest A. Muret
former Chicagoan, were indicted
or counterfeirng by the federal
rand jury this afternoon This
vas the first move of the federal
authorities in help ng to unragel
he strange tangle of Worldwide
rhine, which Schmidts arrest
AIRED.
Meanwhile District Attorney
Whitman was preparing to conduct
mother sanity test OF Schmidt. The
locto-s whom he had engaged an
lounced they would make their ex-
-lnatiCn at the Bellevue morgue.
orcing Schmidt 10 gaze upon those
'ortons oil the dismembered body OF
Anna Aumuller which the Hudson
river has given up,
Sahmdt's Fate Hangs on Test.
tpon The report a. tile alicniats
epend District Attorney Whit
ans future action II Schmidt IS
declared sane. preparations TO send
IN to the electric chair will go on.
he is found mad, he will be sent
o an asylum for criminal insane as
con as possible
Attorney AIphonse Koelble, repre-
enting the confessed slayer, stated
oday that he will abide by the de-
ision Of the alienists. Dr. Gustav
choler, who examined Schmidt
Ionday, declared he Is puzzled and
nablc to determine whether the
AN is sane or not.
u don't know whether Schmid
) insane or merely shamming" said
r, Scholcr ''I am inclined. though
, think that the mans mind is
weak and that he IS suffering from
deluslonal insanity
He talks Queerly and dwells
pom sacrifice of blood When he
cts on that subject he talks like a
razy man. But I have found him
bic to conduct logical CONVERSE
ion on other points.
Warns Keepers Of Prisoner.
Mr.. koelble warned the TOmbs
keepers not to allow Schmidt to have
! razor Or knife.
q am afraid he might try to kill
himself' said the lawyer "IIe has
old me that if at any time an in
piraton to kill' came upon him he
5ould put to death any one in
light. Also he spoke OF the useless
less of his own life"
Schmidt and his alleged accom-
llice, DR. Muret. planned to kill
persons for Insurance money. ac-
ordlng to information given 10 the
rolice today by q reputable physi-
ian who was approached by the
pair with an inquiry regarding the
possibility of having death certid.
ates issued IN the event Of sudden
Ieaths of persons just insured In
peltor Faurot refused to reveal the
name of the physician who had been
approached.
Schmidts' aged father is coming
tere from his home N Aschaffenbure
an effort to prove that the pris-
ne is not his son, but an impos-
err. 1t was learned today that
ians Schmidt is the father of two
children who are believed to be lly-
ng in Munich.
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