The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-15

woman servant had discovered her
trouble.
II engaged, on August rs, the lit
tie apartment on Bradhurst Avenue
| which she made her home.
AT that time she thought we were
married She was happy 1 adored
her. She was innocent of all thought
| OF wrong.
"She was about to embroider the
pillowcases when a woman friend
told her the pattern was wrong, and
she changed the pattern. The letter
"A on the pillowcase was the design
she chose after this woman friend
criticized the first one.
II became troubled There seemed
no chance of safety if l, priest,
should become q father.
ION the night-about midnight it
was-of September 1. 1 went to the
flat and got in without awakening
Anna. l had bought the knife and
the saw at a store across the street
from the Tombs prison on Centre
Street. l killed her and carried her
into the bathroom. l had no thought
but getting rid of the body. 1 dis
membered it,
AN Hour ut the Task
For an hour, perhaps, I was at
the task. Early in the morning
began to make my trips to the river
with portions of the body. l had
wrapped them In tar paper, pillow
slips, etc. and tied them with Irvine.
1 dropped them into the river.
They say they were dropped from
ferry boat, or from the Jersey shore.
They were dropped from this side
Of the river.
Il made five trips with the pack
ages. First, I took the upper torso,
then the lower. l carried after that
the head, the arms, the legs"
Trace Pillow Slip.
The solution of this, the most baf-
fling murder mystery of years, was
brought about by tracing the pillow
slip in which the upper section of the
dlsmembered torso had been wrapped.
IT was found that certain number
OF these slips had been sent from
the factory in Newark 10 the store Of
George Sachs. al 27GS Eighth Avenue
Sachs had sold two pillows One
OF these was satisfactorily accounted
49, bC OlHCi iI0u DcCn QellNcIeu
with some furniture to fat at 6S
Bradhurst Avenue. The fiat had been
rented in the namo OF "A. Vandyke"
Schmidt and the girl, whom he in
PRODUCED as his wife, moved into the
fiat on August %. Neither had been
seen there since September .. The
man had been seen there last, sneak
ing in and out as if he wished to
avoid recognition.
After waiting a few days, Inspector
Faurot, Of the detective bureau. who
mad charge Of the case, decided to
break down the door. AS he en-
tered he was confronted by several
evidences Of a crime. The floor was
biood-stained and strewn with frag-
ments or wrapping paper and pieces
or cloth-covered wire, such as had
been wound around the packages
containing the dismembered torso.
blood-stained butcher knife and q
carpenters saw, also stained, wero
found III the fiat. 4 coat OF gray
mixed material was hanging III the
bathroom. A revolver and box OF
cartridges were found in one Of the
pockets. Underwear in the trunks
IL the room was found TO tally exactly
with the blood stained garment
found wrapped around the first sec
tlon or the torso. He also found n
letter addressed TO Anna Aumuller.
care of st. Boniface's Roman Catholic
Church, Forty-sevcnth Street and
Second Avenue, and a photograph of
the girl.
Young Priest Transferred.
At the rectory OF ST. Bonlfaces it
was found that the young woman
had formerly been employed there
as servant. but had been dis
charged because of her "unsatisfac-
tory mode OF living" 1t was learned
that the young curate, Father
Schmidt, had been unduly attentive
TO the girl, and that he had been
transferred
Found at st. Joscph's.
The young priest, who had for
merly been curate at ST. Bonifacos,
was traced 10 st. Josephs in West
one Hundred and Twenty-ffth
Street. Detectives called at the
parish house and demanded to sec
him. Nervous and rubbing his eyes.
Schmidt. who had been aroused
from sound. sleep, received them in
the rcception-room OF the rectory.
Mr.. smith, said Inspector
Faurot, II have come to arrest vo,,
for the murder of Anna Aumuller."
Schmidt collapsed. Fearing he would
harm himself, the detectives seized
the prisoner.
To show tho priest that they
knew who the girl was, they pro-
duced a photograph Of her. 1t had
been picked up in tho house where
She had hneD pourd aroJ cobxo,.,.