The San Francisco call., 1913-09-20

ne TWO murders are sing quarry
similar Both are what the French
can crimes OF passion. Both first had
betrayed innocent young girls. and
both murdered their victims when
the young women were about to be-
come mothers and exposure and
degradation from their high calling
threatened the men.
And both men. Judas-Iike. killed
with a kiss the women who still
trusted them in spite of all that had
gone. before. Rieheson. with his own
hand. gave to the girl he had so
.basely deceived the medicine that was
her death draft Schmidt stole into
the room in which his victim slept
peacefully and unafraid. and cutsher
throat.
JUSTICE SWIFT AND SURE
Both crimes were coolly and deIib-
erately planned. with every precau-
tion to throw suspicion off of the
. sight scent, and to evade discovery.
And IN both cases justice was swift
footed and neither tarried nor slept
tae culprit
And the universal surprise and hor-
ror excited by the fact that these two
. crimes were committed by men who
wore the livery of heaven in which 70
serve the devil is an irreverent and
-Cailous worlds highest tribute to the
church. 1t shows how high an ideal
b. of conduct her sons have set. and
how seldom they falter on the
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..eusness.
Few more brutal crimes ever have
hsen committed than the murder Of
the. Aumuller girl, fra gments OF
whose dism membered body have been
:sPewed up from the river during the
last week, as If the very waters re-
.1use..to hide so terrible a secret
=. That a minister, whose life was
~:c3nseersted to the service of God.
:. r!Tat he could have gone with his
hands stir stained with blood 10 min
fster before the altar. and listen with
d. tfs.:sin burdened soul to the confes-
SION of other troubled hearts, stag
gers tredslity. except that the man
:: himself has admitted his guilt in a
Story weird and sensuous as any
thing De .Maupassant ever imagined.
=: 1.-THE WAGES or SIM
It is a black romance, a story Of
::.fQrbfdsen love. story Of the triumph
of tae flesh over the spirit, the story
*of a love that led through sin to
..fiTne and crime to death. 1t is
:: trs gedy grim and awful as life has
: ever. offer ed.
AT the parish house ct ST. Boniface
church. there was a pretty maid as
'''i7slsta-nt 20 the houseiseeper, named
.Azna AumuIer. AMI with her Schmidt
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forgot his duty.
.He forgot everything except that
ceep and lustrous We're her eyes, how
white her skin, how perfect the
curves Of that body that even in its
dismemDered state showed classical
proportions.
The summer that followed Anna
Aumuller's coming TO the parish house
good Father Braun and his sharp eyed
sister, who is his housekeeper, were
away in Europe and there was no
one TO note the romance of the clergy
man and the pretty maid servant.
And SO love had its way with these
two as il has With men and women
since the world began.
LED STRANGE DUAL LIFE
Finally Anna Aumuller left the
parish house. She was going to be-
come a mother, and she demanded
that, cleric or no cleric the father of
her child should marry her. and he
went through a strange mockery of
the ceremony that his church holds
70 be a sacrament, never to be broken
or Violated. He took out a license at
the city hall in his and the girls
right names, and then, telling her
that he was a clergyman and so per
nitted to perform the marriage cere-
mony, he did it himself Then he
rented a little fiat in Bradhurst ave-
nue., in Harlem, and they furnished It
o TneagerIy and went to housekeeping.
1T was a strange dual life the man
led, serving in the church by day as
Father Schmidt. wearing the sacred
Nestnents Of his calling, and at night
clothed in civilian attire, slipping
TO the apartment where he was known
as A Wan Dyke. This secret life in
the new home had gone on only for a
little while when he determined to
Kill the girl.
Perhaps he was driven to it by fear
of the exposure that was almost
bound TO come when the child was
born. Perhaps il was the result of a
strange mixture OF love and jealousy
and conscience. His tortured soul no
longer would let him indulge his pas
sion, and yet he could not bear to
give her up and perhaps see her go 10
another
BLAMEs ST. ELIZABETH
or it may have been some strange
striving of his religion in him. At
any rate, he made up his mind to slay
the girl and TO dismember the body
so that il could not, as he thought, be
identified, and he set about making
the preparations with cold delibera-
tion.
He went miles from where he lived
10 buy a knife and a saw with which
80 do sis deadly work. Then he went
.jr4o the room while the girl slept and
cut her throat, and in the instant Of
doing It took the body in his arms
sand bore Il to the bathtub. where the
b4oods might be carried away into the
drain. Hes cut up the body into nine
pieces. tied them UP into new, incon-
sDieuous bundles and the next day
one by one, took them across the
Fort Lee ferry and dropped them
overheard into the river.
only a mind diseased could have
conceived such pIot-or a mind
acutely cunning and already preparing
ror its defense a plea Of insanity to
stand between 1t and the electric
chair
II is a far cry from the Garden Of
Allah. with its palms. it's blood flow
ers and it's exotic atmosphere, to the
mean little apartment in Bradhurst
ave14ae in Harlem, but the human
heart knows neither time nor piace.nor
environment, and In this squalid tene-