The Washington times., 1913-09-20
BUREAU Of DEATH
PLANNED BY SLAYER
Schmidt Was Going to Give
Poison or Knife to Victims
Who Wanted to Die.

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about the death certificates. He told
them he confidently expected to find a
use for them.
Would Use Knife.
In a statement, through his attorney,
Alphonse G. Koelble. Schmidt said he
hoped to be able, through euthanasia, to
rid the world of cripples. incurable IN
valfds and aged persons who wished
to die.
Il had intended to use a sharp knife
or poison" he said, preferably a knife,
because that would have been far less
painful. In my opinion there are many
people for whom life is not worth living.
/ considered 1 would be performing a
good deed In freeing them from a miser-
able existence
Schmidt would not tell me how
he came in possession of the city
death certificate" Koelble asserted
''How would you have used them II
you had carried out your idea?" Koelble
asked.
"Oh," was Schmidt's reply. Il would
have filed in the blanks after the man.
ner OF a physician, and signed my name
as DR.. Emil Moliere.'
Schmidt told Koelble that he did not
use any Of the death certificates
He seemed angry when I talked with
him." said Koelble. For the first time
since he has been confined he showed
spirit He told me he was annoyed at
the stories springing up all over the
world which associated him with other
rrfrnag nd in, of IN
nocent people. Once the taint of scan
lingers.' he said
Denies Relationship.
Il do not care to say anything more
about Muret," said Schmidt He is not
my brother: he is not my cousin; he Is
Of no blood relation to me- ! have
known him exactly ten months, and
any paper that exists that states We
have been acquainted for longer Pc
riod Ii a mistake. The /. D. Z. found
by the police must be wrong. 1 had
never met, seen or heard of Muret in
April 191l-
4 have quarreled with him because
he did not understand me. I called to
see him about making money, and
when I said St. Elizabeth had directed
me to make it for the poor he told me
! was crazy"
More arrests of persons implicated in
the affairs of Schmidt and DR.
Ernest Muret, Schmidt's friend. are
expected. Muret's affairs are princi-
rally in the haEds of the United States
Secret Service. His every more since
he came to this country from Europe,
in 1s11, has been traced. The only thing
that Inspector Faurot would say yes
terday about Muret's career here was
that he worked as a dentists assistant.
'sThere arc several details cOncerninR
this part of our investigation which l
am unable to make public as yet" Fau-
rot said. 1T is still my belief that the
doctor knows more about the murder,
GUS plans Of Schmidt than he has told
us. In our opinion, he was more than
a counterfeiting accomplice.
The o u found in Muret's fiat at
Sol St Nicholas avenue shows conclu-
sively that he and Schmidt knew each
other before December, 1872"
Muret told the police he first met
Schmidt at that time. The slip was for
a loan of $500. payable in three months.
Denies Crippen Acquaintance.
Or Ernst Muret was asked vester-
day IL there was any foundation for the
reports that he knew DR.. Crippen, who
killed his wife in London. and also IL
the charge that he was identified with
white slave traffic was true. In re-
ply the dentist sent the following note
from his cell:
'T have never known DR.. Crippen. I
have never had any connection with
white slavery in all my life. NV record
in England can be nothing but an ex-
cellent one. i have always been so dis
gusted with white slavery that two
years ago / offered myself to the vig1-
lance association in Chicago. You can
easily verify this. I intended to give
up practice to become a detective in the