The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-21
Officials Search to Dis
cover if Schmidt Has
Used Any.
ABANDONS AIR
OF RESIGNATION
Confessed Slayer Assumes New
Attitude, and Now Declares
He Will Make Fight for His
Life, and Says Officials
Are Against Stone
Wall.

New York. September 2o.-All the
death certificates filed since the first
of the year. $1,000 in number. were
examined to-day to ascertain whether
they included any papers forged by
Father" Hans Schmidt to conceal the
murder OF other persons besides Anna
Aumuller.
SCHMIDT has confessed that he pre-
pared these blank certificates for the
purpose of accounting for the death of
persons hopelessly sick or crippled
whom he meant to kill painlessly for
their own good. He denied however
that he had put his plan into effect
yet or that he had any victims besides
the girl, portions of whose body still
lie beneath the waters of the Hudson
River.
Find More Revolvers.
Revolvers found in the quarters of
schmidt and OF Ernest a. Muret, his
dentist friend, gave the detectives to-
| day additional reason to believe that
the association between them was
closer than they have admitted. The
weapons are alike In nearly every de-
tail, and made by the same factory in
germany. The ammunition with which
they were loaded is the same make.
Muret says ne bought his pistol
eight years ago in Germany. The DO
lice believe that Schmidt got his re-
volver at the same place and at about
the same time.
Abnndons Air of Indignation.
Suddenly abandoning his air of
resignation and perverted martyrdom,
hans Schmidt. the supposedly mad
priest. who confessed numbering and
Remembering Anna Aumuller. de-
clared in the Tombs to-day that he
would fight for his life.
For the first time a look of terror
came into the prisoners eyes at the
mention of the death chair. and. while
Nercising discretion. Schmidt con-
hded to a fellow prisoner:
II will fight for my life. III Dis
get anything out OF me he will find
himself up against a stone wall"
| However. OH account OF Schmidt's
erratic mental condition. sudden
change OF attitude. with a revelation
of more CHASTITY crimes. would not sur
prise the police.
Believes I'm Euthnnasia.
Schmidt refused to-day to answer
any questions regarding the stolen
death certificates which were found in
his possession He admitted that he
had marked certain members of the
congregation OF st. Joseph's for
euthanasia, because he believed they
would be better off dead.
Il intended to help them to bet
ter world" he said. Many of them
L knew would be better off in the next
world than this.
Il believe in euthanasIa. know
many people wish to die but cannot.
This is one of the great social prob
lens.
ITO help into n better world the
incurable and those who desired to
die. but could not, was a part OF my
general plan to benefit the world
Denies Having Made List.
For a long time I have thought
there were too many children in the
world and too little money, so I sold
medicine under the name OF DR..
Moliero to reduce the birth rate and
planned to manufacture money to re-
lieve those already overwhelmed with
children"
Schmidt denied having made any
list of those whom he had selected as
! victims. but said that he had in his
mind several men, women and chill
dren, and that he would soon have be-
gun his work OF determination IL he
had not been arrested for the murder
of Anna Aumuller.
Witnesses were found to-day by the
police. who are believed to have seen
Schmidt carrying away the torso of tn e
murdered girl on the evening of Sep
TENDER 3. twenty four hours after he
had killed her and dismembered the
body. These witnesses will BIO con-
ICopfiDuod or Cooop5