Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-03
SCHMIDT, ANGERED,
TEARS UP ROSARY
HurIs It at Reporters When
coroner's Jury Pronomces
Him Guilty.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3,-Hans Schmidt,
the priest, who murdered Anna Au-
muller. became frenzied today at the
coroner's inquest into the death of his
victim, rose from his seat, ripped from
his neck the rosary he had worn ever
since his Incarceration, tore 1t into
many bits and hurled them at the
newspaper reporters sitting half a
dozen steps away The jury found
him responsible for the girls death.
Schmidt's outburst of temper oc-
CURED in the presence of a jury of
millionaires empaneled to conduct the
inquest. The verdict was quickly
found 1t follows;
I'VE. the jury. believe that Anna
Aumuller came to her death on Sep
tember 2 1918. at 6S Bradhurst ave-
nue.. at the hands of Hans Schmidt" ;"
Schmidt was Immediately remanded
to the Tombs without bail TO await
the action of the grand jury.
( Theodore P. Shonts. president of
the Interborough Rapid Transit Com
pany. was foreman of the jury His
| fellow jurors included Vincent Astor,
B. ]. Greenhut. merchant; Mortimer
Regensberg. cigar manufacturer. and
F. s. Marston banker.
J During the examination of witnesses
not a trace of emotion crossed
/ Sehmidt's face. but Coroner Fem
berg's charge seemed TO lash the
prisoner into a sudden tempest of
fury. Jumping to his feet, his eyes
! blazing and his lips moving Schmidt
! tore the rosary from his neck with a
/ single sweep of his arms, and before
! detectives could stay him had snapped
T it into many parts and hurled them
at the newspa permen.
/ The torso of the victim was iden-
titled by Anna Hirt. who roomed with
/ the Aumuller girl at the parish house
/ of St Boniface's Church. The Hirt
woman was followed on the stand by
detectives, the physician who made
/ the autopsy and finally by Inspector
! Faurot, in charge of the detective
! bureau here TO whom Schmidt con-
1 fessed Faurot detailed in a hundred
words or less the substance of the
confession.
DO you wish to place your client
on the stand?" Coroner Feinberg next
! asked counsel for Schmidt. The
answer was negative and the coroner.
apparently expecting that Schmidt
would testify, asked if the pseudo
priest had nothing TO say.
Nothing whatever replied the
| lawyer.
The coroner's charge was brief. He
told the jury that it could find that
| Anna. Aumueller came to her death
at the hands of an unknown person
or that she was killed by a person to
be named by the jury
Hans Schmidt does not appear be-
| fore you on trial for the murder, F"
he said you are simply to find a
verdict as a coroner's jury"
! Within fifteen minutes from the
time the first witness had taken the
stand the jury had withdrawn. With
| in ten minutes more it had returned
with its verdict.
The expert examination of Schmidt
to determine his mental condition is
almost complete, and il is understood
on good authority that he will be de-
clared legally sane. The official re-
port is to be made Monday.
Two proceedings may be followed il
the prisoner is found sane by ma
| iority of the doctors. The case might
| be referred to a commission ap-
pointed in General Sessions or the
district attorney might take the case
before a jury, where a doctor who be-
lieves the priest to be insane would
become a witness for the defense.