Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
SLAYER CAUGHT
BY NEWARK CLUE
Robinson & Roders Pillow
Sham Lead to the Arrest
of Girls Murderer.

It was a Newark clue which led to
the arrest of Hans Schmidt, the New
York clergyman who has confessed
to the murder of Anna Aumuller. To
Police Inspector Joseph Faurot, chief
of the New York detectives, is given
most of the credit for solving the
death mystery.
Last Saturday afternoon the police
discovered that the body found in the
Hudson was not that of Annette Day,
a young woman reported missing
from Tarrytown, N. Y. Her brother
Francis Day, was sure, at first, that it
was his sister Later he admitted his
mistake.
Gets schlnidt's Confession.
When the Identification of the Day
girl was discarded Inspector Faurot
declared that they had exhausted
every clue and must seek new leads.
Twelve hours later he had placed
Schmidt under arrest and had OBJ
tanned from him a confession to one
of the most brutal murders known in
New York city since the Guldensuppe
crime. nearly twenty years ago.
In the case of the Turkish bath rub
Der, however, the police had a peculiar
formation of a part of his body to
work on to get a lead to his identifi-
cation, as well as the peculiar pattern
of oilcloth in which the body was
wrapped. There was no such evidence
furnished by Schmidt
However, despite his solicitude and
care not to wrap the parts of the body
or the Aumuller girl in anything that
would lead to discovery, he had over
looked one thing. The flat in which
the crime was committed did not con-
tain much TO help him, aside from the
pillow slips. And it was the name of
Robinson & Roders, the manufac-
turers, of Newark, that finally
widened what was a slight trail into
broad avenue right up to the parish
house of st. Joseph's Church and led
TO the arrest of Schmidt.
Pillow sham Gives Clue,
Discarding all idea that the pillow
sham with the embroidered AZ on
it would assist them, the detectives
concentrated their energies on the
pillow slip. w. j. Charlock, county
detective of Hudson county, came
TO Newark. but his efforts to learn
where the pillow slips had been sold
resulted in failure, as he was in
formed that the Arm sent their
goods direct to Chicago. However,
last Monday a member of the firm
continued the search, and it resulted
in learning that George Sachs, of 276S
Eighth avenue. Manhattan, ad pgr-
chased some.
The lead was regarded as propi-
tious. Sachs could not remember
having sold more than two of the
slips, and the only one to whom he
could remember selling one of them
was woman who had bargained
him down from eighty-nine cents to
eighty cents. He could not even
give description of her.
But from that minute Inspector
Faurot was satisfied the crime had
been committed in Harlem. He had
Detectives Cassassa. McKenna, Ho-
ran and Connolly comb Eighth ave-
nue. looking for the woman. and also
to jog the memory of Sachs. The
reward for their efforts came Sat
urday afternoon. Sachs remembered
having sold bed, mattress, two pill
lows and one of the pillow slips to
| a man giving the name of A. Van
Dyke, and sent to 6S Bradhurst ave-
nue.. which is near 145th street. The
only distinguishing mark they had
| to show who had bought the goods
was that he was German.
Find Murder Evidence.
| The superintendent of the apart
ment house. Carlton Brooks, was APP
pealed to. He recalled that a man
had rented an apartment on the third
| floor. rear, on August 27. The man
| had had a bed. mattress, two pillows
and a pillow slip sent up, but as no
one was home he (Brooks) had taken
| the things in. The next day two
| trunks were sent to the house, and
| he had also taken them in. Brooks
| had not seen either the man or
| woman who was introduced as the
wife. since September 2.
| Satisfied that they were on the
right trail, Inspector Faurot and his
detectives watched the house. Be-
coming impatient, however, as the
hours went by and no sign of the
man or woman was to be had. they
decided to break open the door. They
did so. and there all the evidence nee
eSsary to show murder had been
committed was presented to them.
After the murder Schmidt returned
| to the house to dispose of all evil
dence to show who the girl was. He
had removed considerable of her eff
fects. in fact. everything that bore
her name. He had even taken a
photograph with him. But he over
looked the photograph the police
found there early yesterday, and also
| the letter addressed to her at. st.
Boniface Church. The letter and the
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