The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-11-11
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and the priest feared exposure and disgrace.
While his trusting concubine was asleep,
Schmidt drew a knife across her throat,
nearly cutting her neck in two
Then, the monster carved up the body, ia
nine pieces, which he separately carried out
at night, and threw into the river.
These pieces were picked up one by one,
and the identity of the priests victim was
established,
When arrested at St Josephs rectory he
made full confession, saying that he loved
the young woman so we'll he could not give
her up, and therefore put her to death
The remainder of the story is given bv the
New \ DIRK World, Oct 81. 1915.
Few cases have ever been delayed as much az
this. 1t less than two weeks ago that AIr
hoelble served on the District ATTORNEY bfs
printed brief on appeal although on October II
he nao' IN accordance with a peremptory order
OF the Court of Appeals, served a typewriter
brief.
II the conviction is affirmed there is reason for
oeheVng that persistent attempt will be made
before the Governor to save Schmidt's life and
that If he is executed at least two wears adm
SIX months from the time of his confession will
nave elapsed before the execution takes place
One Lie After Another
The history of the Schmidt case so far as il
has related to the defendant has been one az
shame hypocrisy and lying since the first dav
or MS arrest His statements that occasion
were SO startling that his sanity was questioned
and experts were called by the State to pass
on his mental condition.
A month later they pronounced him sane and
shamming insanity. Four alienists were then
called in by the defense, the money for their
employment being obtained from some undis-
closed source. After several examinations of him
they went on the stand at his two trials tbe
one in December, 1913 and the other in Feb
ruary, 1914, and swore that he was ncurably
insane
His own wild statements of the grossest per-
versions were cited proof of this fact. At the
first trial two of the jurors held that he was in
sane and disagreement resulted At both OF
them the State based it's case largely on his own
story at the time Of his arrest, supported by
mass of cOrroborative testimony At the second
trial, although he interposed the defense.
he convicted.
He was sentenced on February r. Three days
afterward he sent for Assistant District Attorney
Delehanty and confessed that he had been sham
ming insanity up to and during the time Of his
trials, and that the ideas which had been adj
vanced to the allenists had been gained not from
his own experiences, but from reading medical
book dealing with dementia praecox.
Then Another Yarn.
He then proceeded to tell Mr. Delehanty an
entirely different story than the which
he was convicted, the second being to the general
effect that Anna AumuelIer mad died as the
result Of criminal operation. subsequently he
was examined in Sing Sing by L. J. McManus his
trial counsel and in the following September
given opportunity to speak face to face with
DR.. Arnold G. Leo of No sos West One Hundred
and Thirty-fifth Street and with Bertha Zech, a
young servant girl who he declared could largely
corroborate his new story.
These meetings, which were kept secret at the
time, took pace in Sing Sing prison, and both
the physician and the servant fatty denied the
statements that Schmidt made. The papers in
opposition to Schmidts motion for trial
reveal that besides the statement made TO his
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