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Show HANS SCHMIDT HURLS UK I WHENAHGERED Self-confessed Murderer of Anna Aumuller Held to the Grand Jury After the Coroner's Inquest. ACTION OF PRIEST CREATES AN UPROAR Women Among the Specta-tors Specta-tors Scramble for Souve- nirs; Detectives Force Prisoner Into Seat. NEW YORK, Oct. 3. Hans Schmidt, priest and self-confessed mur-dercr mur-dercr of Anna Aumuller, was held today for the grand jury following an inquest held by Coroner Feinberg before a jury of millionaires, with Theodore P. Shonts as foreman. The other jurors were Marcus Loew, B. J. Grcenhufc, Ed-win Ed-win Marston, G. G. MeDuff, M. Eegons-berg, Eegons-berg, G. W. Fairchicld, Howard Weir, Latham R. Reid and P. A. O'Laugblin. The verdict rendered was that Anna Aumuller came to her death "on Sep-tember Sep-tember 2 at GS Broadhurst avenue, New York City, from a hemorrhage caused at the hands of Hans Schmidt " Schmidt, whose unkempt, dishoveled appearance amazed the spectators, throw the crowded courtroom into an uproar just before the jury retired by leaping to his feet and hurling a rosary and a handful of coins into the faces of a group of spectators behind him, whom he accused of laughing at him. The beads of the rosary scattered fl like shot and the crucifix struck a re- porter over the eye, inflicting a paiu-ful paiu-ful Scramble for Souvenirs. The detectives guarding the prisoner sprang upon him and hurled him to his seat, while the score of women in the courtroom scrambled for the beads and coins as souvenirs. Until the moment of his startling outbreak, Schmidt had sat motionless. When ho stood up to throw the beads and coins he was shaking with anger and exclaimed: "What are youi laughing at? What are you laughing at?5'" The detectives and reporters declare there had been no laughter, but Schmidt's attorney, in a statement is-sued is-sued later, said his client had heard snickers when the coroner had stated to the jury that the dismembered re-mains re-mains of tnc dead girl would be buried in the potter's field, uuless somebody volunteered funeral and interment er-peases. er-peases. Schmidt, the lawyer explained, had concluded that laughter at" such a moment was a slur on the memory of his (lend sweetheart. Witnesses Are Few. Only six witnesses were questioned and the actual taking of evidence lasted only fourteen minutes. The discovery of the first fragments of the dismem-bered dismem-bered torso was described by Mary Bann and Anna Hirt. The chum of tlu dead girl told how she had identified this section of the torso by a brown snot upon the right breast. Inspector Fuu rot told of the arrest and confes-sion confes-sion of Schmidt and how the latter claimed o have disposed of the body after dismembering it. Coroner's Phv-sician Phv-sician King of Hudson county. N. JL who performed the autopsy, testified that death had resulted from hemor-rhage. hemor-rhage. Since his arrest Schmidt has grown a reddish beard fuliy an inch long. He was collarless and wore a negligee shirt. His single-breasted black frock coat was the only suggestion of the clerical in his attire. Shuffles Into Room. His hair was uncombed and hung down over his forehead. He walked to his chair with a shuffling gait, looking neither left nor right, shook hands with his counsel, exchanged a few whispered words and sat down. He seemed to keep his gaze fixed on Anna Hirt, the chum of the girl he had slain, and on Inspector Faurot, who placed him un-der un-der arrest. Dr. King, who testified afc the in-questj in-questj declared later that he doubted Schmidt's story that ho had dropped all the sections of the body from a North river ferry boat. The physician said that the fact that part of one of the legs was found in the lower bay indicated that the slayer may have dropped somo of the j severed sections from a Conov Islnnd or Sandy Hook boat. He also "declared that if the head should ev.er be found it can be fitted to the trunk because of the jagged cuts made by the mur- dercr in severing the vertebrae. |