Show 1 PRIEST WHO MURDERED I GIRL WAS SUSPENDED I t BY GERMAN BISHOP r ACCUSED Of fRAUDS BUT NOT I f Foreign Court Released Him on Excuse of His Weal WeaK Mindedness A AWAKENED W VICTIM BEFORE HE HILLED lULLED He Displayed Knowledge of Surgery in Cutting t. t Up the Body I I UNDER SUSPENSION I OF OP GERMAN GEBMAN BISHOP I MAINZ Germany German Sept 15 The The Journal today says that Johannes S Schmidt belonging to the Mainz bishopric has been lon long under su suspension sus pension by tho the bishop bishov He disappeared from Mainz and later arrived in Munich where ho Ito was arrested on a a charge e of a number of fra frauds ds according to tho the per After ho he had bad been acquitted by bythe byI the court on the ground of weak I mindedness ho Irn emigrated to New York The Mainz episcopate was as not aware he wa was exercising the functions of a priest in New York i I- I I P NEW YORK Sept lo In In the hope of of branding brandin as an impostor an and pseudo priest the Rev He Hans Schmidt alleged self confessed slayer of Anna Aumuller 1 ler victim of New Yorks York's river murI mur mur- I r- r mys mystery q chur church h authorities began toda today a sweeping investigation o of 6 record and his pretensions ons to ordination We hope of oC course to to tobe be beable able to prove that this unspeakable ble monster was tras an impostor and that he be had baa been using forged papers declared Monsignor Mon- Mon signor Lavelle vicar general of the archdiocese of New York That i is something which we wo are arc I trying to clear up now He Hc came to this diocese with credentials which ap apparently apparently ap- ap in iu every wa way were authentic and genuine e but we know practically nothing of him His Jils crime is too horrible horrible hor hor- to conceive We Wo can only hope that he may prove to have ha been a pseudo prie priest t. t In his cell in the Tombs with his coat as pillow Schmidt slept soundly and arose this morning to partake of a hearty breakfast He He had bad little to add adri to his bis alleged ed confession of last ni night ht in which he is said to have told the police that be he killed his victim as she lay in bed cut cutup cutup cutup up her body in the bath tub of oC the tho apartment where here ho he had established her wrapped it in five bun bundles les and dropped the bundles in the Hudson ri river To the Rev nev L L. J. J the Tombs chaplain was vias said to have ha made the following declaration I IniS I was niS directed directed to kill lill her ber by St. St Elizabeth who is mj my patron as a sacrifice sac to to be consummated as the tho sacrifice sacrifice sac sac- sacrifice of Abraham in blood To the tho police Schmidt is alleged to have said T I her ber I III I killed her because loved The police believe however that he killed her ner ber because she sho was WIS soon to be bp bea a mother They believe that the girl irl I accepted as genuine enuine the marriage ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony through b which h she he went with her alleged slayer last February and in which he was wa both priest and bride bride- groom room To To Clear Another Mystery With a view to clearing the m mystery t surrounding the tho mur murder er of ei eight year old Alma whose whoso mutilated borl body t was found in quicklime in iu tho ha basement base bac- c. c L ment meat of St. St Johns John's catholic church in Louisville Louis two years cars and InrI a half a ago o the police sought today to obtain from fron Schmidt some statement of what lie tie might know of this thib crime From Front August 1909 1900 till March arch 1910 t Schmidt was a visitor in Louisville Louis not L officially connected with any church there but a guest in the home of the theR 4 R Rev V v. v Hen Henry V V Vc rc rector tor of f t tho o church of the tho Immaculate Concep Concep- hon bon Alma Kellner KeHner disappeared lh in December De Dc- comber cember 8 1909 1009 her bod body was as found nine I months after Joseph jan jan- f at St. St Johns John's s c church is IS now serving I a life term in m prison on for tho thA crime e Wen Wendling denial hi hh hi guilt and and I Ithe t. t the jury J ry did lid not consider the evidence c I sufficient Clent to lou louge e against him bim a ver yer- I dict diet or first de degree murder Of Schmidt's antecedents antecedents little is known b here rc save his own claim that he Continued on pate page 2 I I PRIEST WHO MURDERED GIRL WAS SUSPENDED Continued from pa page o 1 L was nas born in Germany German in 1881 was educated educated educated edu edu- there ordained b by Bishop in n St. St Augustine's seminary in Mainz and came to New NewYork York in 1906 In Tn 1909 1900 he hc went to Trenton N N. J J. J and in in December De Dc- cember comber 1910 was appointed assistant rector of St. St Boniface church in in this cit city There ho he met the Aumuller girl pirl irl who he ho said had come to this thus country from Gennan Germany a few months before How He Killed HerI Her HerI I was attracted b by her beauty reads Schmidt's alleged confession I became infatuated with her I loved her I killed her ber She was so beautiful so good I could not let her Jive live without mo roO I had bad made up my mind that she and I should not live UVe to tope to pe gether t her I was a priest and must remain with my church I could not let her go away awny from me rue So I opened the tho door of or orthe the flat I T awakened her I r told her I had come conic to fulfill my threat Th Thin Then n nI I drew the knife across her throat The skill with which the young woman's womans womans woman's wom worn ans an's body had been dismembered caused the tho belief f at first that the tb work had been done b by a surgeon In Tn the tho flat occupied for five fhe days b by Schmidt and the girl detectives fou found d OO printed cards which indicated that Schmidt had masqueraded mt as a surgeon and was wai p possessed pos poe essed more than an ordinary layman's knowledge of surgery These cards as follows Dr Emil formerly assist ant surgeon of oC the municipal womans woman's hospital Paris Franco France representative of the Chemical Hygiene Manufacturing company j |