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Show DEATH MYSTERY OF RICH GERMAN New York, Sept. 4. A mystery at-f at-f taches to the death of Carl Schoete, 45 years old, supposed to be a Ham-I Ham-I burg banker on his way to the Pa-I Pa-I clfic coast, who was found dead from I Poison In a Hoboken boarding house j j last night. It may have been a case I of accident, murder or slulclde. Th ! Hoboken police have locked up a ,k comely young woman of 24. gliing ,1 her name as Adelo Schlmmel, who V came from Germany with the man j I i recently and who had been with him I at the boarding house. What she h.16 i i i been able to tell about Schoete indl-j tttes that he had lost or had been i ; robbed of a letter of credit for $J2,-j $J2,-j 000, and according to her story he i kad talked of suicide Schoete bore the stamp of wealth i ind refinement and spoke both Eng-I Eng-I HJah and German fluently At a Hoboken Ho-boken hotel at which he had stopped ! lj Just after his arrival he had eaten I unusually expensive meal6 and order- ed the best vintages that money could -i buy Hie companion, who said 6he 1 first met him on the steamship cora-t cora-t lng from Germany, told the police that Schoete was planning a trip to California on banking business and that he had pleaded with her to go' : w ith hlra In one of Schoete's trunks four kinds of deadly poison were found. I An autopsy will be performed. |