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Show HANS SCHMIDT STILL UNMOVED Calmly Hears Details of Grew-some Grew-some Murder of Anna Au-muller Au-muller Rehearsed to Jury. New York, Dec. 10. Hans Schmidt, once a priest, now a self-confessed murderer, sat unmoved today while counsel for the state told the Jury that he laid careful plans to kill Anna Aumuller cut up her body and throw the pieces into the Hudson river riv-er The prosecution promised to show that Schmidt bought a saw, paper pa-per and wire and a scrubbing brush with the details of his contemplated crime In mind The first witness was Mary Bann, I the young girl who found on the New ' Je rsey side of the river the bundle containing all of Anna Aumuller'e body which never came to light after the murder. Schmidt's attorneys cross-examined her to prove thai tie careless preparation of this package vus tho work of disordered brain Schmidt's defense Is insanity Father and Sister Arrive. Schmidt's father and sister arrived today from his old home In Germany Helnrlcb Schmidt the tather, is 68 years old. He refused to talk about his son's case. His daughter. Mrs Elizabeth Shaeler. declared that her bother always was a good boy "I cannot understand,'" she said "how be could have committed the crime of wfclcb be is accused If he was In his right mind 1 do not believe be-lieve he is guilty. " The court ruled out one question asked by counsel for tho defense which raised the direct Issue of san ity. This question put to Dr C W King, county physician of Hudsou county, New Jersey, was. "Could you say that such clean-cut Intelligent dissection could have been done by a sane man who was work Ing on the body of his friend, his sweetheart?" Dr. King had described how th body was cut to pieces. |