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" 8 PRIEST CONFESSES THAT 1 HE KILLED WOMAN i Hans Schmidt Clears Up Hudson River Mystery. ? -?? * ? a i\/\ianom/^ bMti WAS A UWlC-^iH . Moreover. Anna Autiiuller Had llwn Married t<? Himself by the .Minister Without Witnesses. New York, Sept. 14.?With the arrest early today of the Rev. Hans Schmidt, assistant rector of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church, charged with the murder of Anna Aumuller, a domestic, the mystery surrounding the finding of parts of the dismembered body of a girl In the Hudson river was solved. Schmidt, according to the police re- ' ports, confessed, and at the time of his arrest attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a safety razor blade. According to the police and attaches of the district attorney's office, Schmidt's confession was full and absolute. In it he is quoted as saying that he killed his companion with a butcher's knift and cut up the body with the knife and a saw. The deed was committed, the police say, shortly after midnight on September 2, in an apartment in Rradhurst avenue. PUTS DODY IN RIVER. j Five bundles, wrapped in bed clothes and papers, were made of the six parts. Five times Schmidt left the apartment house with a bundle to cross the Hudson river to the * U ? Itwv.WWI jer??!.v > uu i ir. rivo tiiurs uc numcu over the stern of the ferryboat and g<*. ? the river his burden. Then he rt .rned to his church. in the apartment the police found a marriage license issued in New York last February and bearing the names of the priest and the murdered woman. According to Schmidt's confession he went through a mar-1 riage ceremony with the girl. In this ceremony Schmidt was both priest and bridegroom; there were no witnesses. TRACED PILLOWSLIP. A pillowslip led to Schmidt's apprehension. This pillowslip, stained with blood and soiled with the filth of the river, was wrapped around a portion of the torso. The detectives traced the pillowslip to its manufacturer: the manufacturer traced it to the dealer: the dealer traced it to Schmidt. The police tracing Schmidt and the girl, knew all about both of them, hours before they arrested him. The priest was dressed in full clerical garb when Inspector Faurot entered his rooms in the parish house of his church. The inspector produced a photograph of Miss Aumuller and asked Schmidt 1f he knew the girl. The priest, after a moment of hesitation, ino.uired whether his visitors were police officers. He then asked permission to change his clothes, and it was when he left the room. Inspector Faurot declared, that lie attempted to cut his throat. According to the police. Schmidt signed a detailed confession, in which, among other statements is this: I'M GUILTY. HE SAYS. "I am guilty: that I can say. I must suffer the penalty. There Is nothing else for me to do. But I loved Anna Aumuller. She wanted me to marry her and I procured a marriage license. She trusted me. "I atn a priest and ordained to perform the marriage ceremony, so I married myself to her. There was no need of any other priest doing it. It was just as absolute as if I had called in another priest with authority to perform a marriage eeremonv She was mv wife "I met Anna Aumuller two years ago at the parish house of St. BonJfaee church. She was employed as a servant there. I became infatuated with her. I loved her." CONFESSED TO SUPERIOR. Early today Schmidt had said to theTtev. Father Huntmann. rector of Rt. Josephine's church, that he would hear no more confessions and when asked for his reason, said: "I have something of importance to tell you." With his superior Schmidt then retired to the study where the latter told all that had transpired in the Rradhurst avenue flat, where according to his alleged confession, he murdered the girl. Father Huntmann conferred with his other assistants and it was agreed that the authorities should he notified. The police, however, were even then on Schmidt's trail, and his arrest followed shortly. Schmidt was taken to the Tombs. BORN IN GERMANY Schmidt, after being assigned to a cell in the Tombs, went to sleep. The priest, according to his story, was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany, in 1881. He attended college and at the age of 18 enrolled in St. Angus tine's Seminary in Mainz, and December 23, 1904, was ordained. He held several charges in Germany and then came to America because of poor health. After remaining in New York City a short time, be wa3 assigned to a church at Louisville, Ky. In 1909 he went to Trenton, N. J., and in December, 1910, became assistant to Father Braun, rector of St. Boniface's church, where he met the Aumuller girl. In November, 1912, Schmidt left St. Boniface to become assistant rector of St. Joseph's church, the assignment he held at the time of his arrest today. GritL ALSO GERMAN. Little is known of the history of Anna Aumuller before she took employment in the St. Boniface parish house the week before Christmas, THE LANCA HOTEL IJFB TOO COSTLY. MOVE TO HELI Mansion Should bo Provi<lo<l for WOMAN Vice President Marshall. Washington, September 14.? Secretary of Agrtcul After a long search, which at Asks Suggestions < one time seemed to be hopeless. Women. Vice President and Mrs. Marshall have succeeded in finding a residence Washington Special in Washington within the possibilit- News and Courier, Se ies of the Vice Presidential purse. F. Houston, secretary The location of the house they have within the next few da leased has not been revealed, but h letter to the wome thev are to take possession of it 500,000 farm househo about OcUber 1. ~ the unttea suites. n* The Marshalls have been living at to give him informatl the Shorehnm Hotel since the inaugu the department of ag ration but Mr. Marshall some time best serve the needs ago admitted that the expense of pre- women, matent residence at a first-class These letters will b Washington hotel would be too great housewives in the lion for his means in spite of the fact that c'a' crop corresponds his immediated family consists only he sent to the full list of himself and wife. It is neccessary pondents for transmiss for the Vice President and Mrs Mar- men members of the shall to receive a great many people With each letter will and do a good deal of entertaining, return envelope in wh and this costs a lot of money at a fine can forward their sui hotel. This inquiry results Apropos of the circumstance that ceipt of a letter addres the Vive President has no children, rotary in which the w there was a tendency to smile when "The farm woman the papers some weeks ago carried an most neglected factor account of the remarks which Mr problem and she has I Marshall made recently at a Fairfax neglected by the natioi County, Virginia, camp meeting of agriculture." about the decline of parental author- This letter was wrif lty and the consequent vogue of woman, but by a questionable dances songs and fash- man so throoughly in ions among the young folk. Senator agricultural and done Swanson. of Virginia, who followed the country that his the Vice President on the same plat- great weight. Followii form warmly seconded this timely of this letter, the Sec rebuke to shirking parents, it is mined that the best w something of a coincidence that partment to learn how Senator Swanson has no children women the fullest poi either. service which their in The Vice President has never com- in agricultural product plained of his salary, although it is was to write the worn the same as that of the members of and ask them to mat the cabinet ($12,000 a year) and 17 suggestions, per cent less than that of Associate In the letter these 1 Justices of the Supreme Court, who vited to give individut receive $14,500; but it is generally the letter or to discuss felt that Congress ought to increase their church sooities o to a reasonable extent that compen- sanitations and subm sation of the second elective office in presenting the combim the land, or provide a suitable Vice the women of their en Presidential residence, or do both of ties. The answers at^ v,no.. thitifts; if it e.ni spc its wav later than November thereto". date is set because n women time after liar' lilsilol* HOSS ON TOll\CFO the matter and dis ltisiiui hoss <?> n>u.i< < u. tholf women neighbors This letter will go tc Not in Favor of Legislation Against leading farms in each Weed by Church. eight hundred counties States. Their answers St Louis. September 13.?Bishop wjj, represent the view B. E. Hoss. of the Methodist Episco- upwards of 500.000 pal Church. South to-day sent a let- These answers will be ter to the Rev. C. 11. Hawkins, presi- altered bv the special ding elder of the St Louis district partment* having to d of the Church, in which he explains branch of agricultural his views on the use of tobacco. The letter was brought forth by publish vxrnmmv t>t> CiT) ed excerpts from an address by the 1VJN U I 1 x x JCvLJIj Bishop at the Missouri Conferernce m APTPi; of the Church las week. In which he XXXXvXXX was quoted as saying that no minis- ~ ter who was a gentleman would use House and Senate < tobacco. pose of the Wood The letter to the Rev Hawkins said Schedule) in part: "I did not bring up the subject of Washington. Sept. tobacco myself, but it came before the knotty problems it the Conference in a memorial to the paper schedules were approaching General Conference, day by the house an asking it to make the non-use of to- ferees on the Deraocr baceo a condition of entrance into and a good start ma our ministery. dries schedule. "Personally, 1 am not in favor of One of the importa such legislation, and I took occasion of the day occurred w to say: 'To make the use of tobacco conferees accepted th a sin Is to grade down the general graph making the che conception of sin until people lose woolen blankets dutin sight of its enormity. Smoking a cent ad valorem. The cigar is a question of expenditncy. woolen yarns was co Ministers are very frequently enter- splitting the differenc talned in houses where tobacco is two houses, the houst offensive and under such circum- a 20 per cent and th stances no gentleman will use it." per cent duty. Simi n-iiR elven the duty f dutiable bv the house FrVKKAl- WlTHOt T I OMI . duty and by the senate Slight changes wen Simplicity will Mark Said Kites in senate's rates on wo lienor of C.aynor. and the house paragra rugs was adopted. Ai New York. September 13.?The niohair were passed 1 funeral of William J. Gavnor on fprees not being able Monday. September 22, will b<> with- Slight reductions we out military display. The mayor senate rates 011 pnper. would have wished it so. Mrs. Gay- graph in this schdeul nor said to-day at a conference at the nf was that dealing Gavnor home in Brooklyn. cards qpd booklets 1 With Mayor Kline and other ofh printed. This was 1 cials she approved the plans for the further consideration, obsequies that had been arranged. ,\ delayed speech In Ostentation was not to the mayor's tariff bill was made in liking. Tie was a lover of simplicity day by Senator Thomi and during the public tribute to the a Democratic member dead executive of the city that will committee. The ser he begun upon arrival of his body pared his speech for < here on the Lusltania next Friday the tariff debate but the only escort of his coffin will he Upon to withhold it s mounted police. of the bill might not Tarrying out the Idea of simplicity jfe warmly defend at the funeral it has been decided schedule and declared that the offers of many orchestras to the agitation against render the music at Old Trinity shall the beet sugar interest be refused and that the musical part a misapprehension, of the service be carried out only Over-capitalization 1 by the Trinity choir and organ Mrs anfj dlsmriminatorv Gavnor has chosen only one number, were denounced by the Bach-Gounod "Ave Maria," of causes of the high cosi which the mayor was very fond. characterized the wat Private services will he h Id at the as legalized robbery, r Gavnor home Friday evening conduct- it were necessary tc ed by the llev Or Frank Page of Cul- freight rates, he favoi peper. Va. formerly pastor of St ownership of railroad John's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn near the late mayor's residence. Work Ends in Ci Mavor Gaynor's will was filed with 0.1 the surrogate in Brooklyn this after- 'h/mio ii noon. As it was after the official clos- s'io\el Pe ing hour the document was locked ProP''J f ' ^ . r y up in the safe without being examin- n(?.^ .a" , *'j, ed to remain there until Monday. ^la^inclucSlng SS , must be out of the nil Pay as You Go. between Gaboa Dike T. . . . .. MlRUei IOCKH. The Judge -' So you admit you 0n AuKllftt i therr were going at the rate of twenty-five to be rpmoved 998>8 rnlies an hour. inside the theoretics The Chauffeur?"Yes. your honor." and the steam shovel The Judge?"Well, a man should ween that date and S pay as he goes. I'll fine you $25." iH estimated, will red to 650,000 yards, whl 1!? lit. according to a statement is- removed by the dred| sued tonight by Father Braun. j ~~T r~ ~ "All I know about her," he said, ' * Hcnool for S ' is that she came to this country New York Sept. 15. from Oermany about two and a half rection of Mrs. Carrh years ago. 1 understand she was an and other suffrage 1 orphan and I have a dim recollection for suffragists was o that she may possibly have come to day. Young women wl us through an advertisement. While street speaking, fie she had no credentials I employed work and organizing her." questions in addition The girl was 21 years old. in state arid nations BTER NEWS, SEPTEMBER It * THE RAOSDAbE EXPLAINS PC ON FARM South Carolina IlepiwonUtii Strong Currency Spee ture Houston Washington Special to CI of 300,000 News and Courier, Sept. 13.the debate on the currency t Representative J. W. Ragsd to Charleston js one Df tti? Democratic me pt. 14.?David the banking and currency c< of agriculture, who were not satisfied with ys will address at ^ Nvag reported to the h< n members of w|j0 bowed to the declsioi Ids throughout party caucus in its favor aft questing them been amended in certain pa ion as to how made a strong speech in ex] [riculture can Gf bis position and views, of the farm pressed the opinion that could not be enacted In its e address "To form. les of the otti- Mr. Ragsdale took issue nts," and will statement of Chairman Ola of crop corres- jn tbe latter's speech openin lion to the wo- bate, that practically no ir households, bad been made in the bill in be supplied a cus except by those who f? leb the women aR jt came from the comml ggestions. is generally recognized that i from the re- made by Mr. Ragsdale an ;sed to the sec- wag an influential factor in I riter said: tlon of an amendment s has been the farm products as acceptable in the rural for currency issues. Reprf jeen especially ciaude Kitchin. banking nu lal department tbe ways and means eommitt that statement to The Nt Lten not by a courier correspondent a I broad-minded ag0- The South Carolina i touch with the man contended in his spec estic needs of warehouse certificates for f opinions have ducts ought to have been sp ng the receipt the bill as security for cur retary deter- he had proposed in his owr ay for the de- ment. to give these \ Republican member he ssible aid and Mr. 'Ragsdale: "Have yoi uportant place any good reason why your ion warrants, tion should not be accepte ien themselves Yes," replied Ragsdale, " e their own stand that the majority of i in this house is against it, a women are in- enough for me." il answers to /women^or- SAVES HE WILE RE ACg It answers re ed opinions of Sulzer Declares that All He tire communl- Justice, requested not 15, and this Albany. N. H., Septembe will give the "i am going to be acquitte< rest to consid- (jovernor William Sulzer to cuss It with a conference with Ex-Judge > about twenty Derrick, of his counsel, cc of the twenty- the impeachment trial, wh ; of the United commerce Thursday before it is expected Senate and the Court of Api s and opinions ting as a Court of Impeach i farm women The Governor commentci carefully con- attitude of "some of the f ists of the de- an<* declared that "this is a o with that a political fight." He said t tice is all I want." His f ' follows: >T TiMC "I am going to bo ncquitt 1LEMS have a fair trial. I have s i p a GOT?!) hard thing? about some of rAoulJl' ators and they have said 3. thing? about me; but this i onfereee Pis- no^ a political fight. They and Paper judges and jurors and. I , most of them are large en< honest enough to rise above 15.?Most of sonal feeling they may ent< i the wool and ward me because of what I disposed of to- about them, and do me ju d senate con- that is all I want." atlc tariff bill, mm^^ .1 on the sunagreements hen the J e house paraaper grades of ^ ible at 2 5 per J paragraph on mpromised by e between the J V M Vh ' ' having voted I M H M B e senate a 15 MB I KM IB lar treatment J M f M I V >n tops, made j F"* I M at 15 per cent J| AX AX 1 s at 5 per cent. { Ej made in the _____________ olen stockings ?,% ph on Oriental ^ tgora goat and V ? A OT- % I 111 ill re made in the The only para- _ e not disposed tH with picture ithographlcally passed by for H support of the the senate to- H is of Colorado, of the finance tator had prolelivery dnring BmmNH was prevailed o that passage be delayed. ' H led the sugar that much of t f sugar bv ***" ~ was based on j ^ rates H arlng |^H^^SePBp > get equitable 8^B^'^^f'^^H|H^^RS ilehra Cat. , and between vhen the water M Iron and other JJL n^mllo ch'ann.i *. 0N EVERY ' and the Pedro ^ ber and the amo > still renamed ! Wi" ** dr?Pped 00 cubic yards #*4 There is no lucV 1 canal pr1nin ^ that u;ark anri 1 operations bet- ?? inai worK an(1 1 September is. it ?% store every Wei uce the amount $ Ich will later be * * ^^ 1 <es. .?* _____ ufTraglat*. 1%* ?Under the dl3 Chapman Catt M eaders a Rehool I ^ I |i pened here to- % J^. Ill be trained for Id uork, office Bjt am) annwering IVHBHHHBHHi I'l&w*'08 drll,ed ), 1913. KSITION. pp. _ liTrade^Bn ale, who ; rubers of ! A4T If V >use, but J ?| Broom Sells It I 5 present ss!'ma!ie Having just received one of the best s< g the de- chandise I have ever shown in this town, I a tile1 cav- trading public to come to see me. ivored it 1 defy competition. I ask the trade to 'thTflght Prices and 1 will get Your Business where (1 ot bpr? he adop- BECAUSE BROOM SELLS IT F< pecifying security ????????? 'sentative Just a few prices from a depart- POP I ember of ment full of bargains: 27-Inch Pop ee, made 54-Inch Panamas at 4?c 27-Inch Ei jws and 38_inch All-Wool Serges at....40c weher, Br rew day* 36-incb Serge, worth 35c, at. .24c 27-Inch Eng t'?'lpr<?ss" 2 Lots 36-inch Suiting, worth 15c and new shade ' tli.it 20c, while thev last at the yard lOc stores for arm pro- 27-Inch Silk Ratine, lot of pretty poined in shades, wholesale price, was 27 V4 c, 27-Inch Sil rency as j jj tbem for the yard 23c yard. . . . 1 amendheard 39-Inch White Cloth for Quilt linings or ott proposi 500 Yards Light Outings, suitable for nigl <1 now?" children and men, while they last at. . . I under- ' _ my party ????????????? nd that's SHOES. SHOES. U Our stock of Shoes, as usual are of I have re the best makes and of the best leath- lines of Lai PITTEO. ers. Your shoe bill will be much less dren's Coa if you buy them from Broom. He Prices from sells them for less. See them want* is r 14 > R. & G. Corsets here always. d," said Millinery will arriv later and will be c -night at Those who bought early will not have Dam* v^auy NOTIONS. NOTIONS. HATS F the State Babcock Corylopsis Taloam Powders A Real $2.C m . ls, sit- 15c The celebra merit. Hair Pins and Dress PlnB, paper lc Hats hen tl on the A good Box Writing Paper for. ,5e nn v , Senators" A 15c Box of Writing Paper for lOc * ______ . trial, not A fl.50 Real Human Hair Switch ? . " , ? hat "jus- for white ladies $1.00 B?y? Black statement Silk Hose for Ladies at 25c Men's 1 oz. ! Silk Half Hose f;r Men at.... 25c while the ed I will aid come . the sen-1 Look for Broom s sign on his door poai ime hard ^ others claiming to be Broom. Yoi ?ll! W. F. BR( irtain to- I have said Successor to A. J. Broom Company. At the stice and , serve you and satisfaction gut THIS IS THE 10 WE GIVE A\ arcli 15th, Value be a Que (iratifyin pays to b our trade, Since nounced t give away Parlor Gi Rome one era on business h increase i ment. Of usual vali ing have this incr< He sure Piano V< purchase A brought i 1I71?T\VT vCrt A \7 TIa i?/\ Inn in rvool/o rro a U7lf Vl PAT ?V tiOl/A I . I1C vw ten in pavnn^vn niui vvi unt on top of slip only. Candidates not bringing in Seven separate premiums from $10 to $400, tein : or happen so in this contest. It is a contest of n lustle will get the premiums. It is necessary that > inesday for instructions, which will aid you greatly i f. Mackey < mmtmmmmmammmmmmmmmmam HMMHtMnm \ ' )om s > 1 w or Less elected lines of mersk one and all of the compare Values and this is done. Why? OR LESS. jINS and reps. lins, worth 20c, now 15c lglieh Rep, 35c every oom sells them for 24c ;llsh Whipcord, in the >8, sold in all department 25c, Broom seels them at lOo ks, 25c grade, at the 20c ier uses.. . . 5c yard it robes for women, 8'/j c yarn k DIES' COATS. ceived one of the nicest flies'. Misses' and Chil.ts ever shown by me. . . .$1.50 to $10.00 Each f- " before buying. >f the latest designs. 5 Fashion's latest. OR MEN AND BOYS. 10 Velvet Hat Jor. .$1.48 ted line of Chesterfield i for your inspection, t Hats in blicks and r $1.98 [ Plush Hats 48c Hats, good for $1.25, iy last 98c t and don't be misled irs truly, )OM 5 old stand anxious to iranteed. ?AY I $4<H? I ?? ^ mod to us to I stion is now a X ? Success. It X _ 1*1 I . .!iL V r nut;mi wnu ^ we first an- ljt, hat we should r this beautiful rand Piano to 1^ of our customrtarch 15, our las shown a big ajt, n every depart ' course the unies we are givhelped to make JL4 ease. ??2 to ask for your ?tes with every ?+? 11 votes must be ?? ! n for recording ?&| itestant's num- %! personal votes g $2,200 in all. nerit and those <&M ou come to our n getting votes. Coil