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A MASTER CRIMINAL TERRIBLE RECORD OF FATHER HANS SCHMIDT PRIEST LED DUAL LIFE Served at the Altar as a Saint in a Catholic Church ami Acted as a l>ovil When Not Otlleiating at Services or Hearing Confessions of People. When tho New York police ran clown and arrested Father llans Schmidt, a Catholic priest connected with one of tho churches of that city, they seem to have caught a master criminal, whose deeds of crime may have extended across the ocean to his homeland. In addition to tlie murder of the young woman, Anna Aumuller, which lie confessed, the police have connected Father Schmidt with several other crimes and arrested at least one of his pals. He is known as Dr. Ernest A. Muret, a dentist in the day time and a counterfeiter at night. He was arrested after detectives, ransacking Schmidt's apartments, had uncovered evidence to show Schmidt was a counterfeiter. This evidence led them to <i flat rented by a man under the i name of (Jeorge Miller, in which ' were found all essentials to the counterfeiter's craft. The janitress of the building, confronting Muret, greeted him as Miller and Muret, unaware of his impending apprehension, recog- j nized her as the woman from whom < he had rented the flat under his ' psuedonvm. Schmidt and Muret, the janitress 1 paid, and Murot admittod, had spent ' long hours together in the Hat. They 1 told the renting agent they were 1 medical students and wanted the flat as a place for experiments. The kit- 1 chen was fitted up as a dark room; a * camera, a printing press, photograph- ( ic supplies and other equipment i handy to counterfeiters was found ( there. After detectives had arrested ( Muret they took into custody as a ( material witness Bertha Zech, the 1 maid employed at his dental ofllce. s She protested sho knew nothing of " the crime of which her employer was j suspected. <, Bertha Zech, who was released on j \ bond, returned to the St. Nicholas < avenue apartment occupied by the f dentist. There she discussed her de- \ tent ion overnight and told of her em- s ployment by the doctor last December v through an advertisement. She had j come to New York, only a few weeks ri before that time, sho explained. She also denied that she knew anything s about the affairs of Muret and 2 Schmidt, hut threw some light on the \ occurrences in the dentist's office, f Schmidt visited there frequently, she paid, as did many women, who re- s mained until lato at night. v In ransacking Schmidt's rooms de- p tectives found evidence that Schmidt had stolen $ 100 from the Easter col- n lection at Rt. Joseph's church and f that he had robbed a visiting priest 0 who spent tho night at the local }, clergy. An empty purse found in c Schmidt's rooms proved to be the one which the visiting priest had lost j. not long ago. Schmidt still insisted ( Friday that neither Ernest A. Muret, . his dentist friend, nor Anna Aumul- c ler, the girl be murdered, knew anything about his counterfeiting opera- n tions. II The little town of Aschaffenburg, j Germany, the birthplace of Schmidt, is all aflutter at tho news of the ^ young priest's act, according to special cable messages received from ^ there. Schmidt's parents, a sister y and three brothers, live in neighbor- y ing villages and are highly respect- (| ed middle-class people. The author!- , ties of Aschaffenburg are inclined to o believe that Schmidt may have been c, responsible for the murder of a tel- jr ephono girl named Haas whose body was found near his parents' homo a short time before ho left there. No man of Schmidt's varied pur- jr suits could bo insano, the New York fj detectives say, and they look upon ^ him as a criminal master mind?a c] man trained in many things which he lurnen to account In liis operations. Schmidt's explanation of everything -?of the murder of Anna Aumuller, u and of the counterfeiting?is that ho 81 did it at the command of God. These n declarations, the detectives say, aro ^ part of a plan to feign insanity. w That Schmidt did pose as I)r. Mol- ^ iere, a physician, as ho is said to have admitted, was indicated by tho *r finding among his effects of medicines 01 , - and drugs. 0 ' tl ? m Aviator's Fatal Tumble. jj In tho fall of an aeroplane at tho si fair grounds at Rutland, Va., Goorgo Schmidt, an aviator, was fatally hurt; J. Dyer Spellman, assistant Judgo of tho muncipal court, received burns which may causo his death. ! w Ilandits Slioot Throe. w Two robbers with drawn revolvers B( entered tho jewelry storo of J. J. 01 Thompson at Grand Rapids, Mich., si early Thursday night, commanded ai tho clerks to throw up their hands, M and when they refused, opened fire. 1e SULLIVAN FOUND DEAD XEWSIIOY CONGRESSMAN OF NEW YORK GONE. ? Disappeared From Homo Two "Weeks Ago??ltody I.ny Unidentified for Thirteen Days. "Pig Tim" Sullivan, tho New York politician, who rose from newsbody to congressman, is dead. Ills mangled body was identified Saturday by his step-brother, Larry Mulligan, after it had lain for thirteen days in a New York morgue. Sullivan, who was ill, eluded his nursos in the early morning of August 31 and a few hours after was struck and killed by a train at Polham Parkway. With no identifying marks on the clothing or articles in tho pockets tho body lay in Fordham morgue for thirteen days awaiting identification. Saturday morning it was sent to Ilellevuo morgue. There was stationed Peter Purfield, a policeman, who had known "Pig Tim" Sullivan and liked him before his mind became clouded. Something about tho expression of tho features stirred Purfield's memory. Py and by, after he 1 had pondered an hour or so, Purfield I remarked to a reporter: "That looks a little bit like 'Pig Tim'." Peering long at the mutilated and discolored face tho reporter thought so too. The telephone brought "Pig Tim's" Eastside friends in groups to the morgue, but none recognized in the changed features tho man they had known in his prime. Larry Mulligan, Sullivan's step-brother, was summoned. Ilo looked at tho faco anco and turned away. "It's 'Pig Tim'," ho said. Tho picture shows how Sullivan looked a few years ago when bo weighed 2.10 pounds and as he looked when he returned from Europe, when 1o had fallen away to 1 80. Timothy D. Sullivan?"Pig Tim"? was one of tho best beloved of tho ;enial Tammany leaders whose power lamo from popularity in tho swarm- ! ng tenement districts that have votid many a Tammany candidato into dlice. His stronghold was the Powjry. There every winter ho distri- , juted shoes and clothing to thousands of human derelicts. "Pig Tim" was a child of 3owery. llo was born In a Leonard ] treet tenement in 1SG3 and all his ( ife he resided in the downtown sec- , ion of New York. lie was one of i our young children left fatherless. , Vhen he was eleven years old ho was \ elling ]>apers on the streets, lint, he ( sas too ambitious to stay a newsboy. ^ year later ho was working in a t icwspaper press room. Sullivan wur a political power in a mall way before he was of age. At 3 he was elected to the State assemdy. There ho served continuously or eight years. After the assembly came the State enato, where he served four full twoear terms and part of a fifth. Then e went to congress. 1 "Hig Tim" did not find Washington f s congenial as Albany and after n ^ ew years in private life he was re- A lected to the State senate. Against 1 is will, it was said, he ran again for * ongress last fall. ( "Big Tim's" wealth was acquired ' rom many sources. Chief among ( hem were saloon and racing and * heatrlcal interests in which his asso- c iation was eagerly sought. At one 1 ime his fortune was estimated at * lore than $2,000,000, but his satel tes and pensioners were constantly 1 riereasing and during the last few ' ears his ventures were less success- f nl. Worry was the last ailment his * rionds could associate with Sulii- ' an's sunny disposition, but it was ' *orry, they agreed, that finally broko ;1 own his keen mind and probably ( rought him to his death. The death f his cousin, Alderman "Little Tim" ullivan, was the first blow. The eachery of one of his trusted friends < Dst him, it was said, $100,000. hen came tho death of his wife. ITe first showed signs of breakdown 1 August, 1011, and although since i len there were oc< isional Hashes of ] is old wit his health steadily do- a lined. r 4* 1 TTe called attention to tho fact that n ithin tho period treated by tho ines- ' igo tho most salient accomplish- * lents of tho revolutionary movement c ad been tho taking of Zcaatecas, a hich had been recovered later by 1 io iorces or tno government, tho ^ iking of Durango, which was still s i tfio hands of rebels, and attacks 1 a tho port of Guaymaa and tho city 0 P Torroon, which woro repulsed by f: 10 Federal troops. Tho fiiihustor v iovomont in tho northern part of * ower California had quickly been * ippressod. ^ ? ? ? Killed Deer With Pistol. Mr. Joseph Dickson, of Manning, s >cently killed a deer with his pistol, s 'r. Dickson was fishing with a party v hen he heard a dog running from t hero a party woro driving that day, t > ho drow his pistol on tho chanco n p tho deer coming his way. In a li lort while tho deer ran close to him i< ad stoppod to listen for the dogs, h [r. Dickson took a shot at it, break- r tg Its neck. I ^ SHOULD GO TO FARMERS Til FY NEED (1U>P FI ND MUCH WORSE THAN BUYERS. ? llcndcd by Senator Smith a Delegation From This State Sees President ami Treasurer. A delegation of well known cotton planters, in charge of Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina, Thursday called at tho White House and in the presence of President Wilson and Secretary McAdoo made an earnest appeal for a moro equitable distribution of the government's $50,000,000 crop moving fund. In tho delegation there were besides Senator Smith, E. W. Dabbs, president of tho South Carolina Cotton Growers' association; J. II. Patten, also of South Carolina, general counsel for the association; It. M. Cooper of South Carolina and J. C. Kennott and S. H. llobbs, tho two latter largo cotton planters in North Carolina. As explained by Mr. Patten much of tho money that is being loaned by tho government is not distributed according to tho way the cotton growers would desire. It Is learned that much of this money is going into tho hands of the actual buyer, while a very small part of it is being loaned to farmers who need it now to get their cotton picked and ready for salo. It is this phase of the situation, Mr. Patten said, which is causing leaders in the movement serious consideration. The money should go to the people who actually make and market the crop and not the men who merely buy the staple after it is ginned. MV. Patten calls for immediate attention. Senator Smith is equally insistent that the money ho fairly and equally loaned to those who are able to put up the proper capital and secure it from the banks. He fought most aggressively when the matter of loaning this money to tho banks was first brought up and continued to insist that the South get her share in the distribution. Another matter that was brought up at 11 je White House conference was tho question of making this loaning of funds an annual thing. Mr. Patten believes that if tho government will decide upon a policy of yearly loans much embarrnsKmonf Iiithorto encountered by largo planters will bo obviated. Nothing definite was decided upon but the matter Aill be thoroughly considered by Secretary McAdoo and the president during the next few days. Every portion if the South will ho benefited if that amount of actual cash is loaned to :ho man who makes the crop. CKTS "HACK HOME" 1111). I'rosivlcnt Wilson Mnj Viftit OoluinlJta Tiiis Fall. The Washington correspondent of ( The News and Courier says: Commissioner of Agriculture E. J. Wation, of South Carolina, came to .Vashington Wednesday in conneotion vith several matters of importance, n company with Senator E. I). Smith ind State Geologist Pratt, of North Carolina, ho called at the White louse and Invited President Wilson, in behalf of both the Carolinas, to my a home-coming vi3it to Columbia, in his way hack from Mobile, in tho ( ast week in October, during tho State 1 ^a'r. ( Tho President said that ho had so 1 nany invitations that ho had at first ( lecided against accepting any, except ! >no to open the Panama Canal, but 10 added that this Invitation from ' lis old homo was so attractive to him ' ind Impressed him so o^noriniio ? ?- *??. le would give It. serious consideration 1 ind would reply definitely In a few ' lays. ri'MPS IN KIAGAUA WllIRHP(X>L. ' ^ t >ld Man of Krio, Pa., Commits Sui- ' ride by Drowning. A man, believed by tho police to >o Jobn Hawkins, G8 years old, of ' Orie, Pa., committed suicide Monday .fternoon by jumping into tlie Niagra iver from tho lower steel arch >rldge which spans tho river just r ,bove tho start of the whirlpool rap- * ds. It is 200 feet above tho water, f 'wo women standing on the Canadian ^ liff saw tho man climb on the railing I nd sit asride of the rail several min- * ites, looking down at the turbulent N raters, then lurch forward. His body ^ hot downward and struck tho water ^ teadforemost. Tie ramo tr? >-?*? R w vw niu 1 (U/i: nee before tho white foam of tho big s Irift, closed over him. Tho suicide r /as tho first from the lower arch In hree years. Hawkins was pulled from fl he bridge railing Saturday night, but 1 onvinced his captors that ho was not R ient on suicide. v A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., ays former Governor Paterson, in a igned statement declares that he irould henceforth fight for prohibi- ii ion and tbo strict enforcement of v ho Tennesseo Liquor law. Tho for- t nor governor in a statement, said ho fi lad lived an evil life, but had exper- n Bnced an entire change of heart and ^ lenceforth will live a Christian. Ho t ecently became a member of the r Tosbyterian church. " ? CRIMNALS CAUGHT CHICAGO POLICE DISCOVER IMPORTANT RECORDS OF UNDERGROUND RAILWAY Haiti oil Chinese Chop Suey Place lieveals "Black Book," in Which are I Kept Invuluahlo Hecortls of Cast Crimes and Countless Hints for Future Criminal Intentions. Police authorities in scores of border and inland cities are looking up the record of Chinese residents whose names are recorded in tho Chinese "black book," discovered by the Chicago police while searching for a trail of the murderer of Charles Sing, a Chinese merchant in that city. Tho book indicates that there is an "underground railway" system to aid tho escape of Chinese criminals, names of orientals who have been smuggled into this country and details tho distribution of opium smuggled into the United States through Pacific coast cities and across tho Canadian border. The "tunnel" plan spreads a network of agencies from New York, through Chicago to British finlumWo and to Hon# Kong, China. Secrets of Chinese toilets are also uncovered, and tlie polico bclievo that with the evimay he able to wipo out some of the bands c>f Celestial criminals it\ this country. The secrets of a Chinese tong and the "underground railroad" were disclosed in a raid upon a chop suey place by detectives Richard Rurkc and James Stewart, of Chicago, in charge of the search for the slayer of Charles Sing. As they entered one of the Chinamen tucked something under his blouse and started to leave the place. Tie was arrested and the book disclosed. For several hours after the find all thought the Sing case was lost in the eagerness with which detectives studied for other clews in the "tunnel" system and read over the names of Chinese smuggled into America. Evidence of cargoes of opium now on the way and crimes that have been plotted for some time was also contained within the covers of the"black book. Concerning these secrets the police will disclose nothing. Twenty letters were taken together with the book. All indicate thov wore written by white women to Chinese and indicate that whito women aro being sent to Chinese cities as white slaves and are hold in various resorts. Police Captain Pair declares that tlio killing of Sing resulted from n whito slavo plot in which a New York Chinaman Bought, to entice away Mrs. Sing, formerly a missionary worker among Chinese in Kansas City. Ml'IiK WORKS FORTY ACRFS, . ? \mlorson County Farmer lias Made llccprd Hard to Rent. Mr. W. \j. Perry, a young farmer iving five miles from Anderson, has worked a crop of forty acres this year with ono mule, and with only Mrs. Perry as his helper, and lias ono >f the best crops to he found anywhere in the county. Tho majority >f the forty acres is in cotton, but hero is ten cares of corn, and plenty }f potatoes, peanuts, forage, etc., all n line condition. Moro than $50 worth of melons and potatoes have >oen sold by Mr. Perry already. He s ono of the kind who live strictly at lome, and in addition to that part of he crop th.it will ho marketed and iiuiuu in to money nas iois or other it 11 ff that lie will use at homo, spondng only a very small amount for sup)lies of any kind. Ho has made, alogether, a record that is hard to jeat. 1 ( QITNINK AS CURE FOIt RARIES. 1 )r. Ij. E, Harris Says That Ho Usc<l it Effectively. Tho curing of rabies by tho uso of luinino was tbo subject of an address >y Dr. L. E. Harris, of St. Louis, be- l oro tlio American Health Association Vodnesday at Colorado Springs, Col. )r. Harris submitted tho results of a reatment with quinine in accordance vith tho theory of Dr. Virgil H. doon, recently announced, and gave is his opinion from exhaustive reearch that medical scienco within a hort time will havo been entirely evolutionized with respect to the r reatment of this malady. Tie told of } idministoring injections of quinine ] o a pationt a short time ago and j aid that within a week the patient v yas discharged from his care. , Thunder Scared Woman to Death. , "A Disgrace to Their Sex." , At Chicago Federal Judge Landis, n sentencing Frank Schultz, a vaudoillo singer, and Alec Ileizor, a bar ondor, convicted of bringing two i iris from Detroit to Chicago for im- \ uoral purposes in violation of tho ' lann act, to one year in the poniten- * iary, characterized them as "typical j >andorers" and declared they woro < a disgraco to their box." t TIED UP BY HIS THUMBS ? ANDKKSON NKdltO'S STAT KM KM CACSKS TIIUKK AUHKSTS. ? Magistrate's Constable and Twc White Men Indicted for a Serious OlTence by the ( rami Jury. A sensation was sprung in the court of general sessions at Anderson Thursday when the grand Jury presented \\\ W. Adams, constable for Magistrate .1. II. I.everett, (leorge Smith and John Rlackwell for assault and battery "upon the person of John Walker, colored." Wararnts were ordered issued for these men by Judge Rice. John Walker appeared before the grand jury, at its solicitation ho declares, and it is presumed that the presentment to the court by the jury is the outcome of tin1 testimony furnished the jury. The rase is a sideissue of the celebrated John Huff case in Asheville, N\ C\, for the murder of Policeman McConnell. To an Augusta Chronicle representative Thursday Walker declared that lie was taken by Adams, Smith anil Rlackwell from Adams' house, after being arrested by a deputy sheriff and turned over to Adams to lie taken as a witness to Asheville in the Huff case, and that theso men tied ropes around his thumbs, throw the ropes over a limb of a tree and held him suspended until lie promised to "tell what they wanted me to tell in the Tluff ease." Walker says, also, that Adams fired his pistol one time to frighten him. According to Walker this occurred one Sunday night early in May of this year, and lie was taken before Magistrate Hcverett tin4 next afternoon where he affixed his name to an affidavit prepared by the men. Walker was taken to Asheville by Constable Adams, but never took the witness stand in the Huff case, lie said that lie told Mr. Adams, after their arrival in Asheville, that he was going to admit signing the affidavit when placed on the stand and that he was going to tell the court that lie was forced to sign ft. Walker says that Mr. Adams then decided not to use him as a witness. Adams had arrested Huff and on his conviction depended the reward. After fluff was acquitted by a jury \-\ aiKor Bays he signed an affidavit it) Ashevillo for Adams' arrest; that Adams was arrested one Saturday night about nine o'clock, and understood the trial would be hold on the following Monday morning. Adams demanded an Immediate trial, which was called for 10 o'clock Saturday night. Walker says a deputy notified him of the change of hour for trial and he went to the magistrate's office. On arriving at the ofllce Walker says he inquired to learn whether or not. either of his two lawyers was present in the court room to represent him at Adams trial. On learning that, neither Austin nor Stiles was in the court room Walker declares that ho would not go in the! room because ho did not think that ho should do bo without one or both of his lawyers. When Walker refused to appear as tho prosecuting witness the charges against Adams were dismissed. Following the dismissal of Adams the magistrate was arrested for violating the oaths of his ofllce and ho was dismissed from serving as a magistrate. A case was made against the magistrate growing out of the Adams dismissal, and it will ho tried in October in*Asheville, so it is understood. Mr. Adams, who has served as constable for about twenty years, denies In toto all tho charges, claiming there is absolutely no truth whatever in them. Ho says that, on the night of the alleged offence, he took Walker in his buggy from his house because ho did not wish to leavo Walker in his homo with Mrs. Adams while ho had to go off to apprehend a negro wanted for murder, and who was said to bo in that section of tho country. Mr. Adams says that when ho went to the house to search for the man wanted ho left Walker with Mr. Smith and Mr. Blackwell, and neither ho nor Mr. Smith or Mr. Blackwell mistreated the negro. ? PhlYYS WITH SHELL* ? ? ? House DnnwiKcil and Hoy's Head Blown Off. Joseph Pizza, fifteen years old, found an odd looking shell in the home of a playmate at New York Saturday and took It to the collar to find 3lit what it was. IIo turned it on the pointed end and by placing obIpptq nrnnn/1 If m n <1 /> U 1 * * * uuiiii it, iiKiiit? it Mitiiid uprigllt. rhon ho got a hammer. In tho resulting explosion tho boy's right mild was blown off, his faco burned, lis leg badly lacerated and his shoulder cut. Tho concrete (lour of ho collar was known to atoms and ho furnace converted to scraps. Voung Pizza probably will dlo. It Aas tho shell of a rapid flro gun. Biplane Turns Turtle. Aviator Max Lillo, was killed in his Trst flight at the flalosburg, 111., district fair Monday, when a gust of wind overturned his blplano while several hundred feet high In tho air, \nd aviator and machino fell. Lille Bed shortly after tho spectators got .o his side. CYCLONE HITS CONWAY - r NO lilVKS T/>ST BUT WINT SHOWS ITS STRENGTH. ? ? Storm Bursts l'|M>n Town Without i Worning Save for Honritig Sound and Sudden Darkness. i Moving In a northeasterly direction and hewing a course about one-half mile wide, a terrific cyclone swept North Conway Thursday afternoon at throe o'clock and left ruin and desolation in its wake. While no lives | wore lost, several persons escaped as though by a miracle. Tho little daughter of W. W. Unas, while on her way homo, encountered tho storm and was rolled about in tho street. Sho was rescued by a lady and received little injury. Mrs. T. .1. Hell had just left her homo when tho roof was torn away. She escaped uninjured. There may ho others who received injuries about a mile from Conway where it is reported several negro houses wero demolished. Tho rain fell In torrents, causing the property loss to reach into the thousands. A few minutes before three o'clock a tiny black cloud appeared In tho southwest; a distressingly roaring sound was heard in that direction and in a few moments it completely covered the heavens. The roaring In creased and black darkness fell with one fell swoop. With the fury of a giant the storm hurst upon (hat section of town, moving at tho rate of approximately eighty miles an hour. Buildings wero demolished, warehouses wore unroofed, timbers and shingles were hurled in midair, trees were twisted from their stumps anil torn from their roots, chimneys toppled and the air was a seething mass of debris. Tho storm was accompanied by a heavy rainfall, which has continued periodically for several hours. Tho streets are rivulets of water, the new Kpiscopal Church, which was in tho process of erection, was completely demolished. Tho high school building was considerably damaged, while the residences of T. .1. Hell and the Uev. I). A. Calhoun wero unroofed; tho Burroughs Hospital had the shingles and sheeting of roof considerable torn, while an adjacent building was unroofed. I clow wokm oow\ shown. Ciirl Wears Clothes Aglenm Willi IMiospnrmis. A dispatch to The 'Now York World from Carlisle, l'u., says: A gown of llitnsy material, which evidently had been treated to a phosporous wash, worn by Miss Beresford, caused much . excitement on Main street. The gorn was diaphanous and had a glow that gavo an etheral appearance to the young woman as she tripped boldly around tho principal streets accompanied by a stalwart escort. A mob followed her. Churchgoers paused on their way to evening services, and many of them joined tho throng. A motorman and conductor abandoned their car and followed, as did tho passengers. Tho glow-worm gown lighted Miss Beresford's graceful form, and tho crowd, silent, but watchful, pressed closer. Two policemen tried to turn tho spectators, but wero brushed nsldo. ST BAM Bit ST It I'C lv BY WHALE. Steamer Was Crippled and tho Whalo Was Killed. A collision with a whale caused such serious damage to the Danish steamed Vladmlr Iteltz, that tho vessel was forced to put In St. Johns, N. P., Wednesday for repairs. The accident occurred Monday afternoon about 230 miles east of St. St. Johns. The crew of tho steamer saw tho whalft approaching at terrific speed but could not alter tho ship's course in timo to prevent tho impact. Tho whalo struck tho steamer head-on. knocking a four-foot hole in the how. ; The accident is believed to havo killed the whalo for tho monster sank immediately, its blood discoloring tho Tl' O 1 " >1 (i tv i \j v i a area. i no filGJimor left Campbelton, N. B., September 1 1 for Plymouth, England, with lumber. She will have to discharge her cargo to permit repairs boing made. I * Kobbors Work Quickly. A paokago containing $4,480 in cash and negotiable chocks was stolen from a brewery wagon at St. Eouis Thursday within a view of William O'Meara, who was in charge of the money. Tho wagon had stopped in front of tho bank at which O'Meara was to deposit tho money. As ho was attaching a weight to the horses, two well-dressed young men grabbed tho package from tho seat and ran. Bryan's Plan Well Received. Secretary Bryan's peace plan for tho settlement of international difficulties through tho force of sober second thought and tho good ofllcos of an impartial commission, was received with acclamation at the recent meeting of the Interparliamentary I Union at The Hague, according to Senator Burton.