A REMARKABLE CRIMINAL.
New York, Sept. 21. The police state that Schmidt, the alleged clergyman and murderer of Amy Aumuller, is the most remarkable criminal product of the present age. Schmidt, in answer to police questioning, declared that he believed in euthanasia (the right to end the suffering of people’s lives painlessly). The lives of all crippled persons should always be mercifully ended. Amongst Schmidt’s possessions were numbers of physicians’ death certificates which he admitted he intended first to use to show that Miss Aumuller’s death was naturally caused. Afterwards he decided to cut her throat, dismember her body and throw it into the river. Schmidt declared he was ready to die. The District Attorney wanted to see him in the electric chair, so what was the use of delaying the matter.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1149, 23 September 1913, Page 3
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132A REMARKABLE CRIMINAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1149, 23 September 1913, Page 3
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