To be Electrocuted.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1914, Page 5

To be Electrocuted.

SCHMIDT, THE MURDERER. PRIEST AND SURGEON. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) [United Press Association.] (Received 11.55 a.m.) New York, February 11. Hans Schmidt has been sentenced to be electrocuted for tho murder of Miss Aumuller in September last. Schmidt, who is 82 years of age, and a native of Germany, arrived in New York in 1906. He went to Trenton, New Jersey, and was appointed rector of St. Boniface’s Church in December, 1910. It was there he met Anna Aumuller. Ho was attracted by her beauty and became infatuated with the girl. In his confession Schmidt says: “She was so beautiful and so good that I could not let her live without me. 1 was a priest and must remain with the Church, f could not. lot her go away from me, so 1 killed her.” HE DISMEMBERED THE GIRL’S BODY. In tho apartments occupied by Schmidt the detectives found 500 printed cards indicating that the priest had masqueraded as a surgeon. The cards read: ‘‘Dr. Emile Meliere, formerly assisant surgeon at tho Municipal Woman’s Hospital, Paris. Representative of the Chemical Hygiene Manufacturing Company.” It was a gaily coloured pillow of unusual pattern that led to the murderer’s arrest. The detectives traced the manufacturer of the pillow, then the dealer from whom Schmidt had bought, and finally Schmidt himself.