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DECLARE GIRL’S SLAYER AN IMPOSTER
POLICE SAY
SCHMIOT
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SLAYER
Story of Alleged Accomplice Re
veals Priest Who Killed Anna
Aumulier as Counterfeiter.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—1 n the be
lief that he has committed other mur
ders than that of Anna Aumulier, the
girl whose torso was found in the
Hudson River, the police to-day plan
ned .to Han® Schmidt, the priest
who confessed to staying the girl,
through an ex?”'’nation intended to
force him tn reveal every iet of h’s
ahrouded past.
That Schmidt was a counterfeiter,
as well as a murderer, came to light
to-day through the arrest short
ly after midnight of Ernest Ar
thur Muret, a bogus dentist, and Ber
tha Zech, his girl assistant.
It also was developed by the Cath
olic clergy that Schmidt was an im
poster, having forged the credentials
as a priest which he used in this
country.
Muret, under merciless grilling by
the police, not only admitted that he
knew both Schmidt and the murdered
girl, but also confessed that Schmidt
nad been a partner of his in a coun
terfeiting scheme
After the arrest the police raided
Muret’s flat and also another fiat
which it had been found was rented
jointly last June by Muret and
Schmidt. In the latter flat was found
a complete counterfeiting outfit, in
cluding chemicals, tools, a printing
press, several half-destroyed bogus
bills and a loaded revolver.
In the flat in which Muret lived
were found a number of surgical
tools, such as are used to perform il
legal operations.
Girl Held as Witness.
Whether Muret will be charged
with direct connection with the mur
der and the dismemberment of the
Aumulier girl's body, is a matter
which the police would not discuss
to-day. They claim they are holding
the Zech girl as a material witness,
while Muret’s confession that be at
tempted counterfeiting is sufficient to
hold him.
The discovery of the counterfeiting
establishment will of course bring the
United States Government into the
priest's case.
Muret told the police to-day that
shortly before the death of Annt
Aumulier the girl had visited Cent;- 1
Park and was blistered by poison
ivy.
When he asked Schmidt September
4. three days after the muruer. how
the girl was. the priest replied, he
says, “Oh. she's in great shape. Poi
son ivy will never bother her again.
Priest Sleeps Well.
Schmidt spent a restful night in his
cell. The enormity of his crime does
not seem to bother him. He ate a I
hearty breakfast and seemed calm !
and undisturbed.
He still refuses to see reporters. !
denying interviews on the ground that f
"no one can understand the .acts of
great men.”
While police officials, the Coroner,
and the Prison Warden held different
views -concerning Schmidt's sanity,
the prisoner continued to ridicule the
idea that he is insane
“I am sane; there never has been
any insanity in my family,” he re
peated time and again.
Warden Eallon declares Schmidt is
the most dangerous lunatic confined
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Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN W
VOL. XII. NO. 38.
Congress to Probe
Capitol Paintings
WASHINGTON. Sept. 16.—Charge*-
that there are five flaws in the famous
allegorical painting? in the Capitol
dome were taken under consideration
-by Congress with a view to an in
vestigation. The alleged defects are:
One young girl with three hands.
Indian chief with six toes.
Elags of Columbus’ boat blowing
three ways.
Washington shown where he was
not.
Signing Declaration of Indepen
dence on wrong date.
Cures Reported at
Shrine at Lourdes
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LOURDES, Sept. 16.—Two more
partial cures are reported among the
pilgrims to the shrine here. Fathers
Lynch and Kiernan, from Couto ty
Meath. Ireland, who had been consid
ered permanently deaf, partly recov
ered their hearing
Cases of grievously afflicted pa
tients who have convinced thei»* doc
tors of improvement since their ar
rival at Lourdes, are too numerous to
mention.
Dixie Is Awakening,
Says Woman Leader
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. That
woman suffrage is winning the South
after a half-century of indifference
was the claim made here by Mrs.
Solon Jacobs, president of the Ala
bama Woman Suffragists, who is
.‘■'Peking means to further the cause
Miss Kate Gordon, of New Orleans,
has invited all Southern Governors to
meet in Now Orleans In November to
draft a model suffrage amendment.
Daniels Issues ‘Hush’
Order to Navy Heads
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—1 t has
been made clear that whatever news
there is to be published concerning
the American Navy or the doings •>*
the Navy l>epartment is to be given
out by the Secretary of the Navy per
sonally. L
Secretary circulated I
through his department an order for- ‘
bidding any officer from discussing
public business or giving out news
except through the office of the Sec
retary.
New Huck Finn Gang
Hide Loot in Old Cave
HANNIBAL. MO., Sept. 16. —U : ng
the Mark Twain cave, south of Han
nibal, where Tom Sawyer and Huck
Finn had headquarters, as a rendez
vous and plunder store, five Hannibal
boys, ringleaders of a gang, to-day
confessed to robberies in and near
Hannibal during three years.
About $4,900 in plunder was taken
the greater part being recovered.
Leon Cavallo Will
Lead Opera in U. S.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
| ROME, Sept. 16.—Composer Leonca
vallo will leave shortly for an
American tour, visiting first San
Francisco, then New York and Bos
ton.
He personally will conduct per
formances of the operas “Pagliaccl,”
“Zingari” and “La Boheme."
Titanic Claims
i Total $16,850,362
NEW YORK. Sept. 16.—Through
suits for $46,250 for Belgian subjects,
just filed, the Titanic damage claims
now total $16,850,362.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia Rain Tues d a JJL
warmei , Wednesday pro'MjM
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ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1913.
MEXICO 4TH
IMPERILS
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OE 0. S.
Mobs Throng Streets—Americans
Warned to Hide—Lind Told
to Board Warship.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 16. —Exciting'
scenes and promise of more exciting
things to come attended the celebra- :
lion of Mexican Independence Day in ,
the capita! to-day.
i All night long, following the official
inauguration of the independence
ceremonies at 11 o’clock last night,
crowds of noisy Mexicans surged
through the streets. The principal
cases remained open all night.
Rurales, who were supposed to pa
trol the streets, paid no attention to
the noisy r mobs It was noticeable,
however, that the guard about the
United States Embassy was unusual
ly vigilant.
Thousands gathered before the Na
tional Pa’ace and cheered President
Huerta. There were scattered anti-
American demonstrations and cries
of “Drive out the Gringoes” were
heard ar intervals.
Troops All on Parade.
The feature of the day here, as well
as in the other larger cities through
out the republic, was the military
turnout. War Minister Blanquet, at
the instance of Huerta, had charged
every' Military Governor to get as
I many men as possible under arms for
“patriotic demonstrations
President Huerta staked much on
this day’s events throughout the r> -
public. Ho hoped and expected that
the patriotic exercises would inspire
a feeling of loyalty to the Govern
ment, consequently to the President,
throughout the republic.
For this reason the President
planned to remain public through
out most of rhe day. showing
himself to *he residents of the • apital
and the thousands of visitors who
came here from neighboring districts.
Americans G'ven Warning.
The principal space on the balcony
of the National Palace was reserved
for him when the parade was to be
reviewed.
The popping of firearms kept up
through the nigh* and at dawn the
explosions of gunpowder grew louder
and more frequent.
The American residents had been
warned to keep Indoors so that their
presence might no: inflame Mexicans
whose brains Lad been slightly dis
ordered along patriotic lines by lib
eral use? of mescal.
P. Diaz Wilf Win
Out. Say Refugees.
.MOBILE, Sept. 16 Huerta's throne
will crumble like paper if old iron
handed Porflrio Diaz and his ambi
tious nephew, Felix, launch a new re
volt in Mexico, according to American
refugees coming from Vera <’ruz.
Press dispatches from abroad to the
effect that the Diaz team was re
hearsing an act of this kind were
given credence by the arrivals. Dr.
F./'E. Schlottman, dentist, from
Guadalajara, said: “Felix will be the
field leader. Porflrio would not dare
return to Mexico at this time, but his
brain will be behind the whole thing
His life in Mexico now wouldn’t oe
worth two cents.”
Wilson’s warning to Americans to
flee Mexico is, in their opinion, a pre
liminary to intervention.
“We take it that Wilson meant
business when he sent out that warn
ing." said J. O. Gable, wno was a mer
chant in Agues Calientes and Is en-
I route to Pari®. “ID* knows that if
there I? an left in Mexico
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Thaw Goes to U, S.
Court to Appear in
Habeas Corpus Suit ’
LITTLETON, N. H.. Sept. 16.--
Harry’ K. Thaw arrived here from
Colebrook this morning to appear be
fore Judge Aldrich in United States
Court in pursuance to a writ of ha
beas corpus secured last Saturday.
It was reported upon the arrival of
the party that Attorneys N. E. Martin
and Merrill Shurtleff, who secured the
writ, would ask for a postponement of
arguments until after the extradition
hearing before Governer Felker.
. Choir Singers Quit
Vanderbilt Church
ASHEVIELE, Sept. 16.—Wholesale
resignations due to friction have
about disrupted the famous choir of
All Souls’ Church, at Biltmore, sup
ported by Millionaire George W. Van-
• derbilt.
Members of the choir object to the I
instructor having a music school for
financial gain, saying that his pupils
' are favored when solo work Is re
! quired. The attention of Mr. Vander
bilt has been called to the trouble,
and he likely will take a hand in the
matter
Men Duel All Night
Before One Is Slain
ASHEVILLE, Sept. 16.—Jim Chris
topher, charged w ith killing his cous
in, Will Christopher, was surrounded
near here to-day by a posse and taken
into custody.
Both men were desperate fighters,
and the struggle continued all night
before Jim Christopher overpowered
his man and slew him.
25,000 Cotton Bales
Received at Augusta
AUGUSTA. Sept. 16.—Augusta cot
ton receipts reached nearly’ 25,000
tales, which is practically twice as
much as was received for the same
period last year
At the prevailing price for cotton
25.000 bales w ill bring $1,300,000.
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Depleted Jury Box
Laid to Judge Speer
SAVANNAH. Sept. 16.—The charge ,
that Federal Judge Emory Speer had s
purged the Jury box for this district ’
of Chatham County name?* was sub- ’
stantlated to-day when Judge Wil- t
Ham T. Newman, of the Atlanta cir- J
cult, tried to draw a jury' to hear the i
Reach bankruptcy case.
Os the 30 names drawn only one {
was from this county. There were no <
other names in the box. not enough i
to legally draw a jury, and Judge
Newman would not proceed until the •
lawyers signed an agreement.
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Retiring Mayor
Frees :
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BATTLE 10
DEATH IS
SEEK BY
SCORES
State Senator Broyles of Missis
sippi and Tennessee Lumber
man Slay Each Other.
ABERDEEN. MISS. Sept. 16—In
a duel on the top of a lak« dam in
view of the guests of the Greenwood
Springs Hotel, near heer. State Sen
ator H. F. Broyles, a prominent
State politician, and E. F. Hendri<*ks,
•i welathy tirtibertnan of Selma,
Tenn., killed each other almost sim
ultaneously’ this morning.
Broyles died with a bullet tn his
heart and Hendricks’ skull was cleft
ilmost by the keen edge of an ax
vielded by the Senator as the re vol
rer of his foe discharged
So quickly was the double tragedy
■nacted. that a score of persons on
he hotel veranda, who had eeen the
tart of the difficulty and were run
ilng to separate the men, gained only
lalf the distance before they were
►analyzed with horror as the flash of
he revolver and the fall of the
leath-dealing ax brought the two
nen down together to the stone floor
ng lifeless.
Follows Business Quarrel.
The bodies rolled off the darn and
ell a distance of 20 feet into the
rully below, v> here they were picked
ip.
The fight to death brought to an
nd a quarrel of a year’s standing
etween Broyh s and Hendri
rhich found its origin in the value
s some timb' r holdings which the
ormer had sold to the latter and his
on.
By chance the two men came to
other at the Greenwood Springs Ho
el, which was owned by the Senator,
'he old quarrel was renewed and a
lash was averted between them in
he hotel lobby last night.
Slaying Stirs Whole State.
This morning the men came to
ether again, on top of the dam
Vhether by appointment, is not
nown, but early risers at the hotel
aw them there and gave the alarm.
Several persons shouted to the dis
putants and started running towards
hem.
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STATE IN ALLIANCE
MACON. GA . Sept 16.—With
scores of the most prominent ard
progressive leaders in the business
world of Georgia in attendance, the
formal organization of the State
Chamber of Commerce was launched
here Tuv. day, promising much for
the advancement of Georgia.
The keenest enthusiasm prevailed,
the meeting bring !. tiled as the dawn
of a new epoch of co-operation In
the State’s history and the birth of an
era of genuine good fellowship and
he!{ fulness among all its cities and
towns, big and little.
Hosts of delegates poured into th rt
city all morning, many on special
trains and others in automobiles De
catur and Kirkwood were especially
prominent among the smaller towns.
Atlanta, of course, played a leading
part.
The convention was called to order
at 11 o’clock in the Auditorium of the
j ; Dempsey Hotel cy Charles J. Haden,
i of Atlanta, as chairman. At 1:30 the
Mancon Chamber of Commerce will
entertain the delegates with a lunch
von ai the afternoon session will
i i ‘ iv at 2:30.
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Office, Atlanta, Ga.:
Str—l have your very Intereatitnf
letter of this data and think It .but '»
proper. In view of the fact that) you
have honored me with three ahefets of
matter and 10 cents postage. ,o r«- ?
ply to you in somewhat extpndud
fashion.
In the flrst place, you were not my
subject Sunday night. I had a large
subject. You were mere /an Ulus
tration. I was preaching on "Sewing ■
the Wind and Reaping the Whirl- ■
wind” (Hosea vM;7), and waa trying
to show that the laws of cause aaiJ ’
effect operated in all realms, not
merely the physical. I was showing i
that the "wind” of bad thinking re
sulted in the destructive mo-al J
"whirlwinds.” etc., etc., and in de- Z
veloplng the thought I came
Iv to that bad conduct called
and 1..-.'. ’ : hero is
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cers or m.eh'.in< rv, the
suit of which must be the breaking
down of the last vestige of fear orrey
spect that remains in the minds of
the criminally Inclined for the law.— :
1 said: “I was amazed the ether day
to r<ad what seemed to be .in inter
view from our Mayor himself, in
which he scathingly attacked the po
lice, referring to them In such cou
temptous terms as to ind cate Ills
utter lack of respect for them. Tak
ing- as an excuse the recent arrests of J
some persons for ‘spooning.’ he
l sneered at the ‘snake In the grass \
methods.’ etc., etc., in srch mannsr
and terms as to bring the very office
into disrepute. Aocordir ; to the re
port he did not confine ass sneers tj
the particular men whoiaSfle the ar-
'• rests, but the impressi&Mf inevlta
p ble that he, the head k>f‘thls great
'■ city, feels a contempt ■ r the officers
■ of the law."
1 Actually and tkore. ‘
I said further: "If Mr. Woodwari
' does not know that xpresslons
n from a man in his high position are
v dangerous and ha-.-e a tendency to en
*• courage the is too
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