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THE MOK.VnvO OKEGOmy. WEDXESDAT. SEPTEMBER 17, 1913. PRIES! CONFESSES TO COUNTERFEITING Police Think Insanity Feigned and That Dentist and - Schmidt Are Kin. WOMAN FOR WHOM $650,000 NECKLACE, FOUND IN LONDON STREET, IS THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN DESIGNED. SLAYER SAYS HE IS SANE Schmidt Declares He Made Spurious Money at Divine Command. Officers Insist Priest Has Master Criminal Mind. NEW YORK. Sept. IS. The discov ery of a counterfeiters' den which Hans Schmidt, priest and confessed slayer of Anna Aumuller, admitted today was fitted up by him to make spurious money led the detectives. Coroner Fern berg and other visitors to his cell In the Tombs, to express the opinion that Schmidt is sane and that further in vestigation will develop that counter feiting was only one of his "side lines." They declared it as their belief that he was feigning insanity after carefully thought plans o a master criminal mind. To the Rev. Father Evers, chaplain of the Tombs prison, to his attorney and other callers. Schmidt admitted his connection with the flat in West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, where detectives found bundles of imi tation $10 gold certificates. Dentist Forestalls Officers. Dr. Ernest Arthur Muret, the dentist arrested last night after the raid upon the counterfeiters' flat, was held today in 15000 ball for hearing- on the charge of having in his possession a revolver. In violation of a state law. Through his knowledge of the law. Muret fore stalled the plans of the Federal secret service agents, waiting to arrest him on a warrant charging counterfeiting. By waiving preliminary examination, Muret, for the time being, at least, escaped a more serious charge. Bertha Zecb, a servant employed by Dr. Muret. and taken to police head quarters with him last night, was re leased, the detectives telling the court they had no evidence upon which she could be held. Dr. Muret, the search of his office disclosed, had been study ing law through a Chicago correspond ence school. Many law books and forms of study from the school were found. Mem May Be Brothers. Inspector Fauret. head of the detec tive bureau, reiterated tonight his be lief that Muret and Schmidt are rela tives, if not brothers. Dr. Muret told the inspector the resemblance merely was a coincidence. "I firmly believe," Inspector Faurot said, "that before long for the truth is bound to come out it will be shown that these two men are more than friends, that they are kin." AlDhonse G. Koelble, Schmidt's attor nev. visited the prisoner today, and, after the conference, declared that he was more than ever convinced of the Insanity of his client. "He declares that he Is sane. Koelble said in explanation of his belief. He cays one of his personalities is Schmidt, the priest, that another is Dr. Moliere. the medical man. and a third the counterfeiter. He freely ad mitted his intention to make money, but says the money was not counter feit, but real money made at the com mand of God. To Father Evers Schmidt Is quoted as saying that "God gave me the plates." and In reply to a question by tJie chaplain as to why he had become a counterfeiter the priest said: "There are so many poor people in the world. There are so many people who are sick and who are in dire need that I was going to help them was jroing to better their condition. Half of the money I was going to devote to bettering the condition of the poor people of the Cnited States, the other half was to be devoted to bettering the condition of the poor of Germany These explanations of his acts, the detectives contend, merely are In lln with his prearranged plans to appear insane, while at the same time telling his attorney that he is sane. MRS. W. K. VAXDERBILT. PEARLS ABE F Oil Workman Kicks Package Con taining $650,000' Necklace. REWARD WILL BE $50,000 hour at night. He also alleged that she had written the pugilist several love letters in which she had called him all sorts of endearing names. Mr. and Mrs. Pace were married in Portland on Christmas day, 1910. Jewels. Which Were in Transit Be tween Dealers, Believed to Have Been Destined intimately for Mrs. Vanderbilt. LONDON", Sept. 16. A laborer on his way to work in Highbury, a suburb of London, kicked a disreputable looking package today, and was amazed when he found himself a little later the pos sessor of a pearl necklace worth J60O 000. It was the necklace which, destined from one dealer to another and now thought to have been intended ulti mately for Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, was stolen July 16 from the mails on "the way from Paris to London. There is a reward of 150,000 for the recovery of the necklace, and this probably will go to the workman. There were o9 graduated pearls in the original necklace. v hen it was found 59 were In place. The necklace Is said to have been the most valuable in the world. It weighed altogether 1250 grains. The center pearl weighed 47 strains. The robbery of the necklace irom tne registered mall was carried out in very clever manner. The postal seals did not appear to have been disturbed In any way, but when It was opened it was found to contain only pieces oj French Bugar. It had become generally known that the police investigation had narrowed to a small radius, and it is believed that the thief who had the jewels, re allzing the danger of arrest, purposely lost" the pearls. The 58 pearls found were in perfect condition. Besides two loose pearls not belonzins: to the necklace, which were oacked in the same registered mail parcel when it left Paris, only a single pearl forming part of the necklace is missing. TIME EXTENSION IS ASKED Independence Club May Grant Re quest of Mill Company. INDEPENDENCE, Or, Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) A letter was received from the Falls City Lumber Company today ask ing for an extension of one year on the millsite and their franchise down Sixth street. The business men of this city through the Commercial Club presented the Falls City Lumber Company with 17 acres of land at the northern limits of the city, the same to be used as a millsite. The mill was to be built within six months. The company owned large bunch of timber in the Siletz Ladies' Fall Models Our Ladies' Store is showing many new and striking modes which have been adopted from leading French costumers. Novelty imported and fine American fab rics handsomely tailored into exclusive garments, possessing every refinement of style and good taste. Suits of unusual merit Modestly priced $19.50 to $58.50 Ladies9 Store Third Floor BEN -SELLING Morrison Street at Fourth lit? p 4 Hi tf 1h if i in ; - 7 if ' STRIKE IS OPPOSED German Socialists Decide That Time Is Not Ripe. Basin which will be reached by the PARTY IS, AT STANDSTILL Valley & Siletz Railway, but owing rMn 1 1 OIHUUOIILL to the trouble in getting their right- of-way, it will be impossible to finish the road this year. Not being able to get logs until it is completed the Falls City Lumber Company will be delayed In the completion of the mill. The extension no doubt will be grant ed to them, but nothing can be done until the Commercial Club directors hold a meeting. This probably will take place in the next few days. WOMEN SAVE ASSAILANT by the Belgians, and this was evidently impossible. The radicals' general strike resolu tion was defeated. 240 to 160. BOND ELECTION TO BE HELD Aberdeen to Vote This Fall on Xew Water System. ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) Aberdeen will vote on water bonds this Fall, when it is expected one of three projects, costing variously from J480.O00 to $750,000, will be adopt ed. The plan Is to get water from the Wynooche or Wishkah River, securing a permanent and pure supply. The most favored plan calls for a pumping system to tie driven by an electric plant deriving its power from a dam to-be constructed across the former stream. This power plant would be sufficient to pump the water a dis tance of ten miles, light the city streets and all homes and furnish power for manufacturing purposes for years to come. T 1 HIS is a business men's institu tion one that makes a specialty of the financial needs of business men. We have excellent facilities for making collections through out the country. entire Tour account is invited. United States National Bank Resources over 13,000,000 Third and Oak Sts. Alleged Elopers Are Wanted. SALEM, Or., Sept. 16. (Special. The District Attorney of Multnomah County today asked Governor West to make requisition upon the Governor of Wash ington State for A. A. Brodeck and NOTICE Classified advertisements, to re :elve proper classification in the next day's issue of The Oregonian, must be in The Oregonian office be fore 10 o'clock at night, except Sat urday. Business office of The Oregonian will be open until. 10 o'clock at night, as usual, and all classified advertisements for the next day's Issue received too late for proper classification will be run under heading TOO LATH TO CLASSIFY. Freda Fredlund, who are said to have eloped from Portland. Complaint is said to have been made to the District At torney by the man's wife. Georgia must pay $3,078,000 In bonds In 1915. Leaders Argue It Would Require Perhaps 3,0 00,000 Germans to Attain Moderate Success of Workers in Belgium. JENA Germany, Sept 16. The "gen era 1 ctHltA ah a. rtnlltlra.1 weanon. as Girl, Aided by Friend, Keeps Father ht was employed last April in Belgium and at earlier periods in France and From Stabbing Her Suitor. H0PYARD WORK SOON OVER BUD ANDERSON STAYS AWAY Weather This Tear Ideal, Rain Be ing Great Aid, Xot Hindrance. IXDEPEXDEXCE. Or.. Sept. 16. (Spe claL) A large number of the hopyards of this vicinity will finish up with the picking this week. The weather for the picking this year has been ideal, sunny but not too hot. The rains the first week of the picking season washed the dust off the vines and cleared the atmosphere, and since this time there has not been a day lost in the gather ing of the crop. The quality of hops this year Is the best that it has been for a number of years, there being lit tie if any mold. The C A McLaughlin yard finished today and H. Hirschberg. who owns the place and is president of the Independence National Bank, and also owns the Independence & Mon mouth Railway Company, distributed a large amount of money among the pickers today, scattering the money and letting them scramble for It. Vancouver Boxer. Aamed as Co respondent, Does Xot Appear. OREGON CITY. Or.. Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) Neither Bud Anderson, the light weight boxer who was named as co respondent, nor Maud Face appeared in court when the divorce action or Guy H. Pace against his wife was brought In the Circuit Court, and Judge Campbell granted the decree by default. Pace had charged that his wife had taken frequent trips to Portland and other towns with Bud Anderson and that she had not returned until a late Russia, was the subject of a warm and extended debate in the Socialist con vention here today. It found few friends as a measure for immediate use. The failure of the Socialists to gain substantially at the last elections for the Prussian Diet and the evident im possibility of their doing so under the ns of ' the Prussian ABERDEEN. Wash, Sept. 16. (Spe ciai) Two women, one the daughter of E. Aldridge, prevented a murder last night, say the police, when they Inter rered in a quarrel between Aldridge and Spero Dragollch. . Aldridge is said to have attacked Dragollch after it is alleged the latter r:r: w " -mi: had attacked Miss Katie Aldridge on a franchIse ied to the debate. noquiam street. Aldridge had Drago- jicn uown on tne ground and was aim lng a long butcher knife at his throat when the daughter and another 'woman Interfered, according to police. They neia tne rather back until aid came. Aldridge is past middle age. Drago ucn is in jail. An unrequited passion is declared to have been Dragolich's motive in lnter- iering witn Miss Aldridge. ; UNLICENSED DOCTOR HELD Oregon City Practitioner After Selling Prescription, EUGENE SCHOOLS OPEX UN DER NEW SUPERIN TEND E.VT. JAP INTERPRETER ASKED Ir. Marcellus Shows Xeed of Help to Aid Sanitation Plans. mow to explain technical rules on sanitation to Japanese who cannot speak English is a problem which City Health Officer Marcellus faces. For about two weeks he has been trying to explain to proprietors of Japanese res taurants In the North -End that they must clean up their premises, in com pliance with the city health ordinances. but his efrorts nave been in vain. In a las-t attempt to get the proposi tion clearly up to the proprietors, he has asked for the appointment of a Japanese interpreter. "When I go into the places and try to talk sanitation, the proprietor thinks I am trying to order noodle soup," said Dr. Marcellus yesterday. "Perhaps with an Interpreter 1 can get some better results." CHANGE OF VENUE DENIED Judge Humphries to Hear Contempt Case at Seattle. SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 16. Superior Judge Humphries today denied the mo tion of Thorwald Siegfried, cited for contempt of court, for a change of venue. Affidavits charging Judge Hum phries with prejudice against Siegfried were ordered stricken from the record. Humphries said the act of the Legis lature permitting a change of venue whenever a defendant asks it did not cover contempt of court cases. Sieg fried's case is set for Thursday morn-in- . . -VXtJs , I ' , " ' i ; : j s s . i v. 3 f t L k ; I 1 - i l i l of - ; J t r,ignt atten f meet intend C. I. Collins. EUGENE. Or.. Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) Eugene public schools opened for the Fail term Monday, .eighty teachers, the full staff. snded a meeting Saturday to C L Collins, the new super- ltendent and receive from him the general Instructions regard ing the work of registration. Mr. Collins, who succeeds Guy Stock ton, now or Shanghai, comes from Holly, Colo., where he had made an enviable position for himself In the community. The Holly plan of domestic science teaching developed by Mr. Col lins has attracted much atten tion, not only In Colorado, but in. other states. OREGON CITY. Or, Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) Joseph 8. Rlckard was arrested today for practicing medicine without a license from the State Board of Med. leal Examiners. The complaint was signed by H. D. Harms, a resident and taxpayer of the county. It recites that Rlckard gave Faul Jaeger a prescription for medi cine, for which he made a charge of f 1.5U. Reports from the State Board show that Rlckard has not been licensed to practice in this state. The defendant contends that he is a retired physician and that he has followed his profession for a number of years in other states. The radical section demanded today that the Germans start a fight on sim ilar lines to those which were success, ful in Belgium. A resolution was in troduced by the central committee, which approved "in principle" of such a step, but held that the "time is not ripe for it." The resolution was adopted after supporting speeches had been made by Edouard Bernstein, George Ledebour, Phllipp Scheidemann, Edouard DavUl and other leaders. Dr. Karl Llebknecht declared that a political strike at the present moment would be a catas. Arrested tPe?A.. .... called the unsuccessful, strike of the Swedish workmen In 1909, which cost the Social-Democratic party half of Its members. Bernstein said that, arguing from the number of Belgians who took part in the recent strike there, it would be necessary to call out 2,500,000 or 3,000,000 Germans to achieve the moderate degree of success attained means ST. -PAUL, OR., HAS FIREI If ltXVoZ x Ray & Thompson Merchandise Store Suffers $16,000 Damage. SALEM, Or., Sept. 16-(SpeclaX) The general merchandise store of Ray & Thompson, at St. Paul, this county, was burned last night, the loss being estimated at S16.000. The fire is supposed to have started rrom a aerectlve flue. Efficient work by the fire department kept the blaze from spreadfhg to other buildings. The loss is partially covered by insurance. 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