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' sAlB3g OBJEOOK, MONDAY, BEPTEMBEB 15, 1913. PRICE TWO CENTS. XiSTMPSSt
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SHOCKING CRIME
ch Seeks to Find Out if He Is Real or Sham Priest, Doc
cs to Ascertain If He Is Sane and Prosecutors Are Round
I Up Evidence in Hope of Sending Him to Electric Chair
Declines Lawyer, Saying If He Needs One God Will Send
le to Him Evidence That He Has Been Involved in
.iminality Before Is Gathered.
(SUED I'llESS LEASED Wltlt.
V York, Sept. 15. Hans Schmidt,
ionfesscd that he wronged Anna
Jler, then murdered her, drank
iJood. dismombered her body and
, the pieces into the Hudson river,
sudor scrutiny today of church,
si and legal authorities.
t rcpresen'ntives of the church
I to determine whether be is a
Or a sham priest. The doctors
Irving to decide whethor is a real
atiam lunatic. The prosecutor's as
its wero gathering the evidence
iliipo will send him to the electric
toingly quite at home in his cell
Tombs, Schmidt talked calmly,,
wliarly, with his visitors, gave all
, ilnils of porhops the most shock
. wrder in Now York's police his-
ftithout a sign of emotion, and,
all appearances, failed entirely to
, fehend the soriousnoss of his po-
t
refused counsel, saying: "If I
a lawyer, God will send one to
, 'jiit my case is past human aid."
f Suspect Ha Is Sham,
it Schmidt is only a sham priest
(illy w-ns strongly suspected by
4a Catholic church officials. They
. awaiting advices from Mayence,
e.
fe have cabled for information,"
. ; Monsignor Lavolle. "Schmidt
itcd ordination papers from May
, when he camo to New York, but
1 possible they wero forged. I tin--oort
that ho told priests at the
m that St. Elizabeth ordained
, A church investigation is in pro-
J) and we will tako whatever ac
. is warranted."
Says He Is Sane.
Wrict Attorney Charles S. Whit
,.. intends to combat an insanity
and Dr. McQuiro, the Tombs phy
a, began an examination of the
er today, at the request of the
M of the prosecutor. Assistant
eoutor Murphy, who has talked
! "'in, says unqualifiedly that
iilt is sane.
,inan who gave his name as Al
e Koeble, and his business as an
racy, called at the Tombs during
forenoon and asked to soe Schmidt,
fdmitted that he had not yot been
icd as counsel, but said that if he
( he would advise his client to
himself upon the mercy of the
-.'orities. .
Say He Is Sana. turned to New York in December, 1!10,
hmidt declined the services of At- ni wn appointed rector of St. Boni
fy Koeble, saying: ftt,' church.
You and I do not understand this. Though he never took a medical dc
' n'l Abraham only will be able to Kroei h""1 masqueraded as a surgeon
" p the matter. There is nothing ' and actually possessed considerable
'"in do. If I need a lawyer God surgical skill.
"end you to me. But my case is His account of the killing does not
5 human aid. I am content to re- l'ffof wil retelling, but with almost
the punishment ordored." every conversation his explanation of
jhniidt noticed a picture of Miss " reasons vares.
"""or in a paper which Koeble held I One of His Versions.
, hand. Seizing the paper, he "I 1"'1 made up my miud,"he Baid
' fd the picture repetttcdlv. Then in one version, "that, as I was a priest,
'landed it back, saying: "I do not w must, not live together, and yet I
I am a priest. In fact, I was ordained
into double priesthood."
Coroner Feinburg is convinced that
Schmidt is undoubtedly sane.
Second-Hand Dealer's Clue.
Tho pillowslip with which the detec
tives traced Schmidt down was orig
inally tho only clue on which they had
to work. After a long search they
found that the slip was purchased at
a second hand store near Seventh ave
nue and MCth street. Tho second-hand
dealer was able to give a fair descrip
tion of the purchaser, and following
still another minute hunt, tho police as
certained that a man who answered the
description had rented the flat at C8
Bradhurst avenue.
Saturday night, after watching the
flat building for two days, Inspector
Faurot broke in. Tho place was' spat
tered with blood, the knife and saw
were there and in the drawer were a
picture of the dead girl, papers show
ing she had worked at the St. Boniface
rector', and a note signed by
"Schmidt."
Springs Photographs.
Faurot promptly went to the rectory,
whore he learned that Schmidt had
been transferred to St. Joseph's parish.
Hurrying to St. Joseph's rectory after
midnight Sunday, they sent for Schmidt
to come from his room to the reception
parlor.
As ho entered, Faurot jumped up,
held tho pictur,) in front of him and
exclaimed:
"Wliero is that girl?"
"I killed her. I killed her because
I loved her," muttered Schmidt. On
being searched Faurot found a razor in
Schmidt's pocket.
"Wero you going to kill yourself
with thist" the dotectivo asked.
'Yes," said Schmidt coolly. "I in
tended to kill myself if arrested, but
I did not think I would be."
Talked of Eicheson Case.
Schmidt was not popular among his
associates at the parish houso. He
talked frequently of the Richeson mur
der in BoBton and expressed the opinion
that Richeson was not guilty, "because
ho loved."
Attornoy Koobcl was strongly of the
opinion that tho man is insane. He
said he first met him as an attendant
at a series of lectures on Socialism,
which he (Koobel) was delivering.
Masqueraded as Burgeon
Schmidt is 32 years old. He landed
in New York from Germany in Mini,
went to Trenton, N. J., in 1900, re-
Army Secrets
are Unprotected
Fort Barry Deserted By Officers and
Men for Two Hoars and Map
Cond Have Been Secured.
tmiTID PBKSS LUStD WIM.
San Francisco, Sept. 15. An inquiry
to determine responsibility for the ap
parent desertion for two hours Sunday
by government troops at Fort Berry, in
Mariu county, across San Francisco bav
rom nerc, was started at the Ptosidio
today by Major General Arthur Mur
ray, commanding the western division.
Visitors wandered among the big guns
and masked batteries for hours without
meeting either officers or enlisted men.
Visitors assert that representatives of
foreign powers could havo drawn an
accurate map of Fort Barry, including
oxaet location of eloctrinni
houses, guns, approximate distauces and
landmarks.
MLICANIIN OF
N MAY BE
:E
SEATTLE OFFICIALS
BRING HOLLAND HERE
Local Asylum Head Brings Washington
to Time In Case of Patient Spirited
Away,
Lawrence Holland, who was spirited
awny from the asylum for the insnne
early in June is back again, having
been returned Sunday. Ho was located,
in Seattle soou after his escape, aud,
undor instructions from the asylum au
thorities, was held there until he could
be sent for. The authorities there
wired Dr. Steiner to send a man over
after him, which was done. When the
man reached Seattle, however, tho law
yers got busy, just as they did in the
Thaw case, only not so nyich bo, be
cause the boy did not have as much
monoy as Thaw, but they stopped Hol
land's removal from tho state. Tho
person sent after him had no wad to
spend fighting to get him, aud re
porting conditions to Dr. Steiner, was
told to come home.
It was shown that tho man was dan
gerous to be at largo, and when the
lawyers got through, or got what mon
ey was in sight, the authorities wired
Dr. Steiner again to send over and get
him. Ho replied that tho state of Ore
gon had done all that was required of
her, and that if Washington wanted to
keep Holland, it was welcome to him.
"Docs this mean that you will not
scud for him?" wired an official, and
he was told that it meant exactly that,
Tho result was that the Seattle offi
cials brought the man to Portland, and
turned him over to the sheriff, and he
was brought here Sunday.
Plan Proposed to Oregon State
Organization in Letter to
Chairman.
FIVE WOULD GET JOBS
Positions on Advisory Executive Com
mittee Would Be Pilled by Women
Under New Plan.
UNITKD mags IftASBD WinK.
Washington, Sept. 15. That the Re
publican women of Oregon shall be of
ficially recognized by tho party or
ganization, by giving them important
places on the state central committee
is the plan today proposed by Edward
D. Baldwin, secrotary of the Oregon
state committee, in a letter sent to
Chairman Charles B. Moores, of that
SOON BE
OUT OF ANY DANGER
Largest and Best Crop Ever
Raised in This Section
Nearly Gathered.
HOP PICKING MACHINE
It Is Being Given Tryout In Horst
Yard, But It Is Not Perfect
Enough to Beplace Humans.
Within five days, or say possibly
eight, tho Marion county hop crop will
be in the warehouses ready for baling
and what is predictod will be the larg
est and best hop output ever grown will
soon be on the road to the difforent
buyers.
According to tho hop men both of
Marion and Polk counties, the hopi this
year aro of A l quality and om ),-,r 1 '
committee. Baldwin is private secre
tary to Congressman N. J. Sinnott, of,0r so yards in this tortitor
tho second Oregon district. In the phenomenally, Tho ITufnnc
plan proposed, a vice-chairmarship
would be created and an advisory ex
ecutive committee o' fi," members,
all of which positions are, under his
plan, to be fillod by women.
Money Donated
to Move People
Senate Adopts BeeluUon Appropriat
ing $100,000 and Brlstow Tata
Blap at President
ONITSD FBISS LCAStn WIM.
Washington, Sopt 15. Waiving ref
erence to a committee, as unnecessary,
the senate today passed the house reso
lution appropriating (100,000 to bring
destitute Americans from Mexico.
Senator Brlstow of Kansas assarted
that the president's advice to Ameri
cans to leave Mexico had had a most
unfortunate result. Reliable persons
returning to the United Btntes have
told him, he said, that they would have
fared bottAi- If the administration had
not tried to porsuade them to leave.
TELEPHONE COMPANIES
DENY CONSPIRACY TO
MONOPOLIZE BUSINESS
Answers Are Filed in Suit
Brought by Government
to Dissolve Trust
CLAIM LAW RESPECTED
Various Transactions Aro Discussed in
Answers in an Effort. to Show No
Criminality.
JAPANESE AND WIFE
DF
Sheldon Believes Oregon Will Be Much
Dryer After Fall Elections Than
.0.. " " l Jpssent.
liperintondent
bert yardu in Polk county are nearly
finished and the picking will cease some
time this week. About nine or ton days
will see tho completion of the Horst
Bros.' yard near Independence and the
Brown field will be stripped of its
hops within four or fivo days, accord
ing to the foremen. Although picking
is progressing ot a pond ru.e in the
Liveslcy and Krebs yards in this coun
ty, there ib still much work ahead be
fore tho crops will bo harvested, and
in the Gorman yard, north of Salem,
and in F. W. Durbin's field thfl nickinir
DJIITllD PnKSS LEASED Willi. 141 i.i ioij
1 4 will extend at least to next Saturdav
San Francisco, Sept. 15-Sakaye Abe,'or Mondav. Drovi(linff rin doM not in.
a Japanese, and his pretty oriental wife torforei
wore held by tho police today pending I Pickers Satisfied.
an investigation as to who killed Koisha Jn 8pUe of the fact t,m't the rainl
Uchida, another Japanese, at the Abe of the for rart , the hop pick.n(? ha(,
home. Abo said he did tho shooting 'a tendency to drive many pickors home,
because he found Uchida with Mrs. j tm.v ,,av6 r(trnc,, aml ar0 mMnf( $,
Abe. Mrs. Abo claimed she did tho klll-lB.i . ,lnv i. ,,,. Wi(1, t.
ing when Uchid:i entered hor home.
The Weather
(1601 THIS P0
Tho Dickoy Bird
I exception of a few disgruntled pickors
in the Polk county yards, tho general
feeling among the harvesters is good
this year and little or no trouble has
been experienced by the growers or
I managers. The hop men aro experienc
ing no niincuity in entorclng the cloan
picliing ordor and, while a fow of the
more greedy pickers try to evads the
dictum, the majority aro cheerfully
tOKirm rail vuumo wiu.t
Portland, Sept. 15. Today was the
final day of gi-aco in which to file ans
wers in the district court of the United
States for the district of Oregon in tho
suit of the United States against the
American Telephone and Telograph
company and other defendants in which
it is charged by the government that
the defendants are in a conspiracy to
monopolize the telephone business in
violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.
The goveramont also asks that com
petitive conditions be re established as
far as practicable.
Among the defendants who will mal e
answer today are the following :Th
American Telophone and Tolegraph
compaiiy and its principal officers; the
Mountain States Telophone and Tele
graph coinjv.uyj Independent Telephone
company of S.inttlo; the lacife Tele
phono nnd Telegraph company; the Sun-
will be much dryer after the oloctions j ,et Tolephono and Telegraph company;
In the state this fall, and he urged a Independent Long Distance Telophom
spirited campaign here. company; Titlo Insurance and Trust
Mr. Sholdon devoted almost his on-1 company; Qraugor Telephone aud ToK -tire
address to mothods of carrying on , Klh company; Home Telephone com
the campaign. In answoring questions ' pany of Pugot Sound and Northwestern
from the audience, he stated that th Ioimf Distance company, and a number
idea to aome oxtent was to force the of Individuals.
saloon men to prove their side of tho The defendants make a general de
CSBe j nial that they aro restraining trade or
Wants More Publicity. commerce or aro utomptlng to monopo
Rev. E. B. Lockhart, city editor of , lize trade or commerce,
tho morning paper, heatedly demanded Tho aSWBP in . ... . .
""S"'
j into tho affairs of the Consolidated
leiepiiouo company of Montana, Indo-
In league gave
an intorosftnTMfMJt the First M.
E. church yesterday afternoon. Sholdon
has had wide experience in prohibition
campaigns, having boon a former resi
dent of South Dakota, and his address
proved to be Of groat value to those
who are making an effort to oubI the
wiloons from Salem. He tpoka under
the auspices bTthoso in charge of the
dry campaign. Ho boliovos that Oregon
ure8on:wlllinr; to assist tho growor to place tho
Fair tonight and be8t c!aa8 o( hopi th8 mttrkot pM.
si bio,
The growers are a trifle "chesty"
over tho fine hops, but taking it all in
all they have due occasion to boBst.
There is not a hop in Marion or Polk
Tuesday; variablo
winds, mostly
castorly.
(Continued on Pag Five.)
he taste of It."
loved her so much that I could not bear
,'hmidt reiterated that he married to have her leave me. "
Following his confessiou Schmidt's
name was removed from the church
confessional. He is confined in cell
1.19 at the Tombs with Thomas Mess
'., girl, adding:
v Insist Hs Married Hor.
I married her by command. Of
I am a priest. I was properly ncr ch(lrg(,d wi(h wife mt)r,1(,r ,
'ned. As to my sanity, I will say ,,,,,. TK. ..i (i, i.
' U great men who have done ,liaintaiB,a Sv9r him.
Iks out of the ordinary am consid-.
Insane nowadays. Banished From Trenton.
"There has been no suggestion of In- Trenton, N. J., 8ept. 15. That he
'".v n my family. I did hare an
l, who died by his own hand. But
(Continued on pags 8.)
Clierrians Are Back After Big
"Boosting Trip to Eastern Oregon
The Cherrians arrived home Sunday
morning tired and worn out with three
days' of strenuous life at the Pendle
ton Round Vp, but all bubbling over
with stories of the delightful wonder
of it all. At Hood River they were
taken on an auto ride up the valley and
given a glimpse of Mt. Hood at home.
This was a revelation to all, and left
a picture of that wonderfully rich and
beautiful valley that will remuin with
them forever.
At The Dalles they were given a re
ception that warmed them up and made
them forget tho time. They were giv
en a dinner at the Hotel Dalles, and
after this the band played snd there
was a dance, at which the Cherrians
gave an exhibition of terpisrhorenn
novelties that captured the hosts and
finally everybody joined in a big rag
time shake down.
"The Cherrian," the bright little
newspaper, irntten out on the train on
one of N. D. Klliott'i little presses,
sung Hulem's praises and boosted the
state fair on all occasions, and with the
"white winged" bunch 'of Salem rep-, scribe the Indian show as indescrib
resentatives, did much good and sub- able. Salem folks will have to bear
stantial work for the Capital City. with them for a little while until they
What they did at Pendleton, they do get back to earth,
not know, and so cannot tell. They Tho boys were met at Portland by a
each have about tho same story, that big delegation, and awakened much fa
rambles around and stops right where vorable comment by their splendid sp
it started. The tmth is that they saw pearance and fine drill. It was the
so much, and all of it new, that, like a samo Btory from tho flmo they left un
boy at a three-ringed circus, they have til their return a warm, enthusiastic
only a sort kaleidoscopic remembrance welcome evervwhere. The Cherrian
of it all, with no clear idea of any nf
the details.
Talking with ".Vate" Elliott this
morning, and he was about the most
coherent of the bunch, we could not
tell whether Hal Patton rode the bull
while George Itodgcrs rode backwards
on the same bull heating ragtimo on
the based rum, or that Nate bucknd off
the prize rider in ten seconds while 35,.
000 spectators stood up and yelled.
Anyway, we gathered that there were
dozens of stunts that so bewildered the
hoys, that in telling about it they get
them all run In together. However,
they all unite In saying the Round I'p
was the greatest event ever pulled off
In Oregon, or anywhere else. They de-
organization is the greatest advertise
ment Salem has ever had, and will do
much to attract attention to the city.
The specinl train of ten cars was one
of the finest ever sent out of an Ore
gon city, and was so managed by R. H.
Houston that its praises am sounded
along with those of the Round T'p, ev
erybody having something nice to say
about It, but then that Is tho way
"Bert" always does things. It Is safe
to say that when Pendleton holds her
Round Up next year that Instead of a
train of ten cars, it will require a
couple of specials, and then some, to
carry Salem's delegation to Pendleton,
the Queen City of the Inland Empire,
the grestest show town on earth.
to know if publicity should not bo giv
en this meeting so as to let the
poople of Salem know that tho drys
"aro not a dead bunch," Ho said he
had sent his "boys" around to see the
dry committee to publish somothing
about the campaign, and they had re
turned with tho news that tho commit
tee did not consldor it good policy to
make public its progress in tho cam
paign. Sheldon boliovcd that full publicity
should be given.
"Hurrah!" said Rov. Lockhart.
Rev. Lockhart explained that ho had
mado as many sacrifices as anyone In
fighting snloons and tho saloon hunch,
and he wanted to banish saloons from
Salem, Also he wanted to tell the
people "thnt we aro a live bunch."
Sheldon told him to publish it in
big headlines.
"All right, In she goes,' said Rov.
Lockhart.
Rev. Lockhart added that he believed
the campaign would be further on If
thern hsd been more publicity given
to the work, Ho again told of having
sent tho "boys" to seek news of ths
campaign, and of their return with the
statement that nothing was to be giv
en out. lie helioved that the cause
had been hurt by this policy. "I want
Salem to go dry," he said, and agnin
told of his Intention to print the pro
ceedings, Blind Pig Question.
Councilman Cummlngs refcrcrd to the
blind pig question, saying that If the
drys win such men as will enforce the
law should be elected.
The nBme of Dr. Hoinan wns added
to the press committee.
One of those present stated that he
hsd visited Manager Hendricks, of (he
Stntesman, several months ago "to
ease his mind," and had been assured
that tho columns of that paper would
bo wide open to print everything fa
vorable to the cause,
Sheldon and all others present who
discussed the situation expressed them
selves as favorably Impressed with the
outlook In Salem.
It was announced that mentings
once or twice a week would lis hold
until election time.
Mr, Sheldon was Introduced by W.
H. Trlndle, secretary of the local dry
committee.
pendent Long Distunce Telephone com
pany of Idaho, and other compauies
i anied lu tho complaint, but Ionics in
cueh Instance that the Inwi of the Unit
ed States were encroached upou.
EUGENICS CONTEST IS
Ovor 50 babios are entered iu th
eugonlcs contest, which began this af
tornoon at 1:30 o'clock lu the city li
brary building, at tho corner of 8tnt
and Wlntor streots.
All of the judges wore on hand, and?
on of the finost arrays of little tots
soou In Salem for some time wore tag
ged and named as contestants. Tho
show will continue through this after
noon, and at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow to
morrow afternoon tho judging of ths
babies will be resumed and complotod
before the day ends unless more ba
bies aro entered lu unexpected num
bers, The eugenics contoet Is boiug hold
undor the auspices of tho Salem Com
mercial club and it promises to b
very successful.
FALL PROVES FATAL
II
I'lmer 'Yegg, a prisoner In the tou,
died Sunday from the effects of in.ju
rins received when he fell from a lum
on which he was working several weeks
ago. tie became paralyvx.; from tho
body down, asd steadily fail.id mull
tho end enme. He was ten! from 1 une
county for ten years. Nothing la known
as to his relatives and tho body was
buried today.
Which do farmers who want tai free
grain sacks prefer, the Republican tai
of 1.8 cents, or the Democratic tax of
.08 a cent per sack!