REMARKABLE CRIMNAL.
SCHMIDT READ TO DIE,
Press Association —Electric Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK,K Sunday.
In connection with the death-of Anna Aumaller, whose body the Rev. Hans Schmidt is accused of dismembering, the police state that Schmidt is the most remarkable product of the present age.
Schmitz, in answer to police questioning, declared that he believed in euthanasia, and that it was right to end the lives of suffering people painlessly. It was only carrying out God's will. 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 to. xwe to show that Aumnller's death was naturally caused. Afterwards, however, he decided to cut her throat, dismember the body and throw it into tho river. Schmidt declared that he was ready to die. The District Attorney, he said, wanted to see him in the electric chair. So what was the use of delaying.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXV, Issue 11784, 22 September 1913, Page 5
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