Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-03-19

cation, his field of operations was large and
his success great. In all cases the story
told by Hoecking's victims Is about the
same as that of Mrs. Gebhard.
She saw an advertisement In New
York paper in December Of last year. It
was signed ''Charles Holle" and said he
was about to purchase we'll established
business and wanted wife to assist In its
management. He desired to form the ac-
quaintance Of -a respectable widow with
matrimonial inclinations and money to
invest
Mrs. Gebhard answered it and in few
days got a reply from HOLE, making an
appointment with her In Newark. They
met a day later, and each seemed highly
pleased with the other. They talked busi-
ness, marriage included, from the start.
The wedding was appointed for Feb. "a,
and in q few days Mrs. Gebhard went to
New York with Holle to look at busi-
ness place at Church and Cortlandt streets,
which he said he was to buy for SIS, 600.
He had SIS, 900, he said, and his brother
was to give him the other $4,000, but
there would still be lacking about $1,000,
necessary to make improvements. Did
Mrs. Gebhard have that amount to ad-
vance him?
No, she didn't, but she had $1,100,
,, which he could have II it would answer.
OF course it would do, said Holle, and on
Feb. 2, when he visited her Newark house,
she handed him the 81, 100, which had just
been drawn from bank. His farewell to
her that day was unusually ELUSIVE, and
as he kissed his hand to her after stepping
from the stoop to the sidewalk he said
| he ID return on the morrow.
But he didn't When 10 days had
| passed and there was no sign Of him, Mrs
| Gebhard told Chief of Police Hopper the
story. When she described the man, the
| police knew him, for q few years ago De-
tective Jaegers arrested him in Newark
for swindling Christina Becker out of sew
eral hundred dollars in similar manner,
and he served an 18 months term of i'm
prisonment.
He was caught without much trouble,
and letters found in his pockets show that
his business is lucrative and extensive
one, many OF them being signed by WON
en- In various parts Of New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
A woman who called ON Chief Hopper
to see Hooking was accompanied by heI
husband. She was widow when she an
swered Hoecking's advertisement, q year
or SO ago. He took her to Harlem and
showed hor largo saloon and restaurant
which he was to buy for $27, 900.
She promised to marry him, and ir
spite Of the protestations of her present
husband she believed his statement tha,
he needed about $500 to complete the pur
chase Of the business and gave IL to him
Then he went away, and she didn't heal
Of him again until she read of bis captur'
In Newark. She refused to tell her nsme
just as she was going out o man from
Harrison, N. j., who also declined to giv'
his name, entered and identified Hoeckinl
as tho man who recently proposed mar
riage and was accepted by his stepdaugh
ter end then disappeared when he fount
that he could not borrow $500 from her.
A well dressed middle aged woman tolt
Chief Hopper that the prisoner Is Car
Bechtel, and that she II his wife. Chic
Hopper believes that in many cases he ha
probably been Obliged to marry his intend
cd victims.
But in this particular case he got n,
money. The woman said she met Hoeck
Ing In the usual way. through an adver
tisement signed Bechtel, and that the,
were married about a years ago.
The next day he tried TO borrow 81, ,0O
from her, but she was wary, and he dis
appeared nc soon ss he realized that h
would not get the money. Thinking b
catch him, she advertised for husban
under another name, and no answered 1
over the signature of Goetset. She recoe
nized his writing, and meeting was ap
pointed. He was surprised when he on
countercd her.
She 1oggcd him with heavy whip IN
I'll she was tired, and with his face an
neck cut he escaped through q rear door
scaled fence and disappeared.
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