The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-12
FIGHTS WITCHES.
Joseph WiIhOff Arrested on q
Strange Charge.
Chicago German Takes Pay For
Alleged Protection
AGAINST THE SPOOKS.
Frank HandoWsky Paid to Save
Blight on Garden.
William KuhImey Claims a
HOOdOO on His Family.
AGAINST THE SPOOKS.

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claims he can stop the grass from grow
ing and says he is on familiar terms with
seventy-seven different kinds of evil spir-
its, is under 81, 600 bonds at the Sheffield
Avenue police station charged with OBJ
tanning money by false pretenses. He is
accused by Frank Handowsky and wife,
209 Fletcher street, who runs a small
truck farm, with telling them that their
lettuce and cabbages would not grow II
Iney old NOT pay MN 70 keep away a
blight which he alleged he had power to
selu upon theIIl. E1aIuq Wshy say ne ,,
heVed IN the power OF the witch doctor
and gave up $40 for protection He now
wants his money back.
WiIhoff was arraigned before Justice
Mahoney yesterday and his case was con-
police time to secure further evidence
against him. The police claim to have
the names IS OF many others who have been
According. to the police. the doctor"
mild reign of terror for the last three
months among the Germans living in the
vicinity of SharpshOOter's Park He has
been throwing around lamentations, spells,
and hoodoos; the police say, with such
prodigality that nobody in the neighbOr-
hood has felt safe from his supposed
mysterious powers.
ago, it is said, whe ma "hOOdoo' was
placed on William Kuhlmey and family,
buying garden stuff from Handowsky, but
last week HandOwsky refused to sell
ing that the doctor had told him that
worms would come in the nighttime and
destroy all his vegetables if he sold any
stuff to Kuhlney. This was too much
for Kuhlmey and he complained to Cap
tain SchuettIer Policemen Banner and
Smith were detailed the case, and the
arrest of WiIhoff followed.
OSTRACISED BY HIS NEIGHBORS.
my life said Kuhimey. He put a spell
on my family because I had a little
trouble with Smith, who lives next door
has been pretending he could cure her.
The first thing I knew none of the neigh
bors would speak TO my wife or children,
dOwsky refused to sell my wife any veg
HandOwslzy told me he had been warned
against me and my family, and that VIII
who had anything to do with US"
kuhlmey- is employed by the Devoe &
When the police went to HandowsIxy
the gardener told them, they say, that it
he could strike them dead by a look if
they dared to touch him.
SAYS HE IS BULLET PROOF.
|WiIhof told me IT would do no good to
try and arrest him. said Handowsky to
the policeman, as he could tie the judge
on the bench so that he could not move
at them. He told me they could fire bull
lets into his body and he would spit them
out"
When Banner and Smith went into VIII
hons house there was a crowd of 500 ter
rlned Germans ABOUT the place Some of
IneLn Sald later mat they expected some
frightful fate to befalI the policemen and
to see their bodies elected in cloud of
name and ire Banner, however, gained
entrance by pretending he had sore
DetCk ana wanted treatment. As soon as
he was inside he read the warrant to Will
hoff.
II am not afraid of you" said Wilhof.
Il had four bullets fred into my stomach
once and spit them out"
PROPOSES PARTNERSHIP WITH
DEVIL.
Rudolph Klein, 145 Oakland avenue. a
machinfst employed at the Deering
works, told the police that WiIhoff want
ed MIN to go into partnership, with the
'@Wiihoff asked me if was afraid Of
Spite s 5l5 Klein, and I told him was
the devil and if I was strong enough to
face him that we would get the devils
IN the ne1ghborhoOd. So one night be-
tween u and o'clock he took me to the
church at Jefferson and Milwaukee ave
nueS ana made me walk three times by
the church. making the sign of the cross
as walked He had a mirror and in that
was to see the devil as soon as the spell
was cOmple ted- But first it was necessary
that a black cat should look into the
mirror. Wilhom had the black cat with
him and held the mirror up before it,
Then looked into 1t, but could sec moth
ing but my own face. I don't know Vvheth-
er he thought was the devil. but I de-
clined to go into partnership vita myself
MISS ZOIN TELLS OF TT KEATS
Miss Kate Zoin, 154 BelDrIOnt avenue.
Will be one of the witnesses against vii
hoff. She has a blind mother and Wilhoff
promised, she says, to restore the sight Of
Mrs. ZOin inside of a month. He secured
threatened, if she made any Complaint.
to make her sick and increase the illness
of Mrs. Zoin.
WfIhoff is apparently Is years of age
He formerly. lived in the town of Jeffer-
son. where it is reported he got into
black art" The Germans call him
''hexen DOCTOR and many of them are
said firmly to believe in his powers for
working evil.