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house at Austin, Mimi, and upon being
presented with picture of Mr.. Hoch.
declared that the photograph was
.ife-like reproduction of her lost
count"
How His Downfall Came About.
The last Of Johann Hoch's alleged
lupes, however, proved his downfall
and with the accusation of Mrs. Anne
liza Fisher, a Chicago woman, came the
apprehension of a man whose career
the police say, is without an equal or
even rival in the history OF any city
in this country. Last December Hoch
inserted a matrimonial advertisement
in alocal German publication, stating his
longing for companionship and asking
that some kind woman become his life
companion. Mrs. Marie Welker a
widow who owned a prosperous con-
fectionery business, replied to his APP
peal by answering the lad" After
brief courtship she allowed herself to
be persuaded that she was the only
woman who could relieve his loneli
ness. Hoch, who had previously rent
ed and furnished a small fiat, took his
latest wife to the house, which, Incl
dentally happened to be near the To-
cation of the notorious Holmes "cas-
tle." She had disposed of her store
and turned the money derived from its
sale over to her husband, who, repre-
senting himself to be wealthy, said he
did not care for the cash, but desired
70 invest it in a safe project, for her
benefit. The day following her mar
riage she became deathly sick. A ply
stefan was called, and Mr. Hoch was
informed that his wife was suffering
from kidney trouble. The arrival of
a trained nurse followed, but, although
her condition was worse, the nurse was
sent away the following day. Then
Mrs. Fisher, the sister Of the sick
woman, came to care for her. One day
later, while Mr. Hoch was alone with
his wife, she died. Mr. Hoch went
downstairs to inform the dead wom-
ans sister. after which Mrs. Fisher
went upstairs to clean the death cham
Der. Very soon after this operation
the alleged bigamist proposed to Mrs
Fisher that she become his wife.
ct am an unfortunate man." Mrs
Fisher reports Hoch to have said to
her Marie was not my first wife.
was married before. and my first wife
was an invalid and now, just as I
thought was to have another happy
home, my new wife is dead. am
lonely and have no means. You are a
good oman and a good housewife. and
'yaut you to marry me- will bring
your children here from Germany and
you can be happy with me-"
Repulsed Then Accepted Hoch.
Mrs. Fisher has nine children in Ger
many. Continuing her narrative of the
occurrence, she said:
'I resented his proposal, and told him
he should not talk Of such things so
soon after his wife's death. January
IS I rode with him to the cemetery,
and again, over his wife's grave, he
asked me TO marry him. The follow
ing Wednesday he came to my home
and I consented to become his wife.
He told me we would go out of town
and no one would know of IL until my
sister had been dead a long time.
went with him to Joliet that afternoon
and we were married. We came back
and went to my house that night. The
next morning he asked me to give him
$3.50 had saved to pay of a mortgage
he claimed was held against the house
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without effect. After using one bottle
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cherokees Seek Hunting Grounds.

A committee of four chiefs, repre-
senting the Cherokee Indians, recent.
ly visited the City of Mexico, treat
ing with President Diaz for conces-
sion of land grant They wish to
move to Mexico, If possible.
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Natures HandiWork.

do you know" she said, that the
average woman's waist is thirty
inches round?''
yes" he replied, land it's a pecu
liar coincidence that the average
mans arm is thirty inches long"
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and furniture on Union avenue. 4
went with him to the bank and got the
money and gave IL to him. Then he
disappeared Mrs Fisher says she
believes that she and her sister have
been made victims of deep-laid plot
to deprive them of their earnings and
savings. She declares that she believes
that, seeing that he could not disap-
pear from the presence of Mrs Welker
and marry her without the knowledge
of both. he formulated the plot
to murder the first wife by some sys-
tenn and. securing what money he could
from Mrs. Fisher, disappear for all
time. Poison found in the stomach of
Mrs Welker. the police believe, prac-
tically corroborates the statement Of
the latest wife of Hoch.
Cases in other Cities.
Word has come TO the local police
from St Louis, Cincinnati and San
Francisco that man who operated ex-
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Strange as 1t may seem, no clear cases
of Johann Hoch's work had come to the
knowledge of the police anywhere in the
United States until the present dis
closure, although his marriage business,
it is declared, has been carried ON ever
since 1881. This fact may be due to the
desire of many sensitive women who
have been duped by this man to keep
their desertion from the public.
Worked from Town to Town.
Hoch's policy, it seems, was always
to extract as much money as his intend
ed victim could summon without waste
OF time, and, after begging leave of alb
sence on some pretext, would disappear
as il the earth had completely swallowed
him up. Then the tale of wife in a
nearby town, who would pitifully de-
clare that she had given her newly &C
quired husband all her money, and that
he had not been home for several days
and some accident must have befallen
him, would bring to light the fact that
In all probability Mr. Hoch was carry
ing on operations in the neighborhood.
Hoch's method was to advertise in
the daily papers, preferably the German
publications, saying that his loneliness
had forced him to seek life companion
who could tend his wants. Some women
answered out of curiosity, others who
felt the same absence of some person
to share their condolences, would COM
municate with him. Then the German
would select what he considered the best
for his purpose and devote his whole
energies in that direction. Hoch never
according to reports, sought out those
women whose beauty or other charms
would make them the target for other
mems affections, but women whom, by
his superior will, he might find easy TO
persuade. These women, mostly German,
had had little sympathy expressed for
their welfare during their lives, and the
tender passion which Johann Hoch ex-
pressed in his letters seldom failed TO
execute its aim.
Samples Of His Courtship.
All through his missiyes to his in
tended victims runs a strain of feeling
which would do credit to the most high
ly accomplished Beau Brummel" of
the old days OF chivalry. One repre-
sentative epistle that came to Chi
cago woman. supposedly from Hoch
when he was in San Francisco. simply
breathed love to the woman who read
II. A portion of il follows:
:, Dear child, you took my heart by
u .rm. can't get over it, my dear JO-
ylanna. How is it with you, dear child,
5you like to spend the rest of your life
Alone? If you only feel toward me as
n feel and could bring one-half your
love to me as to you, how lucky would
be. If you could wed your heart to mine
for the rest of our days / would be the
luckiest man in the world" The in
tended victim, who had almost sue
cumbed to the tender pass' =
when she read letter
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Notice.

As am soon to leave the Office of The
True Northerner, it is necessary that all
accounts owing to the Office be paid at
once.
MO. ROWLAND.
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The above IL the picture of the
B. Spinney in this state. His n
follows: Fifteen years in priva
twelve Of these in East Saginaw.
as large q practice as any physical
Two years professor OF Detroit
College and twenty-five years I'm ID
charge of Alma Sanitarium eighth
Ypsilanti one year, and for the
years has owned q sanitarium sAt
On December Is, 1902. his SAM
burned, loss fifteen thousand doll
forty-eight hours he had bought
Is in good shape for business aga
rebuild in the spring.
There Is a firm in Detroit CALI
Spinney a. Co., but the founder
has been dead for over two yes
have no right to the name OF ST.
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Any person suffering from Pill
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Have you been sick for years ant
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FOURTEEN THOUGHT MURDERED
Finding of Poison in Stomach of "Nextto-
Last Spouse Points Accusing Finger at
Versatile German Whose Record
Covers Two Great Countries.
Holiness Archfiend of History Declare to Have Been
His Teacher in the Terrible Art-Bsa mist Then
Known to Authorities D Edward Hatch.

Chicago.-Johann Hoch, whose record
as bigamist is said to surpass anything
OF the kind in police annals, and for
midable rival of "Bluebeard" Holmes,
hanged in Philadelphia some years ago,
has arrived here from New York TO an
swer charges of homicide and bigamy
The Chicago authorities have already
placed on this man responsibility in nu-
merous cases of bigamy and murder,
but hardly a day passes that some de-
serted wife does not make herself
known to the police, and, after having
seen Hoch's picture, declare that In
the versatile German lies her long-lost
husband. The number of these cases
has reached nearly 60, and new ones are
constantly coming to the fore.
Hoch's alleged doings are, to say the
least, remarkable in the extreme. 1t
Is declared that he has operated in towns
in all parts of the country, and the
names which he assumed in his deal
ings are, as one police official puts IT,,
as numerous as Fourth-of-July
"drunks." The list of cities in which 1t
is DSlleN6u t1OCn OpSld ISu II do AOiAO"S'
New York, Norfolk, Va,
Chicago. Wheeling, w. Va,
Philadelphia, Elkhart, lnd''
Baltimore, Argos, mo-
Brooklyn, Aurora, lll.L
st. Louis, evanston ILL.,
Cleveland, ST Paui, MIMI,
Ruffalo Wurtemburg, Gerry
Milwaukee, Berlin Germany,
Besides these a number of Wiscon-
sin and Iowa towns report traces of his
work. Some of the names used by the
German are as follows:
Count Otto Won Kern, Healy,.
Schmitt Bustenberg,
Schmidth, BusteDerBh,
Smitt, Adolph
Hook, James,
Hoch Lucas,
Hohe, Doetz'
Hoe, Doess,
Hon Bartel,
LOT Mayer,
Hauff Brown,
Hank Braune,
Inns Schultz,
Trick, bruesche'
Praeger.
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GOOD STORIES TRAVEL FAST.

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house at Austin, Mimi, and upon being
presented with picture of Mr.. Hoch.
declared that the photograph was a
,ife-like reproduction of her lost
count"
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30
A NEW PRODUCT.

Alfalfa and millet is a new product being produced from the ground Tn the Warren district. Heretofore azurite. carbonates and sulphides have been the favorites, but the farming project being conducted by Ii. A Smith, H. B. HoYalnd ct al., on the flats below Don Luis. is proving con- ciusively that the capacity of this wonderful district is still unproven. R. NJ. Johnson. the farm foreman, brought to the Review office last week punches of alfalfa and millet grown in that locality, which is fast ap- preaching the cutting stage. The products of the Warren district farm will compare favorably with the Salt River valley. and by this time next year the Bonanza farm will be worth as much as any group of mining claims in the district. When the idea of a farm on the Don Luis mesas was first talked of the idea was hOot- ed at. The old prospector spoke of the promoters in anything but com plimentary terms. He did not relish the idea of mixing copper claims with alfalfa products. but the unexpected has actually come to pass. and the fea- sibility of the farming project is being proven decisiyely. The farm repre- sents an expenditure up to date of something like s50,000. At present the only product the company is put ting on the market is an excellent quality of milk and cream from it's dairy. The water supply for irrigat- ing purposes is being gradually in creased. The C. & P. is now send
 ing 2.0Q0 gallons per minute into the Hume system and to this is added the Junction quota of 1900 gallons per minute, and preparations are on foot 10 add the water from the Lowell snait also, which when added will about use up the capacity of the sys- tem.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30
ARMSTRONG AGAIN UNDER ARREST
 FOR THIEVING
Former Sheriff In Trouble
 While Out on Parole

Information was brought from Flor ence yesterday by Carlos Arvisu, who came to Phoenix to be married, says the Phoenix Republican, of the arrest of several persons charged with cat tie stealing or the unlawful branding or handling of cattle. It was stated that among those arrested was w. T. Armstrong. former sheriff of Gila county and also near the end of a term at Yuma for cattle stealing hay ing been convicted and sentenced two years ago. Another of the arrested parties was a brother of the sheriff. No details of the arrests could be learned. It is only known that the arrests were made at Globe and that Sheriff Tom Wills had just returned from Globe before Arvisu left for Phoenix. He said that the former sheriff of Gila county was arrested about five days ago on a charge of cattle stealing and was taken before a justice of the peace in one of the outer precincts The justice declin- ed to hold him or even give him a preliminary examination on the e-4bNAAs bNA maps AAAeiN Nl4t pl lobAlNl bE- ing a paroled convict and having VI '- lated the terms of the patole. the tus- tice's court was without iurisdi ciiOn
 Some time during the administra- ticn Of Governor Brodie Armstrong was given a parole of thirty days to visit his daughter. who was believed to be dying. At the end of the thirty days the parole was extended and fin ally made regular upon the compli- ance by Armstrong with the usual terms Of parole. He reported month ly to the prison authorities though it is said that he missed the last month ly report. The arrest is said to have been made by officers of the sheriff and Arizona rangers who had procured necessary evidence against him.
 It was reported that he would have a preliminary hearing at Florence, but that is probably an error. for the cas- fest and most natural thing to do would he to return him direct to Yuma 10 serve out the rest of his sentence. That would be done on a warrant from the governor. However the arrest of Armstrong had not been reported to the office of the governor yesterday.
 Armstrong, who had been in the cat
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30
R & HINT

Sheriff of Cochise County. Arizona. By c. 4. WALLACE. Deputy Sheriff
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30

tie business for years in Gila and
 Final county was arrested about four years ago, soon after his retirement from the office of sheriff. He was
 then charged with having unlawfully branded cattle belonging to Indians of the San Carlos reservation. The case was tried in the United States Court in this county but the government failed of conviction. Not long after that he was arrested by the territorial authorities of Pinal county on a simi- lar charge and was Convicted.-PhQe- nix Republican.
 In speaking of the case the Globe Silver Belt makes it appear that Arm strong is the injured party in the fOi- lowing account:
 The case brought in Judge Thomas court a short time since, affecting cat tie claimed by W. T. Armstrong and others in the Dripping Springs coun- try, was transferred to a Troy justice s court. as before told in these columns. Armstrong won out in the Graham county trial and thought the matter settled for good. Now a charge is brought against him ih the Florence court charging the theft of one year ling which has successively occasion cd three diflhrenJ charges against Armstrong. It is said he claims the yearling is the property of his broth CT Jim. and rightfully in his posses sion. It begins to look as If some body was determined to land W. T. Armstrong behind the bars at any hazard He was sent 10 Yuma once on a similar charge and when the supreme court reviewed the evidence he was released on bail anu new trial ordered, but the case was> dis
 missed when the hearing came up for lack of evidence 10 prosecute. Judge Kent, in his opinion from the Supreme bench, plainly indicated that the tes- timony in the original trial was insut- fcient to convict.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30
WIRELESS SYSTEM WILL BE INSTALLED
 IN TERRITORIES
Plans Call For An Early h.
 StallatlOn Oi System

Albuquerque, N. M., July 29.-Albu- querQue wlll soon have communica- ton with all parts of the world by means of the American De Forest wireless telegraph. A station will be installed within the next ten days in this city. Two locations have al ready been offered for the station, but the selection has not yet been made.
 C. F. La Mountain, the represent ative of the De Forest company in this city, was seen today relative to the establishment of station here, and he gave the following interesting information:
 Within the next ten days a De Forest wireless station will be locat- ed in this city The station will be connected with all the stations in Col oradc. California and the east, and it will be possible for a person in Al buouerque to send a message to Lon don or Paris, or, in fact to any part of the world where the De Forest company has a station.
 The finishing touches are now be- ing put on the station at Trinidad, and when completed and in working order. the Albuquerque station will be installed. It is the intention of the company to put in a station in every town in New Mexico and Arizona that can support one.
 The station in this city will be a sort of relay or headquarters for all the stations in New Mexico and Ari- zona, thus making it very important. It will start with one operator, but should the business demand, two op- orators will be put to work, and per haps more
 There is one great advantage the De Forest system will have over the present telegraph system in the country, and it is that it will send messages for just one-half the rate of the present companies. For in- stance. if it costs S1 to send a mes sage from Albuquerque to Denver. the De Forest company will send the mes sage for 50 cents"
 Much interest has been manifested by the citizens of this city in the new enterprise. and many are anticipating sending wireless messages to their friends as soon as the station is in working order.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30
A 8 IA ~ SA~ , St-- eA--" Bisbee Lumber Co.
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION.

Tn the Probate Court of the County of Cochlse. Territory of Arizona. Tn the matter of the Estate of Wilson Percy Grier. deceased.
 Notice is hereby given that Rob ert $. Crier has filed in this court his petition praying for letters of admin istratcn of the Estate of Wilson Per cy Grier. deceased. and that the same Will be heard on Tuesday, 18th day of July. A. D. 1905, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at the court room of said court, in Tombstone. County of Cochise. Territory of Arizona, and all persons interested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show cause. if any they have. why the prayer of said petition should not be granted.
 Dated July 13. 1905.
 FRANK ". GOODBODY.
 Clerk.