Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-26
THEIR OPERATIONS SIMILAR.
Chicago Police Are Carrying on an
Investigation Along These
Liues.
H0CH USED NAME HATCH AS ALIAS
Strange White Powders Found Id
Writing Desk in a House Former
~ Occupied by Him.

Chicago, Jan. 26.--Bellef that Johan
Hoch, the man OF many wives. may
prove TO be the elusive and mysterious
Edward Hatch, accomplish Of II. II.
Holmes, the notorious woman murder
err whose crimes created excitement all
over the United states and Canada in
1895, has led the police to begin an
investigation along that line At tho
time Holmes made his confessions when
Ia prison at Philadelphia before his
execution, Hatch was generally regard
ed as O. mythical character. invented
by Holmes, but since that time there
have been revelations which are almost
convincing that there was man NAM
cd Hatch who did operate with Holmes
ln his sWindlcs, and who aided him I'm
making way with the lives Of the wo-
men and children whom he murdered.
Because Of the similarity Of his oper-
atons with the criminal record OF II.
n. Holmes, the cleverness with which
Hoch apparently disposed Of many OF
his wives, and other singular circum-
stances which the police refuse to d.
Nulge, they are working TO establish
the fact that there was an Edward
Hatch-name sometimes said to have
been spelled Hotch--and that he is Jo-
mann Hoch, the man now being hunted.
That Hoch used me namo Hatch on.
Hotch AS one Of his aliases about II or
l. years ago, at the time OF the Holmes
ourages Is declared TO have been made
known to detectives working on the
case, and this line Of evidence may
lead to a sarCh ia Toronto and MontTp.
AL where Holmes declared in one of his
confessions that Hatch killed the Puet-
Del children of Philadelphia.
STRANGE POWDERS FOUND.
Chicago, Jan 26.-Five white now
dcrs supposed 10 be the kind given 10
his wives by Johann Hoch have been
found i'm an old writing desk. which
bad been taken from the house at $3.50
Union street formerly occupied by
Hoch, The powders are now in the
hands OF the city chemist, for analysis.
William Nusser told Police Inspector
Simply Of another alleged wife OF
lloch.s Nusser says that Miss Martha
Iicrefeldt now living In Pasadena, Cal.
married Hoch in 1905 Nusser baked
the wedding cake. Miss Herefeldt was
living with her sister, Mrs. Mary Bur
melsier at the time Hoch took 1880
''ii ''llN NNNlhllf IL IN NIltlBtOt ana
also got few hundred dollars from
Mrs. Burmeister, and disappeared.
HOOK AND SCHULTZ TUE SAME.
st. Louis. Jan. 26.-Chief OF Detec-
tiVes Desmond found by investigation
today that John Hook, wanted by tho
Chicago police for alleged bgamy ana
wife poisoning ana John Schultz. for
merly Of st. Louis, are one and the
same, His investigation extended to
the circumstances surrounding the
death Of Mrs Mary Schultz, wife OF
John schultz.
MARTHA IIEREFELDT.
Pasadena, Cal, Jan 26.-Nothlng IL
known here of Miss Martha Herefeldt.
Who is said tu have married Johann
Hook IN Chicago I'm 1895. Inquiry at
various places failed to develop any
thing concerning her No mail adj
dressed To any person Of that name
has been received nj the local postomce
within the past year.