The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-06
Thinks it a Great Joke to Be-
Suspected of Murder
WIDOWS HARD TO KEEP
"ExPLAINS" SUDDEN DEATHS,
SAYS HE is "AFFEcTloNATE"
AND TELLS OF HIS CA
REER WHICH BEGAN
EARLY.

iuulNsSh do q plSdHiio' anu oWildici ,
answered the charges brought against
him by the police in an interview
evening.
Hook maintained an attitude of the
most hilarious frivolity throughout
the conversation as he has done since
the day he was taken into custody.
He expressed great impatience to get
back to Chicago where, he says, he is
going to have great time" joking"
the police. The list of wives compil-
ed by detectives throws him into fits
of laughter and even the contradic-
lions into which he was led gave him
no concern if, indeA1, he realized
them.
Mysterious Powder in His Room.
An important discovery was made
by Michael Lotus of the Chicago de-
tective force who arrived this after
noon. II developed that in the room
in which Hook was arrested was
found the first sample of the myster-
ioua powder which is supposed TO
have had some connection with the
taking off of 50 many of the mans
wives 1t is a white powder, con
tanned in an old fountain pen. The
chemical will be taken to Chicago for
analysis.
In spite of Hooks assertions that
he is impatient to get back to Chca-
80 ii mas leaked out from an inter
view he had with an attorney this af-
ternoon that his ardor in this direc-
tion has been cooled The much
married man was confronted this
morning at police headquarters by
one of his more recent wives, Mrs.
Mary Hendrickson Hook of Chicago,
who came TO New York to identify
him. Hook now is having visions of
German widows conyerging on Chioa-
30 from all directions to identify him
as a long-lost husband.
Got to Suffer- for Deserters."
Il suppose I've got 10 suffer for ev-
cry man that ever deserved a woman
and could not be found afterwards"
said Hook. Come on, ladies', if any
of You have lost husbands and don't
know what has become of them, just
step around and identify me"
Hook Uttered away 10 himself in
a transport of delight as he cIasped
the bars Of his cell,
Why l see they now say that an
unidentified Iroquoiss theatre body
was that of one of my wives. There's
another tip. Ha! Ha! il any lady has
disappeared in the last twenty years
jus. say she was one of Hooks wives.
o, tails is rich"
Thus the prisoner ratified along in
a German dialect more irristibly fun
ny than any produced nowadays on
the stage. He refused to be serious
for a moment and laughed at his
situation until tears ran down his
cheeks.
Sweatbox to Calm Him Down.
"a taste of the sweatbox in Chica-
go will calm him down." remarked
bet -ctive Lotus.
Hook will be arraigned in the Jeff
erson Market police court again to-
morrow morning. If extradition pa
pers arrive LOTUS will take the pris
oner back at once as it is understood
opposition to the extradition will not
amount to anything. If the papers
are not at hand, however, it will be
Impossible to start before Monday
In the opinion of the New York po-
lice and all others who have seen
him, Hook is one of the rarest ad-
vcnturers the world has ever seen.
Ii Is doubtful if Casanova, the prince
CT adventures, could have executed
the daring matrimonial feats ascrib-
ed to the hilarious German, with a
similar impunity.
Connsseur of German Widows.
The little fat man with a red, round
face and a semi-bald, hair-fringed
head, seems TO have regarded the
world of gullible femininity as his
special preserve, to be hunted al
pleasure He was a coinnisseur OF
German widows and admits as much
with swelling pride.
At times Hook graces MS advances
with a smooth and oily manner and
you say that in this way he won the
hearts of the German widows. AT 9TH
er times ne regards you with steely
CLINT in his eye, and you reflect that,
If he poisoned the German widows
who died so mysteriously he must
have done II in a cool and devilish
manner, of which this look is token.
"Ah, glad to see you, glad to see
you, suavely exclaimed the rotund
prisoner, approaching the bars of his
cell Il am sorry | have not a bet
ter place to receive you in, you see
here | lack the-the-"
The refining influence of woman
it was suggested.
Married Only Twice, He Says.
Exactly. exactly smiled Hook. |
have been used to il all my life"
'Then you have been married many
times?"
Only txice." answered Hook, and
he burst into a roar of merriment.
When he had calmned down Hook
said his only wives had been Marie
Weckler and Emile Fischer. her sis
ter.
But Mrs. Hendricks Hook identifi-