The evening world., 1905-07-29
Remarkable Similarity IN
Ease with Which Hoch
and Carlton Got Victims.
BOTH EXPERT CHEMISTS.
.sln Marrying for Profit Their
{ Methods Were Along Prac.
+, ticaIIy Same Lines.

!Saxempiificd by such disting uished prac-
Petitioners rs Johann Hoch and Freder-
4 ick Carlton, or for murder as witness
ktheir predecessors, Alfred Knapp and
II, H. Holmes. invites consideration tc
y the curious phase of feminine nature
that gives these men opportunity for
&their activity.
a II. II. Holmes pursued for years a
,,Abusiness of assassination. Most OF his
victims were women, many of whom he
had married and Insured.
j. Alfred Knapp, who was executed In
the Ohio penitentlary last August. con-
fessed to the killing OF five women,
three OF them his wives. His was
ffipurely a homicidal mania "The i'm
kpulse to choke them came to me ire
sistibly." he said.
Hoch. who escaped the gallows by a
scratch yesterday, is the chief OF
modern Bluebeards. He is believed to
lShnve married upward of fifty women.
fHe robbed all and deserted some. At
beast a dozen, 1t Is charged, he muir
dered.
All Skilled Chemists. .
It is a strange coincidence that these
syelayers of women, barring Knapp. VINO
i5was purely a human brute and not the
Speer OF the others in criminal genius,
ID physiodan. Carlton claims to have had
5cxperience as a hospital nurse. Hooh
often posed as a doctor and was prob
IA ably either an expert chemist or a ply.
sician before he left Germany.
~ The remarkable thing about their
careers is the amazing success they en-,
a1oyed with women. None was good
Nm manner. But they never lacked vic
sstims.
K Jumping from city to city. without
Representations, Claiming to be anything
ior everything that might allure their
sintended victims. their deceit invariably
passed muster. There We're always
.them, and quite as willing after mar
ariags to give money to them.
Trusted to Strangers.
Why a woman with enough money to
4 be independent-paese men never trihed
] wicai depende 1t ones-will rush into
S'tntrust him with her money, Is some:
ything quite past the comprehension OF
1.-THE ordinary man But 1t was the
knowledge that women We're prone 70
{Hoch. He and Carlton too have showed
that a woman is apt TO waive a sooo
many considerations in the face Oh q
The day after Mrs. Mary Welcker-
tJtoch died Hoch PROPOSED marriage to
her sister, Mrs. Emella Fischer.
nre alive and must look after our
i A month after the death of Mamie
4 German, Carlton proposed marriage 10
! Jennie NJ. Smyth, who had been his for-
2 mer wife's bridesmaid.
All women are not susceptible TO tne
Z fattery of a marriage proposal, pui
] there exists a large class who are. and
them. The matrimonial agencies sup
fpIied them with a ready supply of VIC
2tims.,
81 Cartons letters show he was a mem
Der of five matrimonial agencies in DIFF
: ferent parts of the country. Hoch was
also "a patron. His trick was to adver-
4 tise through these agencies for women
of forty-fve or over-the older the bet
Both these men have a profound con-
tempt for ONE Carlton boosted TO
kH. B. Schaub that he had been married
3six or seven times and was looking for
aSaid after his conviction:
II am not a Romeo. / did not love
Amy wives. l have no. use for women.
1T was purely a business proposition
with me-. When I found they had money
II went after them. When l got 1t I left
Athah The older the woman the ersier
TEne was 10 separate from neT UloHty'
RFlattery was my chief stock In trade.
THAT is the quickest and surest way to
III a woman"
FInttery Their Weapon.
At another time he very ungallantly
said: Women are so dependent and
sbelieve so readily everything you tell
Jthem that they hardly rise TO the dig
Unity Of human beings but ought rather
sto be calssed as domestic animals"
in, his "PhysloloPY Of Modern Love
paul Bourget treats Of the terrible fas-
tcination men of a cruel nature have for
women Of some temperaments. The
revelations that AVE followed the muir
lder of Emil Gerdron ~ Berthe Claiche
sshow the slavish devotion of some
twomen to heartless masters, while the
careers of Hoch and Carlton show their
sRmazing gullibility.
II is a great pity that Hoch has re-
tfused the many offers made him "a
write the story OF his life. AS a pro-
found student of feminine nature. as ono
sepeaking from vast experience. he
should be able to give an insight into
nShe workings OF the feminine mind
ithat would be of vast profit to ths
Psychologist.
tterestingly is evidenced by the follow
Sng epigrams which have been cullet
from his jail observations:
ait is no disgrace to make a mistake
in marrying. Nearly every man VIII
marries does that"
"a widow does MT feel 30 sorry 70
the death Of her first husband as he
second husband does
A these women married me hecaus
they thought me wealthy. not becaus
''fEyery act OF q woman's LIE 4