New-York tribune., 1905-01-25
STORY OF MANY WIVES.
Chicago Nan Said to Haze Lost
SeUeraI in Queer Circumstances.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE-l


Chicago. Jan. 24.-Evidence is accommodating
here which shows the police say, that John
Hoch, whom they arrested on Sunday, was mar
ried many times. Many of his wives. it Is al
legged, died in suspicious circumstances. In each
of the alleged it is believed that the death
of the woman brought financial benefits 10 her
husband
According to the police. thirteen wives Of
Hoch are now known, and information Of more
alleged victims has been given the police by
John Frick, an employe Of the Nickel Plate Rail
road Frick has reported to the police charge
that his sister, Mrs. Mary Schultz married
Hoch, who then called himself Alber Muschburg,
at Argos. Ind, III 1900 Mrs Schultz had
child named Nettie, then five years old
Shortly after they arrived in Chicago letters
ceased coming to me-" said Frick. and I am
under the belief that my sister and her little
girl were done away with. My sister had about
81 500 at the time of the marriage"
Mrs J. H. Schwartman, Of Milwaukee, tele-
graphed the police that she would arrive here
to-day, for the purpose of trying to identify
photograph of Hooh the man who married
her sister in rS99. The woman died shortly
after, leaving S1,SO0 to her husband
Relatives of six of the thirteen wives cred
tied to Hoch have expressed a belief to the po-
lice that the six women died from poisoning
The list of dead and missing is as follows:
Mrs. Marie Welker HOch, d1ed on January IL
1898; MRS. Mary Stelnbecker. died in leS4;
Mary Decker, of st. Louis, died IN lSO@i MIS-.
Mary Schultz, of Argos, Ind, died in l9OO;
child also disappeared; Mrs. Lena Hoch, OF Mil
waukee and Mrs. Sophia Hoch, Of Milwaukee
A furniture dealer informed the police tonight
that he had furnished five dtnerent mats Tor
Hoch, each time under a different name, and
that he had a new vie Tor every nat; Inc
first fiat furnished was IN May. 1892, under the
name of c. \. Meyer; the second in June, 1S9z,
under the name of H. Trick; the third In 1874,
the dealer does not recall the name used. but
il was different from that used on any other
occasion; the fourth was in 1894. under the
Mrs Mary Steinbrecher. The fifth fiat was fur
nished in 1898 under the name Of Adolph Hoch.
This time Hoch gave mortgage on the goods
and then sold them. For this he was sentenced
to a year in the county Jail
The dealer told the police that he knew that
fats died in 4 short time after marriage. He
asked Hoch why he changed his name every
time he married. and HoCh replied that ne did
not believe he could get married under the same
name every time. many women would object
TO marrying a VINO had been so many
times q E1doWer-
St. Louis Jan. 24.-Two St Louis women.
daughters OF women believed TO have been mur-
dered by John Hoch, alias John Schulz. alias
Jacob schmidt who is alleged to have had thir-
teen wives and to have murdered at least five OF
them, were located to-day. One, Mrs. Ella
Rhinehard, believes her mother died from poison
administered in beer and in coffee. St. Louis
poIice aIese H sch was connected with H. H
Holmes. nlulti-naurderer. who was executed in
philadelphia, but who at one time operated in
ST Louis