The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-10
The Chicago Bluebeard, Caught
in the City of New York.
HAD PLENTY MONEY.
Iioch, Who 1t Is Said Has Married About
Thirty Women, Was Pound In the
Boarding House of Woman
to Whom He Had Just
Proposed Marriage.
Proposed Marriage.

beard" who has for weeks been sought
by the ChicGYo police, who charge him
with having caused the deaths Of sew
eral OF thG thirty women he is allege
to have I"arried, was arrested by the
police Weal11e,day W1 night In furnished
room houW Vt No. $40 West Forty.
seventh stree New York City. i
The man gasIISthe name of Henry
Bartels, but the der..tyes. .saY they
are positive the man Is. Hoch. Mrs.
Catherine Kimmerie, the landlady,
says the man was in the house twenty
minutes when he asked to be allowed
to peel some potatoes for her, and the
second day he proposed marriage.
Then she notified the police and they
arrested him.
at the station house the man de-
scribed himself as Henry Bartels,
forty i've years old. Everything the
man had in his possession vas new.
He had new suit OF clothes, six new
handkerchiefs that had been half
soaked In cologne, new razor and e
new trunk. Besides, the man had six
800 bills, five s5 bills and change iu
eveey pocket Uf his clothing.
| MARRIED THIRTY WOMEN.
Hoch Is credited with the amazing
total Of twenty known wives, of whom
ten, at least, according to the records
OF the police, have died within short
period after they were married to the
modern Blue Beard. In each Of these
cases Hoch Is a!legei to have
protited largely by the deaths Of his
wives, aud In the majority of the cas-
es no sufficient explanation of the
deaths have ever been made.
With regard, to the ether wives.
Hoch deserted them as soon after the
marriage ceremony as it was possible
for him to secure all the money that
the wives had in hand. From all Sec
tions Of the country repcris are COM
ing OF his having married momen for
their money, and 1t Is confidently as.
serted by the police that when the
complete record of his victims Is made
up it will greatly exceed the number
now placed to his credit. The names
OF the wiYcs, so far as known, and the
fate which befell them follows:
HIS MATRIMONIAL RECORD.
Anna Hook, married In Vienna,
1881, died 1883; Mrs. @. A. Mayer,
married In Chicago, 1892, died three
weeks later; Mrs. II. Trick, married
In Chicago, 1892, died one month
later; MIS-. S. Hauck, married in
Peoria, ILL.,, 1893, deserted Immediate
ly after the ceremony; name unknown,
married in Chicago 1894, died two
months later; Mrs. Julia Steinbrccher,
married in Chicago, 1894, died two
months later, left 81 600; Mrs. Janet
Spencer, married in Chicago, 1895, de-
serted two month later, lest several
hundred dollars; Callie Charlotte An
drews, married in Chicago, 1897, de-
serted two hours later, lost $500; Mrs
HusS, married In Wheeling, w
Va, 1897, died three months later,
left 81, 500; Mrs. Martin Dotz, mar
ried in Chicago, 1898, died t%ree
months later; sister of Mrs. j. II.
Sch"artZnan, married In Milwaukee,
1899, died three weeks later, left
al2O0; Mrs. Mary Schultz, married at
Argus, Ind, 1900, both she and
daughter disappeared, left $1,000;
Mrs. Mary Becker, married in st.
Louis, 1901, died few months later;
Mrs. Anna Hendrickson, married iu
Cnicago, 1904, deserted after q few
weeks, lest 81 900; Mrs. Lena Hoch,
married In Milwaukee, died three
weeks later, left ol, SEQ; Mrs. Jaro
line Stricher, married in Philadelphia,
1904, deserted after one week, lost
$780, Mrs. Marie Walker, married In
Chicago. 1904, died one month later,
left $3.50; Mrs. Emile Fisher, married
in Chicago, 1905, deserted after one
week, lost $3.50.
CALLED FRIEND OF HOLMES.
About tue man, al of the romance
OF crime centres. He has been partial.
lY identified as close associate CT the
notorious II. II. Holmes, who was
hanged In Philadelphia ten years ago
with record OF twenty murders. In
Chicago he Is described as swindler
a hypnotlSt, and marriage broker
who selected as bis victims elderly wo.
men with means upon whom he work.
ed the Sche nes that have given MIN
a unique record In the annals OF
crime.
There Is peculiar white powder In
which he dealt that Is described by
some OF his victims who escaped, but
which the police have not been able
to get hold OF, and which, 1t Is believ-
ed, would shed light upon the fate OF
several OF the wives who died
80 mysteriously within three or four
weeks after they had followed Hoch
to the altar.
Little OF the mans early life Is
known. He was born, 1t Is said, IL
Germany, and there Is q story of o
woman married and deserted there
before he came to the United States
where he entered upon his career In a
Wholesale murder.
Chicago seems to have been made
his principal headquarters. Most oI
his wives were either woCed and wor
there and taken thence Immediately
after marriage where they died. OF
were deserted as soon as they hat
given over to HUch all the money oI
: which thcy were possessed.
Because OF the fact that he has llv.
ci In score of places and under hall
q dozen aliases no connected story ol
hIs operations is to be had as present
; As early as 1894, he was fount
practicing his peculiar profession IL
Chicago, where he married Mrs. j
Steinbrecker. Three weeks after tht
marriage, Mrs. Hoch died, and on hel
deathbed she told OF the white medi