The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-02-08
JOHANN H0CH
The Chicago Bluebeard, Caught
in the City OF New York.
HAD PLENTY MONEY.
Fioch, Who 1t Is Said Has Married About
Thirty Women, Was Found in the
Boarding House OF q Woman
to Whom He Had JHsa
Proposed Marriage.
HAD PLENTY MONEY.
Proposed Marriage.


beard" who has for weeks been sought
by the Chicago police, who charge hin
with having caused the deaths Of sew
eval OF the thirty women he Is allege:
to have married, was arrested by the
police Wednesday night in furnished
room house at No. 546 West Forty.
seventh street New York. City.
The man gave the name OF Henry
Bartels, but the detectives say they
are positive the man Is Hoch. Mrs.
Catherine Kimnerie, 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 be proposed marriage.
Then she notified the police and they
arrested him.
At the station house the man de.
scribed himself as Henry Bartels,
forty FIVE 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 a
new trunk. Besides, the man had six
sICO bills, five IS bills and change Ia
eveey pocket Of bis clothing.
MARRIED THIRTY WOMEN.
Eoch 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'lesel to have
profted largely By the deaths OF bis
wives, and in the majority Of the cas-
es 10 sufficient explanation OF the
deaths have ever been made.
With regard, to the other wives.
Ho;h deserted them as socn after the
marriage ceremony as it was possible
for hirc to secure all the money that
toe wives had in hand. From all SEC.
tions Of the country reports are COM
ing Of bis having married momen for
their money, and it is confidently as.
serted by the police that when the
com plete record OF his victims is made
up it will greatly exceed the number
now placed to his credit. The names
OF tile wives, so far as known, and the
fate which befell them follows:
H1s MATRIMONIAL RECORD.
Anna Hook, married in Vienna,
1881, died 1888; Mrs. G. a. Mayer,
msr:ied IL Chicago, 1892, died three
weeks later; Mrs. q. Trick, married
in Chicago, 1892, died one month
later; MS. S. Hauck, married in
Peoria, H., 1898, deserted Immediate
" after the ceremony; name unknown,
married in Chicago 1894, died two
months later: Mrs. Julia Steinbreoher,
nar-ipd In Chicago. 1894. died two
months late-, left 81, 900: MIS-. Janet
Sne,cer. married in CHICAGO. 1895. de.
serted two month later, lost several
hundred dollars; Callie Charlotte An
drews, married in Chicago, 1897, de-
serted two hours later, lost $500; Mrs.
J. Huss, married In Wheeling, W.
Va, 1897. died three months later,
left So 500: Mrs. Martin Dolz, mar
rled in Chicago. 1898, died three
months later; sister OF Mrs. J. e.
Schvartzman, married In Milwaukee,
1899, died three weeks later, left
s12C0; Mrs. Mary Schultz, married at
Argus, Ind, 1900, both she and
daughter disappeared, left $4,000;
Mrs. Mary Becker, married In St.
Louis, 1901, died few months later;
Mrs. Anna Hendrickson, married In
Chicago, 1904, deserted after few
weeks, lest $1,000; Mrs. Lena Hoch,
married in Milwaukee, died three
weeks later, left 81, SEQ; Mrs. Caro-
line Stricher, married in Philadelphia,
1904, deserted after one week, lost
$500; Mrs. Marie Walker, married In
Chicago, 1904, died one month later,
left $3.50; Mrs. Emile Fisher, married
In Chicago, 1905, deserted ALTER one
week, lost $50.
CALLED FRlEND OF HOLMES.
About the man, all Of the romance
OF crime centres. He has been partial.
ly identified as a close associate Ct the
notorious n. q. Holmes, who was
hanged in Philadelphia ten years ago
with a record Of twenty murders. In
Chicago ne IS described as q swindler,
hypnotist, and marriage broker
who selected as bis victims elderly Wo-
men with means upon whom be work
ed the scbe nes that have given him
a unique record In the annals OF
crime.
There is q peculiar white powder In
which be dealt that is described by
some OF his victims who escaped, but
which the police have NOS been able
to get hold Of, and which,, 1t Is oelieV.
ed, would shed light upon the fate OF
several Of the wives who died
50 mysteriously within three OF foul
weeks after they had followed Hoch
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