The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-10
BY
SEVERAL WIVES
Hoch Arrives in Chicago in Merry
Mood.
CROWDS OF THE CURIOUS
PRISONER IDENTIFIED BY SOME
OF THE WOMEN.

= HICAGO. Feb 9:-Johann Hoch, in
L. dicted for bigamy, suspected of
murder. and a man of many
aliases. arrived in Chicago tonight. and
Tor several hours after reaching here
was interrOgated by the police with
little result The train bearing Hoch,
and Officer Lotus, who held him in
custody, was due in Chicago at 30.
but il was Z o'clock before il rolled
into the La Sale station y large
crowd had gathered to see the famous
prisoner, but none OF the wives were
among the number.
HOch had evidently expected num-
Der of his wives TO meet him at the sta
ton, and he was neutrality-suspicious.
that they did not come.
Where are these fourteen wives you
talked SO much about" he asked OF
Mr. Lotus.
4 guess you have been joking me
about part of the business: otherwise
there could rot be fourteen, for 1 never
had that many There seems to be
lot Of women who seem to think that
/ am the only man in the world who
could marry them and get away with
some of their money"
Hooted by Big Crowd.
When Hoch and Lotus alighted from
the train the detail of six policemen
who had been sent to the station 70
meet them was able to control the
crowd only with great difficulty. The
people held and showed in an excited
manner as they strived TO get close
enough TO the prisoner TO get a look
at him. When he was recognized, a
number or people jeered and hooted
him. The police hurried Hoch through
/ the station, and on the sidewalk out
side had another crowd TO deal with,
but they quickly hustled HOCh into a
patrol wagon. and started FOR the East
Chicago Avenue police station, a mile
distant. Outside OF the station a third
4 crowd gathered. and il was larger and
/ more obstreperous than the others.
Sidewalks Cleared.
It was found necessary to call Off
GERS from the inside Of { ne station be
fore the walks could be cleared sufli-
GENTLY 10 allow the prisoner to be
taken into the station. He was taken
I at once TO the Office of Police Inspector
I George Shippy.
The Interrogation of Hoch was COM
menced at a few minutes after 80
O'Clock. and was stiH in operation at
/ midnight. Hoch at the outset admit
/ ted that he had married Mrs. Marie
/ Cork Hoch, and that the marriage was
/ illegal. He would admit nothing else.
Indignant Women.
} During the evening five women who
} claimed to be wives of HOCh called
at the police station. One of them.
/ Mrs. Emile Fisher-HOch- saw the pris-
( oner for minute and saluted him with
/ the exclamation:
You old hog. you got my $3.50. didn't
7 you?''
/ Hoch made no reDly. but smiled as
4 though he considered the affair OF $50
rather a Joke than otherwise.
! Later the five women were, one at
Z a time. admitted into the office of the
/ inspector. and all of them Identified
HOch as the man to whom they We're
/ married Mrs. Ellen Hoppe at first de
claTed that she had married Hoch, but
i later said she was not sure about it.
Answer Was Ready.
Inspector Shippy asked: "Hoch, did
/ you marry this Woman?
{ No" replied Hoch, but maybe
viii if you don't hustle her our Of here
pretty quick
/ Mrs Mary Rankin Hoch who ad-
; mitted last week that she had com
mitted bigamy when she married HOch.
| was TepuGisted in strong terms by the
prisoner. He declared that he had not
married her and had never seen her
3 before.
When Mrs. Marie Goerk Hoch was
: admitted into the room HOch declared
/ that he married her. but that the mar
I riage was illegal He also confessed
/ TO having married Mrs Emily Fischer
HOch when she WAS shown into the
. room.
Hoch's joke.
\ physician who had attended Mrs.
! Wslcker HOch. the last wife Of Hoch.
! identified him as the husband Of Mrs.
I Walcker and showed him bill for
! S1CO for attendance upon the woman
/ 'Oh. yes said HOCh; I remember
! something about that. Bring 1t around
! in the morning. III still be here" and
1 he laughed heartily at his joke.
Confessed to Ten Wives.
! The examination of Hoch by the po-
/ lice was concluded after midnight and
1 just before its close he confessed that
4 he had married ten women HOch also
admitted that he had intended to com
( nit suicide. and that the white powder
4 found in fountain pen taken from his
| room in New York today was arsenic
| which he had purchased with the in
| tention of killing himself.
| The names of two of the women mar
! ried by HOch were not disclosed by the
J police. The other eight were:
Mrs. Julia Steinbrecher; married in
! 1894.
Mrs. Julia Marie Wackler; married
! Dec. i, 1904
Mrs. Mary Becker. St Louis
Mrs. Anna Hendricks. married in
| Hammond, Ind, Jan. ? 1902.
Mrs. Marie GOerk married in 1894.
| Mrs. Mary Rankin. married in 1894
} Mrs Martha HorddeIdt. now of Pas
J adena, Cal. married in 1895.
Mrs Emile Fischer, married in De
/ RaV.