The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-04
MORE WOMEN TELL
Of WEDDING HOCH
Chicago Wife Identifies
Him in New York.
SOUGHT IN OTHER PLACES
Police Receive Reports of Weddings in
New York, Utica, and Pasadena,
Ca1.-Stories OF Murders.
SOUGHT IN OTHER PLACES

NEW YORK, Feb. 4-Johann Hoch
will be returned to Chicago today to
face several charges of bigamy, and
probably many of murder. He has been
identified here by Mrs. Mary Hendricks
Schmidt, brought from Chicago for the
purpose, as man who welded her IN
the Windy City recently.
This recognition makes certain Hoch' s
return to Chicago under he charge CT
Detective Sergeant Michael LOTUS, who
arrived here late in the afternoon and
Is now awaiting requisition papers
which are expected from Albany today
Mrs. schmidt's identification makes
certain that any fight Hoch may b-gin
against extradition will be in vain. Up
TO the moment of her arrival 1t would
have been possible for the accused
man, by denying that he is the person
named in the warrant, 20 have been re-
manded until such time as his person
atty should be firmly established. Now
the hearing in the Tombs police court
this morning will resolve itself into a
mere formality and he viii be ut once
given over to the custody Of Lotus.
Koch Identified
Mrs. Schmidt. who IS verging on mid
die age, was Iaboring under deep ex-
citement when she reached police head
quarters.
When her mission had been explained
to Acting Inspector OfBrien, in charge
of the detective bureau. to whose care
Hocll had been remanded, that official
ordered five prisoners to be brought into
the outer office and then ushered the
woman into the room.
Her first glance rested directly upon
the man in question.
Hello, john she said, only the low
ness of her voice indicating the strain
from which she was suffering Horh
bowed his head and a slight flush ap-
peared upon his cheeks
I'm sorry, Marie" was his reply.
The instant recognition rendered use
less the Formally of touching Hoch TO
make the Identification complete which
was demanded by the inspector. AS she
aid so Mrs. Schmidt endeavore(1 to hold
further conversation with the prisoner,
but 1t was forbidden by the officials
More Damaging Evidence Against Hoch.
CHICAGO, Feb. An important
witness who viii appear against Hoch
when he is brought to trial on the
charge of bigany has been found by
the police in the person of Frank Wen
niger, an employs OF the Columbus
Brewing Company.
Weninger came to America from
Wurtemburg, Germany, on the same
steamer with Hoch. On the ship, Wen
niger says, was young woman to
whom Hoch paid marked attentions
AS soon as the vessel reached New
York Hoch married the. girl who was
said to have some money. Two months
later, Weninger says, ne met Hoch
who told him. with apparent grief, that
his bride was dead
Wanted in California.
The identification of Hoch as the hus-
band of Mrs. Martha Hoch was seem
ing1y established and additional evil
dence OF bigamy was brought to light
by telegram received by Lieutenant
Roban from Chief Of Police Freeman,
of Pasadena, Cal The lieutenant said
Mrs. Hoch. who lives in Pasadena.
might be brought to Chicago as q wit
ness against Hoch- The telegram read:
Martha Herefeld Identifies pictures
Of Hoch as Jacob Erdorf Hoch Hoch
married her in 1896. Do you want
| further particulars?''
! On learning that Hoch was reported to
| nave robbed a Mrs. Herefeld, one of his
! alleged wives of her savings the Chi
! cage police sent pictures of him to P;isa-
! dena, with the request that the Dolice
! there show them to Mrs. Herefeld.
/
! called upon Inspector Shippy and in
| formed him that he was engaged by
| Mrs. Herefeld to obtain trace of Hoch,
/ who married her and subsequently dis
| appeared with 5000 of her money.
Sought in Utica.
| The police are much interested in a
| letter from the Rev. c. a Haas, of
Utica. n. Y, in which he declares that
for five years he has been tracking
| Hoch, who aroused his suspicious whe.,
| his wife suddenly died
I am firmly convinced that the wo-
man was poisoned" said the Rev Mr.
| Haas when l had her remains ex-
| humed some time ago | found the stom-
| ach missing. ! also firmly believe there
| was an attempt to poison me.
Il first saw the man after he returned
from a tour in Germany, in 1885. He
| opened saloon in Wheeling and after
| TWO months cOuFtship he married. The
| man was known as Jacob Huss Certain
| suspicious circumstances connected with
| the woman 5 death made me have the
| ooay e&humed several years afterward.
| wrote TO the authorities at Bingen
| on the Rhine and received a letter dis
| closing the fact that Hoch left a wife
and four children in destitute circum-
Inspector Shippy advances a theory
! that possibly the one unidentified body
| among the victims of the Iroquois
! Iheater fire was that of one of the
| wives OF John tfoch. His suspicion is
| due TO circumstances connected with an
attempt that was made by telephone to
| OBTAIN the woman's jewelry from an I'M
| deFtaker.
when Hoch arrives here" said In
| Spector SIMPLY, Il intend to question
| nam about this matter, and also con
| corning young woman whose body was
| washed ashore at South Haven, Mich
| last summer