The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-03

labout to fail and got her to withdraw 1t. He deposited his wife's money in lanother bank in his own name, and ltook the same, with $500 more of the
 sisters money. He had other business
 to attend to that afternoon, and told them to wait for him at home They
 stood on the steps until late at night lwaiting, but he never came back"
 It is around Hoch's poisoning meth lods that most of the interest in the lease centers. and 1t Is this that places him on a par with H. H. Holmes, one Iof the most noted murderers who was lever executed. Up to the present time, Ialthough the authorities claim to have found poison in the stomach of the latest Mrs. Hoch, nobody can tell you just how the twelve alleged murders
 were committed. Coroner's Physician
 Lewke has declared that the man probably used some peculiar kind of poison that excited some disease, and
 that the disease rather than the poison
 was the direct cause of death. That
 is why he was able in all cases to get
 a certificate of death signed by a repu- table physician. and that Is why 1t has l Ibeen so hard for the best chemists to
 find the poison traces.
 Hoch At HoImes' "CastIe.. | Inspector Shippy of the East Chicago
 avenue police station has had personal
 charge of the work of finding Hoch
 and fastening his crime upon him. Piece by piece he has secured more information through the publicity of the case given by the newspapers. It | Is alleged he has learned that Hoch
 was a janitor in the famous Castle" in which the infamous H. H. Holmes committed some of ~his murders. As suming that he was student of Holmes, if he did not actually know l some of the Holmes crimes. Shippy set about to capture him in the same way Holmes was captured; that was by following up every case in every part of the country that bore any re- semblance to the specific crime that was being investigated.
 He set about learning every seeming | 1y unimportant detail that he could about Hoch, and soon unearthed the fact that he was something of a chem ist. It was even said that at one time in his career he had studied medicine and that by combining his abilities as a chemist and a doctor he was able to eoncoct most fatal drafts that would utterly foil detection by either chemist or physician. The Chicago inspector learned that he had worked in drug stores in Illinois and came to the con-
 
 cago would admit having compounded the powders found in his desk Hoch made them himself. He also learned that Hoch had lived at six different addresses in Chicago and that he changed his name as frequently as he had changed the appearance of his face. The list of addresses in Chica- go thus far known are as follows:
 May 1892. flat at 205I Keekey street, under the name of c. A. Meyer; June, 1891, at 4S1 Franklin street, un- der the name of H. Prick; January, 1894. flat at 1908 Northwestern av- enue, under the name of Martin Dotz; June, 1894, 333 Belmont avenue, under the name of Johann Heh; March, 1897, eloped to Covington. Ky, and on re- turn took up residence at 3067 Wabash avenue. under the name of Jacob Hoch; March, 1898, flat at 1266 West Fift- eenth street. under the name of Adolph Hoch: 1900 lived at 456o South Hal stead. under the name of Albert Busch- burg; December, 1903. lived in a flat in Englewood, the address of which the police will not give, known there as Johann Schmidt; December, 1904. lived with wife at 6430 Union avenue; after her death married her sister, who is now prosecuting the case
 William Steinbrecher, son of the wife who died in 1884 after taking medicine that Hoch had given her, went to inspector shlppy and told him that when hes~heard his mother was dying he went to see her and was met at the door by a servant. who said: | Your mother says that she does not | want to see you at all"
 T persisted" Steinbrecher told the | Inspector. and finally forced my way | to my mothers room. She denied | having given any orders against me | seeing her. and seemed glad for me to | be there. That aroused my suspicious. but Hoch kept such a close lookout | that I could discover nothing out of the way. l am convinced, however. that he was accountable for my moth CTS death.''
 Mrs. Marie Welker Hoch had been in her grave only a few days when Hoch disappeared from Chicago. and the many things that had come to his ears 2aused the inspector to institute one 'f the most remarkable manhunts in he history of a decade that ended Monday night in the capture of Hoch n this city after he had been identf- led by one of his pictures that was printed in a New York paper. He had 'een in the city but a few days when le started ot his same old tricks. He wanted to marry again.