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 Under the provisions Of the will Will liam c. Redfield, of the Merchants Na- tional bank, was appointed trustee, to administer those trusts. John M. Marvin, of the Globe silk mill, was made administrator with the will an nexed When the administrator filed his &C., count interest on the beqaasts was reckoned at one year after the death of the testator An appeal to the Superi- or court followed, Judge Rsed deciding that the interest on the bequests should have begun on the death of the testator. The fight in the higher court is now for a further contlntation. At- torssey CliffordeI. stoddhrd appeared Tor the trustee and Newton, Church & Hewitt represented the administrator.
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Ragson Tatters-Dese is mighty hard times, ain't dey?
 Hungry Hawkes-Dat's wat dey are, Ragsie, old man. So many people is of ferin' me work when I asks for grub dat I'm runnin out of excuses.-Phila- delphia Ledger.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22
BLUEBEARD HOCH
N TO HANG
Hocb in Fifteen Years Married from Ten to Thirty
Women Without Regard to the Laws and is
Also Suspected Of Having Caused the Death Of
q Number Of Women Who Placed their Trust
IN Him

then that suspicion was first directed
toward him and the subsequent In.
vestigations Of the police revealed a
career believed 10 be without parallel
In the criminal annals OF America.
The Investigation tended to show
that Hoch had at least fifteen wives
in ten years, and among that number
there Is evidence that at least six Of
them died under circumstances re.
garded as suspicious. The man did
not always succeed In dispOsing OF
his wives without attractig suspicion,
but he covered his tracks SO thor
oughly as TO escape serious investi-
cation.
The method pursued by the man
was practically the same In each case.
He rented Il flat or a house. had It
furnished on the installment plan.
and on this made love to women
whose acquaintance he made through
the medium Of newspaper advertise
| ments. He represented 10 them that
he owned the, furniture,s and in some
cases the property as well. He posed
as d man Of means. and his profess
! sIonal air. well dressed. we'll groom.
ed appearance served him in good
| stead In bearing on the assumption
Having induced his victims to marry
him. his smooth manner with women
enabled him. with the assistance OF
plausible lies, 10 persuade them to
give him their money or their pro
perry. Then he would disappear or
the wife would suddenly sicken. and
in a short time die.
His operations extended to Indiana,
ST. oLuis and Milwaukee but for the
most part were confined 10 Chicago.
Besides the woman OF whose murder
he was convicted. and her sister,
! whom be subsequently married. Hoch
is known to aave had eight or ten
wives In Chicago, One Of these was
Mrs. Hoyle Hoch, She died within
a month afte the marriage, under
circumstances that rouse the suspi-
cions Of her relatives. While the
funeral procession was on the way
to the cemetery the coroner stopped
II and was about TO hold the corpse
, fSs an autopsy. Hoch produced a
nhysic'an's certificate and talked Glib
iln aa who then allowed
fha hpt el - ta}e place, Shortly az
aas3 ha married Mrs, Marie Stein.
nfecker and tbs marriage nettel
him $1,000. Her death excited soma
suspicion, hut Hoch managed 10 elude
investigator In isAs Hoch fitted III
fiat ID West Fifteenth street. Here
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22

he Installed another wife and like her
predecessors she died within 4 few
weeks after marriage. In 1909, Hoch,
under the name OF schmidt, married
Mrs. Mary Hendiickson. he left her.
he says. and after lawyers told him
she had obtained a divorce he mar
ried Mira, Welker. Mrs. Welker died
" month after marriage, and II was
her death that brought Hoch To the
end Of his rope.
Another one Of the disappearances
Of women credited TO Hoch IL that
Of Mrs. Mary Schultz OF Argus. Ind.
whom he Ia said Ia have married In
1900 and killed or deserted after OBJ
tanning the money she had come into
through the death Of u former hus-
band. Another Of he women whom
Hoch Is thought TO have disp0sed Of
was Mrs. Mary Becker OF 81. Louis.
Circumstances indicate also that two
sisters living In Milwaukee 9
among the victims Of the arch.
bigamist.
Hoch's methods with such, of his
wives az he did not find Il necessary
TO otherwise dispose OF Ia Illustrated
In the case Of Mrs. Anna Schmidt
H~endrickson Hoch. one Of the women
he deserted. He married this woman
In Hammond, Ind. In 1903. Two days
latter he fed with $500 which she had
saved. The day after the marriage
he told her he was heir 10 m estate
In Germany. A few hours latter he
hurried In with a fake cablegram
which read: Father is dead. Yonr
brother William" He told his wife
that S2l. 900 was coming to him from
his fathers estate and that she must
prepare to leave with him for Ger
many at once. He persuaded her TO
| draw from the bank the $500 Tor the
expenses Of the trip. After getting
the money he hurried away to buy
the tickets and that was the last the
woman saw Of him.
Then the Chicago authorities start.
Ell tuelT IuvcottSntEOu INV" HS" '"~
city. He was found several weeks
later In New York City, where he
had already proposed marriage to an
other woman. who had a boarding
house and some money. This woman
CHANGED to see Hoch's picture In the
newspapers. with an account OF his
crimes. She recognized the likeness
and lost no time In notifying the
pihce Of her suspicious. Hoch was
arrested and returned to Chicago to
! stand trial for the murder OF Mrs.
| Walker-Hoch. The chief evidence
against the accused was furnished BY
| Mrs. Emelie Fisher. sister Of the dead
woman and later the wife Of Hoch.
II was upon her evidence that the
man was convicted. Two weeks ago
the same woman created a sensation
by going to Springfield and asking OF
| Governor Deneen a respite for the
| condemned man. declaring at the
same time that all Of her testimony
al the trial was perjured.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22
MEXICAN WAR VETERANS
HOLD ANNUAL REUNION

Washington, Feb. 22s-What mus'
be nearly the last OF the national en-
campments Of the Mexican war vet
Grams began at the National hotel "
this city today. when fewer than po
grizzled and bent old mel assembled
to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary
Of the battle OF Buena Vista. Out Of
an army Of Zoe, 900 there are only
300 left. Many Of them are bed
ridden. many are blind some are
crippled, and all + e r old and
many very poor. A bill Is now be
fore congress to have their pensions
increased. The present convention
is almost entirely in the nature OF 9
reunion. as there Is little business to
transact. The president OF the asso'
citation is Col. Louis F. Beeler OF Bait
more and the secretary Mrs. Moore
Murdoch OF Dallas. Texas.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22

Hech's known wives VINO Met Mys-
tsrIous osaths.
Mrs. Mary Welcher Hoch. died Jan.
nary II. 1902.
Mrs. Mary Becker, died ct St. Louis
IN 1909.
Mrs. Mary Schults disappeared
from Argua. Ind. with Hoch In 1900.
Mrs. Lena Hoch. died at Milwaukee
Mrs. Mary Steinbrccker Hoch. Chi
caso. died In 1892.
Mrs. Hoyle Hoch, died In Chicago
II 1892.
Chicago. III. Feb. 22.-Every turn
known to the law having been ex-
hausted In efforts 10 obtain q reprieye
or Communication or sentence. there re.
maths but m chance 70 save Johann
H0ch from the galIows and that Is
IN act of clemencv by Governor De
neen. The execution Ia scheduled for
tomorrow morning In the Cook county
jaiE A story n In circulation that
clans have bean made by friends III
Hoch. ii he has TO 20 10 the scaffold,
for 4 sentimental appeal to The law
MI the last before the drop,
According 10 this report . man viii
dash mp the gailows and asF DELAY on
the ground that he has conclusive
evtsence of Hoch's innocence.
II Hoch Il guilty Of bnt d small pro.
portion Of the crimes with which be
has been charged he undoubtedly Is
entitled 10 he called the modern Blue.
heard. In the fifteen years that have
elapsed since he arrived In this corn-
try from Germany he Il believed ID
have married from ten 10 thirty wo.
M without regard to the laws in
such cases made end provided, fnd
he Is also suspected Of having caused
The death OF q number OF who
placed their trust in rnm. Hts object
IN each case II believed 10 have been
obtain the small savings or insnr
ance Of the women.
AHr Ntiiue LOT WHICH H0cn was
tried. found guilty and sentenced "a
death WIS the alleged murder OF Mrs.
Mary Welcher Hoch. who died In this
city January II, 1905. An analysis d.
her stomach showed races 81 poison
said to have been administered by
Hoch. The womaa died within TIRE
weeks after her ma 'riage to If0ch
and 4 month later the Srnooth.tulkine
German married the deed woman
sister. Mrs. Esnelle Fischer. After
getting hold ~ sT5n which the lattei
bad saved from her earnings at TIC
washtnh. focn fed The city. II was
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22
The yellow Fever Germ

has recently been discovered. II bears
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germs, the most effective RENE
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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22
a Habit 10 be Encouraged.

The mother who has acquired the
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Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, saves
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feeling Of security. Sold by all drug
gists.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22
NOTICE ron PUBLICATION.
Homestead Entry, No. 6i67.

Department OF the Interior, Land
Office at santa Fee, N. NJ, February
9Th, 1906.
Notice Is hereby given that the fol.
lo~wing-named settler has filed notice
Of his intention to make final proof In
support OF his claim. and that said
proof will be made before the register
or receiver at santa Fe, ". NJ, on
March 20. 1906. viz: Gabriel Padiila,
for lot :. r 1.c. 8 w IA. Sec. 6, and
NE IA. N w IA. Sec. Z. r II n, n II
r. -.
lie names the following witnesses
to prove mis- continuous residence up
on and cultivation Of said land. Wig:
Juan A. Padilla. Of Ribera, N. NJ;
Luis Montana. Of Ribera. N. NJ;
Macario Leyba, OF Ribera, N. NJ:
Atilano Quintans. OF Ribers, N. N.
MANUEL Il. OTERO. Register.
2-5Q
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22

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bOils, sores, letter, eczema and oil skin
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genuine. No remedy causes such speedy.
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Goodall.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22

Announcements have been received
IN Roswell OF the marriage Of Miss
Beatrice Alexander Cotgfell, daught.
er al Mr. and Mrs. o. II, CotTeii,
formerly OF Roswell, and William n
Raymond. Lieutenant Artillery Corps.
of the United States army.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22

The Legal Tender barber shop at
Tucumcari has been torn down pre-
pairing for the erection OF a new build
ing to be occupied as a drug store.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22

The ladies Of the Baptist church OF
Roswell are contemplating putting on
a lecture course headed by Bob Bur-
dette in the ear future. the proceeds
to 60 to the building fund Of the
church.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22

snl nothing elss. y ny baby stfi, now
two weeks DID," writes Mrs. J. p.
West, Of Webster City, Iowa. "She
n . hns, healthy babe and ~ are
both doing nIcsly."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

The supposed apprentice at that moment
raised his head and discovered the silken locks
end q, flushed cheeks of his young heir -,
!t is my son, Anselm!" exclaimed F1tz
Arthur. Indeed, | knew not thou vast a
farrier."
mo man in Christendom is better one"
said Bernadin.
"A baron's son should be wearing armor
and riding, steed to battle rather than forg-
ing horseshoes among sooty serfs," broke in
Count Eustace of Boulogne. "How would you
like, boy, to be my esquire and win glory and
golden spurs under Normandy's banner?"
when foreign foe invades my native land
you will find me ready to do battle; otherwise
| am no soldier. | light not, at least, against
the brave English, whom our duke has de-
spoiled"
"Stay here, then, and be rude chnrl among
churls," cried the count, angrily, as he mount
ed his charger and rode away, without saying
Years rolled away. William Of Normandy
met with victory on every hand. He had won
England, and his castles and his churches rose
everywhere, as il by magic Success was his,
and he gloried in it.
with high hand crushing the brave Norman
barons down with remorseless tyranny. In
the words of Holy Writ, whom he would. he
raised up, and whom he would he pulled
down.
Sir Roger Fitz Arthur died, and the young
and sister, was turned from the castle which
had been the home of all the Ntz Arthurs
from the days Of the old soaking, who fol
lowed Rollo the Gauger from Norway.
The broad lands were bestowed upon the
monks of st. Benedict, and William tore the
old castle down and erected a stately castle in
its place. Thus did the savage Norman re-
member his oath and punish the supposed in
difference of the knight who did not raise his
banner to follow him to England.
Despoiled of his fair Inheritance, Anselm
now turned his attention wholly to smithery.
The abbot of the new abbey invited him to
become an ecclesiastic, but the brave boy
proudly refused, and exchanging his embroid-
cred mantle, pourpoint and hose for the sooty,
faxen tunic Of smith, he pursued his craft
in little corner of the great domain that
had been his fathers.
With diligence he earned sufficient to sup
port his mother and sister. Not a word Of
repining fell from his lips. He kept up a
brave heart and whistled cheerily at his work,
and beautiful dainty Maude even learned in
time to love to hear the ringing of steel and
anvil as the brave young smith toiled for
their bread.
This did not continue many years, however
There was war in Normandy between Duke
William and his sons-bitter, cruel war-and
one day battle was fought not far from our
heros humble shop.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

One day he wandered down to the black
smiths forge, when he experienced new de
lignt IN seeing the sparks fly from the, beaten
metal. Here all the horses of the castle were
shod, and the farrier and the blacksmith, with
their grlmy faces and dirty suits, looked more
interesting to him than the vain pages ana
knights in their bright mail, or his beautiful
sister Maude, weaving her gay embroidery.
In TACT, he took such fancy to the employ
ment that after a. time he asked permission to
try his hand at forging the iron. OF course,
ne had his way, for though they wondered
that, knights son should wish to soil his
heir, and one day likely to be their master,
and they did not like to refuse him.
So he laid aside his vest and embroidered
mantle and put on the sooty tunic OF Gilbert,
the blacksmith boy, and went to work.
~ ne e made anl them al laugh at first to see h%
the iron so awkwardly that several times he
burned his fingers badly.
But he was patient. and, being quick to
learn, he soon acquired the art of forging as
well as Bernadin, the smith, could himself,
who had learned his trade at Seville among
the Moors.
His mother would wonder at his soiled
tunic, but he told her nothing, and no one
in the castle knew that the boy was turned
blacksmith, save the artisans themselves and
few en-at-arms.
Anselm could forge shoes, but he had never
yet shod a steed. He now bent his energies
to acquiring that accomplishment. The old
farrier very kindly assisted him, and it was
not long before every work-horse and war
steed in the stables wore shoes that the young
farrier had put on
This was cleaner work than the forging of
iron, and Anselm's embroidered linen did not
show the effects Of his coarse toll, as it did
when he first took up the hammer of the
smithy.
One morning knight, bravely accoutred,
and mounted on steed of matchless proper
tions, drew up with his retinue before the
gates of Castle Fitz Arthur. The steed had
cast shoe, and while the knight and his at
tendants went in to drink cheer with the lord
of the castle a groomsman led the war-horse
down to the smiths quarters.
He was fierce beast, and he reared and
champed and looked SO savage that none of
the. craft could sumon sufficient courage to
approach him but Anselm himself.
The boy was fastening the last nail in the
shoe of the blooded horse, when its masterap-
preached, in company with Lord Fitz Arthur,
from the castle.
''Ha! could no one be found to shoe my
matchless steed but laundering apprentice %
cried the knight, with hot flush on his
brow.
s'Are you mad, Bernadin?" said Sir Roger
to the craftsman, "to let thy stupid son prae-
tice on my Lord Of Boulogne's war-horse!"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29
THE

A knight with tawny scarf over his haul
berk and plume of eagle feathers in his he'll
met, fled away from the slaughter, with his
Toes IN close pursuit
Anselm knew the fugitive at glance, knew
him and the proud steed he rode. But the
gallant horse was lame, and opposite the
mounted.
"For the love of heaven, good SMITH" said
the knight, "see what is the matter with my
my life"
1T is nail that the unslilled farrier who
shod him last hath driven into his foot.
can remove it directly" responded Anselm,
cape thy foes"
Ha! thou knowest me them"
es, and thy horse as well. / am Anselm
Fitz Arthur, whom thy tyrannical uncle hath
robbed OF his inheritance. Well it is for thee
that no meaner farrier was at thy call this
day. Ride on now, Sir Count, for thy steed
is relieved"
There was no time to return acknowledge
ments, and the knight remounted and galoped
away.
But few days after he returned, to find
Anselm still busy at his forge.
''Throw down thy hammer, lad! There is
is my country invaded? Then will / fol.
low thee" exclaimed Ansem, with flashing
eyes eye .h.,i But Ut my mother and my sister What
"Give them this" And he threw him a
purse of gold. "Or rather, pray you, let me
take it to them myself"
So the naughty Norman went with AnseIm
TO the lowly cot where the family of the once
potent Lord Fitz Arthur now resided. He
bowed his plumed crest low at the stately lady
who received him, and still lower before the
graceful Maude, whose beauty there was no
withstanding.
"Thy son saved my life not many days
agone, and I have come to repay him." he
said, after the greeting. "This purse of gold
is for you. AS for the young man, he goes
with me on war charger to battle"
Keep thy gold, Sir Count" replied Lady
Fitz Arthur. F'Thou owest us nothing. The
Fitz Arthurs are not so poor but that they
can do gallant deed without reward"
"1t is thy sons hire for the year, then"
said Count De Boulogne.
"And l shall come back knight" inter.
posed Anselm, proudly.
He bade his mother and sister a tender
adieu, and, putting on steel hauberk and helm.
went to fight with Count Eustace against the
French king.
At the end of a year the contest was over.
and our Anselm won the spurs of knighthood.
Riding mettlesome steed, he returned to the
Continued ON Following Page
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

when William the ConQueror SUM
moned his father to attend him upon the In
vasion of England.
wound received in the wood. while hunt.
ing, prevented Sir Roger from obeying the
command of his feudal lord; but he sent
trusty esquire, offering to array his retalners
and have them conducted under his banner
across the channel.
Duke William was very angry, however, at
the absence of the chief himself, deeming his
wound only spbterfuge, and he swore 6yr m ms
tayorlte oath that some day the proud tltz
Arthur should feel the wrath of Normandy's
duke and England's king.
Sir. Roger was sorely disturbed when he
heard Of it, for he knew the vindictive nature
OF the great Norman, and feared lest his lam
ily might suffer from the dukes anger.
For long time he kept his castle sentineled
day and night, the grim soldiers in steel
watching portcullis and gate and battiement.
But after many days this carefulness was re-
linquished, and hunting parties and hawking
parties went out into the greenwood and the
meadow after the red deer, the heron and the
quail.
All this was very pleasant when the weather
was fair, but when there was rainy day the
old castle was dull enough.
There were few amusements in those days
for men and boys within doors. Books were
scarce and costly things, and very few of the
knights and barons were able to write their
own names.
The women and girls could amuse them
selves at the embroidery frame, weaving
bright colors of gold and purple and green into
costly fabrics.
Anslem's little sister Maude wove all the
gay clothes that he wore like knights and
baron's heir; but neither spindle nor EN-
broidery frame was fitted for the hands of
boy.
So the long rainy days were gloomy enough
to Anselm, and the fair ones were not much
better, for he was not yet old enough to be
trusted in the forest with the gay lords who
followed his father to the chase.
Anselm was an active lad, and he soon grew
tired of watching his mother and sister, with
their maids, weave in the. bright threads
among the cloth that was to be used as tapes
try for the walls, or vests and mantles for the
castles lords.
He amused himself awhile playing with the
hounds in the great hall, and as he grew older
went among the horses in the huge stable at
tached to the castle Every horse in time
came to know him, from Black Ralph his
fathers war-hoTse to Brunhilda, the white
palfrey that Maude rode when she journeyed
from the castle.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

NSELM FITZ ARTHUR was the
son of Norman knight whose
castle stood on the banks of the
Orne, not far from the city of Caen
He was a little boy, eight years old,
nuhar William thn Cnnnuar0r SUM