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Found in the Van Wert Daily Bulletin, The | 1905-02-07
Hoch Arraigned.
New York, Feb. 7. — When Jobann
Hoch was arraigned in court in the expectation
that he would be turned
over to the officers from Chicago it
was found that the extradition papers
had not arrived, and it was remanded
to police headquarters. Detective Foye
explained that the papers had been in
Albany since Friday awaiting the signature
of Governor Higgles, but that
the governor had left for New York
without signing them. It is expected
that the papers will be received on
Wednesday and that the prisoner will
probably start for Chicago on that day.
Additional charges were made against
Hoch of having married three women
in New York. It was also learned that
in the search of the room occupied by
Hoch when he was arrested there was
found a stylographic pen. the reservoir
of which, was filled with a white
powder, believed to be poison. The
pen, with the rest of Hoch's effects.
was turned over to Detective Loftus of
Chicago.
Here is the full story found in Chicago's Bluebeard by Troy Taylor
Chicago's Bluebeard, known as Johann Otto Hoch, was a serial killer who murdered long before that term was used. He married at least 50 women and murdered an unknown number of them. 19 Were confirmed his murdered victims. Chicago Inspector George Shippy spent several years tracking down Hoch.
Hoch appeared in Wheeling in February 1895 and used
the name "Jacob Huff". He opened a saloon in a German neighborhood
and became a popular man in the community. He also began to seek out marriageable
widows or at least divorced women with money. One of those he found was
Caroline Hoch, a middle-aged widow. The couple married in April and the
service was performed by Reverend Haas, who had alerted Inspector Shippy
to the identity of the man he had in custody. It was the minister who
had discovered Caroline dying in agony after he had spotted her husband
giving her some sort of white powder. He did not act however, and the
woman died a few days later in great pain. Huff (as he was known) insisted
that his wife be buried right away. He then collected on Caroline's life
insurance, sold her house, cleaned out her bank accounts and disappeared.
Shippy sent photographs of Hoch to every major newspaper in the country and a short time later, a landlady and widow in New York, Mrs. Katherine Kimmerle, recognized the likeness as being that of her new boarder, Henry Bartels. She recalled him so vividly because the strange man had proposed marriage to her only 20 minutes after he had taken the room. The authorities soon had Hoch in custody. He would be tried, found guilty and then hung.