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Show MARRIED TO H0CH. New Jersey Woman Claims to Have Wedded Blue"beard. NEW YORK. Feb. 7 Among the numerous nu-merous women now coming forward In the vicinity of New York claiming that a man answering Johann Hoch's description de-scription married thorn several years ago is airs. Wllhelmtna Rummler oC Carlatadt, N. J. She has not yet seen tho prisoner, but has examined his pictures. pic-tures. Mrs. Rummler claims to have lost $6000 In her matrimonial venture and is now almost penniless. "Qn May 27, 1903,'" she said, "I had a prosperous floral business In West Nyack, N. Y. A man applied to me for a Job as foreman. He gave his gamo as Johflnn C. O. Schultze and said he came from Chicago. His manner of talking charmed me and at last he proposed and I decided to become Ids wife. Twenty minutes after the ceremony my husband asked me if I had any money. I told him that I had $6000 and within the next week he had drawn It and told me that he had just $6000 more and that he was going to put the $12,000 In a safe investment. He spoke bo nicely and kissed me so often that I believed him. "Every day ho would go to the post-office post-office himself and return with dozens of letters. He never allowed me to read any of them. On December 22. 1903, Schultze disappeared. I heard later that he had been seen in Cincinnati and threatened to kill mo if I did hot keep silent Since that day I never spoke of him. "That man stole every penny I owned In the world and I was left alone with my three children to make my living." |