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Show "BLUEBEARD" DENIES GUILT Hoch Anxious to Return h Chicago. Admits Identity and Won't Oppose Issue of Extradition Extra-dition Papers. Arraigned in Police Court and His Photograph Taken for the. Rogues' Gallery. NEW YORK, Jan. 31. Johann Hoch of Chicago, who was arrested here last night charged with bigamy and wife abandohment after a search extending over the entire country, told tho officials offi-cials at police headquarters today that he 1b anxious to return to Chicago at once. He wanted to face the charges ncralnst him in that city, he said, and has no intention of opposing extradition. extradi-tion. Hoch was photographed for the rogues' gallery before being taken to court. Admits His Identity. When Hoch was arraigned in Police court he wan remanded back to police headquarters for forty-eight hours. As the prisoner was leaving the courtroom he said: "Yes, I am tho man wanted In Chicago Chi-cago but they are mistaken as to the charges. I am wanted for some trouble trou-ble I had with my sister-in-law, about some furniture." Hoch said that he had not been married mar-ried twenty times. He said that he had been married only twice, and that his first wife Is still alive. Mrs. Catherine Kim merle, his landlady, land-lady, said he engaged board on Saturday, Satur-day, and had not been In the house twenty minutes when he asked to be allowed to peel some potatoes for her. Today he proposed marriage, and she then told tho police. She added that the man talked a good deal to her yesterday yes-terday and became much Interested In her, she thousht. In his room were found nearly a dozen doz-en new suits of clothing. In most cases the tags had been torn from these, but those that had not showed that the garments had been bought In Western cities, among them Seattle. Chief of Pollco O'Neill declared his belief be-lief that Johann Adolph Hoch, alleged to have been married to more than a scoro of women, has murdered at least twolvo of them. This stntemont wns mado by Chief O'Neill In a lottor written by him to Capt. James J. Langnn of tho dotoc-tlve, dotoc-tlve, bureau of Now York, in which ho requested the pollco department of this city to follow n cluo given through an anonymous lettor received by Inspector of Police Shlppy from a woman living at the Bolvldcro hotol, New York. In this letter It Is Intimated that Hoch married two New York women whom he has abandoned. |