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Show Hnd a California Wife. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 31. A San Francisco woman has boon added to tho list of tho dead wives of Johann Hoeck or Hoch. suspected of wife murder In Chicago. Chi-cago. Four years ago the man lived In this city. Ho was married to a Miss Long, who kept a bakery on Bryant street, Sho died auddonly of grief, her husband said, over tholr son's death. This son was killed In January, 1900, nnd Mrs Hoeck diod soon afterward. Later Hoeck UVcd on Clay street, whure, It Is alleged, ho courted tho landlady's daughter, while writing lovo letters to another woman In Chicago. At the same tlmo ho said ho was engaged to a rich widow In St. Louis, but preferred to live In San Francisco. IIo stated that ho was a Lutheran priest In tho East, and later a liquor drummer InCallfornln. |