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Show ANOTHER MRS. HOCH SAYS HE GOT $6000; LIST IS NARROWING NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Among he 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 them several years ago Is Mrs. Wllhelmina Rummler .of Carlstadt, N. J. She has not yet seen the prisoner, but has examined his pictures. pic-tures. Mrs. Rummler claims to have lost $6000 In her matrimonial venture and Is now almost penniless. "On May 27, 190C." she said. "I had a prosperous floral business In West Nyack, N. Y. A man applied to ire for a Job as foreman. He gave his game as Johann C. O. Schultze and said he came from Chicago. His manner of talking charmed me and at last he proposed and I derided to become his 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 16000 more and that he was going to put the $12,000 la a safe Investment. He. spoke so nicely and kissed me so often that I befleved him. "Every day he 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 me if I did not 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." |