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Show U "HOCH DIE HOCH." l' This man Hoch, the muchly married, Is one of tho mnrvels of tho century. !3 He apears to have married without M fear of punishment, although his hope of reward was over active and keen, borne of tho many women ho wedded and there have been twenty-six accounted ac-counted for ho murdered outright, wiillo others lie abandoned, after taking tak-ing their money. Some he lived with for a day, others a week, while in ono case he abandoned his bride of an "cur. Ho is a curious composition of a man. A well known local physician, who las made a study of tho case from tho newspaper accounts, gives it ns his nest Judgment that Hoch is a sample i a class of degenerates that oxi'st I I n the world tho civilized world, and mat ho should bo turned over to a competent board of physicians and surgeons for examination before trial and afterward. Tills man of medicine medi-cine re atcs that ho believes Hoch to "o legally sane on this subject of mar-' mar-' an(l murdering and abandoning, Xf. Jnny bo morally sano also. Tho uistinction between tho two is one that ctni 5 i?laiL can scarcely appreciate, si l it exists, and tho definition that wii como nearest being understood "yuio uninformed sooms to bo that in noen s case, while tho desire to marry and kin exists in the man's mind, at a , m,? tImo ho 13 to control it. ViHn llk not he ls 3iabl to the penalties pen-alties of tho law. nr!fV'Pw of tho many difficulties the t Passion has to encounter In the thi. o ?id examlnation of theso cases, WnL , Lake scientist thinks that Hoch could be utilized as a study both ruf'l after death and that tho minorities should render every assistance assist-ance poss bio that the profession may of degeneracyd n th,S pecullar type JiJHHkkF T' ' |