Show hach POISONED SIX WIVES CRIMES OF CHICAGO BLUEBEARD COMING TO LIGHT married many women and then mur dered them to secure what little property they possessed information of more alleged victims of 0 johann hoch the chicago man mau I 1 whom the police are searching high and low for on a charge of having mar ried bis his dead wife 8 sister three days after the funeral of the first wife and then poisoning the second wife has been given the police by john frick tin an employee of the nickel plate rail road frick has reported to the po ice lice a charge that his sister mrs wll wil liam lam schultz married hoch who then called himself burg at argos nd nd in 1900 mrs schultz bad had a child tiamen nettle then 5 years old shortly after they arrived in chi cago letters ceased coming to me said frick and I 1 am under the belief that my sister and her little girl were done away with my sister had about 1 at the time of her marriage mrs J H of milwaukee We telegraphed graphed the police that she would arrive here tor for the purpose of trying to identify a photograph of hoch aa as the man who married her sister in the woman died shortly after leaving 1 to her husband relatives of six of the thirteen wives credited to hoch have expressed a belief to police inspector that the six women died from poison acting on the theory that hoch la is the missing janitor of the notorious H H holmes castle the police are using the same methods to trace hoch as were used in seeking holmes the officers believe hoch to be a pupil of holmes and that he will use the same ruses that were employed by holmes to escape arrest i A furniture dealer on milwaukee avenue informed the police tuesday that he had furnished five different hats for hoch each time under a dit dif ferent name and that he had a new wife for every flat the dealer told the police that he knew that the women who were in s stalled in the first three flats died in a short time after marriage he asked hoch why he lie changed his name every time he married and hoch re replied plied that he did not believe he could get married under the same name every time as many women would object to marrying a man who had been so many times a widower |