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Show 'CHARGED WITH MANY CRIMES. Johann Hook Alleged to Be Wholesale Whole-sale Murderer and Bigamist. By tho arrest In Now York of Johann Hock, tho pollco of Chicago bcllovo they havo ono of the most astute nnd daring criminals of tho ago. Charged against him nro no less than eight murders, all of confiding woman whom bo had married for their money nnd afterward killed; bigamy, embezzlement, abduction, for-gory for-gory and perjury. Tho list of his wives h given by tho pollco nB follows: fol-lows: Mrs. Mndellnc Hchmltt, first wife, mnrrlnge In Germany. Mrs. Julia Stelnbrccher Hock, Chicago; Chi-cago; died middehly. Mrs. Mnry Wernlcko Itnnknu Hock, Chicago, living. Mrs, Mary Ilockcr Schultz Hock Argos, Itid.; disappeared. Mrs. Mlnnio PodnlskI, Chlcngo; living.. liv-ing.. Mrs. Mary Hondrlckson Hock, Chlcngo; Chl-cngo; living. Mrs. Janet Spencer Hock, Chicago, believed to bo living. Mrs. ICmllle Fischer Hock, Chicago; Chica-go; living. Mrs. Kmlly Wolker Hock, Chicago, died Jnn. 10, 1905. Mrs. Nalhnllo Irrgang, Chicago; believed be-lieved by tho pollco to havo married Hock. Mrs. Martha Hertzfold Hock, Chicago; Chi-cago; disappeared. . ; Mrs. Morlnnnn' Hook, Clovcland; living. Mrs. Sophia Pahnko, Batnvla, III., living. Mrs. Hessler, Wheeling, W. Vn.; thought to bo remarried. Mrs. Cnlllo Cbnrlotto Androws, ns Mrs. Ho Witt C. Cudnoy. Huldn Stevens, abducted nnd later married, deserted after threo hours, Mrs. Hock, Chlcngo, died suddenly. sud-denly. Mrs, Hock, a sister of Mrs. J. II. SchwnrUmnnn, Milwaukee; died. Mrs. Hock, another sister of Mrs. SchwarUmnnu; died. Mrs. Hock, Norfolk, Vn.; did.. Mrs. T. O'Connor, Milwaukee; living; liv-ing; married Hock ns "James." Mrs. 'Caroline Scbaefer, I'hlladci pbla; living. Mrs. Mary Coork, Chicago; living. Mrs. Hock; believed to havo died nt Buffalo. Mrs. Hock; believed to live in Kvatiston, 111. Mrs. Jnstlnn l.oelllor, Elkhart, Ind., disappeared. Alleged Crimes. Murdor by poison, eight cases. Digamy, twenty-two chnrges. Embezzlement, thlrty-threo cases. Abduction, ono charge. Confidence gnme, thlrty-nlno cases Obtaining money uuder fuUo pretenses, pre-tenses, thlrty-nlno cases. Larceny ns bailee, two cnsei Forgery, two cases. Perjury, twenty-seven cases. Practicing medicine, illegally. Hypnotism as nn aid to nil tho other crimes. Hock denies that ho Is cither a bigamist or murderer. He Is short, stocky, fat, and partly bald. |