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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1906)
? ttttt i - COME AMD LOOK At our storage No. I, filled with the choicest hay that Grande Ronde Valley produced Ust season. All grades; TimothyrWild and Mixed. Our prices are very low. We also have for sale small apples at 50c per Onions, Parsnips, Carrots Potatoes, Vine gar, fancy green California Cabbage, also Eggs We are at all times In the market for all kinds or vegetables in large or small quantities. PHONE MAIN 2 Oregon Produce Company l box. BREWERY JULIUS ROESCH, Proprietor. JOHANN tiOCH HANGED Largest Brewing Plant iri Eastern Oiegon Ask for La Grande Beer and get the Best LA GRANDE BEER IS MADE IN LA GRANDE AND SHOULD HAVE THE PREFERENCE J. BULL &. Company Dealer in Fresh meats, Home Cured Bacon and Hams, Lard, Sausage, Bologna, Pish and . Oysters, Live and dressed Poultry, Etc Phone Main 48. mpXPeliWry Service. WALLOWA (OUNTY tama on Wallowa county, ana win guarantee prompt and satisfactory service at reasonable rates. If you have no direct eon- , neetion for taking care of these items, send them to us. me and Stock Growers farmers Bank, OF WALLOWA. OREGON. We pay five per cent Interest on time deposit. . i25.0O0.00 CAPITAL C. T. McDaniel, Cashier. A. K. Stiunenbkro, Pres. voir TO, lifSAWIRI There is always a i best in Everything and paint is no exception to the rule. Some claim supremacy---all we ask is an impartial comparison of our paints, varnishes, oils putty, white lead, etc. with others offered you, and -your orders if what we show stands well with anything else you may see in our line. . SIAN1ELS & JARMAN, Paper Hangers and Decoratoratars BRICK BKICK Brick furnished in any quanUy or any style, large. brick. No contract too email or to I See samples n our pressed If vrr Ih'kote iart ml Klo lmn Kalli. I. or ol lh nrld" I he tviivar l.ir "Hcmim- nW!AfSK rar ar o malty arolc all an " (nC nxtntunf liitrml lon inn it iwavu'Wilvn ulHl IVtwtr I lal III) ll l' nrvrr bronmra llmoni If rim an vol n anal, write ft Hot iriHlliin mil rrt a ri(ty bo k.liuU will SHI tn all atwut II W C McBRIDE, Agent, 124 Third St. Portland Ore. GEO. KREIG'ER. La traod, Oregon BLlt MOUNTAIN HOTEL J. W.-O'BRYANT, Prop. White help only. Dining Room Open, Meals 25c, . Rooms 26c and 60c. SDecial rate by week or month One block from depot. Cor. Jefferson Ave. and Depot St cat aid. sat by the bedside, held her band and called her "sweetheart'' When Judge Kersten passed sentence upon him Hoch was asked if he had any thing to say. As if willing to sacrifice his life merely to conform to the court's idea of propriety, he replied: "Judge, if you think I am guilty, ! am willing to lose my life." And after his conviction in the solitude of his cell, he was borne up by his erotism. He spoke of .himself as a third person of interest and importance He said: "Johann will die like a- man. If Johann had money he would show you what he would do." Hoch denied mading the confession which was used as evidence in his trial; but would not take the stand to disprove it. His last utterance to a visitor was in keeoins with his hypocracy toward the judge and the wife he .robbed. He said "Death is better than this confinement. but I have given my word of honor to the iailer I would not leave even if " I found the doors open." Hoch claimed to be a greatgrandson of Marshal Nev. who went to St. Helena with Napoleon, and the scion of a promi nsnt family of Strassbours. He said his father was a retired minister in Toulon, iimorant of the fate of his son. Two of Hoch's brothers are ministers. He said: m nraarirrandfather. Marshal Ney, one of the heroes of N ipoleon'sarmy; and I, his descendant, shall die as a soldier. I am going before my Maker, Jesus Christ my Saviour. I believe in Ood, and I be lieve I shall meet in the life beyond those who were near and dear to me here. How could I stand at the judgment seat with a lie on my soul?" On the next day ha denied having told this story. Information that led to the arrest of Hoch was given the police by Mrs. Emelia Fischer, his last wife. She married him Jan. 18, 1905, a few days after the funeral her immediate pred accessor as Mrs. Hoch. On Dec. 10 of 1904 Hoch married Mrs. Maria Welker and took her to his house, where she died on Jan. 12 after a short illness, and when Hoch was alone with ner. Preceding her death he obtained from all her money, as he had done in his previous marriages. Three days after her death he married Mrs. Fisher, and the day following the wedding he obtained from her $750 to be used he said, in paying a mortgage on the furniture and house. A day or two later he disappeared. The search for Hoch extended to New York where he was arrested. Suspect ing he would seek concealment in Ger- many, his former home, the police kept watch on outwardbound vessels. .A complete list of Hoch's "speculations' in matrimony would be d fflcult to com pile. So far as can be leirnad, he w born in Germany 40 years ago, studied medicine, and in Vienna married Anna Hoch in 1881. Two years later he em: crated with her to America. Several years later she died. His next wife No. 2 he obtained In Chicago in May, 1892. Her name is not known, but it is known that he rentes a flat under the name of C. A. Meyer. That wife died three weeks after the marriage. The next month Hoch rented another flat in the name of H. Irick, A month later his wife (No. 3). name also unknown died there, and Hoch, or "Irick" disap peared. In 1894 he lived for two months with another wife (No. 4) when she died. In June of the same year he married Mrs. Julia Stelnbrecher (No. 6). Two months later she became ill and died, leaving Hoch property valued at $4000. Before her death she accused Hoch in the pre sence of a stepdaughter of poisoning her, Her funeral was stopped by the coroner, but was permitted to proceed when Hoch produced a burial certificate. After Mrs. Steinbrecher-Hoch s death Hoch married Mrs. Mary Rankan (No. 6) Mrs. Rankan was "too cute" for him, ac cording to her story. After several un successful efforts to get possession of her savings he left her. In the same year he married Miss Martha Hercfeldt (No. 71 gained possession of $1800 and deserted her. Mrs. Hercfeldt-Hoch now lives in Pasadena, Cal. In 1896 Hoch was arrested under the name of C. A. Calford and charged . by Mrs. Janet Spencer (No. 8). with having married and deserted her after taking her money money. He was acquitted, but a year later was arrested again under the name of De Witt C. Cudney on complaint of Callie Charlotte Andrews (No. 9.) The woman said she had met "Cudney," mar ried him, and was deserted two hours after the ceremony, he taking $500 of her money. ' The police then identified him as the abductor of little Huldah Stevans. and accused him of participating diamond robbery, but he escaped prosecution. In 1896 Hoch appeared in Wheeling W. Va,, and married woman (No. 1 0) under the nam of Jacob Huss. This woman died suddenly three month after ward. . leaving "Huss" property worth $2500. Immediately after the funeral Hoch left Wheeling. Early in 1897 he re-appeared in Chicago with a woman supposed to be wife No. 1 1 and installed her In a flat under the name of. Martin Dotx. In June this wife died. Hoch was arrested and tent to the Bridewell for swindling Simon Strauss, a furniture dealer who furnished the flat Ha went to Cincinnati and ther married Clara Bartall, widow of a saloonkeeper. Mrs. BarUll-Hoch (No. 12) died within three month of upposed nephritis, nocn married Julia Does (No. 13) in Hamilton, O.. in January, 1897? He' soon departed with $600 obtained from Mrs. Doess- Hoch and $400 realized on Mrs. Bartell s effects. - On April 29. 1898, he was arrested in Chicago for having sold mortgaged furni ture. He was sent to the house of- cor rection, was released July 31, 1899, ana immediately was re-arrested on a similar charae and Sent to the same institution. In 1900 Hoch changed the field pt his operations to Milwaukee, and there mar ried a sister (No. 14) of Mrs. J. H. 5ch wartzmann. She died three weeks later, leaving him $1200. The next year he married Mrs. Mary Schultz (No. 15) In Arjos, Ind. Together they came to Chic- ago with Mrs. iicnuiiz s io year oiu daughter. Nothing has been heard of Mrs. Schultz-Hock or her daughter since. Hoch made $2000 out of this venture.. Within a month Hoch proposed marriage to Mr. Nathalie Peterson of Chicago. Mrs. Peterson had almost succumbed to the "fascinating man" when she was warned that Hoch "ws not straight." Hoch at that time sailed under the name of Jacob Adolph. In 1901 Hoch appeared in St Louis under the name of Jacob Schultz and posing as a millionaire. He married Mrs. Marv Becker (No. 16) after a week's acquaintance. In a few months she died under circumstances that aroused sus picions of the attending pnysiumik. i December of the same year Mr. Eliza beth Goerk(No. 17) "took in" a boarder in answer to an advertisement in a Ger man newspaper. The man called himself Jacob Schmidt and after a few weeks, courtship she married him. He attempt ed to persuade her to turn her property over to him, but without success:' He disappeared within aweek. Mrs. Goerk declares Schmidt and Hoch are the same. Hoch went to Milwaukee again in 1903 and in January married Mrs. T. O'Connor (No. 19). calling himself Edward Gerald 1 Fine Confectionery and 0.gars Af VanBuren LA GRANDE IRON WORKS j James. He deserted her on Jan. 1, 1 904, taking $200 of her savings. Hoch reappeared in Chicago in January of 1904 and married Mrs. Anna Hend- riekson HNo. 20). He secured $1000 from her and then deserted her. The following June in Milwaukee he married Mr. Lena Hoch (No. 21), who died in three weeks, leaving him $1600. In October he married Mrs. Caroline Schae fer (No. 22) in Philadelphia, deserting her a week later, taking her savings, amount ing to $1800. Returning to Chicago in December 1904 Hoch married Mrs. Welker (No. 23). She died on Jan. 11, 1905, leaving him $260. Her body was exhumed and ex amined for traces of poison. The analy sis disclosed arsenic. Jan. 16. 1905, Hoch married Mr Emelia Fisher (No. 24) the sister of Mrs, Welker Hoch. and disappeared with $750 of her money. Mrs. -Fishers complaint first directed the attention of the police to Hoch's record. . The arch-bigamist was courting Mrs August Praxmsrer in Naw York Jan. 21 when the woman saw his picture and an account of his crimes in a newspaper, She straightway wrote a letter informing the Chicago police of Hoch's whereabouts He was arrested and returned to Chicago for trial. He was found guilty and sentenced to ba hanged but received a number stavs of execution. Through the offorts of two wealty women his case was taken to the Supreme Court, which refused reverse the decision of the lower court, D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor, -V Complete Machine Shops and Foundry General Blacksmiths, W manufacture The Fitzgerald Roller Feed Mill., the best and cheapest mill on the market Our shop ara .. equipped with machinery to handle any sized work, nothing too large or nothing to email. Highest price paid for old iron. . . WJ ww house : D."H. 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