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13 HOCH'S COURTIMG AT WIFE'S BIER RETOLD Mrs. Emilie Fischer-Hoch Tells at Murder Trial How Bigamist Made Love to Her and Talked of Marrying Again. DECLARES EMBALMING FLUID CONTAINED NO ARSENIC Undertaker Testifies Regarding Preparation of Body for Burial-Drug Clerk "Admits Filling Prescription Containing Poison. The love making of Johacn Hoch, srch-i bigamist and alleged Bluebeard, during the time that his wife. Mrs.

Marie Walcker-Hoch. lay dead in the front room of the Union avenue house, vas told the Jury In the murder trial yesterday by Mrs. Emilie Fischer-Hoch, sister of the dead woman. "He told me he wanted a photograph." she aid, "so that he could wear it next to his breast. That was when my sister was dying, when iha lav In her coffin he tooa me Into the kitchen and said that he- wanted me to stick to him and promised to sue 10 me.

"I told him that with my sister not yet buried It was hardly time ror mm 10 oe making love. 'The dead are for the dead, he said, ana iitIm are for the living. That makes Hiir.i-onro vow Is as Kood a -time as any to make Mrs. Fischer-Hoch then said she had com plied with Hoch's wish, and given him a photograph and also allowed him to make love to her and talk about marrying ner. Haeh Tim Pole Wk The most serious evidence so far brought out arainst the accused bigamist was given l) airs, latncr-nwu Jury the manner in which he left her.

"1 had been to the bank with Hoch," she aid. "and had drawn out 1750 and given it to him. Then we went to see Mrs. Saar-bruck kt 373 Weils street. When Mrs.

Saar- A Id. Annr ha tnld lix not to SO Into the back room lor tne reason mat ohn was there. 'She says Hoch murdered your sister, she said, 'and she says he Is a "Hoch turned pale when he heard this and refused to ro Into the room wKh Mrs Bonn. He remained in the front room while I went into the rear room, and during my absence he disappeared, and I did not see him again until be was arrested ana crougm back here." During the recital or ail mis evidence Hoch sat apparently unmoved and uncon scious of what was being said. rreircallva WIh Impsrtaat Pal at UaV wa Vint allnvafl A vtra Anv evidence against Hoch until after Assistant State's Attorney Olson had won a legal battle with Attorney Plotke lasting more than an hour.

Plotke maintained that as a wife she could not testify against ber husband. Mr. Olson called attention to the testimony of Detective Gorman of Philadelphia, who on Saturday told of the marriage of Hoch to Mrs. Caroline Sprelcher, and argued from this that the witness was not the legal wife of the defendant, and therefore was not under the ordinary "legal prohibition against a wife testimony being given in case in which, her husband was Interested. Frank, Spreyne, the undertaker who pre pared.

-tbe body ot Mrs. Waleker-Hecn for fewTtai, that there no arsenic In the embalming fluid. Schleisser, employed a a drug clerk ra store at Sixty-Third and. Halsted streets, testified that he had filled prescriptions for Hoch. nd on cross-examination admitted that one of -them contained, a small quantity of arsenic.

umm cnutui iaai r. rioue in I L. nt.ii tends to throw the burden of Mrs. Hoch's death upon her sister, who upon her own testimony allowed Hoch to make love to her while her sister body was being placed in me Confesses Killing His Accomplice in Crime of Murder Accused of Using Cleaver to Stay, Prisoner Pleads Guilty to Two Offenses, ajneeSal to The Tnlr (Vmii ST. PAUL.

May 8. After repeatedly denying his guilt to the police and declaring that the man who committed the crime ought to be killed In a similar manner, Edward Gottsehalk today pleaded guilty to a part la the murder of Christian Scheindeldecker, u4cu iv pieces jo ilia ouicner nop who us own cleaver. He also confessed to the murder of Joseph Hartman, his accomplice in the slaying of the butcher. Judge Lewis, before whom Gottsehalk entered his plea in the District court, deferred sentenced until Thursday. Scheindeldecker was murdered at noon.

Feb. 18. Gottsehalk says the purpose was robbery; that he stood outside while Hart-man entered and attacked the butcher with a cleaver which he picked up from the meat block. After the murder Gottsehalk says Hart-man persisted in following him about, and when he objected to his companion in crime haunting his fishing camp on Pike island, Hartman attacked him with a rasor. In the struggle Gottsehalk was victor.

He crushed Hartman's skull and sank the body In the river. Stops Trial for Mansla lighter by Confessing Guilt sasaaawmsaaa Prisoner Arises in Court and Admits Crime, Accepting Life Sentence Mother Is Overcome, The trial of John Brlnkman before Judge ended abruptly yesterday afternoon when the prisoner arose from his seat, advanced to the bar of the court, and Informed the Judge that he was anxious to plead guilty to a charge of manslaughter. The court promptly sentenced Brlnkman to the penitentiary for life. The sudden move was made without the youth consulting his mother, and when the situation was explained to her she had to be assisted to a cab. Attorney Hsnlon, in bis opening-address to the jury, accused Lieutenant Schlau and policemen connected with the North Halsted street station of having concealed a knife which he said had been held by Julius Wendt, the youth who was killed by Brink-man.

He apologized in open court, saying he had been misinformed. flrinkman. In explained that be was under tbe Influence of drink when he hilled Wendt last September during a urrel a fruit store. TITE IXTETl OCEAN. TUESDAY MOKNING, MAY 9, 100S.

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Phone Harrison 4470. Vtsit cur new City Ticket Office. Most magntficent in the werld, ILL OF SHE KEEPS SILENCE Refined Appearing Woman at the County Hospital Refuses to Dis-; close Her Identity or Circumstances of Her Condition. Refusing to tell her name or eny of the circumstances of her condition, an unidentified woman is lying at the county hospital suffering from poisoning. Early yesterday afternoon she entered W.

II. Cramer's. drag store, Randolph and Hal sted streets, and declared that the bad been When she had! been taken toHhe county hospital by the Deeplaines street police, the physicians who attended her labored la rata to obtain some clew to her Identity. Che-' gT' bo reasen for would give bo information that might aid, la clearing-up the affair. She even refused to tell tbe official at the hospital the drugstore from which (be police had taken her, and it was necessary to call tbe Desplalnes street station before it was possible fill out the records.

Is of Reflaed The woman has a slight and graceful carriage and la about fire feet in height. She has brown eyes and brown hair, which is rapidly turning gray. Her age Is given In the police record as 30 years, but her hair and a look of care and worry make her seem older. Her manner of speaking and the way she carried herself Impressed both the police and the physicians at the hospital with the Idea that she was a woman of education and refinement, although evidently In reduced cir cumstances. "She came in here about 3 o'clock," said the clerk In Cramer's drug store, "an al most fell into a seat.

I ran from behind the counter to see what was tbe When I asked her she gasped that she had been POISONING POSE WITH GEISHA GIRLS? NO, SA YS HIGH CASTE JAPANESE Prominent Women of Race Refuse to Appear at Chanty Concert in New York With Players of Low Birth. Special Dlapatch to Tha IntfV Oc NEW YORK. May 8 No frisky geisha girls will pirouette across the stage of the Belasco theater next Friday afternoon when a Japa nese tableau will be given in aid of the war widows and orphans of Japan. The high caste Japanese women who will take part, like Mme. Uchlda.

wife of the Japa nese Consul; Mme. Imanlshi and Mme. Iwa- hara. have Insisted upon this. Mrs.

Hugh Fraser. sister of Msrion Craw ford, the novelist. Is arranging the Japanese tableaux, ana tbe following society leaders ere patronesses: Mesdames Orme Wilson. Richard Oambrtll. If.

C. Potter, W. D. Doane, Richard Irvln, H. P.

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The most prominent Japanese women in Sp aulding 8c Go. Goldsmiths Silversmiths and Jewelers Chicago Sterling The Only Way NCREATfj! Every Nlghtl MATINEES OftTHER1! 2SB9fi Sat. BICKEL WATSON ME, HUD I NEXT WEEK OUR SEW MIX1STER. poisoned and that, she wnid to be taken to the hospital. "1 tried to learn more from her, and asked her name ami where she lived.

She absolutely refused to tell her name or where she lived or what was the matter with ber outside of tbe fact that a be- had been poisoned. As she was In great pain and groaning, I called the ambulance." Policeman Hennessy also tried to get some -Information from her. Once, when asked why she' would not tell her name, she started to say something about her relatives, but stopped, and after that she remained silent when questioned or confined her answer to "I won't tell." i Iate last night physicians at tie hospital said- there waa little doubt the, woman would r.r Waits and Watches 42syearrUer Deaa Sweetheart Each Day Sees Aged Woman "Sitting on Her Doorstep, Hoping, for a Glimpse of Her Soldier Boy. Kpeetat Dlapatch to Tin Inter Ocean. ASHEV7LLE, May 6.

"Aunt Minty" Byers, 63 years old, now recovering from a short llfaess, can again be seen sitting on the doorstep of her mountain eabin at Sandy Musn, la tbe mountains of western North Carolina, waiting for the return of Jacob Munhall, to whom she was engaged when a girl of 17. For forty-two years she has sat every day in the doorway of her home and waited for Jacob to return from the He-was re. ported "missing." and the girl, now grown to a white haired old woman, has never given up hope that he will come back. v- the city hastened to the aid of Mrs. Fraser.

and some agreed to pose In costumes, saying they would do anything to neiptneir country. When at the first rehearsal last week the aristocratic Japanese looked over the motley "supers." they spoke to Mrs. Fraser about their scruples. "We cannot appear on the same stage with any one of low birth." they said. "It may be for charity and they may be our own people, but there are customs to which we cannot blind ourselves.

Either all the players must be ladles and gentlemen, bred and born, or they must be entirely of tbe geisha class. In Toklo the two classea are never mixed." Mrs. Fraser bowed to tbe wishes of the Japanese women and the geishas were discarded. Accordingly, the tableaux will be Interpreted by men and women of tbe aristocracy, and the family treea will bo scrutinised by a genealogical committee to avoid all contamination. Silverware possesses intrinsic value as well as artistic beauty.

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