The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1905, Page 1

—— K3 £ Porechst made at Tuesasy, . WRATHER. ri?;”m | ibirty hours, ending midnight, Janu- San Francisco and viclnity—Cloudy’, with showers; A. 6. MoADID, . Sin Francisco for fresh south FRANCISEO, = TUESDAY CALFE & he TIVOLI—Grand - THBAFERS. © W 3 % 'LA!,C'E.\RL‘M &ay Tord Quegy ALHAMERAS@featore's Bahid, “A Lt Ol UMBIA~<Tha sDigta 'S—Vaudeville. LYRIC HALL—Dolmetsch Concert. { ORPHEUM—Vsudeville. tar 2" Bonnie Brier Bush." Opera. PRICE FOURSENATORSCHARGED WITH BRIBERY BY A CORPORATION SECRETARY. WILLIAM CORBIN CREATES A SENSA TION GANMINT HOCH NOW [N PRISON — e Modern “Bluebeard” - Captured in Nqu Yo_rk. Arrested Just After Pro- posing Marriage to His Landlady. Former Wives of the Murder Suspect Are Said fo Number Upward of Twenty-Five, N Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan 30.—John Hoch, charged with bigany in Chicago, and who, it is alleged, married: more than twenty women, was arrds boarding-house in West Forty-seventh street to-night by Central Cifice detec- tives. He admitted his identity, al- though when first arrested he gave the name of Henry Bartels. At the Forty- seventh-street station, whither he was taken, he said: ‘T am Mook, man.” “How abused?” he was asked. He had nothing to say. He gave his name as John Joseph Adolph Hoch, and said he was 45 years of age and a machinist, living at 3430 Union avenue, Chicago. Hoch said that he had not been mar- ried twenty times. He asserted that he had been married only twice and that his first wife was still alive. Mrs. Catherine XKimmerle, Hoch's landlady, said he engaged board on Saturday and had not been in the house twenty minutes when he asked ) be allowed to peel some potatoes for her. To-day he proposed marriage and she then told the police. She added that the man talked a good deal to her yesterday and ame much interested in her, she belicved. In his room were found nearly & ond & much abused dozen new suits of cloth.ag. In most cases the tage had been torn from them, but those that had tags still on them showed that the garments had been bought in Western cities, among them Seattle. LONG LIST OF WIVES. CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—Although the po- lice hope to convict Hoch of murder, the only specific charges that they t him at the present time T B and’' wife abandonment. From all accounts Hoch has been mar- ried to at least twenty-six different women and si¥ of these have died un- der circurmr vhich the police de- clare to be Here is a list of Hoch's marriages Mrs. Made Schmitt, first wife; marnage in Germany. Mrs. Julia Steinbrecher Belmont avenu., Chicago; denly. Mrs. Mary Wernicke Rankan Hoch, 875 Ward street, Chicago; living. Mrs. Mary Becker Schultz Hoch, Ar- gos, Ind.; disappeared. Hach, died 333 sud- Mrs. Minnie Podalski, 3921 Went- worth avenue, Chicago; living. Mrs. Mary Hendrickson Hoch, 5912 Union avenue, Chicago; living, Mrs. Janet Spencer Hoch, 3167 Went- worth avenue, Chicago; believed to be living. Mrs. Emilie Fischer Hoch, 372 Wells street, Chicago; died. Mrs. Emily Welker Hoch, 6030 Union avenue, Chicago; died January 10, 1905. Mrs. Nathalie Irgang, 111 Best av- enue, Chicago; believed by the police to have married Hoch. Mrs. Martha Hertzfeld Hoch, 198 On- tario street, Chicago; disappeared. Mrs. Marianna Hoch, Cleveland; liv- ing. P M I.; living. Mrs. Hessler, Wheeling, W. Va.; be- lieved to be remarried. . Mrs. Callie _ Charlotte Andrews, known as Mrs. De Witt C. Cudney. Hulida Stevens, Chicago; abducted ;mi later married; deserted after three ours, Mrs, Sophia Pahnke, Batavia, Millie Hoch, lived at 1266 West Fifteenth street, Chicago; dled. sud- denly. Mrs. —— Hoch, a sister of Mrs. J. H. Schwartzmann, Milwaukee; died. Mrs. —— Hoch, another sister of Mrs, rtzmann, Milwaukee; died. s..—— Hoch, Norfolk, Va.; died. Mrs. —— Hoch, Green, Iowa; is be- lieved to be living. Mrs. T. O'Connor, Milwaukee; living; married Hoch as “James.” Caroline Schaefer, Philadelphia; Hving. Mary Coerk, 102 Eugene street, Be 3043 Stiles Ch\(l g0; living. Mrs. —— Hoch, b e elieved to have died Mrs. Hoch, believed to live in Evanston. Mrs. Justina Loeffler, Elkhart, Ind.; disappeared., | HOCH'S ALEGED , CRIMES. Hoch’s alleged crimes are as follows: Murder by poison, eight cases; bigamy, twenty-two charges; embezzlement, thirty-three cases; abduction, one ted at a| BARD FAILS 10 W1V AID OF PERKDS :Joint Indorsement Denied Attorney | Woodworth, Lol SRR Senior Senator Tells His Colleagae Flint Should Be Consulted. Evidence That the Reappointment of the Federal Official Will Be Opposed. —————— Speclal Dispatch to The Call. - CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.— Senator | Bard to-day saw the President, to urge the reappointment of Marshall B. Woodworth as United States District Attorney for the Northern District of California. Before doing so he asked Senators Perkins to join him in the re- quest, but the latter said he did not think it proper that he should do so, inasmuch as it was an arpoitiment the term of which would extend through a large portion of the term of Bard's Successor, and he therefore felt that he should consult thé latter taking any action. He said, however. that he would make no protest should the President be disposed to make the appointment. Senator-elect Flint wrote to Senator Perkins some days ago, asking that he use his influence to have the appoint- ment held up for the time being, and this letter Senator Perkins laid before the President. The term of office of District Attor- ney Woodworth expires on March 2. Bard will be Senator until March 4, and he insists that his voice should hold good in such matters until that day. Especially shouid it in this case, he says, in view of the strong indorse- ment of his candidate which he has filed and which includes most, if not all, District and Circuit Judges. Some time ago Luther G. Brown of Los Angeles was a candidste to fill the vacancy then existing as Assistant | United States Attorney under Wood- worth. His candidacy was championed by Representative McLachlan. Sena- tor Bard refused to indorse Brown. So | did Woodworth. This, Senator Bard thinks, is the reasqn for opposition to the reappointment of Woodworth. Robert T. Devlin of Sacramento, for- mer State Senator, is a candidate for }the place and in case Woodworth does | not get the appointment at once it Is understood that Devlin will receive the support of Senator Perkins. The Sena- ator says Woodworth is a candidate for Judge of the Court of Claims and | was mentioned for the judgeship in the new district pioposed to be created. He refuses to indorse him as a candi- date for so many offices. VERMONT SHERIFF BALKS AT HANGING A WOMAN | Execution of Death Sentence of Mrs. [ Rogers Given in Charge of ! a Deputy. Vt., Jan. 30.—Sherift Peck has wilted at the prospect of | hanging Mary Rogers for the murder | of her husband and one of his depu- | tles, named Lovell, who has officiated at nine hangings, will execute the murderess. | Volumes of letters threatening the | life of Peck have been received. To- i day a petition was presented to the | Supreme Court asking for a stay ; pending the examination of newly dis- | covered evidence touching upon the | alleged line of insane progenitors of | the woman and her own mentality. | This is the last chance for the woman, who murdered her husband in cold | blood. X — | charge; confidence game, thirty-nine | cases; obtaining money under false pre- tenses, thirty-nine cases; larceny as | bailee, two cases; forgery, two cases; | perjury, twenty-seven cases; practicing | medicine illegally and hypnotism as an | winDsor, " | aid to alk the other crimse. | The following s a list of amounts he |1s said to have obtained from his vic- | tims. It is belleved by the police that | he has much money saved: | Mrs. Marie Welker, died 1905, $250. | Mrs.Emily, Fischer deserted 1905, $750. ! Mrs. Anna Hendrickson, deserted 1904, $500. Mrs. | $4000. |° Mrs. | $1800. | '™ \ Marije Steinbrecker, died 1896, Martha Herefeldt, deserted 1895, Barmeister (Mrs. Herefeldt's sis- | ter), swindled out of $800. | Mrs.. Mary Schultz of Argos, Ind., | died 1900, $2030. Mrs: Mary Becker of St. Louis, died 1903, $1000. Mrs. Jacob Huss of Wheeling, W. Va., | dled 1897, $2500. ster rs. J. H. 'wartzmann of ‘ Sister of Mrs. J. H. Sch Milwaukee, died 1897, $1200. | “otal, $14,500. i beforey from San Francisco. an agent money from the The four accused Senators 5 corporation. declare they dre innocent. IN THE UPPER HOUSE OUR men elected to the Senate of the Golden State have been accused of accepting a bribe from a corporation. Senators Wright, Emmons, French and Bunkers. These men are Wright is from San Jose, Emmons from Bakersfield and French and Bunkers Their accuser is William Corbin, secretary of the Continental Building and Loan Association, who was haled before the Senate yesterday to shew cause why he should not be punished for contempt for disobeying an order directing him to appear before a Senate committee with the books of the corporation. Senators; ' members of the committee appointed to investigate the Continental Building and Loan Association, of demanding through Corbin further said that the investigation of his concern was the result of a conspiracy en- gineered by the San Francisco Examiner against Dr. Washington Dodge, Assessor of San Francisco and president of the corporation. Corbin detended his action by accusing the four FRENCH o JURYMAY PRAYS FiR NSPIRATION RENO, Jan. 30.—After being out six- ty-four hours while standing eleven for conviction of murder in the second de- gree to one for acquittal, the jury in the case of Al Linderman was dis- charged from custody to-day. Linderman, with three companions, was charged with murdering Jack ‘Welch on a freight train near Winne- mucca two years ago. About three weeks ago his companions were found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. Linderman made several confessions to the crime and his own admissions placed him as much in the wrong as the condemned men. Despite the strong evidence, one Juror held out from first to last for ac- quittal. His name is George Smith. He claims that he received an inspira- tion from God that Linderman is in- nocent and voted accordingly.” Every time his fellow jurors would plead with him Smith would retire to a cor- ner and pray for a few minutes and re- turn with the announcement that the divine power told him to stand firn:. Linderman’s case was transferred here from. Humboldt County on & change of venue and his trial has ai- ready cost that county a large sum of money. His home is in Stockton, Cal. He has a long criminal record, at one time having been arrested in Fresno County. —_——— Colima Volcano Again Active. CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 30.—The volecano of Colima is again active. Streams of dark smoke are issuing from the volcano daily, apparently from openings considerably below the crater. lies in the formation of a new crater which would permit dischary of lava. % > A 5 5 > + STOCKTON ATTORNEY FOUR SENATORE WHO WERE BY WILLL L TS T A ZLl WRIGHT ——e YESTERDAY ACCUSED IN AN AFFIDAVIT MADE AM CORBIN, SECRETARY OF THE CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, OF ACCEPTING A BRIBE. Solons Reel Und by Astoundi er Shock Caused ng Affidavit. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 30.—Scandal, ugly as any that has biackened the po- litical fame of the State, broke in the Senate at ncon to-day. Senators Har- ry Bunkers of the Eighteenth District, San Francisco; Frank French of the Twentieth District, San Francisco; Eli Wright of the Twenty-seventh Dis- trict, San Jos¢, and E. J. Emmons of the Thirty-second District, Bakersfield, “ stand before the bar of the upper house, accused of the'crime of bribery. ‘Willlam Corbin, secretary. of the Con- tinental Building and Loan Associa- tlon of San 'Francisco, is their ac- cuser. Purged of contempt of which he was charged by the Committee on Com- missions and Retrenchment, composed of the accused ‘legislators, Corbin stands to-night the master .of a situa- tion so quickly turned that it has Ieft 1 his prosecutors aghast in contemplation {of the journey that lies between them and . exoneration if indeed they may succeed in coming out free men. This morning these four Senators stood together as a court to determine | the merits of the charges against Wil- {liam F. Corbin of the Continental | Building and Loan Association and its other officers and agents, . preferred . against them by the San Francisco Ex- .aminer. To-night they stand shorn of power, disgraced at least for the hour, . defending themselves against naked | charges of felony that if proved will {'send them all to the penitentiary, bar- | ring the interference of that oft exerted force that saves men worse than they. from the fate the law provides. The breaking of to-day’s -scandal marks the beginning, politicians say, of the greatest war that has ever been Continued on Page 2, Column 7. HURLS A BOMBSHELL . Defends His Client by Making Charges GaReRyY SACRAMENTO, Jan. 30.—The climax of a morning of busy discussion of the merits of bills in the Senate came at of two assistant sergeants at arms, was taken before the bar of the Senate. “Mr. President,” said one of the offi- cers, “Mr. Corbin is at the bar of the Senate.” over the assemblage and for a' moment every one seemed confused. One of the pages took in the situation, however, and without waiting to find . if his course was proper, carried a chair up seated. the clerk, in obedience to the direction of the chair, began to read the reason under which the warrant for Corbin’s arrest was issued. The reading of the resolution had just been concluded when Corbin was Yoined by his attorney, Frank D. Nicol, who, in addition to practicing law, fills the office of president of the First Na- tional Bank of Stockton. Senator Selvage arose and move that Corbin and his attorney be per- mitted the privileges of the floor. This was granted and then Leavitt moved thgt Corbin be called upon to give such ibe punished for contempt. | Nicol rose and said: ‘“‘Senators of California: Before the sun sets to-day in the golden cup of the West, I have reason to believe, the eyes and ears of the State will be centered here as they have not been befor since the session opened. William Cor- bin is here in answer to your demand |to éxplain why he did not obey the Attorney noon when William Corbin, in custody | Corbin turned and swept his eyes | to the desk and asked Corbin to be | This relleved the strain and | reasons as he could why he should not | subpena heretofore issued by your Committee on Commissions and Re- trenchments. BIDING HIS TIME. “He disobeyed this subpena 2’ the direction of his counsel. and if his counsel was in error, he meant no con- fession on his part that he did not | have full confidence in his ability to maintain his honor in any investiga- tion that might arise. In disobeying | this subpena, he meant no disrespect, { no contempt, but he bided his time that | he might appear before the Senate sit- ting in general session and explain | his position. “We maintain that this Senate has no common law power, no nower to | issue processes or hale before it any | person or corporation it may wish un- 1‘der a blanket subpena. There are no | { statutes that grant it such powers they only exist by surmise. It would be a manifest injustice to compel Mr. Corbin and the association he repre- sents to bring two carloads of books to Sacramente and suspend its business | while the committee investigated its | mode of business at its leisure. There | must be some specific proceeding upon which the Legislature wishes to act before its processes become effective | and this view is sustained by opinions of many of the highest courts of the land.” Nicol here quoted various authori- ties sustaining his position and thern proceeded: “Why is Mr. Corbin here before the bar of this Senate to-day? I dare say there are few people in the State who have not heard of the Continental Building and Loan Association, of which this respondent is secretary and manager. It was organized in 1889 with a capital stock of $20,000,000, of which $17,000,000 was subscribed and $3,170,000 actually paid in. It has erected 1800 homes in California and has aided in the erection of 1600 more. It has paid its stockholders more than $2,500,000. Only recently it was under special Investigation of the Building land Loan Commissioners, who de- clared the corporation to be absolutely solvent and in a position to pay dollar for dollar and more on its Habilities. % CORBIN'S AFFIDAVIT. | “Notwithstanding this fact, articles | have been published against all truth | that have alarmed ‘those having inter- I ests in the corporation. As you welt | know, such acts on the part of men ; startle the community and finance be- | comes frenzied. One member of the Building and Loan Commission sits ere and he aided in the investigation | that established the solvency of the | Continental. Now I wish to give you the reasons which inspired the attack hat has led to the presenhce here to- | day of Mr. Corbin, and in this line I | will read his affidavit. It is as fol- lows: ' = Willlam Corbin, being duly sworn, deposes he is the secretary' of the hat he is the William Corbin who was sub- | penaed to appear before a meeting of the Continued on Page 2, Column 1.