Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — HOCH GETS REPRIEVE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOCH GETS REPRIEVE.

Bigamist and Convicted Wife-Slayer Saved by Money. Six hundred dollars in cash loosened the hangman’s noose from the neck of Johann lioch in Chicago Friday and ____ . saved the life of the

arch bigamist and convicted wife poisoner. Iloch, denouncing law as a fake and cursing justice, was preparing for the march to the gallows. Within a stone’s throw of the death chamber a man, hitherto a stranger in the cele-

brated case, held a check for sooo to the gaze of State's Attorney Healy. Hoch had SIOO of his own. The wires that carry messages of joy and sorrow with the lightning’s speed did the rest. Over the telephone to Springfield, into the listening ear of the Governor of the State, went the tidings that Johann Hoch, Convicted murderer, had been provided with the means to pay for an appeal of his caiV Co the Supreme Court. Back over the wires came a reprieve from Gov. Deneen. Hangman s day for Johann Hoch was set ahead to another Friday—Aug. 25. Hoch, after all, was to have the chance of running the legal gamut which he had declared was open only to the man with money. “That’s the stuff; get money and buy justice,” was the cynical comment of the condemned man as his lawyer waved the life-giving treasury notes the check had brought before his beady eyes. This is Hoeh’s second respite, and the alleged Bluebeard asserts that he is not guilty of murder and that he will never die on the gallows.

JOHANN HOCH.