The evening times., 1897-11-19
THE KETCHAM MYSTERY
Slew Progress Made in Efforts
to Solve Ii.
THE WALLACE STORY SHAKEN
Four Witnesses Found ut Milwau-
kee, Where the Alleged Marriage
Is Said to Have Taken Place. VINO
Declare the Groom on That Occa.
sion Was Not John b. Ketcham.

Chicago Nov. 1a.-The mystery as 10
who Mrs. Minnie Walkup Wallace really
married is as yet unsclved. A Milwaukee
dispatch ssys that unless reliable persons
in that city are woefully mistaken. Mrs
Wallace never married John b. Ketchan.,
the deceased cIulsman, whose estate she
now claims.
According To the positive statements IF
two persons, ard according to the best bclief
of two others, the woman with the dark hi ir
married Il man much shorter than he was.
Tom Riley, the hackman, who drove the
couple 10 the Rev. j. P. Roberts to be mar
rird, describes the bridegroom In the strange
affair as "a little sawed off fellow foot
shorter than the woman
Miss Anna Miersch, who witnessed TIE
ceremony. declares, too, that the man was
much shorter than the woman, SO much
shorter, ,tha she exclaimed to herself, wv hat
IA li,tl. man to marry such large, fine
looking woman"
Mr.. ketcham was fuliyfive feet te n inches
in height, while Mrs. Wallace is not nor:
than five feet six inches. Accordingly, be-
tween the description Of the bridegroom "f
September 24andthe true ketchamtherei IS
II difference of more than one foot in height.
No one nehasideptifiedth the pictureuf Ketcha.a
as that of the groom.
Although Joseph Keller, the butler, is
smaller tGau Il he widow, IL is almost certain
that he vas not substituted fol- Mr.. hetch
an. All the actors in the remarkable wed
ding say 20 the best of their belief the
man who was icinedin we,l!ock had nc i:id-
stache. r!rs W. A. HuTsberger, one Of tae
witnesses, declares positively groGm
had no mustGche.
ALI tgree that the principal In the secret
nuptials was really a very sick man. his
face was tliiu, drawn and haggard. lie
LOOK ed dasthouehhc had suff cred furmouths.
Keller lUui-s, and has for months past,
been well and healthy. Further, from al
available Information, the butler stnyr
behind at the Flankinton House while the
ceremony was being performed.
He settled the bill for "A. b. Young, wife
and servant, Boston," as the trio appeared
upon the register.
Ton Riley, tie Milwaukee hack driver.
says that it was about $50 O'Clock on the
morning ,.r September "a, when he Wa
With her was 4 man, who seemed daze,i.
She did all the talking. The hack was
driven uc the home of the Rev. W. A.
Humble ger. but a. he was not horne the
Rev Mr. Roberts was sent for.
The man in the hack was helped out, and
after the marriage was helped in again
and tie woman seemed very cheerful, al
though her husband did not saya word.
The otrer parties to the mysterious
wedding were tile Rev. Mr.. Roberts, Mis-
W. A Hunsi,erger, the wife of the absent
minister, at whose home the maria ge took
place: A ma Micrsch, a servant in Ia house
who acted as a witness, and May DaGSh
ertv, steBocrapher. who acted as tie
second witness.
Miss MieIsch corrJborateS very positively
the tes;imon; of the hackman with regard
to the height of the bridegroom. The other;
ais, say that he was a small man. None cf
the witnesses could identify Ketotam's
butler, was the man who played the -nle II
bridegroom.
"A y. Young, Wife and servant" appears
upon the register at the Pkinkinton HO.;se
Mi!weuke.:, on September %, but between
Young, wife and servant there evidently ex
listed Il strange degree of familiarity. lie
thee occupied the same room at the hotel
over night. There was an alcove Curtain,
off from the main room, and this contained
Il bed. but still the free and easy style OF
living oocasioned some comment.