Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-11-24
BUTLER KELLER.
n IL Alleged That He and Not Keteham
Was Married To Mrs. walkup.

n L. Alleged That He and Not Ketehan
Was Married To Mrs. walkup.
CHICAGO, Nov. is.-Additional mys.
terry is thrown about the case of John
Il. Ketcham with every development
brought forth by the police i'm their
efforts 10 ascertain the facts surround.
ing his death AT the home of Mrs Min.
ME Wallace Walltup. or Ketcham.
Joseph kcllar, the butler at the
home of the woman who now claims
To be- the widow Of Mr.. Ketcham, dis
appeared Tuesday after having been
held for some time by Police Lieuten-
ant Creighton undergoing cross
examination Of the most severe char
actcr regarding the circumstances of
the alleged marriage Of Mrs. Wallace
10 ketcham last September The po-
ice declared that hc had been ques-
toned and allowed 10 depart at 10
o'clock, while as matter of fact
Keller was locked up on a sus-
picion aroused by his own story.
The suspicion has been growing
upon the police as the result
of rumors which started in Milwaukee
that Keller appeared in the role of
bridegroom at the wedding and that he
and not Kctcham stood before the min
lister with his face concealed under the
folds of scarf As the result OF this
suspicion he was held over night and
at IL o'clock Wednesday morning was
driven away in charge of an officer.
He is now held by the police who are
able to produce him at any time he
may be needed.
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bed with nervous prostration, the
ordeal which she has undergone since
the death of Ketcham having been too
much for her strength.
Criminal proceedings are threatened
against Mrs. Minnie Wallace and sew
eral other persons whose names have
not been divulged but who, John Bor.
den Ketchams relatives will charge.
were associated in what they charac.
tcrize as Il conspiracy.
Attorney James b. Purnell. repre-.
senting the dead bankers family. said
Wednesday night that enough evidence
relative to John Il. Ketcham's life i'm
the Indiana avenue house, as well as
the marriage that was performed i'm
Milwaukee last September had been
collected by detectives to make a clear
case of conspiracy against several per-
sons
Il do not care to make charges at
this time" said Mr. Purnell. for we
are long way from the court proceed
ings that will necessarily arise from
kctcham's death, but | will say that
he was victim of "a desperate con
spiracy. / do not mean 10y this that
he met with foul play. His friends do
not contend that he did not die from
natural causes. What we do claim is
that after John went to that
house to live last September he was
virtually prisoner.
His friends were repeatedly denied
ldmittance upon the pretext that he
was not at home. Sometimes the but
Ter would appear at the door and tell
them that John was out; mt other times
the woman, who says she is his widow
would answer for herself. He was
always out according to their version
of his whereabouts, but we know the
contrary was the case. Mrs. Wal
lace did not know, perhaps, that she
was shadowed night and day during
the entire period that John was in her
house and that her every movement
was made known TO the brothers and
sisters who have made up their minds
to contest the mysterious will"
Did you mean to charge that she
would not permit Mr. Ketcham to leave
the house," Mr. Purncll was asked.
That is it exactly" was the lawyers
reply.