The age-herald., 1897-11-19
WOMAN THE MASTER
 MAN THE SLAVE


 worth doing at all. All women are not 1 of the adventurous kind. but those who
 have employed the occupation of ad- venturers are mostly women. A very
 sensational case developed in Chicago the day before yesterday. A wealthy banker of Toledo. John Borden Keteh-
 um is the dead victim. A few years ago Ketchum was worth several million dol- l lars. He married one of the most beau 1 tiful girls in Toledo. and she brought | her husband a handsome fortune in her own right. Ketchum went the pace that | kills. In the course of two years, there was divorce. His family was at the l top notch of Toledo society. He after ward married another rich Toledo girl. l Another divorce followed. Ketehum 1 changed his base of opera tions from To- | ledo to Chicago. A few months ago he met Mrs. Mabel Wallace Wallzup. The Wallace woman had a history. She was l once a. Creole belle of New Orl5ans. She
 was exclusively of that very much over admired race. Creole women are nice to l look upon. They live in the air. They l are not practical. As women they are l beautiful. As wives they are failures. Creole sociaty is not as 1t is supposed 1 to be. It claims to be the best, when | it is usually the worst. Mrs. Mabel Wallace Walkup was Miss Mabel Wal lace in New Orleans. In 1885, James R. Walkup, then mayor of Emporia, Kan., | went to New Orleans to attend the Mardi Gras festival It was there he l met Miss Mabel Wallace. Her mother kept a lodging house. The Wallaces were poor, but they had Creole blood in their veins. That could be turned into money. They said they belonged to one of the oldest and best'' families in New Orleans. Everybody in New Or leans belongs to the best families. Miss Wallace was beautiful. She had in her teens captured the hearts of some of the 1 most noted men in Louisiana. William Pitt Kellogg, former United States sena- tor, was one of her greatest admirers. The house in which she lives now in Chicago was presented her by MT. Kel- logg. Her beauty-dark, shimmering hair and big brown liquid eyes, fault less form and a face of almost perfect symmetry-gave her a circle of admirers, any one of whom, it is said, would have been glad to have called her wife. She was sixteen, but Walkup was fifty-nine. He was mayor of the Kansas town and claimed to have money, therefore, age was no bar in the Wallace family. The mother and daughter wanted money. Walkup was a widower with four chill dren in Kansas. He fell in love with the naughty Creole belle. He proposed. she accepted. They were married in Covington, Ky, July 22, 1885. Just one month to day from the date of the marriage in Covington, Wallzup died at his home in Kansas. His young wife had bought arsenic in Covington and in Cincinnati. She was placed on trial for murdering her husband. Her beauty captivated the jury and she was ac- quilted. yet all the facts in the case in- dicated that she had poisoned him. The young wife came into possession of over $2CO,0 of the Walkup estate. For four years she travelled abroad, believing that constant change of scenery and countries would do much toward reliev- ing her from the sorrow of the death of her husband. She played her game well. On her return to America she
 
 one of the conspicuous personages in the boulevards. Contrary to the usual type of Creole, her hair in Chicago becamae blonde, while her eyes were black and her complexion peachy. The dye of the hair artist had done it's work Nightly she was seen in the popular cafes which are patronized by both halves of society. It was there she met Ketchum, the To- Tod hop afo
 She had handsome home in Indiana avenue. She invited Ketchum there.
 Two months ago she and Ketchum, she now claims were quietly married in Milwaukee. Ketchum was found dead Tuesday last at the home in Indiana avenue. The city of Chicago has be- come very much worked up over it. The theory is that Ketchum died of poison administered by his new wife. The facts, however, do not exactly warrant this conclusion. Ketchum was a hard drinker. For months and months he positively refused to be sober The autopsy has developed the fact that he more than likely died from the excessive use of alcohol. Ketchum was clay in the hands of the Creole woman Two odyS dllSF uiie HlctfIldS0 III MllWaukSe, he made his will bequeathing all his property to Mrs. Mabel Wallace e-Walk- pKetchum. Since the death of Ketch- um, another peculiar phase in the case has arisen. Mrs. Ketchum's butler now claims to be the real husband of the dashing blonde Creole. He makes the claim that he was employed by Ketch- um to impersonate the latter at the wedding, and did so by having his face very much concealed in scarf during the ceremony. The Creole is reported to have been drinking a great deal at the time of the wedding. Ketchum Mrs. Walkup and the butler went to Milwau- kee together. Ketchum, his drunken stupor, may have had occasional lucid moments. While in this condition he might have thought a job was being puts upon him, whereupon he suggested to fthe butler that he take his place at the marriage alter. This the butler now claims that he did. Ketchum had | 1.~J