Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-20
LITTLE DOUBT THAT MILWAUKEE,
WEDDING WAS SQUARE.
POLICE ABANDON THE CASE.
WAS VERY LITTLE WARRANT FOR
THEIR INTERFERENCE.
Mrs. Ketchnm Asserts That She, We'd
ded the Clubman Only After
Long ImpOrtuninEs-CorO-
ncr's Inquest COntin-
ued TIL Monday.

Chicago Nov. 19-Whatever may have
been the nature of the influence which Ma
bic Wallace ketcham eNerted over John
b. Ketcham. little doubt seems to remain
that they We're actually married at Mil
waukee.
Numerous witnesses are ready to swear
that for over two years ketcham's infatua-
ton for the woman was complete, and that
he begged her times without number to be-
come his wife. Their relations began be-
fore Nettie Poe Ketcham secured divorce.
Mrs. Ketcham related yesterday the story
OF her life with John ketcham. and did not
spare herself in the telling. She saw him
for the first time while returning from Eu-
rope in 1891. From the first he seemed deep
ly in love with her, and soon pleaded with
her to allow him to get divorce and marry
her. Their relations became known to the
wife and led to the divorce.
Il did not care to marry him.. declared
Mrs Ketcham for | did not think he
would make a good husband, and. though
he often pleaded with me, l refused to be-
come his wife. But finally l became con-
WINGED that he meant to spend the re-
mainder of his life with ME and l came
to depend much upon him. He wanted me
to be married in Chicago. but l told him
went to Milwaukee. He had loved me
for nearly three years. and do you thlnk IL
so very strange he married me? IL was
our intention to go TO Europe as soon as
possible. l knew John was likely 70 pc
very sick for long time. but that ne
would die never entered my mlnd.
1T is true that l denied the house to
some of his boon companions who were
dragging him down. I had a right to do do
so, 1t is my house; But his brother VIII
the doors always open for him and John
family. When he became so very sick
urged him to let me send for his mother.
md fny6 I, i'm 7 H1-nrr
he could see her alone"
The police have dropped the case. and
there seems to have been little warrant for
their presumptious interference. Without
warrant of law and apparently at the in
stitCtion of no one in particular. they
dragged Joseph Keller, the butler, from
the house, carted him from station 10 sta
ton and threatened and terroriZed him
for two days to make him confess he had
aiGed the woman in a criminal scheme.
p 1t was onl-after Attorney Jacob Kern
had read the riot act TO the police that
Ripley produced Keller. The butler is con-
fined to his bed owing to the Treatment
he received through Lieutenant Creighton
"a man whose brutal methods have maue
hin: notorious in Chicago.
When the inquest upon the body of Mr..
ketchaml was resumed to-day, another con-
tinuance was taken until next Tuesday.
This was dore in order to allow the coroner
and the police time 10 go to each of the
drug stores at which medicine was procured
for Ketcham when he was i'll to compare
the prescriptions on file with those now in
the possession oil the physician VINO issued
them. This is to determine if the prescrip-
tions were in any way changed after they
left the hands of DIR. DeVeney.
DIR. Noel. the coroner's physician. has as
vet made no report. either verbal or writ
ten. on the Ketcham case. After making
superficial examination on the day of the
post mortem operation on the stomach. DIR.
Noel remarked that there was a slight
trace of alkaloid. He said it was probably
due TO the medicine ketcham had taken. 1t
is TO settle this point that the examination
of the prescriptions in the different. drug
stores is to be made