Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-09-14
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.
Keener Case Grows more and
more Interesting as the
Days Go by.

More Notes come to Light-The names
of the New Victims are being learned
The Operations take in not only the
Larger fish but the small Fry as well
are Netted-The amount of the gain
is Thirty Thousand as ut first Sup
posed--The Steps taken to apprehend
Major--Pittsburg Paper tells of that
End of the Story Mrs. Keener there.
Her Husband leaves and says he has
Lost the Money.
The Keener matter is still the
topic of general conversation. The
impression is firmly fixed that the
whole thing is a great plan to gold
brick the business men who are in
on notes and other forms of Keener's
Indebtedness and they are in conse-
quence very hot over it.
Mrs. Keener has gone to Pittsburg
and was with her husband there at
a friends on Fifth avenue She
called up Morgantown Tuesday
night at eight o'clock and had
long talk with some friends here.
She stated that her husband had
left the city on Tuesday morning at
seven o'clock for some point I'M
known to her and that he stated
that he had lost his money or had
been robbed.
However this part of the story is
not believed at all He may have
told her the fairy tale but all the
circumstances which have come to
light and are still being fshed up
are such that there is but one con
clusion and that is that the plan has
been Matching for months possibly
year and that every detail of it has
been carefully planned out
Whoever the plotters are besides
the Major are not known but they
will all be in for a salty dose when
the law gets hold Of them. The peo-
pie who have been victimized or at
least part of them are determined
to have justice done if there is any
way to reach the fugitive and they
claim that they have.
Cox and Baker have been in CON
.sultation with Roger O'Mara, of
Pittsburg, and he has agreed to pro-
duce Keener if he is any where in
the United States for three hundred
dollars. Several of the creditors
have signed an agreement to get
him back if they have to pay five
hundred so that it looks as if some
arrests were likely to follow soon.
A description of the wanted man
and his photograph have been sent
to O'Mara who is chief of police at
Pittsburg and he is now on the hunt
OF the missing man. That he will
be located and brought back is al
most certain.
The lawyers here are divided in
opinion as to what can be done with
Keener. Some say that there can be
nothing done but the later circum-
stances which are being developed
show that he has committed very
plain case of false pretense. The
lawyers who have charge of the mat
ter for the creditors say they will
without doubt land him behind
the bars of the penitentiary and that
they are not at all perplexed at the
simple task ahead of them.
The names of the creditors and
the amounts that they have lost are
becoming better known while the
aggregate amount of the swindle is
about the same as at first reported.
More notes are turning up in every
direction to make up the total of
$4,000 which he had in his clothes
when he left Philadelphia and which
he now has or knows where it is To-
Gated.
The statement yesterday contain
ed typographical error in that it
said that the bank had ten thous-
and dollars worth Of notes to collect.
1t should have been plural. The
banks OF the town have that much
paper but it will not cost them a
cent as the notes were merely given
to them for collection and the men
who have deposited them have in
most cases ample security. Where
they have no security of course they
will have to lose and the banks viii
not be out anything on the deal.
The statement has been made it is
said by Frank Raymond that Keen
er will be here this evening from
Pittsburg but whether or not he will
turn up is problematical. He is not
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