The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-17
MUCH WEEPING.
The Latest Case OF Minnie Wal
lace Walkup- Ketcham
Attended by the Usual Dramatic
Proceedings.
BREAKS DOWN AND SOBS
This Time Attorney Hansen
Creates the Interest
Previous to Saturdays Settle
ment Out of Court.

Additional interest was given in the
Minnie Wallace multiplication case
at Chicago by the announcement late
Saturday afternoon that the suit of At
torney Hansen for $4,000 legal fees had
been settled out of court. An adjourn
ment had been taken till Tuesday of
this week.
The details of the testimony previous
to the adjournment and settlement are
unusual and have the same dramatic
features that have attended numerous
legal phases of the career of the re-
markable woman in the case.
Chicago papers in their reports say:
Tears fell plentifully in Judge Tut
hills court They came from Dethlef
Q. Hansen's eyes. Hansen was on the
witness stand, plaintiff in a suit for
$4,000, brought against Mrs. Minnie
Wallace Multiplication for counsel
fees before and after the death of her
husband, John B. Ketcham in 1897.
Hansen's face was worn and his eyes
bloodshot; he twisted his fingers, rolled
his handkerchief and sent his voice out
in high unnatural tones. He told of his
efforts to secure the Ketcham estate for
the woman he called his client
"One day she said to me, Dear yes,
she called me dear the last word
was buried in a Sob Hansen with his
face in his hands wept. The defendant
waved her fan and glanced at the wit
ness, who seemed tormented by her
cold presence The plaintiff then broke
out with: She said If you get me
through this You'll never have to prac-
tice law gain. I'll give you half the
estate. F."
ONLY WANTED FAIR COMPENsA-
TON.
He continued his testimony, crying
all the time
Il said. Minnie. I couldn't take that.
I want only what I earned >"
Hansen's attorney, Hugo Pam, ex-
planned to the court that Hansen was
intensely nervous and that he had not
slept all night
The first anguish in the plaintiff was
visible when he said that he had once
wanted Judge Shope to dine with Mrs.
Ketcham, and Mr.. Trude, attorney for
the defendant, asked 'Why?"
Because returned Hansen, Il want
ed to save her notoriety. couldn't have
her downtown dining and be stared at"
He wiped his eyes with a handker-
chief and between wipes stared at the
defendant. Then with sobs here and
there he proceeded:
Il earned the $4,000; fought any
number of lawyers all alone and Mr..
Trude, hiatt man there, complimente1
me on the way handled the case"
Once Mr.. Trude interrupted with
You took everything from Mrs Ketcn-
ans house-her love letters, the letters
of her mother. dead friends, and every
thing else
I did not! I did not!" screamed Han
sen, half rising from the chair
Yes. you did; you stole them, and
am here to defend her as strongly as I
would Mrs. Potter Palmer or any other
woman in the land
The defendant might have moved an
eye-lash; it was not noticed, however;
her fan caressed the air and a white
rose fiuttered in her hat. That was the
extent of her emotion during the day.
Hansen told more about the secret
marriage of the scorn of the wife for
the husband. how detectives had fol-
lowed his client, and that he had adj
yised her never to go where she would