The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-08
TOLLS TIGHTEN
ABOUT M00RHEAD
MURDER SUSPECT
Several Links in the Chain AL.
ready Well Forged-Car-
penter Suspected

OASTAROlY METHODS USED
AROUSED THE COMMUNITY
Young Woman Was Nearly an Eve.
Witness to the Awful Tragedy
Quarrel, Blood Stains and Other
Evidence Has Been Gathered.
Fargo, N. D.. Sept. S.-The coils a.s
tightening about the neck Oh: Fran
kethman, carpenter, of 1886 Ninta
street north, Fargo, suspected of mur-
dering DR.. Thrond S. Egge at Moor
head about 11:20 Monday night.
C1rcumstantial, as we'll as positive
evidence. has been collected against
! the man who was arrested in Fargo
early yesterday morning by Acting
Captain of Police Mullin and Officer
Mclean of Fargo. assisted by City
Attorney Witherow and Officer Erick-
son of Moorhead.
The inquest into the cause of the
Moorhead Doctors death was started
this morning at $3.50 o'clock. The
only new evidence was secured from
j. w. Bronson. a jag wagon driver,
and Officer Crossman, the Moorhead
policeman who received the call at
the station after the murder.
Bronson testified that he was in
front Of the Morrow livery barn when
kethman came up and asked him to
take him home. This was at about
1880 o'clock and it was twenty min
utes later when they reached his
home.
Officer Crossman told of having
passed Kethman in front of a whole
sale liquor house while on his way
to the scene of the crime and that at
that Il emKethman's hands were COW
cred with blood.
Who Found the Body,
The body was found by Harry o.
and Leroy Larson, brothers, who
passed the scene of the crime within
few minutes after the murder oc-
CURED, and who called the police.
! So brutal was the attack and so
! vicious was the punishment inflicted
on the victim that the police were at
first inclined to believe that it was
the work Of lunatic. That they were
right to a certain extent has been
determined, for revenge and robbery
were two motives of the crime that
were unearthed by the police of
Moorhead. assisted by the officers of
Fargo.
| Pockets We're Riaed.
When found the pockets of the de-
ceased were turned inside out and
what money and valuables were with.
in were missing. In addition, his val
liable watch had been torn from his
vest pocket and his knights of Pyth-
las pin was stolen.
None of these articles were found
on Frank Kethman, who was after
| wards arrested, and it is supposed by
the police that as Kethman went
across the south bridge, if he COM
mitted the murder. that he dropped
these articles into the Red river.
| 1t Is believed that If he took these
articles to steal them some trace of
them would have been found, but al
though most diligent search was in
stituted by the Moorhead police under
the direction of Chief Ole Malvey, who
returned yesterday, nothing was
found.
Found Cap and Badge.
1t is known that the white cap or
hat that Kethman wore in the parade
on Labor day was found on the course
that he took coming to Fargo after the
crime was committed. 1t is also known
that the badge " ich he wore in the
parade was found, and it is also known
that the coat he wore when arrested,
but that the former coat was stained,
and that these stains are undoubtedly
those of blood. 1t is further stated
that blood from DR.. Egge's body was
compared with that found on Keith
man, and that 1t is the same.
induced In Personalities.
1t is known that Kethman and DR..
Egge met in Walters saloon. The
two engaged in playful wrestling
match, during which Kethman, who
is smaller than the doctor, was
thrown. Kethman displayed bad
temper, and said in sneering way:
"Well, suppose you are attending
many cases of glanders just now" in
timating that the doctor was a horse
doctor.
The doctor replied: "Well, I al
ways tnOuSnC you were pretty bum
carpenter at that"
Left in Angry Manner.
Kethman was plainly angry at the
remark and left the saloon soon after
and that was the last seen of him by
DR.. Egge until the attack was made.
1t is understood that the two had some
dispute arising out of some carpenter
work that Kethman had done for the
doctor, and almost every time they
met Kethman would bring up some-
thing connected with the case.
Alp'c an Eve ,vstness.
About II o'clock Monday night, Miss
Lillian Wright, daughter of A. ].
Wright, who resides in that neighbor-
hood, was returning home from spend
ing the evening with friend. When
she reached her fathers house she
found the door locked, and although
she rang the bell. she was unable to
arouse the family. She decided to
wait for her father. whom she knew
would soon appear.
She noticed a man near the corner
of the two streets acting In a most
lSuspicious manner. He would concaal