New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
WOMAN TURNS ON keller
Dentists Companion for II
Years Tells of Their Rowing Life.
DECEIVED HER, SHE ASSERTS
Prisoner Listens to Her Story In
Silence-Declares He Has
Mrs. Lynch's Money.

Some phases of peculiar career may De
partly disclosed this morning in the Adams
street police court, in Brooklyn, when Dr'
Henry Bradley Keeler. dentist, VINO says
he also is interested in mining ventures,
and Mary Keeler," known for seventeen
years as his wife, Will have TO answer TO a
! charge of grand larceny. The complainant
will be Mrs Wilhelmna Z. Lynch, widow,
of No "a Vernon avenue Brooklyn, whom,
1t is alleged. Keeler married after a Tort
nights courtship. Mrs. Lynch charges that
the dentist swindled her out Of nearly all
her estate of sl3,500 in cash, realized upon
mortgages, and $500 in securities.
The District Attorneys office of Brooklyn
has received communications from several
| other women complaining against keeler.
The Keelers were brought from Detroit
to the Brooklyn detective bureau by De-
tectives Roddy and Murray. For seven
teen years the woman known as Mary
Keeler has shared in his operations and
| travels and defended him from his accus-
ers, but last evening she turned upon him
in the detective bureau when she was told
that he had deceived her about another
woman.
Woman Turns on keeler.
1t was the last straw. she declared, and
| education had impressed Acting Captain
Coughlin and Assistant District Attorney
| Leroy w Ross, after voicing her indigna-
ton frankly told them all they wanted to
know.
| It was the story OF q wandering life amid
the capitals of the Old World. of hurried
journeys through South America of dashes
into Canada and Of flying trips to New Or
| leans and other points in the South.
Through it all Keeler, without dissent, lis
tened silently, his fingers fumbling IN his
waistcoat pockets for something that was
not there. Both are said to be addicted to
the morphine habit.
| keeler is forty-six years old. The woman
is thirty-seven. He had practised dem
! tistry in Chicago, Brooklyn, Detroit and
elsewhere Seventeen years ago he met his
companion, Mary Keller" She came from
Nevada. Five years after their marriage
the woman discovered. she told Mr.. Ross
and the detectives, that the clergyman
who had married them had not been regu-
larly ordained and that in the eyes Of the
law she was not KeelerS wife She safd
| that she had asked him month after month,
for twelve years. to marry her, but that
while he was profuse in promises he never
kept his word.
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weeks in Ocean Grove where they met Mrs
| Lynch, and Kesler became attentive TO her
Two weeks later they were married in
Glens Falls, n. Y, while a trip to the
Adirondacks. During the courtship Mary
Keeler" had posed as keeler's sister He
had induced her 10 do SO, she said, to allay
any suspicious that Mrs Lynch might en-
tertain toward their relations, also explain
ing that he merely was friendly with the
widow in order TO get her to invest in his
Mexican mining ventures" keelers COM
parion did not go to the mountains, and
professed to know Lothing about the mar
riage until last evening, when, upon being
informed of it, she turned upon Keeler.
On Rowing Trip to Europe.
i A few days after the marriage Keeler
and his wife returned to her Brooklyn
home. Keeler got her to turn over to him
mortgages of about $4,000 and bonds, val
ued at $780, Of the Union League Club OF
| Brooklyn. Keeler went to a money lender
in the Temple Bar Building, Brooklyn, and
| accompanied by a representative of this
man visited The Nassau Trust Company,
| of that borough, and got money on several
| mortgages.
/ Meantime Mary Keller drew $50 from
| the East Brooklyn Savings Bank and re-
in Nevada She says that Keeler then tod
| her il was necessary for them to go abroad.
They went to Quebec whence they sailed
for Liverpool visiting thereafter London,
Paris, Strasburg Genoa. Monte Carlo and
| Paris At Monte Carlo Keeier won $50
and the woman lost SIS after winning SIC.
| Tiring of Europe they sailed for Rio
Janeiro, and after journeying from city 20
| city in South America they came up to
New Orleans and thence to Detroit. In De
troit they had lived at 14th street and the
| Grand Boulevard but when they arrived
in that city both were SO nerve broken from
| morphine that they went to the House CT
Providence a sanatorium where each paid
| $40 a week.
| When Mrs. Lynch found that she had
! been swindled she told her story to the
Brooklyn police A description of the couple
was sent broadcast. Detroit detectives on
! Wednesday last saw a woman answering
! the description of Mary Keeer" in that
city, and notified the Brooklyn detective
| bureau Murray and Roddy were sent
there When they arrested Keeler he said
! he had no money with him, but in the lin
ing of his waistcoat they found a $1,000
| bill and in his shoes $500 In bank notes
The Keelers were going under the name
| of ''Rimold,'' a man for whom keeler had
worked as a dentist and the letter "R" was
on all their baggage. They were indicted
for grand larceny on Friday by the Kings
| County Grand Jury. Last night they slept
in an Adams street station cell.
| Before being locked up last night Keeler
sent telegram 10 President George !.
Hamm of the United States National Bank
| ing Company, in Mexico City, telling him
to go to a safety deposit vault there and
get Keeler's money and securities and send
them to Brooklyn. Keeler told Mr. Ross
that nearly all IF Mrs. Lynchs money was
/ in that vault Mary Keller refused ID
| say anything about herself personally Or
! about her family.
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