Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-06
HANDSOME FACE,
DIAMOND RING,
BROKE UP HOME
Suspicious Wife Becomes Sleuth
and Causes Arrest of ket-
tenrIng and Rose Friedman.
HE HAD TWO HOMES,
SHE TELLS THE COURT
Real Spouse, Becoming Sus.
picious, Trails Him to Other
Apartment.

Up to the time that Walter Ketten-
ring went into the automobile busi-
ness and saw 5000 diamond ring he
lived as conjugally with his wife Clara
as the most fastidious moraifst could
wish.
He became an auto demonstrator, and
while riding one day saw the $500 De
Beers on the finger of pretty Rose
Friedman Now he's under bonds for
$1,000, awaiting hearing next Friday
on a charge of desertion and intimacy
with the Girl of the Ring" besides.
The story grows the more compli-
Gated because Mrs. Clara Kettenring
charges that her husband got the ring
from the girl who got 1t first from her
own step-brother. whom she once
agreed to marry and then threw down.
Otherwise it is a simple tale, beginning
in Plainfeld. thus:
The Kettenrings were married nine
years ago Mrs. Kettenring told JUS
tice Henry Bossett, who issued the war
rant, that no twain were over half 30
happy as they were-with a Daby girl
and all that--until last June, when
Walter, the husband, accepted a posi-
ton with the Morton Automobile Com
pany in this town.
He got to be a fine demonstrators
with the automobile; in fact, so hne
his wife says, that he used to demon
strate 1t at all hours Of the day anu
nigh. first alone and then with the
"Girl of the Ring"
| He was proving that one OF his cont
pany's cars could run as well by dark
as daylight, his wife says, when ne
/ first met Miss Friedman She works
In a department store, near the Four
Corners. and she is % at the very
most She was able to be wearing the
ring because her father had settled
some $500 on his stepson, who, having
1 been turned down as a fiance, had
wanted the grand Jewel back.
So Mrs. Kettenring says that Walter
her husband, glimpsed first at the pref
ty face of the girl and then at the
blazing diamond, and the combination
caused him to put the brake down SO
that the machine stopped right in front
of where she stood.
Joy-Riding Continually, She Says.
plant that the couple were joy-r1ding
continually. while she was left deso-
late in the home, at 29 Court street
that used to be so happy A couple OF
times, she admits. her husband did
come back-once with the diamond rine
on his little finger and with such ten
der vows of constancy that he even
let her wear 1t for the evening-but
took 1t back before she went to bed.
The ring and his continued absences
and the talk she had heard made Mrs
Kettenring more or less perturbed
: Finally she constituted herself pri-
vate detective and went around sleuth-
ing to find out who gave her man the
ring. 1t wasn't a hard job in the slight
est, for about the fourth night of he,
: sleuthing she says she stood yelled
and muff1ed outside well-knowr
: apartment house in lower Market
street and saw her husband bound Ut
: in one of his demonstrating motor cars
with Rose Friedman, whom he took
into the apartment house, with the
jewel still blazing on his finger
Husband Had Taken Apartment.
She says she saw them go into the
same apartment house a couple OF
times, and then learned that her hus-
band had taken an apartment there
and had been living there mostly since
he left her.
But she has been puzzled about q
young man who had been haunting
that nefghborhood as we'll as herself
and she went up and inquired Of him
one night what his business was. He
: said that he was Rose Friedmans
brother and was waiting to get a
chance to bring her home. He said he
had been on the hunt for her much
longer than Mrs. Kettenring had been
hunting for her husband, and said that
his parents were pretty nearly heart
broken. Since Rose cannot go back
home he is aiding Mrs. Kettenring II
was partly due to his testimony that
the girl, as well as the man, was held
in $500 bail when they We're arrested
Saturday.
Both deny the charge and both say
they can prove their innocence.