Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-20
SEARCH CONTINUES FOR
 MISSING BRIDE AT LAKE

h1SS4NN AT LAKE
 The Connecticut state police are in Vestigatfng the strange disappearance of Mrs. John D. Kettelle. a bride of four days, who vanished from the hon eymoon camp at Lake Mashapaug, Union, last Tuesday. Her husband, A years old and Harvard graduate, is lnslstent that his bride was drowned in the lake, while the officials of the town of Union are just as insistent that Mrs. t<ettelle's body is not in the lake as their repeated efforts to recover it by the dragging method have failed, and | advance the theory that she left when in a fit of depression.
 T was Investigating the case. Sum- day" said Superintendent Robert Hur ley of the state police department Mon- day. Another man will be assigned to the case. There have not been suf- hcient developments in the case for me to venture a public opinion in that mat ! ter. There are three elements in the Case to be investigated: Whether the young woman was drowned and if so whether intentionally Or unintentional- | ly whether, if she was not drowned She disappeared and the cause of this l disappearance and whether there was any criminal action in the case. We have not gone far enough in the inves- tigation to be in a position to venture an opinion now.'
 ] The interest of the state police de- apartment lends a new aspect to the case, and furnishes speculation as to whether the disappearance of the girl wife was voluntary act on her part or whether some outside agency had q hand in the mystery, eliminating of course, the contention of MT. Kettere that his bride was accidently drowned in the lake. There is, of course, the possibility of kidnapping, which, while not considered seriously in Union, is undoubtedly in the minds of the state police in considering the criminals ele- nent in the thing.
 Mrs. Kettelle was formerly Miss No- rah Eugenia Johnson, and they were married at Central Falls, N. Y, Friday, Sept. g. F. A. Magoun of No. 70 Kirk land street, Cambridge, Mass, and own CT of a camp at Lake Aashapaug. is an intimate friend of Kett He, and tender ed the use of the camp to the newly weds. Kettelle contends that not a
 cloud marred the skies of their happi
 ness while at the camp, and when he had discovered that his bride had dis. appeared he searched her effects at the
 camp and found all her outer garments
 there, the only articles missing being g
 bathing suit and her shoes and stock
 
 moorings, and it was later found float
 ing near one of the islands in the lake | | l'The supposiaon is advanced by MT | Magoun that the bride landed the boa ! at one of the isl9nds for the purpose O having a swim, and that when the boa was blown from the island she attempt ed to recover it by swimming after i and was drowned. He agrees with MT l Kettelle that the great deDth of tin, I 1E-a+ ip -;o;,, oe 41-a g the presence in the lake of many stump
 of trees has prevented the recovery O l the body by the customary draggin: 2 methods.
 d Mrs. Kettelle disappeared from cam . when her husband went to the villag s to order ice. He was absent about tw q hours and when he returned and foun = his wife and the boat missing he start . II ed in search of her, enlisting aid in tn t t search when he found the unoccupie boat and his wife missing. Coastabl g Hathaway of Union, who joined in tn O search for the missing woman and di
 rected the efforts made in the draggin = of the lake, stated that he had with e drawn from the case, having turned tn = investigation over to the state polio, e It was Constable Hathaway wh l. aroused condemnation by Mir. Kettell
 with the assertion that tke bride ha
 disappeared from her home for a wee
 four years ago "The statement is IT
 true" said Mir. KetteIle. There \ nothing to show that my wife was If victim of aphasia.'
 IS Mrs. Kettelle was born Tn Allsto ie Mass, and lived for several years r. Arlington. She was graduated fro S. Radcliffe in 1920 and was teach5r TT school in Middleboro when she W; r. married to Kettle. There is a belf E prevalent in Union that the girl mig 10 have wandered into the woods near Il ce lake and Is in hiding there. but the ne have been found no footprints 10 gi' d. basis to such a theory. Constab is Hathaway said Monday that because cs repairs being made on bridge it w ck necessary to close the gates and ts
 fake is not now being drained. and ho had no Knowledge whether this wou le iSs done despite the assertion last we I'd that such action would be taken to q ys termine definitely whether the girl h H. been drowned.