t, that they told the
mother of their opinion. She and her husband then went to Newport, where
she made a very careful examination, which resulted in her declaring
that beyond a reasonable doubt the body was that of her daughter. The
woman called at the Cincinnati headquarters and in a long talk with
Chief Deitsch declared that she was fully convinced the body was that of
Ella Markland. Her story of the identification was told at considerable
length and between many sobs.

She said she had been allowed to thoroughly examine the body at Newport
and that she identified it by the peculiar shape of the legs from the
knee down and by the general contour of the breast, waist and limbs. In
talking to the chief she was asked when she had last seen her daughter
and replied that it was New Year's Eve that she last saw her alive. Mrs.
Markland was afterwards found on Ninth Street in Cincinnati, where she
was working as a domestic.

Without question the most sensational clew upon which the detectives had
to work, was the unearthing of a true life story, in which passion and
crime were involved, and which for days promised to bear fruit of a most
sensational character.

This clew was, that the headless body, was that of Francisca Engelhardt,
who had not long ago been married to a Dr. Kettner, who deserted his
first wife in Dakota, and whom she had never seen until he came to
Cincinnati, to marry her, the acquaintance and engagement having been
made through a correspondence advertisement in a Cincinnati newspaper.
The pair were married by Squire Winkler, the girl never knowing that her
husband was a bigamist.

Three months afterward the first wife, at Mitchell, S. D., heard that
her husband had married a woman in Cincinnati. She wrote but received no
answer, then came on to Cincinnati, and on finding that the report of
her husband being again married was true, she sued for divorce.

FLED TO LOUISVILLE.

Meanwhile Kettner fled to Louisville with his second wife, then to
points in Indiana, where he was located from time to time. When his
first wife sued for divorce he was traced to Batesville, Ind. He never
replied to her petition for divorce, and she would have won her suit had
she not been forced to abandon it on account of lack of money. She was
determined, however, to prosecute him for bigamy.

Mrs. Anna Burkhardt, of No. 1317 Vine Street, with whom the Engelhardt
girl had boarded, called at the Cincinnati police headquar