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DRIVERiCHARGEDWITH MANSLAUGHTERCounty Attorney Matson Takes ActionFollowing Inquest Tuesday Night.HEARD IN THEVerdict of Coroners’ Jury Was Unlawful Driving.COMPLAINT FILED WEDNESDAYSerious Charged Placed Against H. H. Ketelhut as Result ofDeath of Bertie Meier of Scribner.H. H. Ketelhut pleaded not guilty when arraigned on a manslaughter charge here this afternoon. His bond was fixed at $5,000 and the trial set for November 14 in district court here.Ketelhut was arranging to furnish the bond.After consulting with Attorney Matson, it was decided to make the bond $2,500 instead of $5,000 as originally fixed.THE WEATHERFor Lincoln and vicinity: Fair tonight and Thursday; not much change In temperature.For Nebraska: Fair tonight and Thursday; little change In temperature.■A charge of manslaughter was filed against H. H. Ketelhut, in Justice Hawes* court at 11:45 Wednesday morning, in connection with thedeath of Bertie Meier, eighteen, Scribner, Neb., University freshman, run down and fatally injured at 8 o’clock Monday evening at the intersection of Sixteenth and N streets. Ketelhut will be arraigned at 2 p. m. Wednesday.The charge was brought by County Attorney Matson. Mr. Ketelhut is charged with driving the auto thatran down and caused the death ofBertie Meier and injured Etta Parkand Verona Stabenow, her Tvvo companions.Miss Meier died at 3:15 a. m. Tuesday from a fractured skull. Miss Etta Parks, twenty, a roommate of the victim, is recovering from bruises and cuts on the face and head. The accident occurred shortly after 8 p. m. Monday at the intersection of Sixteenth and N streets. The tvvo girls with Miss Verona 8tabenow, also of Scribner, were walking north on the east side of Sixteenth street on their way to a show. According to Miss Stabenow, the auto swung around the corner striking the girls.Mr. Ketelhut was placed under arrest at 10:30 p. m. Monday and has been held at the city jail since. He says that he was not going over twenty miles an hour and that he was on the right side of the street He had just left the Skelley oil station from Sixteenth street, turned north and then swumg around east, according to eyewitnesses. Mr. Ketelhut was found guilty of causing the death of Miss Meier by a cor** oner’s jury at an inquest held Tuesday evening.The following is an exact replica of the complaint tiled by the county attornThat the said Harvey H. Ketelhut, onfour drinks remaining on the inside. It was rumored that some difficulty was experienced in convincing the proper authorities at Pa pillion that a warrant should be issued. It was issued, however, and Doe fined $100and costs.Early Wednesday Deputy State Sheriff Benton wired the Sarpy county sheriff to confiscate and destroy the 350 gallons of wine and some beer and to arrest Schwartz. Seveu samples, one from each of the seven fifty-gallon kegs, were brought to Lincoln for state house test. The analysis revealed a test of 11 per cent alcoholic content in one barrel, 12 per cent in five barrels and 13 per cent in one barrel. The beer tested 3 1-10 per cent, according to officials.WILL CHANGEIOLD ROADBEDELEVEN MILES OF LINE TO BE REBUILT AT ONCE. 1Replacement of Flood Damaged Railroad in Wyoming During the Past Year Runs IntoBig Figures.(Continued or Page Twelve.)After completing ei^ht p's of new railroad in a new loe; * to take the place of grade anu track washed away by the July flood, the Burlington has begun the building of i another eleven mile stretch of railroad in a new location in the same territory. In a stretch of twenty-one miles east of Bonneville nineteenmiles will have been rebuilt when the work is done.Replacement of property alone in that part of Wyoming made necessary by the July and September floods will cost the Burlington railroad a million dollars. This figure on damage takes no account of the vastsums lost because qf inability to handle business, diversion of traffic and extraordinary expenses in handling such business as could be handled in roundabout ways. It does not include the cost of the Cole creek wreck, due ! to the September flood nor to the delay to other work that had been planned and was under way at various places on the system when the call for help came from Wyoming. Much work planned for the past season was abandoned altogether because of necessity for doing work where the flood had wrecked a railroad.In building the new' stretch of eleven miles of road the prompting
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Lincoln Evening State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Wed, Nov 07, 1923
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