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229 13. Hansen versus Ketcham 1. information on the trial in this chapter is from “Ketcham Affair recalled,” NYT, mar. 6, 1898; “mrs. Ketcham Files Bill,” CDT, mar. 6, 1898; “A Peculiar Bill,” Marion (Ohio) Daily Star, June 13, 1901; “red Jam Horror in Famous Case,” CDT, June 13, 1901; “Attorney Trude Claims Forgery,” CDT, June 14, 1901; “Lawyer Hansen Weeps in Court,” CDT, June 15, 1901; “Hansen suit is ended by Trude,” CDT, June 16, 1901. 2. “Cyclist seeberg Granted a stay at Desplaines,” CDT, Aug. 21, 1898. 14. Billy, Baby Jo, and the Prince 1. unless otherwise indicated, the Moffitt v. Pike information is from the following articles, all in CDT: “W. W. Pike suit is Begun: Jury is Dispensed With,” Nov. 12, 1902; “Pike Case Waxes Warm,” Nov. 14, 1902; “Tells story of Pike and Moffitt,” Nov. 15, 1902; “Pike to Take the Stand,” Nov. 17, 1902; “Tells Secrets of Mrs. Moffitt,” Nov. 18, 1902; “Pike Repudiates Mrs. Moffitt,” Nov. 19, 1902; “Finish evidence in the Pike Case,” Nov. 20, 1902; “Pike Case ends; ruling Delayed,” Nov. 21, 1902; “Finds ‘Baby Jo’ Not Pike’s Wife,” Nov. 30, 1902; “William Pike Wins Again,” Feb. 26, 1904; “How a Pal’s Love scandal Periled Political Career of ‘Big Bill’ Thompson,” Nov. 14, 1953. Information on Josephine Moffitt comes from her testimony, the 1870 and 1880 federal census for New orleans, the New orleans Death index, and “The Families of Louis Adrian [sic] Guillemet,” both posted on Ancestry.com. 2. Heidi Pawlowski Carey, “Prairie Avenue,” Encyclopedia of Chicago, http:// www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1003.html; Janice L. Reiff, “The Worlds of Prairie Avenue,” Encyclopedia of Chicago, http://www.encyclopedia. chicagohistory.org/pages/10431.html. 3. “Child outwits the Law,” CDT, Feb. 6, 1902. 4. Costa v. Oliven, 849 Ne 2d 122 (2d Dist. 2006). 5. information on the Prince Victor story is in “Prince Doubts ‘Baby Jo’s’ story,” CDT, mar. 23, 1908; “Prince refutes Baby Jo’s Action,” CDT, Apr. 2, 1908; “untitled [front page story],” NYT, Mar. 22, 1908; “Miss Moffitt Wanted Cash,” NYT, mar. 23, 1908; “suit against Prince Victor,” NYT, Apr. 17, 1908; “Prince Victor of Thurn and Taxis,” Washington Post, Apr. 22, 1908. 15. The Robber Baron’s Partner 1. “Coincidence of Ketcham Case,” Washington Post, Nov. 24, 1897. 2. “minnie Walkup may Wed Again,” Emporia (Kans.) Weekly Republican, may 23, 1901. 3. Cathy Joynt Labath, “Chapter 28: some old Houses,” scott County, iowa, USGenWeb Project, http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/chapter28.html. 4. on D. H. Louderback’s early years, see “yerkes’ right-Hand man,” in “Knights of the Key,” Railroad Man’s Magazine 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1906), http://home.mindspring. com/~railroadstories/rrmmv1n1/knights.htm. David Louderback is not in the 1860 Notes to Pages 152–183 230 census with the rest of the family, when he would have been seventeen, and his halfsister Sallie testified that he had disappeared around 1889 (Louderback probate files, Cook County Archives). 5. The autopsy revealed the shotgun pellets in his skull. see “Poisons in room of Louderback,” CDT, Apr. 11, 1914. 6. “Historic Figures: Charles Tyson Yerkes,” http://www.chicago-l.org/personnel /figures/yerkes/index.html; Karyn Hodgson, “Charles Tyson Yerkes: Swindler Turned Visionary of the Tubes,” British Heritage 19, no. 6 (Aug.–sept. 1998): 16-19. see also John Franch, Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006). American writer Theodore Dreiser wrote a fictional trilogy based on the life of Charles Tyson yerkes: The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic. 7. “Stations: State/Lake,” http://www.chicago-l.org/stations/state-lake.html. 8. “yerkes’ right-Hand man.” 9. “Chicago Dealers Fear Loss,” NYT, Nov. 7, 1897; “Chicago Vacant Land sold,” NYT, Nov. 29, 1898. 10. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, http://www. glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch (Mixsell and Louderback entries); Tacoma, Washington, City Directories, 1889–1891. 11. “Chicago Traction President,” NYT, July 14, 1900; “manager for yerkes’ London railway,” NYT, Nov. 1, 1900; “D. H. Louderback resigns,” NYT, Dec. 4, 1900. 12. “Chicago elevated roads,” NYT, may 12, 1901; “London street railways,” NYT, June 9, 1901; “Doings of society in France,” NYT, Dec. 28, 1902; Passport Applications of u.s. Citizens (for minnie and the Louderbacks, done the same day, with DeLancey vouching for minnie), posted on Ancestry.com; ship’s register, La Lorraine, 1902. 13. ship’s register, ss St. Paul, 1903. 14. “D. H. Louderback Dead,” NYT, Apr...

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