Show Trail Ends for James Ketchum After Brief California Spree The trail trait ended over the past weekend for James L L. Ketchum wanted In Moab for car theft and andIn andin In n Monticello on a check charge it t was learned Sunday by John Stocks Grand county sheriff Ketchum was arrested in Huntington Hunt Hunt- Ington Park Calif and is being held there on a number of es esA A k letter from Vernon B. B Archbald Archibald Arch Arch- bald of Pacific Beach Calif un under under un-I un 1 der del the date of June 8 to The Times Independent revealed that thai I the he hunt for Ketchum had shifted to California following an escapade escapade esca esca- in which Archibald was the loser after he had played therole the theof therole role of a friend to Ketchum In his letter Archibald told of picking up a hitchhiker on Highway Highway High High- way between Los Angeles anc ancSan and San Diego The hitchhiker gave his name as James L. L Ketchum and carried a brief case with his hison name on H tt under tinder the name The Richy Uranium corporation Ketchum is reported to have told of owning 26 uranium claims of 20 acres each near Moab on which he was now stockpiling ore are and would start shipping out diggings July 1 He told of coming to Los Angeles Angeles An- An geles from Utah via Las Vegas Nev where he had lost all his I cash in gambling halls and left his bis clothes and baggage in a aha aha- hoel hotel ho- ho i Itel tel el there because he couldn't pay his bill He had walked the streets of L. L A A. A the night of oftay May tay 31 31 and struck out for San Diego to contact his year old brother broth broth- er er David in the Naval Training Center there he said Archibald said he took Ketch Ketchum Ketchum um home with him arranged for ft room for Ketchum and on June 2 took him to San Diego and obtained ob ob- a job as a car sal salesman for Ketchum i Ketchum Is reported to have told Archibald he had contacted his brother and the brother was wac going tp give him cash with which t. t Ketchum promised to repay repay re reo re- re pay Archibald for room and meals Archibald's letter then told of letting Ketchum take his automo autom automobile bile into info San Diego for an evening evening eve eve- ning with his brother off base and nd another employment interview interview inter inter- view and promised to have the car back by a. a m. m June 3 Ketchum took Archibald to work said he would see him later and neither Ketchum nor the 1951 Packard had been seen since the time of writing the letter to The Times Independent On June Juno 3 3 Archibald and a private detective contacted the brother at th the Naval Training Center David Ketchum is reported reported reported re re- re- re ported by Archibald as telling him his brother had not contacted him nor nor had he promised the i brother any cash He told themen the themen men his his' br brother ther was a two time loser and had been released from the Colorado pen in either late April or or early May He did not know knew what the charge had been I He also told the men his brother broth broth- er had ven a bad conduct from discharge the air force z Archibald repotted reported that lost with the automobile was a portable portable portable port able typewriter writer an eight m-m m motion picture camera and fishing fishing fish fish- ing tackle I Archibald Archibald's letter to Moab was seeking information regarding the Richy Ur Uranium r lum Corp No such company coni any is recorded here The arre arrests b was reportedly made through efforts of off the FBI that had entered the case after a jeep reported stolen in Colorado was recovered in Salt Lake City and credited t to Ketchum St Stocks t said |