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Both missives were sent from New York. |
Three months later, in August, Ruby received a telephone call from Memphis, Tennessee. |
A man on the other end of the line told her that Artemus had saved his life in a fight. |
Artemus himself could not call because he was now living in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, where he had married a wealthy woman and was well. |
He was unable to write, the caller said, because he had lost one of his thumbs in the fight where he had saved the caller. |
Ruby talked with the man for a half-hour. |
She recalled that he had talked wildly and irrationally, but seemed to have firsthand knowledge of Artemus. |
She gave the police the name the man identified himself by; it has never been made public. |
If Artemus had, at some point before his death, gone to Egypt or anywhere else overseas, he had not done so under his own name. |
No steamship company at the time had any record that he had traveled with them. |
The consular section at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was unable to find any evidence he had been there. |
Information developed through the police's conversations with Ruby Ogletree helped them establish a third hotel in Kansas City, the St. Regis, where Artemus had stayed. |
There, he had roomed with another man. |
Whether that had been "Don" could not be established. |
In 1937 the New York City police arrested a man named Joseph Martin on a murder charge, after he had killed a man he roomed with and put the body in a trunk to be shipped to Memphis. |
Among the several aliases he was found to have used was "Donald Kelso". |
According to a story about the case in "The New Yorker", the KCPD had matched samples of his handwriting to that in the letters written to Ruby Ogletree. |
No charges were filed against the man for the Ogletree case, and the KCPD kept the case open. |
The files show that different detectives reviewed the case every few years through the 1950s. |
Each time they noted that they would keep the case open and follow up, but no new evidence was uncovered. |
Gradually the case went cold. |
In 2003 or 2004, John Horner, a local historian at the Kansas City Public Library, fielded a call from someone out of state who said they had been helping to inventory the belongings of an elderly person who had recently died. |
Among them was a shoebox which turned out to be filled with newspaper clippings related to the case, as well as, according to them, one item mentioned in the newspaper stories. |
The caller identified neither themselves nor the item. |
Horner did not make this public until the conclusion of the second of two posts he made on the library's blog retelling the story in 2012. |
The absence of suspects has not prevented theories about the case from arising. |
The telephone calls alleging that Ogletree was killed in retaliation for his broken engagement have provided support for that theory. |
Organized crime has also been considered, since the name "Don" can also be a title for a Mafia boss. |
Lastly, it has been suggested that "Don", whoever he was, killed Ogletree for some personal reason, either with the help of the "commercial woman" Blocher saw in the hotel late that night or by himself. |
2018 New Hampshire Senate election |
The 2018 New Hampshire Senate election was held on November 6, 2018, concurrently with the elections for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, to elect members to the 166th New Hampshire General Court. |
All 24 seats in the New Hampshire Senate were up for election. |
It resulted in Democrats gaining control of both chambers of the New Hampshire General Court, ending the total control of New Hampshire's state government, that Republicans had held in New Hampshire since the 2016 state elections. |
Primary elections were held on September 11, 2018. |
In the 2016 New Hampshire state elections, Republicans held on to their majority of 14-10 in the New Hampshire Senate. |
Republicans also maintained control of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. |
In addition, Republican Chris Sununu won the open 2016 New Hampshire gubernatorial election giving the New Hampshire Republican Party total control for the first time since Governor Craig Benson was defeated by Democrat John Lynch in the 2004 New Hampshire gubernatorial election. |
In the aftermath of his 2016 election, then president-elect Donald Trump claimed in a tweet that voter fraud had occurred in New Hampshire. |
In February 2017, Trump advisor Stephen Miller reaffirmed that position by claiming "busing voters in to New Hampshire is widely known by anyone who’s worked in New Hampshire politics". |
These claims were called "baseless" by several observers. |
In response to those allegations, the Republican majorities in the New Hampshire General Court drafted bills changing voter registration rules. |
Senate Bill 3 (SB 3) passed both chambers of the New Hampshire General Court on party-line votes and was signed in to law by Governor Sununu on July, 10 2017. |
The new law requires voters to declare a "domicile" in New Hampshire. |
It also included jail sentences of up to one year or a fine of up to $5,000, if voters registered and not provided necessary paperwork as proof within 10 day or 30 days in smaller towns. |
Republicans pointed to over 5,000 voters who voted in the 2016 election after identifying with an out-of-state driver's licence, that have not gotten an in-state licence as of September 2017. |
Democrats suspected a voter suppression scheme, that targeted college students, that they think are most likely to use identification issued by other states. |
The League of Women Voters, the New Hampshire Democratic Party and several college students challenged the new law in court. |
They pointed to the Supreme Court's decision in Symm v. United States, that guaranteed college students the right to vote at their university. |
The trial judge of the Hillsborough Superior Court decided on October 22, 2018, that the state cannot apply the law in the upcoming elections. |
The Attorney General of New Hampshire's office then filed an emergency motion with the New Hampshire Supreme Court. |
The State Supreme Court sided with the state in an unanimous 5-0 decision arguing that overturning the law so close to elections was potentially confusing and disruptive. |
The State Supreme Court did not decide on the merits of the law in this decision. |
Therefore, SB3 was first applied in the 2018 elections. |
In the 2018 elections, Democrats saw gains in state elections across the countries, gaining multiple Governorships and legislative chambers. |
Democrats also won control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since 2010. |
Commentators called the election results a "blue wave", that was especially pronounced in state elections. |
In the New Hampshire Senate, Democrats were able to flip Districts 9, 11, 12, 23 and 24, while the Republicans flipped District 1. |
The Democratic gains were mostly in less rural areas in Southern and Eastern New Hampshire while the Republican gains were limited to one rural seat in the North Country.The incumbent Democratic Senator in District 1 one was accused of domestic violence and charged a few months before the election. |
Incumbent Democratic State Senator Jeff Woodburn had represented the New Hampshire's 1st State Senate District since 2012. |
Senator Woodburn had also served as Senate Minority Leader since 2014. |
Woodburn was arrested on August 2, 2018 on simple assault, domestic violence, criminal mischief, and criminal trespass charges. |
Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley called on him to resign. |
On August 6, Woodburn announced he would resign as the minority leader but would remain as a senator. |
He won the Democratic primary on September 11, 2018, but was defeated by Republican David Starr in the 2018 general election. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator Bob Giuda had represented the New Hampshire's 2nd State Senate District since 2016. |
He won reelection against Democrat Bill Bolton. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator Jeb Bradley had represented the New Hampshire's 3rd State Senate District since 2009. |
He won reelection against Democrat Christopher Meier and Libertarian Tania Butler. |
Incumbent Democrat State Senator David Watters had represented the New Hampshire's 4th State Senate District since 2012. |
He was reelected without opposition. |
Incumbent Democratic State Senator Martha Hennessey had represented the New Hampshire's 5th State Senate District since 2016. |
She won reelection against Republican Patrick Lozito. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator James Gray had represented the New Hampshire's 6th State Senate District since 2016. |
He won reelection against Democrat Anne Grassie. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator Harold F. French had represented the New Hampshire's 7th State Senate District since 2016. |
He won reelection against Democrat Mason Donovan. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator Ruth Ward had represented the New Hampshire's 8th State Senate District since 2016. |
She won reelection against Democrat Jenn Alford-Teaster. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator Andy Sanborn had represented the New Hampshire's 9th State Senate District since 2010. |
He did not run for reelection in 2018. |
Instead, he ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district. |
The open seat was won by Democrat Jeanne Dietsch against Republican Dan Hynes. |
Incumbent Democratic State Senator Jay Kahn had represented the New Hampshire's 10th State Senate District since 2016. |
He won reelection against Republican Dan LeClair and Libertarian Ian Freeman. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator Gary L. Daniels had represented the New Hampshire's 11th State Senate District since 2014. |
He was defeated for reelection by Democrat Shannon Chandley. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator Kevin Avard had represented the New Hampshire's 12th State Senate District since 2014. |
He was defeated for reelection by Democrat Melanie Levesque. |
Incumbent Democratic State Senator Bette Lasky had represented the New Hampshire's 13th State Senate District since 2012. |
She did not run for reelection in 2018. |
The open seat was won by Democrat Cindy Rosenwald against Republican David Schoneman. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator Sharon Carson had represented the New Hampshire's 14th State Senate District since 2008. |
She won reelection against Democrat Tammy Siekmann. |
Incumbent Democratic State Senator Dan Feltes had represented the New Hampshire's 15th State Senate District since 2014. |
He won reelection against Republican Pamela Ean. |
Incumbent Democratic State Senator Kevin Cavanaugh had represented the New Hampshire's 16th State Senate District since a 2017 special election. |
He won reelection in a rematch against David Boutin. |
Incumbent Republican State Senator John Reagan had represented the New Hampshire's 17th State Senate District since 2012. |
He won reelection against Democrat Christoper Roundy. |
Incumbent Democratic State Senator Donna Soucy had represented the New Hampshire's 18th State Senate District since 2012. |
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