St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-26

he was worth over $50, 600. Miss Costello
saw him and accepted him. The wedding
day was set for the Christmas holidays.
Thursday was the day on which they would
be made one. Extensive preparations were
made for the wedding, which was to come off
at Oswego, little town near Chicago, where
her mother resides. After the event they
were to start for his home in the west, stop
ping in Chicago on the way to see the family
with whom Maggie had lived SO long.
The family in question secured presents
which they intended to give to Mr.. and Mrs.
Cuddigan when they entertained them. The
day before the wedding Cuddigan rent to a
little place near, by, saying he wanted to bid
good-by to all his relatives. That night he
did not return. Thursday did not bring the
groom, and when the hour for the ceremony
came he was still absent. The would-be
bride waited patiently until night, when
word came that Cuddigan had run off with
one of his cousins. Maggie bore up bravely
under the trouble, aud sent word to her old
employers and friends to wait few days and
they would hear from her. Her brother in
Chicago went and told the friends of Cuddi-
gans fight. It was not long before Maggie
recovered from the shock sufficiently to re-
sumo her old place in Chicago. The next
heard of the cowardly Cuddgan was few
weeks ago, when the news came that he and
his bride had been lynched.
Cuddigan and his wife live near Portland,
a small place ten miles from Ouray, which is
a mining town in the extreme southern part
of the state. Soon after his return west with
his wife, Cuddigan adopted a little girl
named Rose Matthews, through Catholic
priest. The child was seldom seen out with
the other children in the vicinity, and the
neighbors frequently heard cries of pain in
the house. One day neighbor CHANGED in
the house and saw Cuddigan kick the girl in
the neck while she was lying on the floor.
The neighbor demonstrated, but to no pur
pose. A stage-driver passing the
house once saw the child with her arms full
of wood hopping on one foot to the house
from the wood-shed. He thought at the
time the girl was playing, but subsequently
it was learned that her other foot was frozen.
One day the poor thing was found by man
hunting cattle crouching under the shelter
of hay stack near Cuddigan's house. 1t
was bitter cold, but she wore nothing be-
yond a tattered skirt. She was seemingly
unconscious. That night she died. The
next day Cuddigan sent to Ouray and pro-
cured a coffin and buried the child without
a permit or notifying any of the neighbors.
The suspicious of the people were aroused,
and finally the coroner went out from Ouray
and eXhumed the body and had postzmor-
TEN examination made. 1t was proved be-
yond doubt that the child had been the vic
tim of the most terrible Entertainment, which
caused her death. The body was covered
with scars, the limbs having been cut with
a knife and burned with a hot poker. The
hands were so badly frozen that the fingers
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bruised.
A body of citizens went to Cuddigan's
house, and while part of them made him and
wife prisoners, the others looked through
the premises and found on the loft some old
bags on which the child had lain. These
were stained with blood from her wounds
The prisoners were taken to Ouray, and
preliminary examination commenced, but
continued to allow them to secure witnesses.
This irritated the Ouray public, which was al
ready satisfied beyond doubt that the Cudlig-
ans were guilty of murder. The prisoners
were imprisoned in hotel and guarded by
the sheriff Between and 2o'clock at night
band of vigilantes went to the hotel and
dragged the two out and took them outside
the town limits. A rope was placed around
the neck of Mrs. Cuddigan, who rent the
skies with her wild screams for mercy. The
rope was thrown over the ridge pole of a
house, and she was hoisted into eternity in
the presence of her husband. Cuddigan was
then taken further out and hanged.
The priest who had given the child to the
Cuddigans, feeling that it would be refec
ton upon him, stated in the pulpit that he
intended to hound down the members of the
lynching party and excommunicate all who
belonged to the church Soon after this an
nouncement he was waited upon by COM
mittee, who gave him so many hours to leave
the place. The priest went to another town
and took up his cause, and talked so yehem-t
emily that he got many followers, and a be-
lief that the lynchers had done wrong became
very general Particularly was this the case
in Denver. Reports of this situation of af
fairs coming back to Ouray the citizens once
more dug up the child's remains and took
them to Denver, where they were exhibited
atan undertaffer's for few days. A closer
examination of the body this time developed
that the child had been outraged. The ap-
pearance of the remains was enough to salts
fly anyone that the cruelties had caused the
child's death. They were then taken back to
Ouray and buried a third time.