The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-29
A Crime OF
THE EONG ago.
Sensational Developments in
the lOgue Murder
Mystery.
THE CRIMINAL CONFESSES.
Stories of rlany Lives of
Crime.
Systematic Work of Detectives
Baffied For Yenrs-The Struggle
on the Bed-Body Buried Under
the Kitchen FIOOr-Made Mint
Among Burglars Should.

Philadelphia. April 2S.-While the
larger portion of Philadelphia's popula-
ton was attending church today, there
lay on a desk in a dingy little room
down town the skull of murdered
woman. There for six long hours was
unfolded horrible story of crime. The
central figure in the story is James E.
Logue-known to the police depart
ments of the continent as Jimmy
Logue-burglar. bank robber and one
of the most notorious all-aroung crooks
in the annals of crime.
Suddenly Vanished.
The case turned upon the murder of
one of this mans wives. Johanna
remarkable tale that proved he was not
her murderer.
On the night of February % 1879.
Johanna Iogue vanished as suddenly
as if the earth had opened and swal-
lowed her. The newspapers at the
time were full of it: rewards were Ct
fered, and no one was more indefatig-
able in his efforts to locate the woman
than Logue himself. On October 49,
1885, fourteen years afterwards. a car
penter. repairing the house at 1850
North Eleventh street. tore UP some
boards in the kitchen and there fcun
the skeleton of a woman. When il be-
came known that Logua and his wife
had lived in the house. suspicion at
once pointed to him as the murderer.
but all search for him proved unavail-
ing. On one evening in March last,
the doorbell of Coroner Ashbridge's
private residence rang. and answering
it in person he was confronted by an
old white-haired man. who said alb
ruptly: 81 am Jimmy Logue. and l
have come to give myself up
- am Jimmy Logue."
That was all he said and the coroner
handed him over to the police under an
assumed name. From that time on the
90 'onar and LeteC tive Geyer work,
together in secret until they had unrav-
eled the complete story, which culmin-
ated few days ago in the arrest of a
man whose identity was not revealed
until today. He is Alphonso Cutaier.
jr., the Legitimate son of one of
Logues former alleged wives. He is
locked up in the city hall on the charge
of murder, while in a neighboring cell
is Logue, held as the star witness
Cutaier's crime, for he has made a
confession in which he acknowledges
causing the woman's death, though he
asserts involuntarily, is best under
stood from brief recitation of Logue's
career.
He was already a notorious charac-
ter when in 1858 he was married to
Mary Jane Andrews. With her he
lived two years, zen without the for
mality of divorce, he was welded to
Mary Gahan, who, though she had not
been a wife, was the mother of an IS
months old child, Alfonso Cutaier, jr.
Logue and Mary had not lived togeth-
her sister, Johanna Gahan, whom he es-
tablished in a separate household, pay
ing all the expenses until, in 1869, Mary
died. Meanwhile Logue, who had been
working at his profession, fell into
the hands of the police for a series of
burglaries. On May %, 1871, he was
arraigned in the central police station
for sentence, but before the case pro-
ceeded he asked Magistrate Smith to
do him favor first. He wanted to be
married TO Johanna. The ma giStrate
complied and Logue, standing in the
dock. was married to the woman
Then he was sentenced to seven years
in the penitentlary.
Made Mint of Money.
During this term Johanna boarded
release in 1877, Logue came to her.
They went to New York, where, for
a time, he operated with the equally
notorious Peter BuriS, who died some
years ago in Jail in Florence. Italy.
Logue raised money in some manner,
for not long after his release he
bought $4,000 worth of government
bonds in New York. In February,
1879, Logue and the woman came TO
this city Meanwhile, young Cutaier
had become a barber, and Logue
bought out for him the business Of
his former employer, William Mat
thews, and fitted it up as a, shop for
Cutaier. Logue and Johanna living
with him in the dwelling portion,
which was extensively furnished. A
few days after this, Logue and the
woman went to New York for
short visit There Logue fell i'm with
another burglar named George Mason,
and on the evening of February 20 the
men left for Boston, telling Johanna
they would return shortly The fol-
found his wife gone. He came to
Philadelphia and went to his home.
There he found Cutaier, his Journey
man, FItz Eckert and a young ap-
prentice named Harry Fricke. Gu
taier told him the last he had seen of
Johanna was on the preceding Sat-
urday Logue at once thought she
had eloped with Peter Buris, but it
was found Buris had sailed for Eu-
rope. and all trace of the woman was
lost
Search Unrevarded.
With the assistance of her brother, Pc
ter Gahan, Logue searched the country
far and wide for her. but to no avail. In
November. 1879, Logue was sent to pris-
on. and after his release on April p, 1898.
he was lost sight of until he gave himself
up to Coroner Ashbridge.
At the time of her disappearance the
wore jewelry worth 5000 and had
in the bosom of her dress four 81. GOO gov
eminent bonds. When they moved to the
Eleventh street house in 1879, Logue had
seven of these $1,000 bonds under
the carpet of the stairway, telling no one
but Cutaier where they were When he
from New York he found Cutai-
er had stolen one of the bonds and sold it
to the Drexels for 1.045. Cutaier and his
wife lived at the house for year after
Johanna disappeared, when foul odor