The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-04-29

opened and swallowed her The newspa-
pers at the time were full of it, rewards
were offered and no one was more indie
fatigable in his efforts to locate the wo-
man than Logue himself. But there was
no trace, and gradually the case faded
from memory. On Oct. 16, 1893, fourteen
years afterwards, n carpenter repairing
the house No. 1850 North Eleventh street
tore up some boards in the kitchen, and
there found the skeleton OF woman.
Clinging to the bones of the throat was n
handkerchief, tied in knot. and next to
the Wondering bones lay the soles of a
woman's shoes. This was all that re-
manned Of Johanna Logue.
When it became known that Logue and
bis wife had lived In the house suspicion
at once pointed to him as the murderer,
but all search for him proved unavailng
On the evening Of March last Jimmy
Logue went to Coroner Ashbridge's pri-
vate residence here and gave himself up.
From that time on Coroner Ashbridge
and Detective Geyer worked together in
secret until they had unraveled the COM
plete story, which eliminated few days
ago In the arrest of man whose identity
was not revealed un,il yesterday. He is
Alphonso Cutaiar, Jr., the illegitimate
son Of one of Logue's former alleged wives.
He is locked up at the city hall on charge
of murder, while In neighboring cell ts
Logue, held as the star witness.
Cutaiar's orime-for he has made a con-
fession in which he acknowledges causing
the woman's death, though, he asserts, in
voluntarily-is best understood from a
brief recital of Logue's career
He was already a notorious character
when, in 1853, he was married to Mary
Jane Andrews With her he lived two
years, when, without the formality of a
divorce, he was welded to Mary Gahan,
who, though she had not before been
wife, was the mother of an ls-months old
child, Alphonso Cutaiar, Jr. Logue and
Mary had not lived long together when he
became cnamored of her sister, Johanna
Gahan, whom he established in separate
household, paying all expenses, until In
1862 Mary died
Meanwhile Jimmy had been working
hard Mt his profession, and he fell into
the hands of the police for series of burg
Iaries On May 23 1891, he was arraigned
for sentence but before the case proceeded
be asked Magistrate Smith to do him n
favor first. He wanted to be married to
Johanna The magistrate complied and
Logue, standing in the dock, was married
to the woman Then he was sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary.
Promptly upon his release in 1877
Logue and Johanna went to New York,
where for a time he operated with tho
equally notorious Peter Burns, who died
some years ago in a jail in Florence, Italy.
Logue raised money in some way, for not
long after his release he bought $4,000
worth Of government bonds. In Febru-
airy, 1879, Logue and the woman came to
this city. Meanwhile young Cutainr had
become barber, and Logue bought out
for him the business Of his former EN-,
ployer, William Matthews, at 1913 North
Eleventh street, and later bought tho adj
joining property, 1850, for 50, 100, and fitted
it up as a shop for Cutafar, Logue and
Johanna living with him In tho dwelling
portion.
A few days after this Logue and the
woman went to New York for short
visit. Then Logue fell in with another
burglar named George Mason, and on the
evening of Feb. 90 tho two men left for
Boston, telling Johanna they would re.
turn shortly. The following Tuesday
Logue returned and found his wife gone.
He came to Philadelphia and went to his
home. There he found Cutaiar his jour
neynan, Fritz Eckert and young APP
prentice named Harry Fricke.
Cutainr told him that the last he had
seen of Johanna was on the preceding
Saturday. She had come from New York,
visited some friends. and spent some time
at the barber shop. AT o'clock in the
evening she opened the door OF the shop,
cried I'm off, - and was gone. He had
seen that she was intoxicated and called
to her to wait until he was at leisure SO
that he could escort her to the railroad
station, but she did not wait. Logue at
once thought that she had eloped with
Peter Burns but 1t was found that Burns
lad sailed alone for Europe, and all trace
of the woman was lost. At the time she
was about 80 years old. With the assist
ance of her brother, Peter Gahan, Logus
searched the country far and wide for her,
but to no avail
The next event was whom he was caught
with Johnny Irwin in tho cigar store of
Portuonda s. Co at Broad and Chestnut,
In November, 1879 and was sent to prison
for three years and nine months, This
sentence was Immediately followed by two
years for robbing houses in Reading, and
again, on Aug, g 1885, he was given six
years for another burglary. His last sem
tenee was ten months, imposed on June
e2, 1892, for robbery, and after his release
on April %, 1898 he was lost sight Of IN
til he gave himself up to Coroner Ash
bridge.
At the time of her disappearance the
woman wore a pair OF diamond earrings, u
diamond finger ring, gold wedding ring
given to her by LoRae bearing theinscrip-
ton -. L. to J. L., ;" and gold watch and
chain. The wedding ring was found upon
the finger of the skeleton. In the bosom
of her dress at the timo were four 81, 900
government bonds. When they moved to
the Eleventh street house In 1870 Logue
secreted seven of these bonds under the
carpet of the stairway, telling no one but
Cutaiar where they were. When he re.
turned from New York he found that Gu.