The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-04-29

and as completely as if the earth had
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 Dogue himself. But there was
no trace and gradually the case faded
from memory. On Oct. 16, 1898, fourteen
years afterwards, carpenter repairing
the house No. 1850 North Eleventh street
tore up some boards in the kitchen, and
there found the skeleton of a woman.
Clinging to the bones of the throat was a
handkerchief, tied in knot. and next to
| the mouldering bones lay the soles of a
womans shoes. This was all that re-
mained of Johanna Logue.
When it became known that Logue and
his wife had lived in the house suspicion
at once pointed to him as the murderer
but all search for him proved unavailing
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 lad unraveled the COM
plete story, which eliminated a few days
ago in the arrest of a man whose identity
was not revealed until 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 Lon a charge
of murder, while in a neighboring cell is
Logue, held as the star witness.
Cutaiar's crime-for he has made 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 1855 he was married to Mary
Jane Andrews With her he lived two
years, when, without the formality of
divorce, he was welded to Mary Gahan,
who though she had not before been
wife, was the mother of an 1S-months- old
child, Alphonso Cutaiar Jr. Logue and
Mary had not lived long together when he
became enamored of her sister, Johanna
Gahan, whom he established in a separate
household, paying all expenses, until in
1869, Mary died.
Meanwhile Jimmy had been working
hard at his profession" " and he fell into
| the hands of the police for a series of burg
laries On May 49, 1891 he was arraigned
for sentence, but before the case proceeded
he asked Magistrate Smith to do him a
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 time he operated with the
equally notorious Peter Burns, who died
some years ago in Jail in Florence, Italy
Logue raised money i'm some way, for not
long after his release he bought $4,000
worth of government bonds, In Febru-
/ ary, 1879 Logue and the woman came to
this city Meanwhile young Cutaiar had
become a burJer, and Logue bought out
for him the business of his former en-
ployer, William Matthews, at 1913 North
Eleventh street. and later bought the ad-
Joining property 1850, for So, 100, and fitted
1t up as a shop for Cutaiar, Logue and
Johanna living with him in the dwelling
portion.
A few days after this Logue and the
woman went to New York for a short
visit. Then Logue fell IN with another
burglar named George Mason, and on the
evening of Feb 20 the 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
neyman, Fritz Eckert, and young ap
/ prentice named Harry Bricke
Cutaiar told him that the last he had
seen of Johanna was on the preceding
. Saturday. She had come from New York
e visited some friends, and spent some tim,
, at the barber shop. At o'clock i'm tn,
evening she opened the door Of the shop
! cried I'm off, % and was gone. He haC
, seen that she was intoxicated and CALLED
to her to wait until he was at leisure S,
D shat ho could escort her to the railroa,
T. station but she did not wait Logue a
once thought lhat she had eloped will
Potter Burns, brit it was found that Burn
! aad sailed alonk for Europe, and all trac