Evening journal., 1895-04-29

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JIMMY LoGUE.
of the most notorious all round crooks in
the annals Of crime The case turned upon |
the murder Of one Of this mans wives,
Johanna Logue, but 1t was a fitting eli
max to q remarkable tale that proved that |
he was not her murderer.
On the night Of Feb 22, 1879, Johanna |
Logue vanished as suddenly and as com
pletoly as II the earth had opened and |
swallowed her. Tho newspapers at the |
time were full Of 1t, rewards were offered, |
and no one was more indefatigahle in his |
efforts to locate the woman than Logue |
But there was no trace Of her, and grad |
ually the case faded from memory. On
Oct 16, 1898, IA years afterward, a car
penter repairing the house at 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 a handkerchief tied in knot
and next to the moldering bones lay the
soles of woman's shoes This was all
that remained Of Johanna Logue.
When il became known that Logue and
his wife had lived i'm the house, suspicion
at once pointed to him as tho murderer,
but all search for him proved unayailing
On the evening Of March last tho door
boil of Coroner Ashbridges private resi-
dence rang, and answering 1t in person
no was confronted by an old white haired
man who said abruptly, l am Jimmy
Logue, and / have come TO give myself
up" That was all he said in relation to
the case, and the coroner handed him
over TO the police under an assumed nano.
From that time on Coroner Ashbridge
and Detective Geyer worked together IN
secret until they had unraveed the COM
| plete story, which eliminated few days
ago in the arrest of man whose identity
was not revealed until yesterday Ho is
Alphonso Cutaiar, Jr.. the illegitimate
son Of one Of Logue's former alleged wives.
| He is looked up at the city hall on a charge
of murder while in neighboring cell is
| Logue held as the star witness.
Cutaiar Has Confessed.
Cutaiar's orlme-for he has made con
fession in which he acknowledges causing
the woman's death, though, he asserts, in
volnntnrily-is best understood from a
brief recital of Logues career.
lie was already q notorious character
when in 1858 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 tho mother Of an 1S-months-
old child, Alphonso Cutaiar. Logue and
Mory had not lived long together when he
became enamored Of her sister, Johanna
Gahan whom ho established in a separate
household, paying all expenses, until in
1869 Mary died.
| Meanwhile Loguo, who had been work
4 f,,e. hnr ~ ,t tr,rpfnaeinr, % fall hn
hands OF tho police for a series Of burglar
les On May 28, 1871, he was aiFaignod
at tho central police station for sentence,
but before the case proceeded he asked
Magistrate Smith to do him favor first
He wanted 20 be married to Johanna. The
} magistrate complied, and Logue, stand
ing in the dock, was married to the woin-
ON. Then he was sentenced to seven years
! IN the penitentiary.
During this term Johanna boarded in
this city, and promptly upon his release
in 1877 Logue came for her. They went
! 60 Now York, whore for time he operat-
! ed with the equally notorious Peter
} Burns, who died some years ago in Jail in
Florence Italy. Logue raised money in
some way for not long after his release
, he bought $40, 600 worth Of government
bonds in New York.
In February, 1S79 Logue and the WON.
: an came 60 this city. Meanwhile young
: Cutaiar had become a barber, and Logut
bought out for him the business Of hi.
former employer, william Matthew'S, and
later bought tho adjoining property foi
2 S3,lS0 and fsted it up as a shop. for Gu
I taiar Logue and Johanna living witt
IS him in the dwelling portion, which wa
. expensivey furnished
An Hiatus Passed In Prison.
A feyr days after this Logue and tn
o woman went 20 New York for shor
visit There Logue fell in with anothe
e burglar named George Mason. and on tn
Is evening of Feb 90 the two men left 70
e Boston. The following Tuesday Logu
Is returned ana found his wife gone. II
d oamo to Philadelphia and went to hi
ie home There he found Cutaiar, his journey
D. man, Fritz Eckert, and young appren
tioe named Harry Frioke. Cutaiar toll
"a him that the last he had seen Of Johann
ir was on the preceding Saturday. She ha
lr come from New York, visited some friend
o. and spent some time at the barber shoI
m At O'Clock in the evening she opene
lc tho door of the shop. cried, I'm of ,
and was gone. He had seen that she wa
intoxicated and called Go her to wait unit
he was at leisure so that no could escor
ar her TO the railroad station but she did MOI
ct LOgue at once thought that she ha
Of eioped with Peter Burns, but it was foun
ld that Burns had sailed alone for EuropI
4 and all trace of the woman was los
rs With the assistance Of her brother pot'
6ahan, Loeue searched the country Il
~ snd wide for her. but 10 no avail.
The next event was when be was cnugl