St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-29
HIS VICTIMS SKULL
Gave Silent Testimony Of the
Truth Of a Murderer's
Confession.
STRANGE CAREER OF CRIME
In Which Notorious Jimmie
Logue Figures Prom
inently.
MURDER AT LAST is OUT.
Fate Of One Of His Wives
Cleared UP by the Story
of a Pal.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April Is
While the larger portion of the Phila-
deiphia population was attending
church today, there lay on desk in
dingy little room down town the
skull of a murdered woman. There
for six long hours was unfolded hor-
rible story of crime. The central
figure in the story is James e. Logue
known to the police departments
Of the continent as Jimmy" Logue,
burglar, bank robber and one 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 it
was a fitting climax to a remarkable
tale that proved that he was not her
murderer
On the night of Feb. 2, 1879, Jo-
hanna Logue
VANISHED AS SUDDENLY
and as completely as if the earth had
opened and swallowed her. The news
wards were offered and no one was
more indefatigable in his efforts to To-
cate the woman than Logue himself.
On Oct. 16, 1893, fourteen years after
ward, a carpenter repairing the house
at 1850 North Eleventh street, tore
up some boards in the kitchen, and
there found the skeleton of woman.
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 the
door bell of Coroner Ashbridge's
private residence rang, and answering
it in person, he was confronted by an
old white-haired man, who said
abruptly:
'I am Jimmy Logue, and I 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
name. From that time on Coroner
together in secret until they had I'M
raveied the complete story, which cul-
minated a few days ago in the arrest
of a man, whose identity was not re-
vealed until today. He is Alphonso
Cutaier Jr., the illegitimate son of one
of Logue's former alleged wives. He
is locked up in the city hall on a
charge Of murder, while in neighbor
iy,fr oil fc Il bAlI 41<e
ness. ;
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 char
acter, 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 been wife, was the mother of an
eighteen-months-o child, AIphonso
Cutaier Jr.
Logue and Mary had not lived long
together when he became enamored of
her sister. Johanna Gahan, whom he
established in separate household,
paying all 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 at the central police station
for sentence, but before the case pro-
ceeded 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.
During this term Johanna boarded
in this city, and, promptly upon his
release, in 1877,
LOGUE CAME FOR HER.
They went to New York, where, for
time, he operated with the equally
notorious Peter Buris. who died some
years ago in 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
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 Matthews, and fitted it up as
shop for Cutaier Logue and Jo-
hanna living with him in the dwelling
portion, which was extensively fur
nished.
A few days after this Logue and the
woman went to New York for a. short
visit. There 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
return shortly. The following Tues
day Logue returned and
FOUND HIS WIFE GONE.
He came to Philadelphia and went to
his home. There he found Cutaier, his
journeyman, Fritz Eckert and a young
apprentice named Harry F. Ricke.
Cutaier told him that the last he had
seen-o Johanna was on the preceding
Saturday. Logue at once thought she
had eloped with Peter ouris, but it
was found that Buris had sailed for
Europe and all trace Of the woman
was lost.
With the assistance of her brother,
Peter Gahan, Logue searched the coun-
try far and wide for her. but to no
avail. In November. 1879, Logue was
sent to prison, and after his release, on
April 22, 1893, he was lost sight os until
he gave himself up to Coroner Ash
bridge.
At the time Of her disappearance
the woman wore jewelry worth $1,000
and had. in the bosom of her dress
four $1,000 government bonds. When