Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-29
STORY. OF A CRIME.
Death of the Wife CT a Noted
Crook Explained.
RUN DOWN AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS.

Murderer Proves To Ne tho Natural
She Was su6scated Accidentally, in .
Mea&ure-ssJimmy" Lngze's Search for
the Woman He Made His wife as He
Stood in the Prisoners Docs.
PHILADELPHIA, April 29-While the
larger portion of the Philadelphia popula-
ton was attending church there lay on q
desk in q dingy little room down town
the skull of a murdered woman. There
for six long hours was unfoldcd a horri.
Bile story Of crime. The central figure in
the story Is James E. Loguc-known to
the police departments Of the continent
as Jimmy" Logue, burglar, bank rob-
Der 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. p, 1879, Johanna
Logue vanished as suddenly and as COM
pleteiy as if tine earth had opened and
swallowed her. The newspapers at the
time were full of it, rewards were offered,
and no one was more interchangeable in his
efforts to locate the woman than Loguc
himself
Unravoile led the Complete Story.
On Oct. 1a. 1898, fourteen years after
wcrd, carpenter repairing the house at
1850 North Eleventh street tore up some
boards in the kitchen and there found the
skeleton of a woman When it became
known that Logue and his wife had lived
in the house suspicion ut once pointed to
him as the murderer, but all search for
him proved unavailing. On the evening
of March 5 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: Il am Jimmy Logue and l
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 Ashbridgc and Detective
Gcycr worked together in secret until they
had unravelled the complete story, which
eliminated few days ago in the arrest OF
a man whose identity was not revealed
until yesterday.
Actual Murderer Identified.
He Is Aiphonso Cutaier, Jr.. the illegiti.
mate son of one of Loguc's former al
legged wives. He is locked up at the city
hall on q charge of murder, while in a
ncighboring 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 understood
from brief recitation of Logue's career.
He was already a notorious character
when, in 1858, he married Mary Jane
Andrews. With her he lived two years,
when without the formality of a divorce
he welded Mary Gahan who, though she
had not been a wife. was the mother of an
lS.months-old child, Alphonso Cutaier,
Jr Logue and Mary had not lived long
together when he became enamored Of
her sister, Johanna Gahan, whom he es.
tablished in q separate household, paying
all expenses until, in 1879. Mary died.
To Prison After His Wedding.
Meanwhile I1ogue, who had been ''work-
Ing at his profession" fell into the hands
of the police for q series of burglaries. On
May %, 1871, he was arraigned at the
Central police station for sentence, but be-
fore the case proceeded he asked Magis-
trate Smith to do him a favor first. He
wanted to marry Johanna The magis-
trate complied, and Logue, standing in
/ the dock, married the woman. Then he
was sentenced to seven years III the peni-
Tertiary. During his term Johanna
boarded in this city, and promptly upon
| his release in 1877 Logue came for her
They went to New York. where for u
| time he operated with the equally motor
ious 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 So, 900 worth
/, Of government bonds in New York.