The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-29
His Wife Johanna Killed and RobbG0
on the Night of Feb. ~. 1870, -
Logue's IIlegitfmnte Son.
CONFESSION OF THE LATTER
sANGER's SLAYER AT MILwUAkEI1
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Attempted Suicide I'm Jail OF Samuel
G. Carpenter, Accused of killing
Mrs. Ray blackwell. f


tion was attending church to-day there
lay on desk In dingy little room down
town the skull OF a murdered woman
There, for six long hours. was unfolded
horrible 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 around
crooks in the annals of crime The case
turned on the murder Of one of this man -
wives, Johanna Logue, but it was ht-
ting climax to remarkable tale that
proved that he was not her murderer.
On the night of Feb. % 1879. johanna
Logue vanished as suddenly and as COM
pletely as If the earth had opened and
swallowed her. The newspapers at the time
were full of it. rewards were offered and no
one was more indefatigable in his efforts
to locate the woman than Logue himself.
On Oct. 16 1898, fourteen years after, a
carpenter, repairing the house at No. 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 at once pointed to him as the
murderer, but all search for him proved
unavailing.
On the evening of March g. last the door
bell of Coroner Ashbridges private resi-
dence rang and, answering it in person, he
was confronted by an old whte-haired
man. VINO abruptly said: Il 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 name. From
that time on Coroner Ashbridgc and de-
tective Geyer worked together in secret
until they had unraveled the complete
o,,fx, I'm afade feu aUO n
the arrest of man. whose identity was
not revealed until to-day. He is Alphonso
Cutaier, jr., the illegitimate son OF one
of Logue's former alleged wives. He is
locked up at the City Hall on a charge or .
murder, while dn a neighboring cell ~
Logue, held as the star witness.
tutaier,s crime--for he has made a con-
fession in which he acknowledges causing
the woman's death, though he asserts, in
yoluntarily-is best understood from brier
ready a. notorious character, when, an lsoS
ne was married to Mary Jane andrews.
With her he lived two years, wnen. WITH
welded to Mary Gahan,. VINO, tnough sne
had not before been wife, was the notner
of an nteen-montns-old child, Alphonso
Cutaier, jr. I4ogue and Mary had not iiVeu
long together, when he became enamore0
or iler SISTER, johanna Ganan, whom ne
established in a separate household, paying
all expenses until. IN 1869, Mary died. Mean
while Logue, who had been working "a. At
police for a series of burglaries. on May
g. 1871, he arraigned at the Centrat
police station for sentence, but before the
case proceeded he asked Magistrate Sml9h
to do him a favor first. He wanted 10 pc
married to Johanna. The Magistrate COM
nlied and Logue standing in the dock, was
married to the woman. Then he was SEN
fenced to seven years in the penltentiary.
During this term Johanna boarded In THIS
city, and promptly on his release, in ls'7.
Logue came for her.
JOHANNA,S DISAPPEARANCE
The couple went to New York where for
a 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 $4,000 worth
of government bonds in New York. In Feb
ruary, 1879, Logue and the woman came to
this city Meanwhile young Cutaier had be-
come q barber, and Logue bought out for
him the business of his former employer,
and fitted it up as az shop for CutaieIs
Logue and Johanna living with him in the
dwelling portion, which was expensiveiy
furnished. A few days after this Logue and
the woman went to New York on snort
burglar named George Mason, and on tho
evening of Feb. 20 the two men left for
Boston, telling Johanna they would return
shortly. The Following Tuesday. Logue re-
turned and found his wife gone. He came
to Philadelphia and went TO .,,s,,n,,a, MS nome-
Fritz Eckert, and young apprentice named
Harry F,ricke. Cutaier told him tnat the
last he had seen OF Johanna was on the
preceding Saturday. Logue at once thought
that she had eloped with Peter Burns ouc
was % Iound nd ina. al trace na Of the woman
was lost. With the assistance of her broth
er, 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 2.
himself aim hs up pat to es Coroner e Ashbridse.
At the time of her disaPPesrancee 3 ean bsS sas
IN 0sh the bosom Of her dress four 81 600 govern
ment bonds. When they moved to the
Eleventh-street house, in 1889, Logue mad
carpet of the stairway, telling no one but
Cutaier where they We're. When he re-
cntaier had stolen one Of the bonds and
sold IL to the Drexels for Sl,0sb. Cutaier-
a9a aeer his Tfe ysd lns when
foul ordor, coming from under the Kitchen
f1oor. made the woman 80 sek ss,s tnsy % were ere
house had numerous tenants. Search was
made for Eckert, the journeynan. and at
Finally, Detective Geyer found him IN =
barber shop on Huston street, New York.
where for a long time he had been shaving
from twenty to thirty metropolitan police
men each day. Fricke was found in Phiia-
hss1pnidd hsnpad from fright. and il became neces-
sary to send him to the insane depart
ment of the Philadelphia Hospital. AFTER
he had been sent there 1t was found that
by some strange fate the superintendent
of the ward in which he was lodged was
Alphonso Cutaier, sr., father of the ac-
cused murderer. and Fricke was hastily
transferred TO another ward.
After Cutaier's arrest several attempts
were made 10 extort confession from
him and he narrated number OF detailed
stories OF the crime, naming l.ogue as the
perpetrator, but eventually he broke down.
and on April IL, told the true story. He
said that when the woman signined her
Intention of returning TO New York she
was Intoxicated and he induced her 10 wait
until he could accompany her to the sta
ton He took her upstairs and made her
get into the bed with her clothes on Then.
he AYERS, to prevent her from getting away
before hs sOS could 50 toC, with Tn,r her, ne ns
at o'clock in the evening. Four
hours later he found her lying ON her
face with her head under the bolster,
smcf11ered to death. In an evident at
tempt to break her bonds; The next day
he burisd the body under the kitchen floor:
He admitted having taken her Jewels. but
denied any knowledge of the 5000 bonds.
which She was said TO have In her BOSOM
The original story told by LoSue was