The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-28
CUDAHY CASE HAS
BAFFLED The POLICE,
IIavin. Gained Nothing by Follow
in" Up Original Clews. Are Now
Looking for New Ones.
PAT GROVE, WlLL-0'-THe-WlSP
Officers in Several Cities Claim TO
Have Seen Him i'm Last Few
bays. but None Is Able
Ia Find Him.

Omaha Neb Dec. 27.-All hope of cap
turing Pat Grove In this vicinity has been
abandoned and the police and special detec-
tives on the case have now settled down
to q systematic search for evidence from
the clews now in their possession. These
cIews are many and may lead to important
discoveries.
'rhev began at the beginning and are now
going over the entire ground covered By the
bandits Tuesday and "Wednesday nights Of
last week in the hope that they will find
at least two important articles in the chain
OF eyidence-the gasoline stove on which
the outlaws boiled their coffee in the Grover
street cottage. and the buggy used by them
at various stages of the ease.
Up to date We have run down all the
cIews which promised a quicker and more
direct solution of the mystery" said Chief
Donahue tonight, "and have found that
they led to nothing. and we are now ready
10 go over the ground again, this time CIV
ing attention to the minute details OF the
matter.
Logically ST Joseph the police think. is
the last city in the Middle West that Pat
Grove would visit at such a time as TINS. IL
Is the last place the police expected him 10
visit, and, knowing this, il may have lur-
nished him with good reason for going
there.
So far as the police know. Grove has no
relatives In or near St. Joseph. but it IL We'll
known that he has friends there.
Gunny Sack and Pottery Found.
An additional clew was found to-day in
connection with the kidnapping. In search
ing in the vicinity OF the locality OF the
place where the father of the abducted boy
placed the $1,000 in gold which was TO ran
som his son, found. few rods west
and little to the south. an ordinary new
sunny sack with no marks or brands up
or IT.
The glInny sack was by an oak tree on the
southward side. From this location. If the
abductors of the Cudahy boy ueSired. they
place where the gold was placed by Mr.
Cudahy and Yet been securely screened by
the cump of bushes.
II is presumed that the abductors OF
young Cudahy placed the gunny sack be
mind the tree. meaning to use 1t in carrying
the gold away. Just as they had INTENDED
was not brought TO the place in u grain
sack.
By the side of the grain sack were a
number of bits of broken pottery, which
might have been placed there prior to the
presence of the aoductors. or have been
part of jug broken at the time the alb
du,tors Were lying in waiting tor the ap-
p"arance OF Mr.. Cudlhy. A number of the
pieces of ,he. jug are still on the ground.
Theory Of the shirt sleeve.
one peculiar feature in connection with
this case was the marking on "a fence board,
at the exact spot wnere the money
posted. of a Iarge-sized letter ~ which
mad been cut on the fence board recently
by some one. evidently with a knife.
Dihrent inquiry of the farmers VINO reside
in the vicinity of the Paddock's Grove failed
10 reveal any definite Information in con-
the time of the abduction. yet se"eral men
were found who had seen movers in the
vicinity OF Paddocks Grove about the time
the Cudahy boy was KIDNAPPED.
The underShlit sleeve found near the lam
tern in Paddock'S Grove has developed an
in; portant clew. according to the police.
While 1t il an ordinary Gndc:sieevc, cut
from q garment AT the shoulder. il discloses
a fcaiure which may lead to the apprehen-
sion of one of the kplnapers The armhole
is partially sewed up. and in such a manner
as to indicate that the sleeve was part of
a garment worn by "A one-armed person.
III. armhoe is very small. hardly large
enough To admit hand. and Yet is large
enough To permit the passage OF a stump"
through II.
perhaps. aId has the appearance of having
been done for some time. at least before
the shirt was laundared the last time.
one theory advanced by the police il that
the sleeve is a part of undershirt be-
longing to wcil-Known South Omaha
young man who has figured In several es-
a term in Jail. IL Is believed that the sleeve
was originally taken from this young mans
Melrose Hill house.
GROVE DRESSED As \ WOMAN
Chicago: Dec. 27-Disguised as a wom-
an. Pat Grove. the notorious criminal, who
is being sought by the police all over the
United States on the charge that he was
the kidnaper Of Eddie Cudahy at Omaha
has been seen in Chicago within the last
few days. and may still be hiding here ac-
ccrdinS 10 statements made tonight by De
tective Sergeant James Storen a Chicago
police officer, who has arrested Grove a
number OF times in the past.
With a view to discovering the fugitiye's
hiding place. a search of several houses in
SiXty-third street. near Stewart avenue has
been made by Storen, acting on information
that Grove had been recognized on that
street Christmas Day.
In pursuing his quest. the Sergeant stum-
bled upon evidence which. he saws con-
WINGED him that Grove has been in Chica 20
recently and that in the guise of a woman
clothed in a black robe and heavily yelled.
the suspect went abroad with impunity IN
the streets of Englewood. the suburb where
he once was resident and is well known
many people.
StOren claims to have traced Grove to a
room where he was maSduerading as a
young widow in mourning. but that Grove
received warning from his friends that the
police were on his trail and escaped before
capture could be effected