The sun., 1900-12-27
.W HUNTING
DOWN GROVE
nv Police Suspect Him in Cudahy
Kidnapping Case.
en- MERTON MEN ARE ACTIVE
8ported That Not Less Than Fifteen
Il of Them are Striving to Earn
Reward offered by the
4 millionaire.

sztaat omaha, Dec. ZO.-In0uSn seven days
lHaye passed since Eddie Cudahy was
Kidnapped and $4,000 forced from the
hands of his father, the bandits who
performed the daring feat are still at
Eirge. The Pinkerton agency at Chicago
iii said to have not less than 10 men
Svorking on the case in different parts
fnf the country in the hope Of earning
t1le $25, 1000 reward offered for the cap
fure of the bandits. The Pinkerton men
here and the local police are practically
2 agreag that Pat Grove is the head of the
amazing affair and that he wts assisted
Sby Lillian Devine. In fact, all the evil
fdeTce now in the hands of the authorities
zay)0int tD this fact and that Pat Grove
z GkeafNd on a horse via Pacific junction
and took a train for the south.
A5 al hH police have discovered that man
Answering the description of the man
v who ABANDONED the horse ut Pacific juno
#fion Saturday morning took Burlington
train and got off at Forest City, This
\ js 3Gmiles above st. Joseph, Mo-, where
Y Rnt Grove has many friends and where
n he Formerly lived. No one saw the
\ stranger after he left the depot at Forest
\ Uify and it is the belief that he went
into, the country and there secured
team for an overland trip to st. Joe.
~ The police have added another link to
fasten the crime on Pat Grove. They
\ have found a man to whom Pat Grove
talked six weeks ago and said that if he
Shad Sc to hire a small house and buy
S8a few things he could make a big haul
u Grove said that with this amount he
could turn a trick that would net him a
1 handsome sum. In fact, Grove infolNped
This man what he wanted the money
~ eo.J hot bn tl1ie
| sum to rent a house for a few days for a
"certain purpose" adding that with a
few window curtains and cooking uten.
sils lie would be fixed.
The individual to whom Pat Grove
outlined this scheme, knowing Groves
criminal record, suspected that it was
~ Crowe's intention to rob a bank, train
4 or safe in an adjoining town, perhaps
Omaha. He did not give him the mon
sNsey. He merely handed Grove so cents,
q with the remark: Pat you had better
s work on the square. You have not been
"A eminently successful in your line. 1t is
~ time for you to brace up and be man.
N 1t is not too late, and you have the ma.
4 terissestGou do the right thing"
" Grove r. ..ferred Easy Way.
~ To this Grove replied that he had
N%tried the good and bad ways of raising
wthe wind and rather preferred the easy
!. way. Immediately upon the return OF
I this Omaha man from the neighboring
pcity in which he had his conversation
.with Pat Grove he told two friends il
tdetail his conversation with Grove. The
Ezthree, in discussing the matter, gave il
u no further thought then than to express
the opinion that Grove would probably
find friend who would advance him the
y sum required or that he would secure il
# by hook or crook.
The fact that this conversation was
v had with a reputable Omaha citizen ant
"A that he related it at once upon his return
'8 to Omaha establishes beyond any posi-
BILE doubt that Pat Grove was, as he
m says, on his "uppers" and desperate
enough to concoct and carry into eXecu
tion the details of just such job as tht
a Cudahy kidnapping case. He is colieg,
graduate and fully capable from an in
b 1ellectual standpoint of writing the eX
u Extraordinary letter found upon the Cudah!
lawn the morning following the disap
/ pearance of Eddie Cudahy. Having
served five prison terms and having beel
convicted of numerous crimes, he wa'
Fitted in every way for this bold deal 81
far as having the courage of his conyic
ions is concerned.
The letters Chief Donohue is receivin;
" fYom the woman signing herself "llois
i IT. from Cincinnati are likely to fulnisl
\ III clew after all. Experts have been ex
Il kamining the writing to try and ascertain
ID there is similarity between that an'
the letter written to Cudahy demandin'
Sfhe ransom, but thus far they have fount
e nothing similar in the letters. Eloise i.
keems to be writing her letters in Omahi
u and sending them to Cincinnati, to b
mailed by friend back to Omaha
While it may be nothing but joke, tn
earnestness with which the writer pre-
lends to state that the bandits were si'
i'm number and are still in Omaha i'm
presses the officers as meaning some
2thing. The woman will be interrogate
4 by the police if found. She ridcules til
] police unpsercifull8 for not detecting tn
anapers and especially in not followin
5los E sss.. be " ent to deliver the ran
som money even without his consent an
Al thus following the outlaws to their lar.