The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-22
MAKES PIT HUSSEYL LAUGH
WELL KNOWN CHARACTER is
CHARGED WITH COMPLETELY IN
CUDAHY KIDNAPPING
MR., BAUM GOES A-sLEUTH1NG
Foxy Qui1Ier's sapiency Made to
Lock Like Three Dimes by
st. Paul Amateur Sher-
Rock Holmes.
Is It a nine?

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| laugh. None can deny that it has start
| ed some thinking.
Early yesterday morning Sheriff Justus,
accompanied by several of his deputies
and an alleged detective, John NJ. Baum
went to the home of Pat Hussey, we'll
known local character, and after arous-
ing the house and compelling all the
inmates to undergo close scrutiny, took
Pat into custody and marched him to the
county JAIL refusing to make any eX-
plantations.
Naturally the other members of the
family became alarmed and feared that
it must have been an unusual crime
which prompted such a mysterious ar
rest. Attorney George Walsh was re-
tanned by Mrs. Mary Hussey and the for
mer sprung a surprise in the police court
in the afternoon by requesting Judge
Hine to have Hussey produced in court.
With apparent surprise the court stated
that he had been informed of no such ar
rest, but Attorney Walsh was persistent
and the county attorney was sent for. Mr..
Kane admitted that Hussey was under
arrest and stated that the arrest was on
a warrant charging him with completely
in the kidnapping of Edward Cudahy at
Omaha, Neb., Dec IS.
Then came the laugh. Long Pat Hus-
sey," as he is dubbed in the warrant,
came limping into the court room and
looked at Judge Hine as though he were
telling funny story as the latter read
grave and legal document charging Pat
Hussey with being an accomplice of Pat
Grove.
Everybody grinned. 1t was too good.
Harmless Pat Hussey, who was never
known to have serious thought, unless
he were thirsty, suddenly had been dis
covered as a fugitive from justice and
in connection with one of the most mys-
ferrous and boldest crimes of the nine
teenth century Pat Hussey had been
leading a dual life, and instead of being
the bland "can rusher," for which he had
been taken, might at that very moment
be ifngling gold pieces in his ragged
pockets that had been deposited with
a red lantern in the midle of deserted
road by a frightened father who feared
for the life of his son.
PAT SAT- AND SMILED.
Despite the new aspect that life had
assumed, Pat found it impossible to take
himself seriously. He sat in a corner
and smiled at his acquaintances outside
the railing. Fugitive from justice,
that beats being drunk, surmised Pat.
When Attorney Walsh asked Judge
Hine to fix bail, the latter said that, de-
spite the seriousness of the charge he
would allow the defendant to go upon his
own recoSnlZance, ana that euuSu dl .
troubles for one day.
John M. Baum the detective who caus-'
ed the excitement, is unknown by the,
police or any of the private detective
agencies. He lives in st. Paul, and, so
far as known, this is his first attempt
as sleuth. He claims to have the tip
from the inside and asserts that the
woman with the gold TOOTH who figured
in the kidnapping is a former wife from
whom he has separated. He assured local
police officials three weeks ago that it
would be no trouble for him to locate
Pat Grove and all his gang. He only
sisted because he wanted to arrange mat
tiers SO that he would be sure of the re-
ward.
He claims that. long before the kidnap-
ing occurred, his wife and H. E. Miller
| alias John e. Layne, prominent Min
neapols business man, and pat HusSey,
were intimate with Grove and his ganS
| that they all answer to descriptions al
| forded by young Cudahy, and that they
! were in Omaha at the time OF the OF
| tense. To make it still stronger he as
i serts that the real Pat Grove is in Min
| neapolis and will be under arrest today. :
| WHOLE THING PREPOSTEROUS.
When seen last evening, Mrs. Hussey
| stated that she regarded the whole pro-
ceedings as being preposterous. she was
very much mortified at the unWelcome
notorietv by which her family had sud-
! denly been covered. When asked as 70
| her sons whereabouts Dec. Is, she said:
81 am not sure that Pat was in town at
the time of the kidnapping Either at tnat
! time or very shortly after he Went TO
| Bathgate. N D., to look after my prop
! ertv there. 1 believe that he d-d not
! leave until Dec. 20. However, we can
| easily prove that he was not in Omaha.
| The whole thing is too ridiculous to De
given serious consideration, ana the man
who caused the arrest plunged hliilSell
| into lot of trouble
| Pat Hussey is thirty-seven years oio
! and single He was raised on farm IN
| North Dakota, and came to ST. Faul 70
! live with his sisters and mother apout
| ten wears ago. He has been an lnVaHo
! most of the time and has led rather
! useless life, but has never been suSFecled
| of crime. A number of times he has oeen
! arrested for being drunk, but never on a
| more serious charge. Those VINO Know
| him do not hesitate to question the san
| itv of the detective who, in some lnys-
| FERROUS way found that he was 1mphcat-
ed in the Cudahy mystery
While St. Paul was being worked up
| over the arrest of Hussey, Minneapolis
was treated to a similar surprise ana
| Mr. T.ayne member of the contracting
! firm of CosIer & Lane, was placed uhoet
| arrest and introduced to the ohclais as
| pat Grove. He was released upon MS
own recognizance.
OMAHA DEVELOPMENTS.
OMAHA Neb., Feb. A-James Gala
| han. under arrest in connection with the
| Cndahy kidnapping, was called before
| Judge Vinznhaler to1ay and &rraigned on
| three complaints-grand larceny, ROBBERY
! and false Imprisonment. Callahan plead
| ed not guilty to all the charges. He had
not secured counsel, and further pro-
| ceedings were postponed until Monday
/ next. Bail was fixed at $500, and In de-
! fault Callahan was remanded to Jah.-
The strongest Identification of Gala
han thus far as one of the Cudahy KID
napers was that of Mrs. George F. Wit
tum, who this morning picked him out
! of a line of five prisoners as they march,
ed by her at the city Jail. Two days ago
her husband, Attorney George F. Wfttuln
had identified Callahan under similar cir
| cumstanees.
The Identification made by Mrs. Wtttum
I is considered especially good, as various
means were employed to confuse her and
| shake her judgment, but she remained
| firm in her decision that Callahan was
| the man she saw in the neighborhood of
| the Melrose hill prison house ten or
twelve times during the two weeks inn
mediately preceding the abduction.
| Chief of Police Donahue stated tonight
that he knew nothing of the arrest at
ST. Paul. He further said that he has
| recently received some letters from
Baum, who is not an Omaha man, but,
| the chief thinks, connected with some
local agency, in which Baum said he
thought he had two men located who
he was sure were connected with the
kidnapping. The chief says that he thinks
Baum is wrong.