The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-02-23
Letter Bearing His Signature, in
Which He Offers to Do So Un-
der Certain Conditions.
He WAS AFRAID OF LYNCHlNG.
Mr.. Cudahy Admits That He Re.
ceiyed Such Letter and PO-
lice Believe 1t to Be
Genuine.

Omaha. Neb. Feb. 2.-Pat Grove has
which indicate that he is soon to make u
public appearance. E.. A. Cudahy Is In re-
ce.p, of q letter bearing Groves sigma
ture.
Tie handwriting has been tested by com-
parison. and il Is the opinion Of the Pin
kertons. Chief Donahue and other author
titles that the signature is genuine. The let
ter is dated South Omaha. February 10.
but the envelope indicated that 1t had been
mailed In Omaha. Owing to the fact that
the letter is now in the Pinkerton office,
Chicago. and that no copy was retained
here. Mr.. Cudahy Is unable to repeat 1t
verbatim.
Mr.. Cadahy and Chief Donahue have
made its contents known. however. Grove
explains In the latter that he heard that
the Omaha police are looking for him and
believe him to be one of the kidnapers OF
Edward Cudahy. Jr. He maintains that ne
is innocent, and says that he has no knowi-
edge of the affair. with the exception OF
what he has read in the newspapers. He
says that he will drop into Omaha some
day and prove himself innocent, and that
he would have done so long ago had he not
been afraid that he might suffer the fate
"a hho . Wv "
worth
Appeals for Protection.
Grove says that the Omaha people must
have cooled of considerably by this time,
and expresses the opinion that he viii soon
be able to come here with safety. He makes
an appeal to the Chief OF Police ana 10
Mr.. Cudahy for protection. and says that
he will expect them to stand between him
and violence.
In conclusion he says that he II much
hurt to think that Mr.. Cudahy suspects
him of being guilty OF kidnapping and ex-
presses his appreciation of the kindness
when / received this letter" Mr.. Cuda-
take too much tor granted. 50 / sent it 70
samples of Groves writing. and would be
able to identify It without difficulty. A few
days later l heard from MI; Pinkerton. A
few days later he said he had compared the
writing with a sample of Groves chtrogra-
ply and that they were the same beyond
question. 1 would not be surprised now II
Grove should show himself almost any
time. / believe the letter was written In
good faith. l don't think the letter was
written either In Omahs or south omsna.
ruary L. but the postmark on the enve-
lope showed that 1t had been mailed In
Omaha. 1t was probably written some dis
lance from here. and sent in a separate en-
velope to some friend in Omaha or South
Omaha. who remailed ii. This was done for
the Obvious purpose Of K KEEPING MS pr wse
TO come in voluntarily, without giving de-
tectives the honor Of having captured him."
NEW ARREST AT KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City. Mo-, Feb. 22-Rhody Red
mond, an Omaha ~saloonkeeper whose place
in that city Is said to have been frequented
by James Callahan before the latter was ar
rested for completely in the Cudahy kid,
naping was arrested here to-day. Redmond
is said to have talked knowingly of the Kid
mapping and to have Dragged that he closed
his place Immediately after Callahan was
arrested. Redmond. who was armed, has
been in Kansas City for several days. Chief
of Police Hayes subjected the prisoner to
a sweating and then had a talk with
Chief Donahue of Omaha over the long
distance telephone. Chief Donahue request
Use to report at Omaha tomorrow. This
was done and Redmond says he will go to
Omaha Immediately.
Alex Ricketts, of Argentine. Kas.. suburb
of Kansas City, was arrested with Red
mond. but no charge could be placed against
him and hp ton waC rolooSad