The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-16
rs THE GROVE FLIES
WING SHOTS At THE PERSONALITY
OF CUDAHY's KIDNAPER.
His Numerous Arrests-An Experience
as Bartcnder-Some of the Crimes
in Which He Has Figured.

Omaha adds a chapter of "reminiscences to
the Pat Grove literature, which has be-
come current by reason of the outlaws
alleged connection with the Cudahy kidnap-
ing.
I'm the summer of 1885," said the mar
rator Of the story, Pat Grove was arrested
in st. Louis on the charge of robbery. He
gave the police a merry chase and run
ming fight ensued, in which numerous shots
were fired. Grove gave unmistakable evil
dence of his nerve, but the odds were
against him and he had to surrender.
Shortly after his Incarceration at police
headquarters he was seized with what ap-
peared to be symptoms of violent Illness
After a hasty examination a prison physi-
clan ordered the outlaw to be transferred
to the City Hospital detention ward, which
was securely barred with iron.
"At the hospital the young medical in
ternes looked grave or tried to do so and
gave out the knowing declaration that
Pat Groves days were numbered They
used unpronounceable names in diagnosing
his case, and Grove said he felt his life
gradually ebbing away. For three months
he occupied bunk in the detention ward.
partaking of just enough food to sustain
life. Meanwhile he was overwhelmed
with prescriptions, but he evaded swallow
ing the greater part of the medicine on the
theory that his stomach was too weak to
retain 1t. Much sympathy was created.
Women sent flowers, sentimental men
talked about the passing of hero and
the detectives said, a bad man has been
Shelved.' And as the days passed the
cheeks of the outlaw became more. pallid,
his voice grew hollow and his eyes seemed
to sink further and further into his head.
4 ind
Groves cell One day there came from
relatives in illinois a draft for $500 in favor
of Grove. The hospital superintendent
cashed it, and by suspension of rules the
dying outlaw was permitted to keep the
money in his cell. 1t being single COM
receipt of the money Grove complained
of unusual illness.
Send for Father McNearney. he cried,
for cannot live
Father McNearney was hurriedly sum-
moned and at his suggestion, based on the
Dying mans request. Grove was trans
ferred from the detention ward to a cheer
full, airy ward, unbarred and unfettered, on
the second floor of the main building OF
the hospital. Strict quietude was enjoined.
Only the doctors on their hours rounds and
the snowy-capped nurses who watched by
his side were permitted behind the wicker
screen which separated Groves cot from
the common herd of miserables.
Late in the night Grove begged his
forehead That necessitated trip TO an
other part of the buildings. No doctor was
in sight.
When the faithful nurse returned with
the hot cloth Grove had flown. Whittier
he Journeyed she knew not. She only knew
the window was open. Wise detectives
who came next morning said the open win
dow furnished a valuable clew.' Grove S
scanty summer attire was also missing.
How it vanished from n locker in charge
Of a hospital attendant was mystery
until somebody suggested that money
might have been used as q persuasive
power. Another mystery was how such a
sick man could escape.
sBut the next moning, when they cleaned
Groves cell in the detention ward, they
found-a great big cake of soap. And there
were tooth prints I'm the SOAP"
HIS TINE VALUABLE.
In the days when Pat Grove was dis
penser of liquid refreshments with no more
trouble on his mind than that which came
from imbibing overdoses of his stock in
tory in the Board of Trade building where
Pat acted as lieutenant for his brother
Steve, proprietor of the place.
Pat was on watch and came up smiling.
but the smile gave way to a look of per-
plexity when the stranger demanded port
wine sangaree. Whisky in its various
forms was familiar to the now much
hunted man. but his acquaintance with
port was chiefly confined to handing the
bottle over the bar to equity individuals
whose stomachs had passed beyond the
days of fiery liquor sangaree, do you
say?" remarked Pat. ''Well, you see, our
sangaree mixture is all out and we have
just ordered a cask, but it has failed to ar
rive"
:'But / see your wine there Hand it
over here and give me the sugar and I'll
,,aix II dnd he Str
Pat passed the bottle over the bar with
the ice in the glass. the sugar and the other
things which go TO make up the drink so
dear to the heart of every Creole. Here
the stranger saw a chance to have little
fun and he asked for an egg. Carefully
separating the white and the yolk of the
egg. he put Pat TO beating the white to a
stiff foam while he mixed the sangaree.
Pat was busily engaged in beating the
egg when he saw the stranger raise the
glass to his lips and quaff the Crescent
City nectar. He said nothing> but took the
bill the stranger laid down. 1t was de-
mand upon Uncle Sam for SO and Pat
handed him s. in change. The stranger
hesitated a moment and remarked:
What do you charge for mixed drinks in
this house? 1 handed you SO BILL
ITS not what we charge for mixed
drinks responded Pat, but my time is
worth $50 an hour, and / figure that I've
spent fifteen minutes beating that egg. i
haven't charged you cent for the drink
l..
Several thousand people in Nebraska
know Teddy Thomas, the big Burlington
travelling freight agent. Ordinarily it would
take about seventeen men the size of Pat
Grove to kidnap Teddy. Well there is "A
nice old lady living down in New York who
bears the relation of aunt to Mr.. Thomas.
She has not seen him since he was about
knee high to grasshopper. and apparently
has forgotten the flight of years and the
correlative fact that Teddy has expanded
also. So, when she read in the Eastern
papers of the kidnapping of young Cudahy,
she was much wrought up over the matter.
and as soon as possible she wrote to the
Thomas family in Omaha, commiserating
with them on the fate that has brought
them to reside in such a wild and woolly
town and expiating in general terms on the
necessity of being careful with children.
She gave them minute instructions as to
how Theodore might be kept from the
clutches of such men as Pat Grove, and
laid especial stress on the point that under
no consideration must he be allowed TO go
out of the house after night unattended.
This will explain TO Teddy's friends why he
has been missed from his places of call dur
ing the last two weeks.
WANT BOUNDARIES DEFINED.
one fond mother who lives in the north
ern end of Kountze place has a couple OF
boys who are nothing If not rangers. She
has held up all sorts of bogeymen to them.
and all have failed to keep them at home or
anywhere in the vicinity. Finally she tried
the magic of Pat Groves name, and
thought she had succeeded. One day last
week. Just before the holiday vacation end
ed. she cautioned both not to leave the
naighhorhood When dinner time came