The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-16

neighbcrs began to tell stories of the
strange actions of the PROPRIETOR at Tie
time of the confiagration. This talk was
reported 10 the police and Pit was taken
into custody.
When he was brought to the station he
was searched and revolver found upon
MS person This was thought strange at
could see the no Occasion at f for Ri caTy1
such weapon. re was tried for arson
and acquitted He then kept bar for his
orifted to Chicago, where he got his first
penitentiary sentence for robbery as re-
su5 OF tearing DIAMONDS ;, from inc ears b 1l
only police record when he returned TO
Omaha in the early nineties and again
tended bar for Steve.
That Pat Grove has been accused OF a
great many crimes of which he was after
wards proved innocent cannot be denied.
but even with these excluded he still has to
his discredit quite an imposing array OF
transgressions, all of them crimes of some
dignity" Whatever may be said against
him he is certainly not petty criminal.
He goes after big game" and patterns
after the methods of Jesse James and
other terrors of the middle West Here
are some OF the best known events or MS
criminal career:
August, 1SSO-Robbed street cars in
Omaha.
Feb. 5, 1sss-Took 5000 of diamonds from
store of l.. III. Chaplin, Denver.
June 10. 1S94-Stole $4,000 of diamonds
from "Swede Annie in Chicago. Shot her
Aug. 10, 1ss4-shot Policemen Linville
and Briscoe. Imprisoned at Joliet.
Sept. 10, 1S95-Committed burglary in Mill
waulSee, wis. Sent to penitentiary.
Jan. is, 1S96-Arrested for train robbery
in Missouri. Broke jail, recaptured and
sent TO penitentiary for three and half
years.
Feb 6, 1soo-Arrested for robbing Chi
cago & Northwestern express of $4,000.
SLIPPERY AS AN EEL.
After the Chicago & Northwestern train
robbery at Tower w In August, 1899. Pat
Grove was sought far and near by Pinker-
ton operatives. special officers of the North
western road, the Omaha and Council
Bluffs police departments. He proved for
six months he could keep out of the way
of all the detectives in the country II he
desired it. Finally he dropped into Chicago
with the same GOODNESS manifested by Jesse
James when that famous bandit located in
ST. Joseph after one of his numerous ex-
cursions. Pat went to the hotel of his
brother, and is said to have worked around
that well-known house several weeks be-
fore the detectives succeeded in locating
him. He was under treatment at one OF
the Chicago hospitals, and visited the ply
sicians daily. One afternoon in the spring
of 1900 Detective Riley, of the Northwest
ern road, went to the hotel, accompanied
by a couple of local officers. to arrest
Grove. They met him coming out or the
front door and promptly informed him
that they wanted him. He offered no re-
SlStance, and was taken TO the Central
police station. His brother Steve and his
friends protested that Pat was innocent,
and Pat gave every indication to the Of
ficers that he had nothing to do with the
robbery. With the assistance of South
Omaha friends, he succeeded in establish
ing an alibi and was released. After stop
ping in Chicago a few days, he started
West in May, and was next heard from on
the dairy farm of one of his sisters near
South Omaha. He remained in that vicin-
ity until week prior to the abduction of
Edward Cudahy, jr., since which time he
has been as hard TO locate as he was dur
ing the six months subsequent to the
Northwestern robbery.
Here is Chicago chapter OF Pat Grove
biography. 1t relates an incident that led
to his first penitentiary experience. Grove
is known to the bluecoats of the Windy
City as diamond thief and train rob-
Der of no little SKILL 1t was in adding to
his collection of Kimberley stones that he
got in trouble. Grove succeeded in making
away with a set of diamonds belonging to
Minnie Watson, a notorious Chicagoan,
who dwelt on South Clark street just be-
low Chinatown. Next day when police
man attempted to srrest him at one of his
haunts there was battle. The officer was
shot in the cheek, the bullet knocking out
two teeth and breaking the jawbone. Grove
sprinted away down the street, shooting
as he went, hitting pedestrian named Cole
and another officer named Briscoe. After
chase of several blocks, when his ammu-
milton was exhausted, he was caught Five
years in the penitentiary was his penalty.
He was pardoned after three years of the
time was served