The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-04
COmaha News
~ Grove. madmanl

Pat Grove, madman-
Thus do old police officers of Omaha,
who have an intimate acquaintance
vvith him and who have watched his
career through a long course OF years.
classify the man who IS gehefaily
charged with being the master spirit
in the abduction of 15-year-Old Eddie
C1dahy. jr, and who is believed 70
have engineered the bold and almost
Incredibly successful game for stake
of S25, 600.
nal sneers one man who has Deen
through twenty years of police expert
ence in Omaha. NO good man. IN
criminal pariance, viii associate with
him. He is too fOoliShly bold, TOO
spectacular to be trusted by SOod
criminals He is at his best when ne
is drunk When sober he is a coward.
Some say that the blood of a maniac
/ is coursing through his veins, that the
passion to play before the calcium
lights of publicity has become an ap-
petite such as possesses dTunkard or
a morphine fiend IT may be. Times
without number Pat Grove has been IN
the delirium tremens cell. When ne
shot two policemen in Chicago he IS
said TO have been crazy drunk Such is
/ reported to have been his con1lJlon
when he made away with q tray OF dta-
1nonds in Denver and when he perpe-
I
snatching trick in st. Louis he had the
appearance of the man who has
/ wrestled with snakes several times
! a dangerous glitter and insane glare
of eyes.
| The eyes are the feature of Pat
/ Groves face and that they have not
/ been made more OF in the descriptions
/ of the light man" have caused many
policemen to believe that he is not inn
/ plicated in this case-that he is again
| being made the scapegoat for other
criminals, as has happened many
! times in the past. In deep-sunken
wells and under projecting brows. MS
shifty eyes focus all the gaze upon
! themselves.
/ Sane or insane, Pat Grove is one OF
the few really spectacular and truly
named deSpeTadOes of the day he
] carries off his operations with dash
and abandon and dare-deviltry thai
marked the deeds of the picturesque Ole
/ scoundrels of the days before civiliza-
ton laid them on the shelf
His first escapade Of ten years age
| in Chicago was the talk Of the day
| firing of his mistress, Grove one day
/ stole her diamonds during her absence
( A pair Of sleuthS trailed him 10 a house
of ill-fame. He was corncred and Gov
cred, but in his drunken frenzy he
counted not the odds. Whipping out
badly and wounded the other. Swing
ing his revolver about his head be
plOughed his way TO freedom, but was
{ later captured.
Seven years in the penitentiaTy was
his sentence for this deed but influence
and his brother Steve, who is now
/ running a saloon in Chicago. gave hin
his release after he had served tive
! years and half.
| His Denver episode occurred shortly
after his release. One day when the
| store was crowded he walked into z
/ jewelers. right in the heart of the city
next door to the Republican office
Grabbing up u tray Ot diamonds ht
! dashed through the crowd with it anC
up an alley. He was soon caught. anC
again got off lightly, his brother Stew
! satisfying the jeweler- Some of TIT
police officers in Denver say that Crow
was on the verge of delirium tremen
when he committed this deed.
/ His St. Louis episode seemed like tn,
act Of a madman. As a wealthy WO
man of that city was leaving down
town store Grove snatched neT pocket
book. Leaping 10 the edge of the side
walk he jumped into buggy standing
there with a revolver forced the Occu-
| pant to whip up and standing upright
I in the vehicle and yelling and flourish
ing q revolver, he drove through
| crowded street and escaped from q
pursuing nDiuC u tltlAEAtC anu pDliNt
officers. When he was arrested he was
| examined by an insanity commission
instead OF a court of justice.
! These are the red-letter events II
! Fat Groves career and, if he reall!
conducted the CUdahy kidnapping. tn,
| case may well be classified with them
| His other deeds pale beside them. al
| though he once sawed out Of jail at ST
Joe. where he was being held for train
( robbery.