The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-03
Poorly Spelled EpistIe I'm Which the
Family Was Threatened with Death
If Reward he Not Withdrawn.
NO TRACE YET OF PAT GROVE
WRONG MAN RUN DOWN ON PINE
RIDGE RESERVATION.
Pat Not on the Steamer Which Ar
rived at Liverpool Yesterday from
B0stOn-Death for Kidnapers.

OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 2.-Another letter,
printed with lead pencil. was received by
z. A. Cudahy this afternoon demanding
the withdrawal of the reward for the kid
napers. The fact that the address was
printed In similar style to the former ones
gave rise to the suspicion before it was
opened that it was from the same source.
but Mr.. Cudahy stated tonight thar X was
a rank imitation and said he did not at
tach the slightest significance to 1t. 1t was
mailed in the postoffice about $50 o'clock
in the afternoon. He showed tho letter TO
a reporter who called at his home to verify
a report that another letter hal been re-
ceived from the kidnapers and said IL was
evidently patterned after the facsimile or
the former letter that had been printed. He
said 1T was of the same class as several
others that had been received from various
points, except that it had been printed.
He pointed out that there was a marked
dissmilarity between II and the one re-
ceived from the kidnapers. both in the
shape of the letters and the general word
ing of it. as we'll as in the spelling. APP
parently every word that was possible of
misspelling was misspelled. The letter
demanded Withdrawal of the Cudahy offer
of reward and of the city's offer as well,
under penalty not only of trouble for the
children, but the destruction of the entire
"Cudhy family" The epistle closed with
an injunction to "head this warning" The
quoted words are samples of the misspell-
ing.
In spite of the two fortunes which have
been offered for the arrest and conviction
of the Cudahy kidnapers. their secret is
still kept. For several days the police were
hopeful. They felt that the $4,000 reward
would bring startling developments in
short time When John Grove, brother of
Pat Grove was arrested at his home in
Council Bluffs, ON Tuesday, the general
impression was that ''some one had
squealed." 1t was evidently the fear that
something might get away from them that
impelled the police to take John Grove into
custody. The result was that nothing In
the way of evidence to connect him with
the kidnapping was produced when he was
brought before Police Judge Learn this
afternoon. No complaint was filed against
linn and he was discharged without cere-
mony.
During the afternoon Eddie Cudahy was
taken to the city Jail by Detective Dong
hue In the sBertillon room had gathered
a number of police officers. Into this as
sembage Grove was brought and ques-
toned, the purpose being to let young
Cudahy hear his voice. The bandit who
stood guard over the young man night
and day had a rich Irish brogue. John
Grove has touch of the brogue himself,
and this was really about all the evidence
the police had collected against him, aside
from the stories told OF his having often
been seen with his brother Pat prior to
the abduction. When the inquisition was
at an end Eddie Cudahy declared that the
voice of John Grove bore no resemblance
to the voice of his guard. He said, in adj
dition, that Grove was not nearly so stout
as the man who had pointed the revolver
in his face and called him Eddie McGee."
This was interesting to the police, mas
much as John Grove is q man five feet
ten inches in height and stout enough to
weigh In the neighborhood Of 200 pounds.
When Grove was led to the desk ser
geant he said to his attorney ''Some one
must have squealed or pretended he knew
something. / have not been out OF my
house any night for the past month"
Equally bad fortune befeii the police in
their efforts to identify the horse and buggy
belonging to John Grove.
Secret Service Agent Witten to-day stated
positively that he saw Pat Grove in St
Joseph, Mo-, the Friday after the kidnap-
ing. He does not think he was one of the
kidnapers.