The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-11
GROVE NOT WANTED.
Minneapolis Detective Claims He
is Not Wanted.
Says He Was Not Mixed Up in the Deal.
=-It was Deep Laid, Far
reaching Scheme.
Minneapolis Tribune /:

Minneapolis Tribune
G. d. Brown, the Minneapolis pri-
vate detective, who worked for con-
siderable time on the Wise case, arriv-
ed here from Omaha this morning.
When asked whether he had any con-
nection with the quest for young
Cudahys abductors, Detective Brown
admitted that he had been to Omaha
on a matter connected with the case,
but added that he anticipated having
no further connection with it.
"The Pat Grove hurrah is a very
convenient thing for the real people
connected with this kidnapping, said
Brown, So long as there is concert
ed howl after Pat Corwe there will be
no danger for the man who did the
work l don't know thing about the
Cudahy case. I was not in the town
long enough to go into it thoroughly,
but I will make two or three state
mepts which future events will justify.
In the first place if they caught
Pat Grove today they would be no
nearer the capture of the criminals.
Grove may know how the gang did its
work, but he had no connection with
this particular job. Groves reasons
for getting out are not hard to find.
The police have disagreeable habit
of falling a man with record, pend
ing investigation, and there are in
stances in which men suspected of
crime have been sent up for long terms
simply on their regulations. Grove
was wise in leaving the vicinity.
In the second place, these kid
nappers have from the first, been in
possession of the best legal advice 1t
is ridiculous to suppose that any prin-
cipals in this affair are now at Omaha.
They are scattered in different cities.
The letters being mailed to the
Cudahys are handled by the same firm
of attorneys that put up the original
job.
1t is perhaps not important, but at
the same time it is interesting to re-
feet that one of the men who accosted
young Cudahy and helped carry him
of was a detective or an ex-detec-
tive. Regular practitioners in crime
do not employ handouts and leg irons
in their business. The ingenuity of
the play they made when picking up
the boy shows that the matter had
been well planned throughout They
said he was an escaped reform school
lad Don'tyou see the cleverness of this?
If they had happened to meet anyone
who knew young Cudahy and explain
ations had been necessary, they would
at once have said that the whole thing
was mistake, releasing the boy with
apologies. This was their get
away as you may say.
'HFor my part, l think l can see
far enough through this Cudahy affair
to justify me in keeping out of it.
Since l went to Omaha l have be-
come convinced that the Cudahy mat
ter is none of my business. 1t is
lovely case, though. Some of these
days the whole thing will blow, most
likely through politics. When it does
there will be scattering of the clans.
AS the investigation is now being
pursued do not think there is ghost
of chance for apprehending the real
offenders. Have you ever heard of the
pick pockets trick, doubling the alley
and joining the crowd as it passed in
pursuit of an innocent MANI Some
times these tactics work, even up to
1901.
"There will be no more kidnapping
for some time. The Indignation of
the public will be given chance to
COOL The circumstances of the Cudahy
affair will be fairly well forgotten.
Then, all of a sudden, there will be
big headlines in the papers again.
The child of some prominent man
will be absent. The missing one will
always be girl if possible.
''This is big thing, not little
local Omaha job. There are people
taking chances in it who will land be-
hind the bars some day, as all crimi-
mails do sooner or later. Meantime,
they are too strong to monkey with. I
don't want anything to do with the
Cudahy case. It's outside of my terri
tory.
"You will notice that there has been
no reward offered for Grove. If the
police really want Grove they can get
him in 4S hours by putting up little
inducement. AS matter of fact,
Grove is not wanted at all. Pat is
outclassed in this game.