The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-04
PAT GROVES CAREER IS VERY SPECTACLE Al

Pat Grove will plead guilty +o r..-
theatrical performances and viii s-iisse
in them. With his insane love si1.y
toriety and to get his picture I'm -L
paper, he would doubtless admit .=
authorship OF many another
which has been laid at his door my
has probably been identified AZ la
criminal in more cases with which NE
has had nothing to do than any OH
man has. In fact when the mo,-i-
spirit in some particularly brilliant sre
desperate Job" cannot be unear.Ea4S
Fat Grove Is always under suspicion
To what extreme Grove has NAV
the ScapegOat is shown in the ORR
case that occurred in Council R1rrs
some i've years ago a safe had ha.a
blown open and a bank building h.t
been almost shattered in a small fa,.
near Council Bluffs. The officers III
the latter town were notified Ii. r DO
the watch FOR the safe blowers AMI
Deputy Sheriffs Nick O'Brien ana NJ
San located three suspicious charr..-.....
whom they found in a hovcI Tho ...'
were placed under arrest at once
The party walked five ahrsse.
criminal. a deputy, Q criminal "a don.
uty and a criminal. At "a signal nh.
prisoners broke loose and made r,n4
their escape. but not until one of ft-
men sent a bullet through the body T.
Deputy O'Brien. Two of the prfs.r.
were recaptured by. the posse. bur m.
third man. the one who did the shoot.
/ ing. escaped. His name was REILLY
The authorities had good d--..rfn
ton Of the escaped man. O'BTar v4s
sure that he could pick him uu- of
/ Z COCO men. ROgues galleries ua-.
ransacked and finally O'Brieu picked
out Pat Grove. Grove was not .sr
/ rured. but later Reilly was caught IN
/ Canada and was brought back. e.. g-7.-
] ~, n~a1v
was shorter than Grove. built differ
/ emily, and had an entirely differeu- cas-.
+ of cOuntenance. No one would h4-.
mistaken them once they saw them
/ Years ago a Missouri Pacific train
was held up and robbed at West Sid.
only a few miles from Omaha fsr
; within the city limits. The job V4.
/ bold and brilliant and successful D.
3 was duplicated near St Louis but
short time afteTwaTd. The police c1uI
nor get on the trail for a long wAr
and they declared absolutely that p.
Grove was connected with both To5ta-
les. They hunted for him long anduer
discovered that the robbers were Hu1s-
peth. Fred Sly and 'Dink' Wilson.
Sly and Hudspetn were arrested and
are now serving twenty years for the
. crime. ''Dink" Wilson and his brother
. shot an officer while resisting arreS.
in Rochester. n. Y, for the hOId-Up.
and were electrocuted in New Y0rs
. state.
Grove was suspected for a time u
being the lengthy member of that IA
nous Chicago pair. the long and tl,
short man." But the number of bold
crimes of which Pat Grove has beer
suspected is longer even than th0s
that he has committed.
a student of criminoIogy should fin.
Pat Grove a delightful and interesting
. study. He is not a criminal born from
infancy. The traits may have been %
his makeup from the time OF his birth
+ but they seem to have lain dormau
until he had almost reached his mJiDr
ity. Then they SprOutcd like So mann
plants under hot house pressure.
He came to Omaha in The early IS.
from Walnut. Ia, when he was still r
his teens He did not have a coiieg
education, although ii IS said that h
had. He had however. a good sChg.
education. He had the faults and On
vices Of youth. 4the strongest ampn
them a desire for liquor and a paSsir
for women. to both of which he is
slave to this day. But these vice
seemed to be no stronger than in tn
case Of other lads Of mis- age and con
dition. Says one who knew him theu
Pat was a cheerful genial con
+ paniOn With a big heart He was a
/ ways gentlemanly and he dressr
[ neatly"
1t is quite a coincidence that his 6r
| employment of any importance 1911.
/ under the man whose child he is d.
charged with kidnapping. He va
placed in charge Of the retail mark.
of the Cudahys then a struggling IS
adjustment in Omaha He was Oh,
charged for embezzlement. and from
this time his friends say his crimius
/ career commenced. Pat himself al
mitted his charge, but said that he wa
/ forced 90 do it because he was pIayiu
the good fellow" too strong.