The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-04
PUTS PLOTS ONUS
ON YOUNG CUDAHY
Notorious Kidnapper Declares
Omaha Millionaire's Son In
vented Ransom Scheme.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Butte, Mont, Oct. 4.-Pat Grove,
who was arrested in Butte Monday
night by two detectives after he had
been openly about the city for week
and had introduced himself to various
statement relative to the Kidnapping of
Eddie Cudahy,, declaring that the prop
osition to work the boy g father for a
ransom came from the boy himself.
On Sept. s, 1900, he met young Cud-
ahy on the street and the boy first
old man. for big ransom, he says
At first Grove paid no attention to
the proposition, but it was repeated
later and in such detail that he de-
cided to 90 in with the boy. A third
person was taken in, but he got S'cold
be es ah1 b t9s zsnS%s Ta5 enR
ing $4,000 from his father, but
Grove and Callahan, the second man
he took into the scheme, thought $780,
900 was enough.
The three divided the $25 900, young
was then taken to his home and left
| few blocks from the Cudahy house.
Story Told by Grove.
In his statements Grove says: IT
| was laying low in Omaha one day
when 1 met Eddie Cudahy, as I have
| told you. He knew me as having at
| one time worked for his father, and
knew who he was. ...'
Pat he said, I'VE can make
5000. I need money and I guess you
do, too At first 1 thought he was
| just kidding; that it was crazy idea
| he had no thought of going thru
with. I met him again and he had the
scheme mapped out in earnest to the
| "Then I saw he was in earnest and
| decided to go in with him. I got an
other fellow and we began work on
the plan Everything was arranged for
pulling off the deal in October, just
about a month before it really oc-
| Cured.
Young Cudahy Not a GUTTER.
"a vacant house on Melrose hill,
| about mile and half distant from
| the Cudahy home, was rented for the
place where young Cudahy should be
| detained. About clock on the morn
ing of the 18th, just before his par
leave the house and go out block
and a half distant and meet my partner
and me, who were to be in a buggy
waiting for him. We were there as
per arrangement, and young Cudahy
came as he said he would. :,
his own accord and rode with us to
the vacant house. Then I returned and
threw the letter demanding the ran
som into the yard. There is no use say
ing just how we agreed on the division
Of the money, especially between my
$4,000 and handed it over to Eddie
Cudahy. He slowed it away and we
Immediately started for the Cudahy
house, three of US riding in a buggy.
"When about block and half dis
tant, Eddie jumped out Of the buggy
and went home. We then turned to
the side and drove away. 80
"All I know about how Eddie en-
tered his home and told his story is
what I read the next day in the pa
pers. That night I went out and
planted my, money. I dug hole in the
and other details about my end of the
$4,000 it is not necessary to state.
The next day there was furore raised,
rewards upon rewards were being Of
fered, SO two days later I ducked. l
rode out of town on horse and caught
a train to Chicago.
Tired of Being Fugitive.
\. III want to go back to Omaha and
have suffered, being chased from city
to city like dirty cur. I hope T may
Il be given an opportunity to mend my
I ways, and God knows I will become a
4 good citizen. My folks were among the
4 best people Of Crawford county. Then
I bodies rest in the little cemetery al
Vale, and one of the greatest pangs Of
B remorse in my hayward career has
d come from the thought Of the blemisf
cast upon their fair names. They
b know and God knows I want to dt
q better.
a "My first wrongdoing began after
4 was forced out Of my butcher business
by the elder Cudahy. I was made thu
81 manager Of the wholesale department
n of his plant, and I began knocking
q down. and soon I became 50 deeply in
& volved that I skipped out, and since
II then [ have been nothing but a piec'
u Of human driftwood.'
N The interview was in the presence O.
s an old FRIEND of Groves father AM
N mother, and Grove almost broke down
Il so great was his emotion. His voic
Il grew, husky, and it was only with al
81 effort that he was able to articulate
I'll Grove has been positively identiie,
Al as the much wanted fugitive by sew
81 eral Butte men, who have known him