The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1905-10-07
GROVES STORY
SAYS CuDAHYs SON WAS HIS
CONFEDERATE
STORY OF OMAHA KIDNAPPING

ellis Strange Story-O=Gla ares that
Eddie cudsny Suggested the KID
naping ard Shared IN Ransom
Money.
HuFyo. Mont Pat Grove, who was
arrested Hrre Tuesaas. vas positively
identified h. a man v hos" name is
withheld by fhe police. but wAo IS said
To have worked with Grove il The
stock yards in South Omaha,
The man under arrest persists that
he is Grove and SAYS he wants 10 60
back 70 Nebraska and clear himself
believing that there is no law under
which h, can be prosecuted.
To-day fOF the first time, the world
is given the facts of the kidnapping Of
EId!" 'udahy. lu signed statement
by The famous outlaw. Pat Grove, who
was arrested last uI2hr by Detective
VI T.. NeIueTuey and Captain OF Po-
lice William McGra'h.
Following is Grove own story:
For the nrst time | will tell the
story Of tho sD-caIlcd kidnapping of Cud-
ahs Pages and pages have filled the
new -paprrs of the cUuutrE for the past
guessed the truth.
In tho month Of September, | think
the 9th, Eddie Cudahy met me at the
corner OF Twentieth and Faruham and
told mo il" had a scheme by which each
pf Us could make money from his old
Iuan lie said. Pat. you can make
S25,u00 without turning hair iic
was then lad OF sixteen years, and I
thought the suggestion was so absurd
thar ! took il as mere TambliuEs OF a
Eid. Wen. he finally went into the
plan SO carefully and with such eTi-
deuCr OF preparation | decided 10 see
the Thing through, or at least 10 see
how far the boy would 90 with it,
We met several times later and
agreed that Eddie was 10 disappear
and ! was 10 write the old man asking
Tor $50. .JJg for a ransom. This We de-
cidcd to cut down to SZ5.9uo. ! took
a partner in on the deal Later quit
HIM and took another partner instead
As | VIII t1ll YOU later. Young Cudahy
got $4,000 Of tho $4,000 thu elder Cud-
ahy left for ransom the night Eddie
tudahy was released. ] took that S25.-
900 from where it was deposited to the
house where Eddie Cudahy and my
partner were waiting for me.
We split the money Immediately.
We gave Eddie Cudahy $4,000 in
money. and then my partutr and /
split the rest After that We took
young Cndahy to within blocl, Of the
Cudahv home | guess young Cudahy
had that $4,000 with him then. | do
mot know what he did with it. hid
mine, and all Of mine is gone now
Speaking Of other parts of his ca
recr Grove said:
How / happened TO become a Grim
inal ana of my life since the kidnap.
ing is altogether another story. | want
TO say. however. at the time of the kid,
uaping Chief Dunahue was accused o4
being in II, He was perfectly innocent
knew nothing about il. and is an hon.
est man
Another thing is that | was not the
only man 10 whom Eddie Cudahy
broached the proposition OF kidnapping
him in CIder to bleed the old man. tie
first suggested it to a man named Kog
ers. and that man turned the pfoposi-
tion down"
This is not the first time Pat Grove
says he decited 10 let them catch him
and escape from the terrible existence
Of being for all time a fugitive.
"A year after the kidnapping ! re
turned 10 Omaha, having been in Eng
Fand and South Africa. for the purpose
of giving myself up" he said. You
may remember the time, and Of read
ing a letter that | wrote an Omaha pa
per. Then when the time came |
found the case had been taken ont OF
the hands OF the police and Pnkertous
and other private detectives Were
working on il. Then l got frightened
J was afraid Of prison. I'd been in the
nit'uliary before. so l left Omaha
without giving myself up or without
being caught.
II came mp here from Omaha two
weeks ago 10 see by brother Andrew
GROVE Who you probably know here.
found he had left town and going first
10 Biz Timber Wyoming. and then
back home. have been staying
around here | met Detective McGar.
yey and told him who / was and asked
him II me- wanted me. then yesterday
got 10 drinking and talking and my ar
Tos' followed