Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-04
OFFERS NOVEL DEFENSE
PAT GROVE SAYS KIDNAPPING
PLOT WAS EDDIE cUDAHY's.

Pat Grove, who was arrested IN Butte,
Mont. Monday night by two detectives. as
reported in The Star heretofore, after he
had been openly about Butte for week
and introducing himself to various persons,
made a statement at Butte last night rela-
tive to the kidnapping of Eddie Cudahy,
declaring that the proposition to work
the boys father for ransom came from
Theology himself
Edward A. Cudahy, jr.. was fifteen years
old at the time he was kidnapped. Decem-
Der IS, 1909. 1t will be noticed that Grove
says the boy disappeared November IS. 1900.
Grove gives the story of his life and says
he was a prosperous butcher in South
Omaha when the elder Cudahy came there.
built a packing house and drove him out OF
business. After that he went to work for
Cudahy and thus became acquainted with
the family. On September g. 1900, he met
young Cudahy on the street and Grove says
the boy first preached the subject of work
ing the old man for a big ransom. AT first
Grove paid no attention to the proposition,
butzit was repeated later, he says, and
with such details that he concluded to go
in with the boy. A third party was taken
in. but he got frightened. believing the
scheme was trap.
The Cudahy boy, it is asserted. proposed
demanding $50 coo from his father, but
Grove and Callahan, the second party he
took into the scheme, thought $4,000 was
the kidnapping was worked and how Gu
daily drove out into lonesome place and
left the money agrees fully with the first
published reports of the affair, but Grove
says young Cudahy was the leading spirit
in the adventure and was never pris
oner. The three divided the $4,000 young
Cudahy being given Sc, 600 as his share. He
was then taken to his home and left few
blocks from the Cudahy house.
Groves Account Of the Affair.
In his statement Grove says: Il was
laying low in Omaha when one day, at
Goth and Farnham streets, IN Omaha, I
met Eddie Cudahy, as have told you. He
knew me as having at one time worked
for his father, and knew who he was.
Pat he says, we can make $4,000.
need money and guess you do, too This
was in the early part of September, the
Cudahy family having returned from
their summer vacation trip on September
2 Then. while we were standing on the
corner, Eddie briefly mapped out the kid
naping plan which we later executed. At
first l thought he was Just kidding; that
1t was a crazy idea; that he had not
thought of going through with it. 1 met
him again and he had the scheme mapped
out in earnest to the smallest detail. Then
Saw he was in earnest and decided to go
in with him. l got another fellow. and
we began to work on the plan.
Everything is arranged for pulling off
a deal in October just about month be-
fore it really occurred. Then just few
days before the kidnapping was to have
taken place my partner, the third man in
the DEAL got cold feet and he thought 1t
was trap and quit. We had to postpone
the move and wait until I could find an
other man, which I did within a few
weeks, and again the time of the kid
mapping was fixed.
1T was November IS, and here was the
plan as originally mapped out by young
Ed Cudahy and executed on November 49,
with of course, a few slight alterations
to get the circumstances. A vacant house
on Melrose HILL about mile and half
distant from the Cudahy home, was rent
ed for the place where young Cudahy
should be detained. About am. of the
18th, just before his parents came home,
young Cudahy was to leave the house and
go out a block and a half distant and
meet my partner and l. who were to be
in a buggy waiting for him. We were
there per that arrangement, and young
Cudahy, same as he said he would.
Saws Eddie Was Willing.