The Glenwood post., 1905-10-07
GROVES STORY
SAYS cUDAHY'S SON WAS HIS
CONFEDERATE
STORY OF OMAHA KIDNAPPING
Arrested at Butte, Montana, Pat Grove
Tells Strange Story-Declares that
Eddie Cudahy Suggested the Kid
napine and Shared in Ransom
Money

Money.
Butte, Mont-Pat Grove, who was
arrested here Tuesday, was positively
identified by a man whose name is
withheld by the police, but who is said
to have worked with Grove in the
stock yards in South Omaha.
The man under arrest persists that
he is Grove and says he wants to go
back to Nebraska and clear himself
believing that there is no law under
which he can be prosecuted.
To-day, for the first time, the world
is given the facts of the kidnapping of
= Eddie Cudahy, in a signed statement
by the famous outlaw. Pat Grove, who
was arrested last night by Detective
NJ. p. MclneTney and Captain of Po-
lice William McGrath.
Following is Groves own story:
For the first time | will tell the
story of the so-called kidnapping of Cud-
ahy. Pages and pages have filled the
newspapers of the country for the past
five years, but not one of them ever
l guessed the truth.
= I'm the month of September, | think
the 9Th, Eddie Cudahy met me at the
corner of Twentieth and Farnham and
told me he had a scheme by which each
of us could make money from his old
man. He said: Pat. you can make
$4,000 without turning a hair He
was then a lad of sixteen years, and |
thought the suggestion was so absurd
that | took it as mere ramblinss of a
hid Well he finally Went into the
plan so carefully and with such evil
dence of preparation l decided TO see
the thing through, or at least to see
how far the boy would go with it.
I'VE met several times later and
agreed that Eddie was TO disappear
and | was to write the old man asking
for $50, 900 for a ransom. This We de-
cided to cut down TO $4,000. | took
partner in on the deal Later | quit
him and took another partner instead.
AS | will tell you later, young Cudahy
got $4,000 of the $4,000 the elder Cud-
ahy left for ransom the night Eddie
Cudahy was released. l took that S25,-
900 from where it was deposited to the
house where Eddie Cudahy and my
partner were waiting for me.
I'VE split the money Immediately
We gave Eddie Cudahy $4,000 in
money, and then my partner and
split the rest. After that we took
f3ung Cudahy to within block of the
Cudahy home. | guess young Cudahy
had that $4,000 with him then. ] do
not know what he did with it. l hid
mine, and all OF mine is gone now"
Speaking of other parts of his ca.
reer, Grove said:
How | happened to become Il Grim
inal and of my life since the kidnap
ing is altogether another story. / want
No say, however, at the time of the kid.
>ping Chief Donahue was accused OF
being in it. He was perfectly innocent
knew nothing about it. and is an hon
est man.
Another thing is that | was not the
only man to whom Eddie Cudahy
broached the proposition of kidnapping
him in order to bleed the old man. He
first suggested it to a man named Rog-
ers, and that man turned the PROPOSE
lion down"
"A year after the kidnapping re.
turned to Omaha, having been in Eng
land and South Africa. for the purpose
of giving myself up" he said. You
may remember the time, and of read
ing letter that l wrote an Omaha pa
per. Then when the time came
found the case had been taken out OF
the hands of the police and Pinkertons
and other private detectives were
working on it. Then l got frightened
| was afraid of prison. I'd been in the
penitentiary before, SO l left Omaha
without giving myself up or without
being caught.
Il came up here from Omaha two
weeks ago to see by brother. Andrew
Grove, who you probably know here
found he had left town, and going first
to Big Timber, Wyoming, and then
back home. l have been staying
around here. l met Detective McGar
vey and told him who | was and asked
hiIff he wanted me, then yesterday
N TO drinking and talking and my ar
y rest followed"