The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-10-06
GROVE CAUGHT IN MONTANA.
TIRES OF BENG A FUGITIVE AND
GIVES HIMSELF Up.
Tells Story OF the Crime-Says Eddie
Cudahy Author OF the Plot and
Received $1,000 OF the Money.


BUTTE. Mont. Oct S.-Pat Grove
surrendered himself to the officers OF
the law in Butte, Tuesday. He gave
as his reason for surrendering that
he was tired Of lodging the Oficers
Of the law.
Grove declares that OF the SIS. 900
in gold coin Eddie Cudahy got $4,000.
Grove probably got half Of the bal
ance. The other half went to pal
He says he will return to Omaha with
Sheriff Power, and no other person
No private detective agency or sub
Ordinates can take him.
This is Groves first arrest since he
helped in the kidnapping JOB, and the
first authorized statement given to
any newspaper. He says he offered 10
surrender to Detective McGarvey sew
eral days ago. but McGarvey told him
he did not believe the Omaha police
wanted him and that he CMcGarvey)
was not looking for blood money, any
how.
Following is Groves own story:
For the first time I Will tell the
story OF the so-called kidnapping OF
Cudahy- Pages and pages have filed
past FIVE years. but not one OF
them ever guessed the truth
In 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 $500 without turn
ing a hair He was then a lad Of 16
was 50 absurd that I took il as mere
rankings OF a kid. Well, he finally
went into the plan so carefully and
with such evidence Of preparation 1
decided to see the thing through. or
at least to see how far the boy would
go with It
we met several times later and
agreed that Eddie was to disappear
and 1 was TO write the old man ask
ing for $4,000 for a ransom. This
we decided to cut down to $4,000. I
took partner in on the deal. Later
I quit him and took another partner
instead As will tell you later. young
Cudahy got $4,000 Of the S25, 900 the
elder Cudahy left for ransom the
night Eddie Cudahy was released.
took that SIS, 600 from where il was
deposited to the house where Eddie
Cudahy and my partner were wait
ing for me.
We split the money Immediately.
We gave Eddie Cudahy $4,000 i'm
money, and then my partner and I
split the rest After that we took
young Cudahy to within a block OF
the CUdahy home. I guess young
Cudahy had that $4,000 with him
then. I do not know what he did
with it. 1 hid mine, and all of mine
IS gone now"
This is not the first time that Pat
Grove says he decided to let them
/ catch him and escape from the ter
rible existence Of being for all time
/ fugitive.
a year after the kidnapping I re-
! turned 10 Omaha. having been in Eng
| land and South Africa, for the pur-
pose Of giving myself up he said.
You may remember the time, and Of
reading a letter that I wrote an Oma-
| ha paper. Then when the time came
found the case had ben taken out
| Of the hands Of the police and Pinker-
| tons and other private detectives were
| working on it Then got frightened.
was afraid Of prison, I'd been in the
/ penitentiary before, 50 I left Omaha
l without giving myself up or without
/ being caught
Il came up here from Omaha two
| weeks ago to see my brother, Andrew
| Grove, who you probably konw here
/ I found he had left town, and going
/ first to Big Timber, Wyo-, and then
I back home. I have been staying
| around here I met Detective Nc
| Earyey and told him if he wanted me-
| then yesterday got to drinking and
! talking and my arrest followed
| Il had a rough time Of it. This
/ thing Of forever being q fugitive from
/ justice, with the prospect Of running
| onto an officer and being shot is fear
/ ful, while the officer, if he kills the
/ fugitive, will get a gold medal for
| bravery, is too much for me. You
/ may know I did not have a gun on
1 me when arrested yesterday evening.
| [ don't want any fight"
Pat Grove was running q little
| butcher shop Of his own in South
Omaha a year and a half before Eddie
/ Cudahy's father started his big pack
| ing plant within a block Of Groves
| shop.
| Then came the turning" says
/ Grove. The fates then showed their
/ hands against me. I was making $25
| day clear money out OF my butcher
l shop when Cudahy came As soon as
| his plant was opened he opened a re-
tail shop at his plant That put me
out OF business. He could sell cheap
I er than I could buy. I sold out for
little or nothing and went to Edward
/ Cudahy and asked for a job He put
/ me in charge OF his retail shop, Civ
| ing me 50 a day. 7 married and ex-
/ penses increased had been making
| SIS a day there was money lying all
/ around me in that retail shop ]
/ took fl when II didn't belong tn me