Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-05
CUDAaY ON GROVE STORY
Packer Considers Charge Of His Sons
Completely Absurdly Ridiculous
SCARCELY CREDITS ITS AUTHENTICITY
Famous Kidnaper wires that ~
sheriff Power Goes After Him
He VIII Not Oner
Resistance.

Edward A Cudahy Wednesday gave out
signed statement touching the alleged
| confession of Grove, duplicating Mr.. Cud-
| ahy's son. in which he says.
"As to the alleged statement of Grove
| that my son was a party to the plot, it is
so absurd. particularly in the light of his
! previous statements that I can hardly be-
! lieve he made It. 1t certainly is untrue
For several years I have made no ef-
! fort toward securing the arrest of Grove.
although having had two letters sent to me
/ signed by him admitting that he alone
was guilty Of the KIDNAPPING and begging
| clemency, stating that he wanted TO start
! life anew.
I'm one of these letters he says: I am
guilty of the Cudahy affair. l am to
blame for the whole crime. After it was
over l regretted my act and offered to re-
! turn S21, 600 to Mr.. Cudahy, but he refused
to take ii, and then l went to South Africa.
! where I Joined the rebel army and was
| badly wounded, being shot twice. Then
/ returned to America, and have repeatedly
/ tried to make peace with the man 1
wronged.'
Il have felt in duty bound TO refrain
from agreeing not to prosecute him, be-
lieving that this was a matter entirely
within the province of the state authori-
! ties
Il deplore the continued publicity which
has been given this entire matter for 1t
has been constant source Of anxiety and
annoyance to me and to all the members
! of my family"
Telegram to Power.
The Hon. P. Grove who is expected to
arrive from Butte most any time in charge
of two of Chief Donahues most trusted
officers showed disposition to be very
particular as to who went after him.
Tuesday night Sheriff Power received a
message from the slippery individual which
J read:
Il will come IL you come after me, with
! out making any fight on extradition.
PAT GROVE.
/ care Butte Evening News"
About the time this message was re-
ceived the sheriff received another which
/ read
| Pat Grove is under arrest here. II
! you come personally after him he will
waive requisition II you don't come he will
fight requisltion. JOHN ]. QUINN,
Sheriff Silver Bow County"
The kilograms were received at the
sheriffs Office during the afternoon and
! they were not seen by the sheriff until
| last night when called at the office. As
/ he is extremely busy entertaining 800 or
/ 800 out-of-town visitors, the sheriff had to
decline the honor of escorting Mr.. p.
Grove back to his old haunts.
IncidentIy there is hanging over Pats
head complaint filed in the county court
March 90. 1901 in which he, Callahan and
Richard Roe are charged with robbing
Edward Cudahy of $4,000. 1t is under
stood that nothing will be done in this
I case until after complaint charging him
with shooting Policeman Jackson is
heard Mr.. Cudahy says he will prose-
cute Grove when the time comes.
Pat ON a Dead Trail.
Chief of Police Donahue scouts the
idea that Pat Grove will be able 10
! make any capital by trying TO implicate
! Eddie Cudahy in the kidnapping OF him
self. The chief understands that Grove
intends to make the Cudahy boy con-
/ spirator in the famous case, but does not
| believe such coup will be worth the
! telegraph toll II cost to send the infor-
nation from Butte.
Nothing further has been heard by Chief
Donahue from the Butte authorities re-
| garding Mr.. Grove. The next informa-
tion that is awaited with interest is some
advice from Chief of Detectives Dunn,
|
| tive Heitfedt for Butte
| The news of Groves capture at Butte
has been a topic of general conversation
around town. The anticipation of seeing
| Pat Grove where he cannot bite anyone
| is being felt keenly by many.
| Speaking of Grove Wednesday morning
| Chief Donahue said ne has only seen
Grove once in his life, that time being
on May 16, 1900, some months before the
kidnapping. in the hotel OF Steve Grove
at Chicago. AS Grove has changed much
since that time, it is possible he and Chief
Donahue will need an introduction when
they meet again. Chief Dunn probably
| will do the honors on that occasion.
Grove Denies story.
! BUTTE, Mont, oct. 4.-Pat Grove today
! admitted that he was in Omaha six weeks
! ago and engaged in pistol duel with the
police, during which an officer was shot.
He says the police fired sixteen shots at
him before he retired, and that he opened
fire to save his own life. He says his
sole object in coming here was to sur
| render. believing that he had better give
himself up at a distance from home so
that in yielding to extradltion he might
make terms favorable to himself with the
Nebraska authorities. He denies absolutely
the alleged confession, published in Butte
last night and refutes the statement that
| he had said that young Cudahy plotted
with him to extort money from Mr.. Cudahy
senior.
Groves statement regarding the shotting
are at variance in one particular with the
reports given at the time by eye-wltnesses,