The Colorado statesman., 1905-10-07
GROVES STORY
SAYS cUDAHY's SON WAS HIS
CONFEDERATE.
STORY OF OMAHA KIDNAPPING

arrested at 6utte, montana, rat SFoWC
Tells Strange Story-Deciares that
Eddie cudahy Suggested the Kid
naping and Shared in Ransom
Money.
Butte, Mont.-Pat Grove, who was
arrested here Tuesday, was positively
identified by 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. McInerney and Captain of Po-
| lice William McGrath.
| Following is Groves own story:
For the first time 1 will tell the
story of the so-called kidnapping of Cud-
ahy. Pages and pages have filed the
newspapers of the country for the past
five years, but not one of them ever
guessed the truth.
"In the month of September, l 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
$25,000 without turning a hair He
was then lad of sixteen years, and
thought the suggestion was so absurd
that l took it as mere ramblings of a
T.: H. i,,tn hn
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.
1--WE 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. l 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 S25, 700 the elder Cud-
ahy left for ransom the night Eddie
Cudahy was released. / took that $25,-
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
|
split the rest After that we tool
young Cudahy to within a block of the
Cudahy home. 1 guess young Cudahy
had that $4,000 with him then. dc
not know what he did with it. l hiC
mine, and all of mine is gone now"
Speaking of other parts of his ca
reer Grove said:
How happened to become a Grim
inal and of my life since the kidnap
ing is altogether another story ] wan
to say, however, at the time of the kid
naping Chief Donahue was accused o
being in it. He was perfectly innocent
knew nothing about it,. and is an hon
est man.
. Another thing is that was not thu
only man to whom Eddie Cudah.
broached the proposition of kidnapin:
him in order to bleed the old man III,
first suggested it to a man named Rog
ers, and that man turned the PROPOSE
ton down."
"A year after the kidnapping I re
turned to Omaha having been in Eng
land and South Africa, for the purpost
of giving myself up" he said. "Yo,
may remember the time, and of read
ing letter that wrote an Omaha pa
per. Then when the time came
found the case had been taken out o
the hands of the police and Pinkerton!
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 Omah;
without giving myself up or withou
being caught
, 81 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 frs
to Big Timber, Wyoming, and ther
back home. l have been staying
around here. / met Detective McGar
vey and told him who / was and asked
him if ne wanted me, then yesterday
got to drinking and talking and my ar
rest followed"