The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-06
GROVES STORY
SAYS cUoAAY's SON WAS HIS
CONFEDERATE.
STORY OF OMAHA KIDNAPPING

Tells Strange Story-Oeciares tnat
Eddie cudahy Suggested the Kid
napine 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 signed statement
bv the famous outlaw. Pat Grove, who
was arrested last night by Detective
M. p McInerney and Captain OF Po-
lice William McGrath.
Following is Groves own story:
For the first time | will tell the
story of the socalled kidnapping OF Cud-
ahy. Pages and pages have filled the
newspapers of the country for the past
1--WE 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 scheme by which each
of us could make money from his old
man He said: Pat. you gan make
$4,000 without turning hair. He
was then lad of sixteen years. and
thought the suggestion was so absurd
that took it as mere ramblings OF a
kid Well, he finally went into the
plan SO carefully and with such eVl-
dence of preparation | 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 ransom. This we de-
cided to cut down to $4,000. l took
a partner in on the deal. Later l quit
him and took another partner instead
AS will tell you later, young Cudahy
n got $6 5000 OF the 5000 the elder Cud-
y ahy left for ransom the night Eddie
Cudahy was released. l 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
money, and then my partner and |
split the rest. After that we took
young Cudahy to within block OF the
Cudahy home. | guess young Cudahy
had that $4,000 with him then l do
not know what he did with it. | hid
mine, and all of mine is gone now.
Speaking of other parts of his ca
reet Grove said:
How happened to become ii Grim
inal ana of my life since the kidnap-
ing is altogether another story. | want
to say, however. at the time of the kid
naping Chief Donahue was accused of
peing 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 Cudaly
broached the proposition of kidnapping
him in order to bleed the old man. He
first suggested it to a man ...imed Rog-
ers and that man turned the PROPOSE
tion down.
This is not the first time Pal Grove
says he decided to let them catch him
and escape from the terrible existence
of being for all time fugitive.
"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 a letter that / 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.
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 first
to Big Timber. Wyoming. and then
back home. | have been staying
around here. Il 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"