Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-13
CLYNNS IDENTIFY GROVE
Say He is Man Whs Telsphonsd to oudahy
About Letter.
CALLED UP FROM THEIR LIVERY sTABlI
Pony Bought for that occs sion
Again IL Identified and Also
Lantern Left by the
Roadside.

hearing Monday morning, when two wit
nesses Identified him as the man who rode
up to Glynn's livery stable the morning
after the kidnapping and called up the
Cudahy residence to ask whether or not
the letter had been found in the front yard.
The witnesses were w s.. Glynn, owner of
the livery barn. and Frank Glynn, his son,
who was in the office of the barn at the
time
The only other testimony of interest
brought out at Monday mornings session
of the trial in district court related TO the
finding of the lantern with black and white
ribbons tied to 1t in Paddocks grove and
the identification of the pony found at Pa
cifc Junction a few days after the kidnap-
ing as the same one that had been sold to
Grove by Daniel Burrss
The first witness on the stand at the
morning session was E. II. Hemming, a
newspaper reporter. who had accompanied
the police on their visit to the Grover
street house two days after the kidnapping
His story added nothing new to the case
being mainly corroborative of evidence
already given by the police officers.
Finding of the Lantern,
Hans Brock, who was a school boy at
the time of the KIDNAPPING and who lived
eight miles out on Center street. told of
the finding Of the lantern supposed to have
been used as the signal light by the kid
napers. He and his brother, Edward. were
on their way to school a day or two after
the kidnapping when they saw II in a small
ditch on the south side of the road in
Paddocks grove. 1t had a white and black
ribbon tied to the handle. The boys took
1t TO school with them and after they heard
about the case turned It over to Constable
Wholers, who brought it to Omaha. They
had taken the ribbons off. but before turn
ing il over TO the constable they tied
them back on just as they were when
the lantern was found. Edward Brock his
brother, retold the same story He said
| the finding of the lantern was on Thursday
morning. the day after the money had been
left by Mr.. Cudahy. Edward also testified
| to seeing the tracks OF a horse. as if II had
| been tied to a tree and fed the night be-
| fore.
William Wholers. the constable testified
as to delivering the lantern to the city au-
| thorities and Identifying it at the Callahan
! trial. II is claimed by the state that IL
| disappeared not long ago. Wednesday
night. after the disappearance of young
| Cudahy, Mr.. Wholers said, he was driving
! along Center street about 7:30 and he met
| two men in top carriage with a red lam
| tern tied to the dashboard They were
going east when he met them. John Nor
berg. bailiff at the court house, testified
that the lantern was used at the Callahan
trial. but had disappeared since then
Former Sheriff John Power told Of his
trip TO the Patrick cottage near Happy
Hollow and testified as 70 what was in the
\ place. He corroborated the stories told
! by the police officers who testified Satur-
day.
| B. h. Warne. now OF Auburn but at the
time OF the kidnapping living at 1893 Grand
| avenue and the man who sold the pony TO
Daniel Burriss, which he afterward sold TO
! a man he identified as Grove. described the
pony minutely The sale was made the
Monday morning before Mr.. Burrss resold
| the animal He testified it was the same
| pony he saw at Pacific Junction December
IS. When he saw It he said IL looked as
| though 1t had been ridden hard and had
been covered with sweat. There was a
contest over the possession of the animal.
an engineer named Goodrich claiming It
for reward. After the disposition of this
case he had ridden It back 10 Omaha
Grove Man who Teiephoned.
The interests of the morning session
centered around the story of w. S. Glynn.
who kept livery barn at Thirtieth and
l.Leavenworth streets at the time of the
kidnapping. About 10 o'clock the morning
after the disappearance of Eddie Cudahy
he saw man on a pony coming down the
hill toward the stable. He saw the man
get off the pony, go into the stable and
use the telephone; then he came out got
on the pony and rode of at a good rate of
speed. He picked out one OF the photo
graphs handed him as looking like the
man wfo t@'NpNoned. He said he had
known Grove ven since about 1887 or 1888
He looked at the defendant and said: He
is a gooG deal hsshier now than he was
then" W saw The pony at the police sta
tion and ia his judgment IL was the same
one the man who telephoned had used
After a short recess Glynn was placed on
the stand again.
''In your best Judgment. who was the
man who came into the barn." was the
first question put to him by Mr.. Slabaugh
II think II was Mr. Grove"
Patrick Grove, the defendant"
"Yes, sir"
Careless In His Attention.
On the cross-examination II was brought
out that he did not pay particular attention
TO the man and he did not recognize him as
Grove until after he had heard he tele.
phoned to Mr.. Cudahy about the letter. Hs
went out to look for him. but he had dis
appeared He said he remembered the mat
he saw at the stable better than he did the
picture he identified. The man. he said
had a mustache, but he could not say Just
what color II was.
Frank Glynn, who was Is years old at the
time was then called. He said he had
heard Of the kidnaping about o'clock or
the morning after Il occurred from soms
police officers who called at the harm
About 10 o'clock Wednesday morning h,
saw a man coming down the hill near tn,
barn on a pony. He tied the horse anc
came into the office. asking II he could us,
the telephone. He called up No. 1857. bu
] sould not get II first Then he went out
side and looked up and down the street anC
came back into the ONCE. This time he go
the number. Glynn heard him ask the per
son he talking To II he had found tn,
letter yet, and then he said, You had bet
p ter go out and get IT," He went out
, mounted the pony and rode rapidly ava,
toward the north. lie looked at the pic
lures and identified two Of them as the MAJ
{ who telephoned.
? Grove Again Pointed Out.
"You may state in the hest of your judg
ment whether that man is in the room .
asked Mr.. Slabaugh.
5 "IIe is"
4 Where is her
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