The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31
PAT GROVE
Has Turned Reformer and is Saving Boys From Becoming Criminals.

Chicago Correspondent Milwaukee Sem
 tinel.
 Pat Grove, former outlaw, kidnaper and desperado, has started out on crusade to wipe out the past and, if possible, to bring about good from the evil ne wrought when the country was ahame from east to west at the time he kld- naped Eddie Cudahy.
 Crowe expects Edward A. Cudahy, ol Omaha, to head a subscription with So0,uo to create a fund of S,0OOWo for the es- tablishment and maintenance of school where boys may be temporarily com mitted to some reform institution for trifling offenses; may be taught some useful trade and made self-supportlng. That Grove should expect this from the man whose heart was wrung with an- guish at the knowledge that his son was in the hands of a kdnaper, and who gave up s25,O00 to rescue the boy, may seem the climax of nerve; but the former outlaw seems sincere in his effort to do something to redeem the past. He mas made an extensive study of the causes or crime since his trial when a sympathetic jury gave him a chance of escaping rom the consequences of a criminal career and last week he started out from Chicago to raise this fund.-
 Sincere or not Pat Grove has made profound impression upon all those to whom he has preached his idea. For SIX months he has been living quietly at the Revere house in Chicago, of which his brother, Steve Grove, is the proprietor working out the details of what he be- lieves is his mission In life He has inter- viewed judges, police officials and crm- inologsts In Chicago and from them he has received the encouragement which ne belieevs justifies him in going ahead.
 Grove declares that his warfare against society is ended. He has concluded that after a career of fifteen years of crime. during which he has served several years in the penitentiary and was fugitive from justice most of the time. he had better settle down while he has the op- portunity. That his exploits have been attended with remarkable luck he ad- mits; but that his success in escaping the consequences of his crimes is due to the possession of a wonderfully clear brain, a keep intellect and an unsurpassed dar- ing is evident to all who have become acquainted with him. If he carries on his present crusade on the lines he has laid down it is a safe prediction that he will set some people to thinking even II he does not attain his object.
 Seated in his room at the Revere house the day before he started out ca fifteen weeks tour of the west, Grove outlined his plans. His personal expenses he ex- poets to make from his engagement with a theatrical company where he plays as small part. Between the acts he will out line his plan to the audience and explain the purpose of the institution which he hopes will be founded
 Despite the fact that Grove has been before the public for so many years he Is still young man. being but 37 years of age. But his silvery gray hair attests the exciting life that he has led and the mental unrest which a life of continual lodging the police and the consequence of being hunted must necessarily cause. He is quick and alert in all his move ments. uses good English and there is nothing about him to indicate the des- perate criminal.
 Yes, I expect to ask Edward Cudahy to head the list with s50,000,'' said Grove
 and with the sum which I believe can be accumulated in this country in a year or two I believe an institution can be started wherein boys who have begun