Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

Mr.. Fem, our chauffeur, that day
that Mr.. Lillis had got his new car
and that l was to have a ride in 1t.
| Incidentally, | remarked that Mr..
| Cudahy was going out of town, down
to Grainfield, Kansas, l believe, to
| look at some cattle.
"Well, Fem must have been bribed
! by Mr. Cudahy. l have always been
good to that boy, and Mr.. Cudahy was
| always fussing at him. That Mr..
Cudahy's going out of town would
have had anything to do with my
riding with Mr.. Lillis would be ridlc-
ulous. Mr.. Cudahy often says he is
going out of town, and then never goes.
He probably does that nine out of ten
times.
Friday the car was unloaded, and
in the afternoon we took a ride. The
weather was fine, and we sped over
the roads. Saturday Mr. Lillis said
l should see the car tried out again.
We went out Saturday afternoon, and
then drove out to the Country club for
dinner. Then we decided to go down
to the Baltimore instead, which we
did. We stayed there only long
enough to eat and then went out. AS
we went out 1 said to Mac, the head
waiter that he should see Mr.. Llllis'
new car.
Rode Again in Evening
I'VE went riding in the evening
again. When We came home Mr.. Lillls
was going to drive away, when 1
asked him to come into the house. We
went into the library downstairs and
had been talking only a few minutes
when Mr., Cudahy"-Mrs. Cudahy al
ways called him Mr.. Cudahy-'rushed
into the room. He was accompanied
by Fem (Johann Moss) the chauffeur.
They seized Mr. Lills and began beat
Ing him. Mr.. Cudahy had a thing
that he uses in the car, and he beat
Mr.. Lillis over the head with it,"
Here Mrs. Cudahy looked over at the
table near her couch and said:
There 1t is. See the blood on the
end?"
The thing" to which she had all
luded was an electric searchlight eight
inches long and about the thickness
of mans wrist.
THAT was what he hit me with
too" said Mrs. Cudahy.
l ran as soon as l saw they were
beating Mr.. Lillis. l believed they
would try to kill him and l thought
they would try to kill me. too. They
had rope with them when they came
in and both swore frightfully. | ran
upstairs and stood, screaming, at the
top of the stairs Freda, the maid,
came running in with the other SER
wants. She stood with her arms about
me to protect me. They had finished
tying Mr.. Lillis by this time. Mr..
Cudahv came tearing upstairs. He
struck me over the head and in the
left eye. See what he did?"
Both the lid ard the eye Immediate
ly under the lid were deep purple.
Began to Use Knife
"Then he rushed downstairs" Mrs.
Cudahy went on, land guess he began
to use the knife on Lillis. 1 guess he
must have had it with him, although
1 did not see it when he came in.
Freda ran downstairs and came up tell
ing me they We're cutting Mr. Lillis.
| cried murder and ran to the tele-
phone. 1t was l who called the po-
lice. Wouldn't you have done the same
thing when it appeared that murder
was being committed? They kept on
beating and cutting Mr.. Lillis. Mr..
Cudahy would beat him while and
the chauffeur would cry Turn him
over Then they would beat him some
more.
the chauffeur, rushed out again. He
had a revolver in his hand. He point
ed 1t at her and she ran. He rushed
upstairs and shook his fist in my face.
1 screamed. Let's kick the woman out
he cried, but Mr.. Cudahy was too busy
beating Mr.. Lillis downstairs to pay
any attention to him. He rushed
downstairs again. Then the police
came"
A maid at the Cudahy home, in tell
ing of the affair, said she ne down
stairs on hearing the noise of the
scuffle in, the parlor. She saw a man
stretched out on the floor with a rope
about his neck AM feet. The mans
body was nearly stripped of clothing,
she said. His body was bare from the
waist down.
Just as the maid arrived at the foot
of the stairs, Moss. she says. was pull
ing on the rope about the neck of the
man on the floor, and as soon as Moss
saw her standing there, he came and
pointed a revolver in her face. She
then she says, ran back to her room.
Mr.. Cudahy had on Saturday even
ing, the maid said, signitied his inten-
tion of going downtown to attend a
political meeting. Mr.. Cudahy left the
house, she declared, but he and his
chauffeur remained about the yard
both having removed their shoes.
Cudahy Makes No Statement
81 have nothing to say" Mr. Cudahy
replied to a dozen queries put to him.
He spoke in low tone. His face
was pale and he appeared to be ner-
Vous and agitated.
"You can set at rest many of the
wild rumorsl that are general around
town" was suggested.
II must ask you to excuse me-" Cud-
ahy insisted. My attorneys have adj
vised me not to talk and / will say
nothing at present"