Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-03-09
Physician Says Wounds Were Made
with a Rusty Blade.
VICTIM is UNABLE TO TALK
Lips Are Battered and He Has Not
Spoken Since Reaching Hospital.
CASE WILL BE HUsHED UP
County Prosecutor wnI Not Push
Charge Against Jack Cudahy
Unless victim Dies OF
Wounds.

KANSAS. CITY, Mo-, March s.-Fcar
that complications may develop in the In
juries OF Jere f. Lillls, president of the
Western Exchange bank, whom John p
Cudahy. the packer assaulted Sunday
morning in the Cudahy hcme, caused the
physicians not to move him to his home
today as planned. Lillis is at st. Mary's
hospital and may be there several days
The development that DIR, Samuel Ayres
who is attending the injured banker, most
fears is blood poisoning, The knife which
Cudahy used upon his victim is said to
have been an old, rusty blade. Tonight
it seems there is small danger OF blood
poisoning, but every precaution win be
taken to prevent such a turn in the pa
tents condition.
Linis is unable to talk as his lips were
badly battered. Nurses at the hospital says
he has not spoken since his arrival there
AS the knife did not touch any vital part OF
Lilis body he viii probably be able to be
out in a few days IL blood poisoning does
not set in. Mr.. Cudahy remains at the
Coates house and refuses to talk.
Prosecution Not Probable.
The announcement that Dillis will not
prefer a formal charge against Cudahy
renders doubtful the probability that any
further details of the circumstances that
led up to the trouble win ever be made
public Both Cudahy and Lillis still firmly
refuse to make statement in regard to
the affair.
The county prosecutor has announced q.
that he will make no effort to prosecute
Cudahy II no one files a formal charge
against him, unless Llllis should die from
his injuries. The physicians say the banker
will surely recover .
John Moss the chauffeur who was pres
ent when the attack on Lills was made.
has not been located. although the police
have made a dillgent search for him.
General John c. Gown OF Omaha, father
of Mrs Cudahy, went out TO the Cudahy
home from his hotel aapy today
Gown defends DaHshteR.
General Gown dictated the following
statement:
ION account OF the children Mrs. Cudahy
will not make any application for divorce.
She has devoted her life to her children
and shall devote her future to their care
and education. She has been as true wife
as ever lived and no mother was more
devoted to her children than she has been,
as has been evidenced by the attachment
Of the children for their mother Mrs.
Cudahy will remain in her present home,
and, as 1 have said, devote her life to her
children She will not go into court unless
1t is necessary to secure maintenance and
support for her children or to protect
them. JOHN G. GOWN"
YES, I'm going to sta wright here In
Kansas City" Mrs. Cudahy said, as her
father completed his statement.
Mrr Cudahv IuHinuatea Ihaanity
Then she dictated the following statement
and signed It:
There has been nothing between Mr..
Lillis to Justly the attack my husband
made upon him. am heart-brolen more
from what has been said than for any
thing taht has happened. My relations with
Mr.. Lilis have been such that no one,
unless insane, could have found fault with
thtem. 1 have only dlned with Mr.. Lillis
at the Baltimore once. That time was Sat
urday. have never been In the Pompeian
room but once. That was year ago and
was with Mr.. Cudahy ana John Drew.
think my husbands attack upon Mr.. Lii
lis was cowardly. II my husband thought
he had any grievance against Mr. Lillls
he should have settled 1t himself, man to
man, and not have called in a servant to
aid him. But the attack was not justified.
It was only less cowardly than his efforts
to protect himself when the police came
to arrest him when he stated Hes ruined
my home" That Is an Infamous, cowardly
statement and absolutely untrue. No one
knows 1t more than Mr.. Cudahy. ] have
always treated my servants with consldera-
ton and they can testify to the character
of my home life and to the falsity of Mr..
Cudahy's inslnuations"