The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-03-11
CUDBHYS VICTIM
IMPROVING, THINK
HE WILL RECOVER
MEAT MANS Suspicious LEAD
HIM TO SUSPECT HIS
WIFE.
WOMAN DENIES Her GUILT
Declares That She and LilIis Had
Been Auto Riding and Had Dinner
Together-A Very Common Affair
for Them Statement of Lawyers.

KANSAS CITY, March 7.-Jerre S
Lillis, president Of the Western Ex
change Bank, who was mutilated will
a knife early Sunday morning wheI
John P. Cudahy, son of the wealth!
Omaha packer. came home and founC
to his home this evening. He will re
cover. His wounds, while severe, are
not dangerous, but he will be SCARED
for life.
John Cudahy, who was arrested by
a policeman who rushed into the home
after Mrs. Cudahy had appealed for
aid, was given continuance this
morning and will be tried on a charge
of disturbing the peace next Monday
morning. He is out on 500 bond.
Mrs Cudahy, in an interview today,
declared that she and Lillis had been
automobiling, had taken dinner at the
Baltimore Hotel, which was a common
AFFAIR for them. He had taken her
home and she had asked him to come
into the house. She said that they
were seated in the library of the
home casually discussing common
places when her husband, accompa-
MED by his chauffeur, Johann Moss,
had appeared from practically no
where. They attacked Mr.. Lillis,
bound and gagged him, and Mr.. Cuda-
by, whom she declares is of a jealous
nature, proceeded to carve him with
big butcher knife. Where he got the
knife she did not know. She was
afraid that he would murder Lillis, for
whom she has a very sincere regard,
and she called for a policeman. This
is practically all of her story.
Bit by bit the story of betrayal,
form as it was told by one of Cudahy's
attorneys. Included in it is the mar
rative of an old suspicion, which grew
upon the husband until he set a trap.
Into this trap late Saturday night, |
Jere Lillis, wealthy, handsome, ath- |
letic, member of practically every i'm
Then the husband with trusted en-
ploye, seized him and bound him with
a rope.
Aiming himself with carving
knife, John Cudahy proceeded cody to
slash his rival, while Mortified Mrs.
Cudahy looked on and mingled her
pleadings with the groans of Lillis.
Just as the enraged husband was
preparing to add still more CHASTITY
mutilation to the others, and while
his victim was begging piteously to
be spared this last indignity, a pc.
liceman in answer to Mrs. Cudahy's
appeal, burst into the house
and stopped it.
John Moss, chauffeur, who aided j;
has escaped and cannot be ,
found. ,
The affair was the elimination of /,
series of events which have been COM ,
mon gossip in Kansas City for years
II is known that the husband at sev- ;
eral times became suspicious. Once 9
he ordered Lillis out of his house at :
the point of revolver. AT another :
time he is said to have shot at Lillis !
as they passed upon a country road in \
A few weeks ago, after return
from a weeks trip with the Merry
Widow" opera Company in Minneso- v
"a, Mrs. Cudahy told a reporter for A
he International News service that
IN amateur production of the Merry :,
Widow" was being planned by men, :"
,ers of her social set. She was to be K
sonia, the widow, she said, and Lillis II
vas to be the widows sweetheart, r.
Prince Danilo. The production was nj
lever staged. a.
For time truce was patched up @
etween Cudahy and Mrs. John, in re- :.
alton to Lillis. Several weeks ago, Or
owever, the husband became suspic- G.
ous and had his wife's action observ-
d, Moss the chauffeur, was employed n
4 this task, a5s
Whatever he may have learned
udahy decided upon trap, Saturday
light he elected to spring 1t. He mott
ed his wife he was to leave the city r.
q late train.
That evening Mrs. Cudahy and Lii
8 dined together in the Pompeian
,om at the Baltimore hotel. This ex-
ted no comment, because the two w
ming there together was as much an no
,customed part of the place as the Mi
arble pillars which support the cell ag
z. II has been one of their favortte SUI
ysting places, dividing the honor pir
It'll the dining room of road house. ed
Fifteenth street and Topping ave- tri