New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-19
JACK CUDAHY AND WIFE
REUNITED BY CHURCH
Both Catholics and Believe Mar
rage Tie Was Not Broken
by Courts Decree.
TOGETHER IN WIFE'S HOME
Couple Were Divorced After
Husbands Attack on Jere s.
Lillis, BGnkor-Children a
Factor in Reconciliation.
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Kansas CITY. No, June 1S.--Nr. and Mrs.
John = Cudahy have been reunited. Two
wears ago a formal decree OF divorce was
issued TO them by Judge slower. This fol-
lowed tho Sensational attack Of the hug
band rpon tsre :. tdllis. banker.
Inst week a reconciliation was affected
and the two returned to housekeeping In
tho apartreut that has been occupied by
Mrs. Cndahy since q short time after the
divorce
Catholic in religion and horedity they
; came to the belief that their marriage in
the Catholic Church i'm Omaha, on Decem-
Der I. 1899. was not broken by the divorce
decree granted by Judge slower two years
ago. And thue have they begun their mar.
ricd life anew.
The four children Of the couple also
played n part IN tho reconciliation, and tn"
| Circuit Court will he asked Ia return them
to their parents. The children were placed
| In charge Of their grandmother. Mrs.
| Michael Cudahy Of Chicago, who placed
them IN school In New Jersey.
There have been rumors OF reconciliation
between Jack" CGdahy and his wife ever
since December. 1910. less than four months
| HIIfI lIltI summary blNbl''s WI -N"0'''N -
/ Of that year.
Cudahy Is the son IL Michael Cudahy, the
/ millionaire packer, who died shortly after
his sons divorce. Mrs. Cudahy was before
her marriage Miss Edna Corwin. an Omaha
belle They were married on December Is,
1899. on the day of their marriage Cudahy' 8
father made him manager OF his Kansas
city packing interests.
The couple settled in a handsome house
In Kansas City. They seemed very devoted
TO each other. -Four children were born
TO them.
Among their friends was Jere s. Lills,
president Of the western Exchange Bank.
| Of Kansas city, and a bachelor He was
frequently at their home. At length
Cudahy became suspicious that Dillis was
too attentive to his wife. on the evening
OF March 8. 1910, the banker took Mrs.
Cudahy for an automobile ride and on their
return he went into the Cudahy house. a
few minutes later Cudahy and his chauf-
four entered, seized and bound the caller
end mutilated him with n knife. Cudahy
left the house and did not return. In Au-
gust Mrs. Cudahy divorced him. but the
custody OF the children was Entrusted to
Michael C'udahy, who allowed the mother
5000 n year during her life or til she
married again.
When Michael Cudahy died shortly after
ward Jack" Cudahy inherited a large
part OF his fathers 100000 fortune. Thc
four children got $1,000 each. Mrs. Cudahy
declared at the time that her marriage had
been purely n love match and in no way In
fuenced by her husbands financial pros
poets. She said she did not believe they
were altogether uncongenial. despite the
Jillis incident and its attendant jealousIes
Last summer Mrs. Cudahy accused net
former mother-in-law OF spiriting her chill
dren away so that che could not see them
and expressed herself very bitterly against
her husbands family.