The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-09-02

trial, so the detectives. into whose
custody he was given, suddenly rush
ed him into a hack, dashed to a rail
way station and got him out of Neb-
raska before he had a chance to call
friends or lawyers to his rescue.
Grove spent a weary two months in
the De KaIb, ILL.,, Jail, but when his
trial came along at last there was the
usual shortage of evidence and the
jury found him not guilty.
"They kidnapped me-" remarked
Grove while telling the story some
years later. at didn't look like a
bad game to play for money, so l
thought I would try it some day."
He did, and the ~14-year-old son OF
Cudahy, the man who drove"
Grove out of the butcher business,
was his victim.
This, the most notorious of all
Groves crimes, took place December
10. 1900, but the plans were worked
out long before. For weeks Grove
waited for his chance, he and his con-
federates keeping close track of
every move of little Eddie Cudahy.
The chance came when they caught
him out after dark unattended. He
was on his way home at T~hirty-sev-
enth and Harvey streets and was
within half a block of the door when
two men drove up in a buggy. One
of them got out, stopped the boy,
and said, Were officers and you're
under arrest"
Kidnaps Cudahy Child
The child tried to explain. He
hadn't done anything to be arrested
for, he said, and he pointed to his
home and added: That's where 1
live; I'll take you there and you can
find out who l am"
Groves answer was to pull the
boy into the buggy and whip up the
AS they drove through the
he bandaged the boys eyes
so he would not know where he was
being taken. Cowed by threats,
young Cudahy lay still while his cap
gave him a long ride, east, west,
north, south; taking him past or
half the blocks of Omaha.
At last they stopped at a house in
he suburbs of South Omaha, and
they chained their boy prisoner
o the wall, after which precaution
Grove left him to throw a letter,
which he had tied to a stick, on the
avn of the Cudahy home. This
lone, he rang the father up on the
he letter. +.
What Cudahy learned from the
Message was that his o had been !
tolen to be held for ransom and that
he refused to pay $4,000 the kid
apers would burn the boys eyes
ut and send him home blind.
There was much more in the let
er, on the composition of which
rowe had spent days. Printed out
4 capital letters-evidently to fool
experts-it gave details
s to how the ransom was to be paid.
udahy was to take five sacks of
old and drive to a particular spot
bout five miles west of Omaha,
here he would find beside the road
lighted lantern adorned with red
rings. There he was to deposit the
lcks of gold, then go home, keep
UNI and await developments. If he
the police, the letter said,
3 would never see his boy again.
Cudahy followed instructions to
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one to the desolate spot designated,
1t the gold beside the glimmering
intern, with its ribbons Tapping in
@ breeze, and turned back, with
irdly so much as a glance in the
Yep brush in which Grove lay con-
aled, ready to seize the coin or run
r his life.
4 few hours later the Cudahy boy
as released from his chain, taken
a roundabout route back to Oma-
and turned loose half a mile from
g home where his father waited
r his return, uncertain whether the
.ndits would keep their word or
srely take the money and demand
Following the regaining of his son
e elder Cudahy inspired a quiet
mt for the perpetrators of the
Ime. In a little more than a week
g house in which the boy was kept
On went blind and three months
ssed before a new clue, coming by
from the underworld, point
to Grove as the man who turned
trick.
Cudahy at once offered a reward
$25, 900 for the arrest and convic-
n of the kidnapers, this serving to
r all the police departments and
agencies of the land and
TT a manhunt that lasted four
lrs, extended over thousands of
les, once forcing the fugitive to
IS the Atlantic, and did not end
ill the night Captain w. F. Mel
ath and myself ran Grove to cover
Butte, Mont.
rhe police we're still active and
mere whisper that Pat Grove was
made them eager to gain the
tune promised for his capture.
hit after night houses of Groves
ends were raided, several times
narrowly escaped being taken. He
; sick of the hardships Of the
tied and yet he hardly knew
ere to turn. He would try to buy
1ahy off. So he dug up this
ney and a friend took it to the
lionaire, asking him to take it and
Ii it quits" Cudahy laughed and
ew the packet of bills in the mes
gers face.
I don't want money" he snapped.
want Grove, and some day I'll get
l."
didn't understand this kind