The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-04-21
]. CUDAHY
ENDS LIFE
With GUN!
Son of Late Multi Million
aire Packer Shoots Self in
Hollywood Home

John r. paelo cudahy, son Of the
late muiti,miinonairc Chicago pack
or. Michael Cudahy. committed sui
eide In his palatial Hollywood resi-
dcncc yesterday afternoon. by blow
ing out his brains with a shotgun. II
vas reported by the police.
Cuaahy had spent his inherited
millions and killed himself when he
was refused a loan on the spend.
thrifts' trust fund" held for him
by the Northern Trust company
Of Chicago. according TO lctters and
teiegr,ns found.
Lying on his hack In = bed. Cudahy
braeed the shotgun between his knees
and pressed the trigger. sending the
siugs into his face and head.
CUDAuy BRooDED
OVER TROUBLES
Recently Cudahy had brooded and
appeared 90 have been affected men.
taiiy. according 10 friends. as a re
suit OF marital trouble.
Leaving a xanitarigru where he was
confined on account of iii health.
Cudahy went 10 a fashionable down.
town hotel and retained a suite OF ey-
p~nsive rooms under an assumed
soon as his p,ssenee was discovered
BY newspaper reporters.
During the past three weeks
Cudahy has been under the care OF
DR.. v. n. HerhSt. a Pasadena neurolo-
g1st. who Is said TO have reported
that cudahy suffered from a nervous
breakdown and had been acting
strangely for some time.
For the last decade CNnaahy has
hight OF publicity. In 1899 he star.
tled the social world by marrying
Edna Gown. famous beauty.
HE FIGURED IN
BIG SENSATION
He returned TO his Kansas city
home Unexpectedly. one night 10
years ago and found Jerc fAiiis.
wealthy banker. in company with
htS wife. cudahy. with the assist.
ance OF his chauffeur. muulated
Liilis. who later refused 10 prose-
cute.
lie and his beautiful wife were
then dyorced but rema rried again
In 1919 II had been reported re-
centiy that he and his wife were
again at the parting Of the ways.
!, Mr.. Cudshy. however. was IN her
room 1t their home when he killed
himself and was the first TO Ind
m body.
There are four chiidrvn-
oD6Mhy atfra.sed word. vide atten-
i'm - . boy when he vas kidnapod
b ne notorious Pat Grove gang and
Was captured and sent to prison
Cudahy. police reports say. vas ~
ySASs old.
TINED TO START r-
MOVIE SCHEME
7-VAlter leaving n Pasadena sanitarf'
where be underwent a treatment
Jr threafened nervous collapse.
-EuAnhy attempted to engineer mo
TIA picture scheme but Il II said.
fnaIod To find hackers II Was then
thnt be turned to the Northern Trust
company for aid
mat corporations refusa: 20 ad-
vance . $4,000 loan IL believed 70
have caused hi INTO end his life.
Nr1 Cudahy told detectives OF Do
tails OF her husbands suicide Be
1use Of his mental condition. she
mid she had watched him every
minute since his return 10 their Hol-
Iywood home after a mysterious alb
sence Of several weeks She had
moved a couch close TO his bed In
order to be near him at night. she
aid
Official inquiry into the suicide
came 10 a close today when Acting
Coroner r. j. Williams announced
he viii sign a death certificate stat.
ing that the cause OF death was
"gunshot wound. selfinflictsd-
while arrangements for the funer.
al still are incomplete. II was learned
that Cudahy's body probably will be
shipped either to Chicago or Kansas
City for burial.
Mrs. Cudahy was reported to be on
she verge OF collapse from grief over
her husbands act.