Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-21
Cudahy Suicide
Due To Diverse
Reasons Claim

Los Angeles, Cal, Aprh Ill
funeral arrangements for John r
fJack) Cudahy, son OF the late
Michael Cudahy, internationally
known meat packer, and himself
FAR a time manager Of the Cudahy
Packing company OF Kansas CITY
who committed suicide here yes
terday. we're expected to be per
fected today.
Cudahy's taking Of his own iite'
according to detectives who inVes-
tixated the tragedy, followed rail-
ure to negotiate loan OF $lo'oOV
from a Chicago bank.
Wife Hears Shot.
Yesterday, 1t was deciare1'
Cudahy seemed his usual sell.
About 1890 he was said to nave
. gone to his room IN the house IN
tbe Hollywood district of Los An
xeles. where he and his family
made their home.
EARLY In the afternoon Mrs.
Cudahy heard shot and hurrleu
to her husbands room
She found him dead, his head
shattered from gunshot wound
He lay on a bed, a shotgun close
by. The shoe and SOCK had Deeh
ra,noved from one foot, and the
Detectives later decided he mao
nlaced the mnzzle OF the weapon IN
his mouth and pulled the trigger
wbh his toes.
Court Suits Many.
Vr connection with the financial
and physical troubles which were
believed by officials and FRIENDS
alike to have been the immediate
cause of the suicide, a number OF
court actions in which Cudahy
figured we're recalled today.
Shortly after the Cudahys lett
Kansas City and arrived In Pasa-
dena in 1914, Cudahy was sued lof
100000 damages by DR.. b. .,
Coates of Pasadena, who charged
him with having violently thrown
the physicians wife against
table.
In January, 1919, Cudahy was
sued by a hotel company OF Pasa
dena for $9451 said to represent
two years hotel bill. In connec-
t1on with this action Cudahy as
serted he had loaned the president
az the company $4,000.
Once Tried Poison.
For several weeks prior toI
March 21 of this year Cudahy was
at a Pasadena hotel, attended by
neurologists. Then he came to a
hotel in Los Angeles and register
ed under an assumed name, 1t was
said. On April Is, back again at
his Hollywood home, according toI
DR.. l.. ]. Huff, who attended him,
he took poison. Dr. HUH founu
Cudahy Ill but apparently his sys'
tenn was free from poison the
physician said. Cudahy told Dr'
Huff, the latter stated to the po-
lice. he had tried to kill himself
but declined to give reasons,
Why Cudahy lived at a hotel
under a name other than his own
was not known. Friends today
suggested it might have been inI
line with complaint he once
made that he never could do any
thing like other men"
Notoriety Dishked.
"If ] tip a waiter" they quoted
him, "it is Immediately circulated
/ am giving away 500 bills.
"If buy piece of Jewelry 1t is
heralded from coast to coast.
IF / am seen at Il race track l
am always betting wildly "
In 1915 he disappeared for a
time. Friends and relatives con
Quoted search which ended when
be was found calmly reading a
magazine in his Pasadena home.
No explanation was ever made
however.
In 1917 Cudahy caused a SEN
sation through an argument with
Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, when
the latter, a vegetarian, made some
remarks on meat eating that made
Cudahy "sore" as he said when a
physical encounter had been avert
ed.
Served as Captain.
When the United States entered
the war Cudahy obtained cap
tain's commission and was assign
ed to duty at Camp Lewis, Wash.
He served six months and then, be
cause of physical ailments, lost his
commission,
Last June he assisted in the or
ganization here of motion pic
ture producing company in which
his children. Anne and Michael,
We're given juvenile roles in the
first and only picture made by the
organization.