The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-22
WORRY CAUSE OF
CUDAHY SUICIDE
Jack and Wife Not Es-
ranged at the Time
of His Death
HEALTH BROKEN DOWN
lost His Commission in Army
Because of That; Relatives
Talk of the Tragedy

rDa ANGELES. Cal. April 2l.--
rr .rortion with the financial and
rh,s 30 worries which were be
r.g,l uy officials and friends alike
q. have been the immediate cause OF
tho ....lde Yesterday or John i.
ta..I Gudahy. son OF the late
michael Cudahy OF Kansas city, a
nun. h.. uf Incidents I'm which-Cudahy
syI..I were recalled today.
T.. several weeks prior to March
OF ar. Cudahy was at u Pasadena
rr'a. ttcuded by ueurologists Then
n. .Ilr to hotel I'm hos Angeles
and rogistercd under an assumed
An ~ was said on April IS.
T.. eain at his Hollywood home.
g...t,ng To- Or. l.. j. Huff. who at
tended him he took poison. Dr.
HuN r1und Cudahy III. but apparent
fv his system was trec from poison.
,1o doctor said. Cudahy told Dr.
Uuff Tho latter stated 10 the police,
re hHl tried to XIII himself but de-
NIned 10 give reasons.
Under Assumed Name.
why Cudahy lived at a hotel un-
der name other than his own was
r5' luoWn. Friends suggested It
mlght have been IN line with n com
phIrt he once made that he never
could DO anything like other men
~ I tip "A waiter" they quoted
him cit Is Immediately circulated I
am giving away 500 bills.
"Ie buy a piece of jewelry. It Is
hcraldcd from coast 60 coast.
"If 7 am seen at race track,
A. always betting wildly -"
In 1915 he disappeared for n time.
Friends and relatives conducted a
search which ended when he was
found. calmly reading a magazine in
his Pasadena homo. No explanation
was ever made public.
In 19l7, Cudahy caused a sensa
lion through an argument with
Prince Paul Troubetzky. when the
latter. vegetarian. made some re-
mark on meat-catlng that made
Cudahy sore az he said. a physical
encounter had been avertcd.
when tho United States entered
tho war. Cudahv obtained q captains
commission and was assigned TO duty
AZ Camp Lewis, Wash. He served
six months and then, because OF
rhvsical ailments. st his commits
sion.
\ Movie Venture.
Last January he assisted in the
organization here Of motion picture
production company I'm which his
children. Anne and Michael were
given Juvenile roles In the first and
only picture made by the organiza =
,ior. About the time of the organi-
7atlon Of tho picture company
Cudahy's eldest daughter. Edna
Katherine Cudahy. cloped with
Percy Fisher Browne, OF Pasadena.
Mrs. Cudahy was said by police
officers TO have shown remarkable
composure while telling what she
knew Of her husbands tragic act, but
later collapsed.
Two sisters OF Mr.. Cudahy, Miss
Clara Cudahy and Mrs. w. =. Nelson,
were on the way from Santa Barbara
IN Pasadena when they learned OF
their brothers act They immedt-
ately went to the Cudahy residence
here and passed the night with the
widow and her children.
whatever may have been the mo-
tive for the suicide" Or, Huff said
today II am certain Cudahy at all
times was In normal possession or his
faculties"
Says Parents Lovers"
1T was worry, worry, over imam
cial troubles that caused this terrible
u,gedy.' said Miss Marie Cudahy
,Nr. Cudahy's daughter.
at rs untrue there was an es-
,rangcment between my father and
mother. When he came home re-
GENTLY after an absence 70 recover
his health. mother realized It was
his time Of need. she knew he was
IN and needed the caro- OF a help
mate since then she had been WIZ
him day and night
"Hcr cot was beside his bed. HeI
greatest thought was TO see his every
desire gratified.
please say something nice acou'
my parents wonderful devotion I,
each other. They were true lovers
Cudahy shot himself vestcrdaI u
his bedroom at his residence. IL
placed the muzzlc OF shotgun II
his mouth and pulled the trigger
with his toes on the right foot IL wa
Indicated as the right shoe was OH