The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-04-21
JACK CUDAHY
ILL AND BROKE,
ENDS HIS LIFE
Son of Famous Packer
Figured in Many
Escspades

Los ANGELES. April 2i.--Funcral
arrangements for John ~ (Jack)
cudahy son OF The late Michael
cudahy. internationally known meat
packer. and himself FOR a time man.
agcr Of the cudahy Packing company
OF Kansas City. who committed sui
eide here yesterday. was expected 10
be perfected today.
cudahy's death. according 10 detcc-
tivcs who investigated the tragedy.
resulted from his failure 10 negotiate
a loan OF ,ie.ooo from a Chicago
bank.
The Officers made public part OF =
letter signed by tho vice president
Of tho institution. reading;
we do not want 10 carry a per-
nament loan and unless your sister
can vouch for the loan Of $4,000
which you ask for. we find II impos-
sible to grant your reqsest.-
Sister Turned Him Down
The officers said also that cudahy
late Tuesday had received from his
sister Clara at Santa Barbara. n tele-
gram reading.
Sorry. but find II Impossible to
do what YOU ask"
yesterday. u was declared. Cudahy
seemed his usual self
About iV:3O a. m. he was said 10
have gOnc 10 his room In the house
In the Hollywood district OF Los
Angeles whore he and his family
made their home.
Early In the afternoon Mrs. Caduhy
ks1rd a shot and hurried to her hus-
bands room.
tered from gun shot wound. lie lay
ON bed. shot CUR close by. The
shoe and sock had Leen removed
from one foot and the detectives
said he had placed the muzzle Of the
weapon IN his mouth and pnlied tho
trigger with his toe.
In connsctlou with the financial
and physical troubles wihrh we're be-
lieved by offich,ls and friends alike
20 have been the immcd'ase causc
OF the suicide, a number Of court
actions In which Cudahy figured were
recalled today.
Hal Been M
For several weeks prior 20 March
| ~, OF this year. Cudahy was al a
Pasadena hotel. attended by neurolog.
lists. Then he came 10 n hotel IN Los
Angeles and resistsred under an as
sumed name. u was said ON April 10.
Back again at his Hollywood home.
according to DR.. T. !. HUFF, who at
tended him. he took poison. Dr. Huff
found Cudahy M. but Apparently his
system was free from poison, the
physician said Cudahy told Dr.
Huff, the latter stated 70 the police
he had tried 90 kill himself but de-
olined 20 give reasons.
Why Crdahy lived at hotel under
name other than his own was not
known.
Friends suggested n might have
been In line with complaint he once
made that he never could do any.
thing like other men"
u tip waiter" they quoted him
IL Ia Immediately circulated am
giving away 900 bills.
| III l buy piece of jewelry, Il Il
heraldod from coast TO coast.
III l am seen at a race track,
am always betting wildly"
IN 1915 he disappeared for a time
Friends and rcei'ivcs conducted a
search which ended when he wa,
found, calmly reading a magazine Ia
hts Pasadena home
lie.
TroabIe With Princ-
In 1917 Cudahy caused sensation
through am argument with Prince
Paul Troubet<koy when the latter. a
vegetarian, made some remark or
meat-eating that made Cudahy sore
a. ne said when a physical encounter
had been aycrtcd.
When the United States entered IN,
war. Cudahy obtained a captains
commission and was assigned to dut,
AT camp Lewis, Washington. al,
served six months, aud then becaus,
sion
Whatever may have been the mo
i've Tor tho suicide" Dr. Huff aai,
today u am certain Cudahy al ni
times was in normal possvssion Of nd
! faculties"
II was worry. wurry over financia
tfouSlcs that caused this tcrribi
ttagrdy," said Miss Marie Cudahy
the dead mans daughter.
"lt IL untrue there wns an o.
arrangement between my father ans
mother Whom he came home re-
s'htly after an absence 10 recover hi
health, mother believed IA WAS III
time Of need She knew he ,Vas n
and needed the care OF a hsipmate
since then she has been with hin
7 day and night
Her cot WAS beside Ills bed lie
greatost thought was to see his ever,
desire gratined.
Please say something nice abou
my parents wonderful devotion 1,
cach Othor. They were true lovers
Kansas City Trouble
Her uatcincnts referred TO the e.
arrangement between the couple whei
they lived IN kansas City in 1903
cudahy returned to his homo on,
night. found Jerc Liiiis. u Kansa
D City banker there. ana attacked hin.
% a separation followed. but the coupl,
= latcr were reunited.
/. The widow, Mrs Edna Cowi,
o cudahy, who was the daughter .
q Gen. John Clay Gown VI Omaha
I Neh., was said today TO be in stat
p. w collapse. WIN her Ia the houn
- when cudaly killed hlms,lf were tW,
. ul ihUir Tour children. Anne Cudah,
3 ~ and Michael, it. their only son
Miss Marie Cvdahy was away fron
. ne home at the time. The fourtl
q child is Ars- Percy Fisher Browne .
. PASADENA, who was married only
few mQRths ago.