The L'Anse sentinel., 1922-04-21
Notorious Kidnaper of Other
Days Says Nation Is Sleigh
riding to Perdition.'
DRASTIC ACTION IS NEEDED
Ring Backed by Organized Financial
Interests Makes Profit of $10,000,-
900 Year-Hablt Is Increasing
Steadily and Enormously.

ashington.-Twenty years ago, II
Pat Grove had been unwise enough to
appear anywhere in Washington, much
less at the Office of the head OF the
department Of justice, as he did re-
Gently to Interview the attorney gen.
eral, they would have grabbed him
and put him away for 100 years or so.
In those days Patrick was about the
most wanted fugitive anywhere on the
face of the globe. On his head was
u price of $4,000 and there was no
garding the condition of the said
Grove when delivered (. o. b. Dead or
alive 1t was all the same to justice.
Iloldup man, gun fighter, bank thief
train robber and kidnaper Pat Grove
was a five-minute egg in the cafeteria
of crime. Physically powerful, his
unusually intelligent mind and his
recklessness made him particularly
dangerous person. lie put mansard
roof on his career when he kidnapped
the Cudahy boy, son of the meat
packer, and separated the millionaire
from $4,000 in gold coin as ransom
All of that lies back in the fast dim
ming past, back in the thlckening
shadows. Pat Grove Is Il very differ
ent sort of person nowadays. The
black hair has turned snow white-as
white as the "snow" he denounces
with the fire and fury of his Celtic
temperament-and there are half a
hundred tiny wrinkles crossing and
criss-crossing the pink expanse Of his
good natured face.
Has Spiritual Rebirth.
His physical strength hasn't wasted
a great DEAL and Pat would be mean
customer TO handle In an impromptu
rough and tumble. The big change,
the whacking big metamorphosis, is
in the innards OF Patrick-a spiritual
rebirth. The hard boiled egg and
reckless criminal vi 1902 is the gentle,
self-ordulned reformer of 1922, tre-
mendously interested in saving boys
and young men from the vicious
habits he sees increasing every day.
"Slelghriding to hell" says Pat
Grove, meaning that the drug habit Is
increasing steadily and enormously,
for "sleighriding' is one of the pic
dope iiend. 1t Is good, sound, logical
slang, built on constructive rules that
Lindley Murray or Brander Matthews
could scarcely sniff at (no pun In
tended. For in this singular argot
"snow" means the "dope," the drug;
for heroin, morphine and cocaine are
as white as the driven snow and the
suggestion Is simple and effective.
When party of addicts meet to-
gether to Whit themselves into OBJ
liyion the conceit has 1t that they are
on sleighing party, travelling smooth
ly over the SNOW" And II Is this
frightful sleighriding which will ruin
the republic, asserts Pat Grove, unless
the government ut Washington takes
hold with a strong hand.
There are 100000 snow birds In
the United States to-day" says Pat,
referring to the documents he went
over the other day with Attorney Gen.
eral Daugherty. "They spend between
&4,O00O 900 and $4,000, 900 every day for
the dope. There Is no question but
that the evil Is spreading or that II
will continue to spread.
Spreads Crime Like PsstIIsnes.
~Back OF the traffic is an interna-
kional ring. one or two Of whose mem
beers could almost name. and they
are served by hundreds Of vicious
agents, to whom human life II abso-
sutsly Isss than nothing. They are