Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-12-21

There's realism, even In radio
when the mighty Allen art Players
/ put ON q Wild and wOOlly western mek0-
/ drama Headman Fred Allen Won't lei
no cOnsarn taiI0r-made cigaret into
/ the studio when the script calls for
/ rOIlin' your own. The picture we didn't
get was the one showing Fred re-
writing the script 70 make the hero
| q pipe smoker. after the 9th try Of
the above situation.
transaction the getting Of the money
Rent Vacant House
Callahan and Grove rented q va
cant house In cheap section CT
| Omaha and furnished one room with
bed. chairs and table. They carefully
/ assembled their toOls-a horse and
buggy, that had not been bought or
rented Of q local liveryman within a
short time before the crime, being the
chief requisites.
Driving In this rig the two conspira-
tors began to watch the Cudahy home.
They soon discovered that the boy LETT
his home IN the evenings between D
and 8 O'Clock If at all. Consequently II
was necessary TO lie in wait for him
during those two hours only.
After several nights Of waiting the
boy emerged from his fathers door
one brisk, dark fall evening, and
walked into the arms OF his abductorS.
Thev pretended they we're detectives,
who believed him another boy, and
that he was being taken to the police
station. Eddie Cudahy went along with
some protest but without fear, was put
into the buggy and driven off. He was
Immediately gagged and his face COW
cred with q mask. He was then driven
in contrary directions TO confuse him
and finally taken to the old house ana
put into the one furnished room with
Callahan to guard him.
The boy was told that no harm
would be done him II he made no Ell
fort to escape, and that he would be
held only while "a little matter OF
business" was being discussed win ms
father Furnished with tobacco ana
cigaret papers he made himself COM
Portable
Grove. who knew his confederate
was given TO drink and feared this
weakness might overcome him In the
hour Of crisis, warned the young cap
tive that men with shotguns were
stationed In the basement Of the house
commanding the back and the front,
and that any attempt to flee would be
fatal. The boy smiled. and smoked
away.
Demands S25,000 Ransom
Grove then went directly back toI
the Cudahy house, where the absence
of the boy had not yet caused any
alarm. and threw into the yard, tied
10 a stout stick and fixed with a bit
Of red cloth, his demand. It's sense was
that $4,000 In gold must be paid on
the following night If the rich packer
wished to see his son again unblinded
The packer was warned to avoid the
police, and minute instructions were
given as to the way In which the cash
was to be delivered. A 4O-mile drive
along specified roads In the country
lying around Omaha was TO be made
by the packer at night in his carriage.
with a red lantern on the front. At
some undetermined point along this
drive he would see an unmistakable
signal At this point he was to deposit
the $4,000 In gold specie, turn about
and drive directly home.
Grove now spent q restless night
and day Then he set out on horse
back and proceeded to a point adj
jacent to one Of the roads along which
Cudahy was to drive An hour after
nightfall he saw the red lantern COM
ing toward him at slow pace. He
watched carefully to see that the con-
veyance was not followed. Investigated
ali the ground about him for con-
ceaIed officers and blinked white
and green lantern, waving 1t spasrnod- |
ica1ly and then setting It into the cen
ter Of the road. He ran quickly out
and scaled the bluff. BY lying flat on
top he could look down.
Slowly and cautiously the red light |
Of the carriage drew toward him. Fin
ally the two horses were refined up
and two heavy bags Of gold were lift
ed out and placed by the lantern. The
carriage was Immediately driven out
Of the cut. turned about and headed
for home.
Picks Up Gold
Pat Grove picked up the gold and
his lantern, carried them to his fore
arranged concealment and IS hours
after his abduction young Cudahy was
safely In his mothers arms.
Now, for almost six years, Grove
was a fugitive with a price on his
head almost without parallel. Edward
Cudahy was prevailed upon 70 offer
$4,000 for his capture, and the police
authorities added few hundred more.
But Pat Grove firmly refused to be
taught.
MS friends his determination to sur
-ender. He rode into Butte and tele-
0honed the chief Of police. A few days
ater he was taken TO Omaha by Of
'icers from that city. A crowd Of 10000
persons received him at the station
md not q few cheered him as he was
ed out Of the train TO jail.
At the trial Grove was triumphantly
acquitted Of a crime he had certainly
committed. Cudahy had lately import
ID Japanese and negro labor into
Omaha TO s1pplant his striking help.
Grove said he had also retained a
etter which Cudahy had written to
/ priest. Between these things hts un-
was such that q verdict In