A SENSATIONAL QUARREL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 361, 12 April 1910, Page 3

A SENSATIONAL QUARREL.

ATTACK OX A MILLIONAIRE. SEQUEL TO A MOTOR RIDE. Particulars of the sensational attack •by John P. Cudahy s the uiillionaim packer, and son of Michael Cudahy, of Chicago, upon Jere E. Lillis, a millionaire banker, at Kansas City, on Sunday, March t> last, are contained in the American, files to hand by the last mail. It appears that John P. Cudahy arriv.ed home at an early hour in the mornZing, on the date named, to find Lillis there. Soon after the packer entered his home, neighbors heard screams and groans from the mansion, and Mrs. Cudahy rang up the Westport police station. . "A man is being murdered in the Cudahy house," she said. 'Send an officer there at once." Ten minutes later Patrolman Brian Underwood reached Cudahy's house, at Thirty-sixth and Walnut streets, in the most fashionable part of the city. The front door was open, and as Underwood | stepped into the hall he heard yells, I groans, and cries fot mercy. Underwood | followed the sounds and entered an apartment. , "DON'T DO IT, JACK." Three men were in the room. Prostrate on the floor lay Lillis, half' nude and bound with a rope. Above him stood Cudahy, He was in correct evening dreas, except that he wore no coat. His sleeves were rolled up. Blood was his hand.3. At his side stood a chauffeur, garbed in regulation leather sa> and duster, as though he had comein to the house after a hurried call and 8 run with, his machine, None of the men noticed Underwood. Lillis groaned and tugged feebly at the cords that bound him.

"Don't do it, Jack. Please don't do it," he pleaded.

Cudahy did not answer. Rushing up to the trio, Underwood addressed Cudahy:

"What does this mean?" he queried. "He's ruined my home, He's ruined my home," said Cudahy, turning to the policeman and making no attempt at resistance.

Cudahy was then placed under ar?est, «and, after Lilli6 had been despatched to I the hospital, was taken to the police ataI tion. At the hospital it was found that Lillis was in a pitiable condition. The physicians declared that even if he recovered, he would he terribly disfigured for life. Cuts, apparently inflicted with a knife, and made in crisg-cros3 fashion, ,were on his face, legs and one arm. Sis most serious wound was in the left leg, where the blade of a knife had grazed tie bone. On each hip there was a deep flesh wound, and one cut was inflicted on the left arm. THE WIPE'S STORY.

Mrs. Cudahy, in telling of her husband's attack upon Lillis, declared it 'was the culmination of a long line of brutal treatment. This last act, she said, would result in the separation of herself and her husband. "I told Fenn, our chauffeur," she went on, "that Lillis had a new car and that I was to have a ride in it. Incidentally, I remarked that Cudahy was going out of town to .look at some cattle. That Cudahy's going out of town would have anything to do with my riding with Lillis would be ridiculous. Cudahy often says he is going out of town and then never goes. He probable does that nine times out of ten times.

I "On Friday the ear was unloaded and in the afternoon ws took a ride. The I weather was fine and we sped over the road. On Saturday Lilis said I should see the ear tried out a.gain. We went out on Saturday afternoon and then -drove to the country club for dinner. Then we decided to go down to the Baltiitaore, instead, which we did. We stave' there "only long enough to eat and then went out again. When we came home Mr. Lillis was going to drive away, when I asked him to come into the, house. We went into the library, downstairs, and had been talking only a few minutes when Mr. Cudahy rushed into the room. He must have come into the house through the billiard-room. He was accompanied by Fenn, the chauffeur. They seized Mr. Lillis anl began beating him. Mr. Cudahy had a thing he uses in the car and he beat Mr. Lillis over the head .with it." CUDAHY'S ODD WEAPON.

Here Mrs. Cudahy looked over at the table near her couch and said: "There it is. See the blood on the •nd?"

Tho "thing" to which she had alluded was an electric searchlight. It was Bin long and about the thickness of/a man's wrist.

fl That was what he hit me with, too," said Mrs. Cudahy. "I ran as soon as I saw they were beating Mr. Lillis. I believed they would try to kill me, too. They had a rope with them when they came in, and both swore frightfully. I ran upstairs and. stood screaming at the top of the stairs. Freda, the maid, came running in with the other servants. She stood with her arms about me to protect me. They had finished tying Mr. Lillis by this time, and Mr. Cudahy came tearing upstairs. He struck me over the head and in the left eve"—Mrs. Cudahy raised her handkerchief to show the swollen eye—"and you see what he did." Both the lid and the eye immediately under the lid were deep purple. A DESPERATE WOMAN. "Then he rushed downstairs," Mrs. Cudahy. went on, "and began to use the iknife on Lillis. He must have had it with him, although I did not see it when he came in. Freda ran downstairs and came up, telling me they were cutting Sir. Lillis. I cried 'Murder!' and ran to the telephone. It was I who called the poliee. They kept on beating and cutting Mr. Lillis. Mr. Cudahy would beat him awhile, and the chauffeur would cry, ,'Turn him over.' Then they would beat him some more. "Freda was in tht hall when Fenn, '■the chauffeur, rushed out again. He had a revolver in his hand. He.pointed it at ; her and she ran. He rushed upstairs and shook his fist in my face. I screamed. liet's Tack the woman out,' he cried, ■but Mr Cudahy was too busy beating Mr. Lililf downstairs to pay any attention to 'him. He rushed downstairs again. Then the police came." Lillis, who is 47 years of age. decided not to prosecute Cudahy, and Mrs. Cudahy, whilst declaring that she would in future live apart from her husband, said she would not sue for a divorce.