| Show PAT CROWES CAREER IS VERY R Omaha News New I IPat Pat madman of oC Omaha Oma I Thus do old oid police pollee who have an intimate acquaintance I watched his with him and who have I career through a long course of years yeats I classify the man who is charged with being the master spirit t in the abduction of Eddie E te I Cudahy CU jr and nd who is believed to have engineered the bold and film n J t Incredibly successful game for a of He is not to be classed as a Cr set iB nal sneers one man who ho ha hag lp b 2 through twenty years of f police exp f fence ence once in Omaha No ifo good man fit In criminal parlance will associate ww with him Hb We Is too foolishly bold bald too toG spectacular to be trusted by toy good criminals He is at his best when ben benIS he I IS drunk When sober he lie Is a coward Some say that the blood of a maniac is coursing through his veins that the I passion to play before the calcium l lIghts lights of publicity has become heroine an ap appetite appetite petite such as possesses a drunkard or ora a morphine fiend It may be Time Tim a without number Pat Crowe CIOe has been in Jn Inthe the delirium tremens cell When WhOa h ne he shot two policemen men in Jn Chicago he is I said to have been crazy drunk Such Sueha Js reported to have been his condition when he made away with a tray tra of ds d menus monds in Denver and when he per f I the theatrical lt k I snatching trick In St Louis he had the sae appearance of the man who ItI I I 1 wrestled with snakes several times a dangerous glitter and insane glare of eyes u 1 The eyes e es are the feature of or Pat Pal Crowes face and that they have not been made more of or In n the descriptions of the Uthe light man have caused many policemen to believe that he Is not im mm implicated Implicated in this case that he te Is again being made the scapegoat for other criminals as has hns happened many times in the past In wells welte and under projecting brows lila his F shifty eyes focus oem all the gone upon themselves o F Sane or insane In ne Pat Crowe is 18 one of or orthe the few really spectacular and truly named n med desperadoes of or the day lie e carries off of his lila operations with a aI and abandon and that I marked the deeds ds of the picturesque old ld scoundrels of the days before civilisation tion laid them on the shelf I His first escapade de of ten en years ago I in Chicago was the talk of the day d dI dI I Tiring of his mistress Crowe CLowe one day d stole her diamonds during her absence A pair of sleuths trailed him to a house hoWe of He was cornered and cov rev covered revered ered but in his lila drunken frenzy he h counted not the odds Whipping out outI his revolver he hot shot one of the officers I badly and wounded the other Swing Swinging Swinging SwingIng ing his revolver about his head headle e ploughed his way to freedom but was wms wasi wa j i later captured j I Seven years in the penitentiary was his sentence for this deed but tout influence and his brother Steve who is I now running a saloon in Chicago o gave him brim his release after he had served tWo tiro years and a half haU His Denver episode occurred shortly after his release One when the store was crowded he walked into a jewelers right in the tile heart of the pity city next door to the Republican office Grabbing up a ct tray of o diamonds he dashed through the crowd with it and aDd up an alley He was soon oon caught and a an again agnin got off lightly his brother Steve satisfying the jeweler Some of police officers in Denver say that Crowe was on the verge of delirium tremens s when he committed this deed His Hi St Louis episode seemed like te tie act of a madman As a wealthy wo ao woman 0 man of that city was WItS leaving a down downtown downtown downtown town store tore Crowe snatched ched Her pocket pocketbook pocketbook I book Leaping to the edge of the side sidewalk sidewalk walk he jumped into a buggy b standing there with a revolver forced the cern occupant OC U pant to tl whip up and s tan ling upright in the thc vehicle and yelling and flourish flourishing ing lag a at revolver he lie drop through a crowded street and escaped from a pursuing horde of citizens dt and police poll e officers When he was waa arrested he was examined by an insanity commission instead of a court of justice These are the events in lp Pint Flat Crowes career and if it he really conducted the Cudahy the case may well be classified with them the His other deeds pate pat beside them al although although although though he once s sawed awed aw ed out of jail at St Joe where he was being toeing held for train I 1 Pat Crowe will plead guilty guilt t l theatrical thee performances and win n i iii II J Jin r in them With his hili insane lov tJ ft r 1 i and nd to get his in r paper he would doubtless admit L authorship of ot many another ni Jr th 1 which has baa been IUd ld at his hid do I i h has hag probably been Identified d d I I criminal in more cases ca with alit i has had nothing to do than any th h man has In fad fact fa when the mv n n spirit In some HOme particularly p brilliant it j 1 desperate jo job joI cannot be unta Pat Crowe is always under staler r To Po what extreme Crowe has hs T 11 M c the scapegoat Is shown in the tile f t ur rl i ie mile case e that occurred in Council n BUff I if I asme eme me five years ago a o A safe h hj hi i i 1 i wn open and a bank buildup hI been almost shattered ah In a am t I n Council Bluffs The rho um m the hIve latter Ier tow town n were notified t t I Ithe the watch atch foi for the t e safe bIo blo Io I Deputy Sheriffs Nick OBrien a in 11 t i igan 1 t II 1 gas gan n located three suspicious 11 h whom they found in a hovel bovel Tit i were placed pIed under arrest at on one t The e party walked five tI ti i 1 l criminal a p deputy a d d tl duty uty and a criminal At a M i HI nd Ii broke loose and aDd prisoners nie Ilde s their escape but not until n i Of ur n Ii men mba m n sent a bullet through tin th IMI IH I Deputy OBrien OB Two of th thu j i 4 were recaptured bys by b thew t s n lh third man the use one ww in th inIng 1 lug Ins escaped His name was a K I Ily The authorities bad had a good ii d t rit tics iton of lh the escaped man OBi OHr 11 N sure pure that he could pick him i Ii men Rogues gallen galier ransacked and finally OBrien l k out Pat Crowe Croe Crowe was n II in dl al Lured but tout latet later Reilly was u m Canada and wits was brought back K positively Ively Identified him hint yet i Iti 1 was shorter than Crowe Crows built buill iff u had entirely differ and an rn rn Ia dt of countenance No Nu one hi hn mistaken mi taken them tiem once they saw RaW th ii m Years ago go a Missouri was as held up and robbed at WP We V i s i ionly I i ionly only a f r few w miles from Omaha in fd fa within thin the city limits The job jib bold and brilliant aad and successful I II I Ii I was wa duplicated near St St Louis Loui i hut ut u ut 4 t short time afterward The rite poll polk i inot i inot i not get on the trail for a long wh w a wand and they declared absolutely ab th thit it pd p Crowe was connected with both r ri o oI tj 1 i los iee They The hunted for Cor or him long Jong an ant k i iJ 3 J I discovered the robbers robter were II III I I II I peth Fred Sly and Dink Wilson Wilt I Sly and Hudspeth were arrest i iare tri r rare are now serving erving twenty years year fur for f r t IL I crime Dink Wll on and his brit shot an officer while resisting re am art amin artI arrI I in Rochester N Y T for Cor the hold and were electrocuted ted in ill New York state l I Crowe was as suspected su ted for a time r being Ute the lengthy member of that fa famous moss Chicago pair the long and th lit short man But the number of bold bola crimes of which Pat Crowe has hats been b n at suspected is 18 longer l nger even than those th that he be hits has ha committed A student stude t of criminology should find I j Pat PM Crowe a delightful and interesting I study Rudy He is not nol a criminal born from ron ronI I infancy tanCY I The traits may ma have he born been n in II I his hi makeup from the time of his h l birth hirth wt I I but they seem to have lam Isle dormant of ofIl I until he Wad laid almost reached his inability 4 I ity Then they sprouted like so sJ many Il 1 ts under hot house pressure Jo Ii I I He came to Omaha in the early earl sea MI I from Walnut la Is when he was as still in m inI I Ms his teens te He did not have a collar ecile coll collI education although It t is u said that h I had He had however a good school chour education edu tion He had the faults and th vices of strongest among I Ithem I them a desire for liquor and a passion pas ion ii for women to both of which he is i a t It slave to this thil day But these ins insI i I seemed to be no stronger than in ih th thI IiiI I ca ease cae e of other lads of his age and con cn tl V Von I dillon Says one who knew him then on ci I Pat was ws a cheerful genial COIT tr trI I pardon pan Ion with a big heart rie wan a 8 th ways wa s gentlemanly and he fd dle 0 SI It is a coincidence that his fir hr employment of any Kny Importance a under the man whose child he ho h is i 1 charged with He Ife wa aa 4 placed in charge charbe of the retail rt ta il mark markI of the then a struggling i C I in Omaha He HI was wa di dl II charged for embezzlement and fi frum m I this time his friends say his hig ii career commenced Pat himl t lf d aol il l 1 milled his charge but s said aid id that hf h Wa i rf forced to do it because he ho was as pk phi Ta iu the u good fellow too to t strong |
