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Show PAT CROWE FINDS HELPFpiEi Once Famous Crook Now Traveling the Straight Road, He Says. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) "WASHINGTON", pet. 16. Pat Crowe, ac one time Chicago's mosl widely-known crook, who capped the climax of a criminal crimi-nal career in the kidnaping of Edward Cudahy's son twenty years ago and who later reformed, has turned up in Washington Wash-ington looking for a job, and has found one. The ex-bank robber, kidnaper and temperance tem-perance lecturer has been taken into the good graces of Charles W. Warden, vice president of the Continental' Trust com-I com-I pany of Washington, who announced to-' to-' day that he had secured for Crowe a po-: po-: sition of trust with a business firm here, I the identity ol which ho did not disclose. Crowe, after being freed in the Cudahy kidnaping case, renounced his criminal career in Chicago and went on the lecture lec-ture platform for the Women's Christian Temperance union, resolved to "go it straight' for the rest of his days, and for some time he toured the country, putting put-ting himself and his criminal deeds before be-fore the public as a warning to young men not to depart from the path of rectitude. rec-titude. Since his reformation Crowe has been in Washington several times, but ho turned up a few days ago, after a prolonged pro-longed absence, walking into the office of the prisoners' relief society, very much downcast, with frayed coat find down at the bee). The superintendent of the society so-ciety took Crowe under his wing, outfitted outfit-ted him, and introduced htm to several bankers who yefirs ago were startled at the name of "Pat Crowe." The introduction intro-duction bore fruit today and Crowe expects ex-pects to go to work within a few days and to keep "going it straight." |