Eddie Cudahy and Pat Crowe
Postscripts
Soon Crowe was living in Bowery flophouses, although he was lucid enough to send a clever telegram to Edward Cudahy Jr. when he married in 1919:
No one could wish you greater happiness in the hands of your new kidnapper than I do. Heres hoping you will cherish no ill will over out former escapade, and enjoy this one more. Signed, Your Old Kidnapper.
In 1925, after he was arrested for begging on the subway, Crowe treated
Honesty is the best policy, Crowe advised the scribes, and it pays to advertise.
Crowe was found dead of a heart attack in a
The Cudahys did considerably better in life. After the kidnapping, Edward Sr. relocated his family to
In the 1960s, rural slaughterhouses began to undercut the prices of meat sold by
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