Story Of A Crime

Píiiladelphia, April 29.- While the larger portion of the Philadelphia popuiation was attendlng church there ay on a desk in a dingy Hule room down town the skull of a murdered woraan. There for six long hours was unfolded a horrible story of crime. The central figuro in the stoi-y is James E. Loguo- known to the pólice departments of the continent as "Jimmy" Logue, burglar, bank robber and one of the most notorious allround crooks ia the annals of crime. The caso turned upon the murder of one oí this man's wives, Johanna Logue, but it was a fitting climax to a remarkable tale that proved that he was not her murdofer. On the night of Feb. 32, 1879, Johanna Logue vanished as suddenly and as oompletoly as if the eartb had opened and swallowed hor. The newspapers at the time were full of it, rewards were offored, and nu one was more indefatigable in his efforts to lócate the woinan than Logue himsclf. linravelled the Complete Story. On Oct. 1(5, 1893, fourteen years aftorwai'd, ;i carponter repairing the house at 1250 North Eleventh street tore up some boards in the kitchen and there found the skeloton of a woman. When it became known that Logue and his wife had lived in the house suspicion at once pointed to hini as the murderer, but all search for him proved unavailing. On the evening of March 6 iast the door bell of Coroner Ashbridge's private residence rang, and auswering it in person he was confronted by an old white-haired man, who said abruptly: "I am Jimmy Logue and I have come to give myself up." That was all he said in relation to the case and the coronor handed him over to the pólice under an assumed name. From that time on Coroner Ashbride and Detective Geyer worked together in secret until they had unravelled the coinplete story, which culminatcd a few days ago iu the arrest of a man whose identity was not revealed until yesterday. AeUial Murderer Identified. He is Alphonso Cutaier, Jr., tho illegitimate son of ono of Loguo's former alleged wives. He is locked up at the city hall on a charge of murder, while in a neigh boring cell is Logue, held as the star witness. Cutaier' s crime - forhe has mudo a confession In which he acknowledges causing the womau's death, though he asserts involuntarily- is best understood from a brief recitatibn of Logue's pareer. He was already a notorious character when, in 1853, he married Mary Jane Andrews. VVith her ho lived two years, when without the formality of a divorce he wedded Mary Gahan who, thouah she had not been a wife, was tho mother of an 18-months-old child, Alphonso Cutaier, Jr. Logue and Mary had uot lived long together when he became enamored of her sister. Johanna Gaban, whom heestablished in a separate household, paying all expenses uñeit, in 18TO, Mary died. To Prison After His Wedding. Mean while Logue, who had been "working at his prolession," feil into the hands of the pólice tor a series of burglaries. On May 23. 1871, ho was arraigned at the Central pólice station forsentence, but before the case prooeeded he askod Magistrace rimith to do him a favor first. He wantod to inari'y Johanna. The niagistrate complied, and Logue, standing in tho dock, married the woman. ïhen he was seineneed to sevon years in the penitentiary. Duriug his term Johanna boarded in this city, and proraptly upon his release in 1877 Logue carne for her. ïhey went to New York, wñere for a time he operated wich the equally notorious Peter Burns, who died some yeara ago in jail in Florence, Italy. Loguo raised money in somo way, for not long after his release he bouglu $20,000 worth of governmenc bonds in New York.