A NEW YORK SCANDAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14777, 9 March 1910, Page 5

A NEW YORK SCANDAL

AN INDIGNANT HUSBAND. Press issociation-By Telegraph—Copyright: NEW YORK, March 7. Returning unexpectedly to his home, Mr John P. Cudahy, the .millionaire meatpacker of Chicago, found there and attacked Mr J. Lillis, a wealthy banker, whom he had suspected' of intriguing with his wife. He inflicted a number of crisscross cuts with a knife on Lillis's face niter binding the banker with a strong ■rape. Cudahy was arrested, but admitted to bail. .SENSATIONAL" PARTICULARS. CHARGES OF BRUTALITY. NEW YORK, March 8. (Received March 8, a' v 10.15 p.m.) The Lillis esse lias caused a sensation in America. Lillis ; s a. bachelor, whose age is stated to be 97. A maid in Cudahy's employ states that she heard a scuffle, and found Lillis on the floor with a rope round lu's neck and his_ feet, and his body strapped from the waist downwards. A chauffeur who was assisting Cudahy placed a, revolver to her head, and she thereupon fled. The police came ; n response to a. telephone message sent by Cudahy's wife. The latter states that the attack upon Lillis is the culmination -of i long course of Cudahy'6 brutality against her. CUDAHY'S PLAN TO ENTRAP. THE ASSAILANT ARRESTED. LONDON, March 8. (Received March 8, at 10.45 p.m.) The 'Daily Mail's New York correspondent states that Cudahy's motor car was found abandoned about three miles from his home. It is evident that Lillis was entrapped. The State Prosecutor has issued a warrant for Cudahy's arrest. _ Lillis trnd Cudahy were previously intimate friends.