AMERICAN SCANDAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14150, 9 March 1910, Page 5

AMERICAN SCANDAL.

TRESPASSER ATTACKED. IPxess Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, March 7. Returning unexpectedly home John P. Cudahy, a millionaire packer of Chicago, attacked J. Lillis, a wealthy banker, whom he suspected of intriguing with his wife, and inflicted a number of criss-cross cuts with a knife after binding the banker with a strong rope. Cudahy was arrested and bailed out. I SETTING A TRAP. Received 10.45 p.m., March Bth". LONDON, March 8. Tlie "Daily Mail's" New York correspondent states that Cudahy's motorcar was found abandoned three miles I from his home. It is evident that Lillis was entrapped. The State Prosecutor has issued a warrant for Cudahy's arrest. Lillis and Cudahy were previously intimate friends. THE ASSAULT DESCRIBED. The case has caused a sensation in Lillis is a bachelor whose age is stated to be 97. A maid in Cudahy's employ states that Blie heard a scuffle, and found Lillis on the floor with a rope round his neck and feet, his body being stripped from the waist downwards. The chaffeur who was assisting Cudahy placed a revolver at her head. She thereupon fled. The police came in response to a telephone message sent by Cndaiy's frife. The latter states that the attack on Lillis was the culmination r.f a long course of Cudahy's brutality against her.