Chicago chef, John Grady, was held for murder after the bloody clothes belonging to his wife were found stashed under the porch of their home in 1913.
John Grady Held Under $10,000 Bond on Murder Charge
John Grady, chef at the Grand Pacific, was today formally arraigned before Judge Mahoney on the charge of murder of his wife.
His bond was fixed at $10,000, and hearing was continued until Aug. 26. Grady was unable to obtain a bondsman.
The police are no nearer solution of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Grady’s wife, a former actress, than they were the day a bundle of her clothes, mildewed and bloodstained, were discovered under the porched of the Grady home on the South Side.
Detectives have dug in the cellar under the house and in lots adjoining in search for the missing woman’s body, but have discovered nothing suspicious.
Prof. E.R. LeCount of Chicago University is analyzing a charred remnant of what appears to be a human bone, found in the furnace of the Grady home.
The heap of hairpins and corset steels found in the furnace have been satisfactorily explained, without pointing toward murder. A man who cleaned the house said he burned the things in a pile of refuse.
Source: The day book. (Chicago, Ill.), 11 Aug. 1913.
