The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-24
CUT DOWN TO TWO.
Short Dark Man Eliminated
From Abduction Case.

Omaha, Neb., Dec. 24.-!There was a
decisive development in the Cudahy kid
naping case Sunday, although the dis
closure is negative in kind. It has been
learned that there were two bandits, not
three, implicated in the abduction. One
of the outlaws has been eliminated. The
dark eomplexioned man with the black
mustache and black hair tinged with
gray, so minutely described by Miss
Maud MunShaW, was in the office of
Chief Donahue this afternoon and was
there confronted by Eddie Cudahy, his
supposed victim. After carefully scru-
tinizing him. the boy said: THAT is
not the man. He is not tall enough
. by an inch and a half and he's not broad
enough. He's too small in every way"
The mysterious dark man in the
Cudahy kidnapping case was arrested
scription given by Miss Maud Munshaw,
who lives near the house in which
Eddie Cudahy was held for ransom by
his abductors.
His name is Ed Johnson. He is a
laborer in the Cudahy packing plant and
resides at Twenty-sixth and Walnut
streets. He admitted having gone out
to the Grover street house three times
for the purpose of renting the building
which he found already let to the light
man and his accOmpliceS.
Johnson was easily able to prove to
the satisfaction of the police and Mr..
nothing to do with the case and was
allowed to return to his wife and fam
lily of six children.
Chief of Police Donahue is we'll
pleased with the progress his men are
making, saying that the arrest of John
son narrows the case down by elimi-
mating one of the extraneous features,
and centering the chief interest about
the Tight" man who rented the house
from Mrs. Schneiderwipd.
In the meantime the city is being
secured for any sign OF the other man
described by persons living in the vi
There is still a dark complexioned
man in the case, but he is larger than
Johnson and younger. Otherwise, he is
very much like johnson, having a black
mustache and dark hair, slightly mixed
with gray. So far as they know. he
was seen by but one person, and that is
Eddie Cudahy himself The other ban
dit was the light commissioned man with
the brown hair and long, light mus
tache slight of build, and whose age is
said to be somewhere between so and
35 years. The. individual is described by
three persons besides the kidnapped boy,
namely B. K. Munshaw, James Schnei-
derwind and Frank Glynn. He is the
man who called at the Schneiderwind
home to engage the cottage at Thirty
sixth and Grover streets, and who
called up the Cudahy mansion from
Glynn's- livery stable to give notice of
the letters being in the front yard The
man, and, if he is the person they think
he is, he will probably be in custody
within the next ten days at least. If
guilty. he can not remain at large long,
they say.
E. A Cudahy, sr., still entertains the
theory that if Pat Grove was not one of
the men who kidnapped his son he will
lose no time in advising him of this
fact Mr.. Cudahy has befriended Grove
many times in the past. Why" said
the packer in the course of conyerSa-
ton Sunday. pat Grove knows per-
fectly well that if he had come to me a
week ago and asked me for SIS he would
have got it. He has often expressed a.
sense of gratitude for what have done
for him, and I can hardly believe he
would turn against me in this way. Now
that he knows he is suspected of it,
however, he would certainly, if innocent,
come to me or wire and advise me of
it rather than have me harbor unjust
suspicious against him. This prolonged
silence on his part looks bad for him, I
must say"