The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-12-21
PAYS RANSOM IN GOLD.
Tribute of$25,ooo Brings Young
Cudahy Back Home.
STORY OF ABDUCTED BOY.

Near South Omaha Letter Sent by Kid
napers Received at Cudahy Residence.
Omaha. Dec. 21.-Twenty five thou
sand dollars iii gold was the price paid
by Edward Cudahy, the millionaire
packer, for the return of his son, Ed.
ward Cudahy. Jr.. who was abducted
by a gang of kidnapers early Tuesday
night.
The conditions under which the out
laws We're willing to release their vic
tim were detailed in full in letter
received by Mr.. Cudahy at his house
Wednesday noon. about three hours
after the first communication had been
thrown into his yard by man on
horseback. 1t came through the mails
and reads as follows:
Letter Sent ny Kidnapers.
Omaha, Dec. 10, 1900.-Mr. Cudahy: We
have kidnapped your child and demand $685.
600 Twenty five thousand dollars) for his
safe return. If you give us the money, the
child will be returned as safe as when you
last saw him. but IL you refuse we will
put acid in his eyes and blind him, then
we will immediately kidnap another mil.
lionaires child that we have spotted and
will see the condition of your child and re.
alize the fact that we mean business and
will not be monkeyed with or captured.
Get the money all in gold, five, ten and
twenty dollar pieces, put it in grip in
white wheat sack, get in your buggy alone
on the night of December 10Th at O'Clock
r. H., and drive south from your house to-
Center street; turn west on Center and
| drive back to Rusers park and follow the
paved road towards Fremont; when you
come to a lantern that is light by the side.
| Of the road place the money by the lantern
and immediately turn your horse around
and return home You will know our Ian.
tern for it will have two ribbons. black and
white tied on the handle; you must place
red lantern on your buggy where it can
be plainly seen, so we will know you q
mile away. This letter and every part Of
| it must be returned with the money and
any attempt at capture will be the saddext
/ thing you ever done.
CAUTION FOR HERE LIES DANGER.
It you remember some twenty years ago,
| Charley Ross was kidnapped in New York
city and $4,000 ransom asked. Old man
Ross was willing to give up the money but
Burns, the great detective, with Others
| persuaded the old man not to give up the
| money assuring him that the thieves would
be captured. Ross died Of broken heart,
| sorry that he allowed the detectives to die
tate to him.
| This letter must not be seen by any one
but you. II the police or some stranger
knew It's contents they might attempt to
| capture although entirely against your
wish or some one might use lantern and
| represent us; thus, the wrong party secur.
Ing the money and this would be as fatle
to you as II you refused to give up the
1 Honey So you see the danger IL you let
this letter be seen.
Mr.. Cudahy you are up against 1t and there
Il W. nyyt
COIN. Money we want and money we will
| get.
/ If you don't give up. the next man will,
i for he will see that we mean business and
you can lead your boy around blind the
rest of your days and all you will have is
the dam copper sympathy. Do the right
thing by us and we will do the same by you.
4 IL you refuse you will soon see thu saddest
Il sight you ever seen.
Wednesday, December. 10Th
THIS NIGHT OR NEVER.
Follow these Instructions and no harm
Will befall you or yours.
Decides to Pay Ransom.
4 A consultation was Immediately held
by Mr.. Cudahy and his friends and
various plans were discussed looking
to the capture of the gang when they
should put in an appearance at the
rendezvous which they had named
One by one these We're dropped as i'm
practicable, and at last, impelled by
the fearful strain under which the
family was suffering, Mr.. Cudahy de
j cided to comply with the demands OF
the bandits.
AS soon as this decision was reached
a messenger was dispatched to one OF
the city banks for the money. He re
turned in short time, bringing witt
him $4,000 in gold coin. After supper
had been eaten, Mr.. Cudahy ordered
one of his horses harnessed to light
buggy and, taking the sack containing
the gold, drove out Sherman avenue
to the appointed meeting place Ir
compliance with the demand made III
the letter, he was quite alone, and car
ried red lantern in his wagon, thu
signal that had been asked for in til,
communication.
Money is Left Mt Appointed Place.
After driving; about five miles hi.
attention was attracted by sinai
y white light that seemed to be clos,
to the roadside. This was the pli.c,
: where he had been directed to leav;
the gold. AS he came up to it, he saw
that it was simply small Lantern
suspended from a stick. Alightin,
from his buggy, he took the sack con
tanning the money and deposited it OIL
3 the ground close by the stick and
leaving it there, climbed into the car
, riage, turned his horse around ant
drove home, without having seen O
heard anyone or anything.
Presumably, however, his arriva
and departure had been noted. A
: least about | o'clock in the mornin,
( the missing boy was set down within
a block of his home and soon afte
was again in the house which he hat
\ quilted but little more than "a hour
before. He was safe and sound an,
). had been treated kindly, he said.
Although the detectives and polio
have been working on the case inces
sanity since it was first reported t.
them, they have not succeeded in dis
/, covering anything that n remotel,
suggests the identity of the perpetrat