The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-25
POLICE LOCATE EDDIE CUD-
AHY'S PRISON.
-FOUR MILES FROM TOWN
Young Man Fully Identifies
Room In Which He
Was Kept.

Omaha, Dec. 21-The house was To-
Gated this afternoon in which Eddie
Cudahy was held a prisoner, at 5000
Grover street, a point about four miles
southwest of the city. I.
Strong evidence as to the identity Of
the house was obtained and further
c~orroborated by Eddie Cudahy, who
appeared during the time reporters
were making observation. The house
is an isolated structure commanding a
full view Of the surrounding country
for miles about. It is a two story
concern and has a rickety stairway
and other features described by the
kidnapped boy. On the second floor
was found a new we'll bucket contain
ing water from which the millionaire's
son had drank. .. ..
About the rooms were found many
cigarette stubs and burnt matches and
a small quantity Of sugar and coffee.
Maud Munshaw, who lives with her
parents at 3O44 Grover street, first saw
one of the occupants of the house
about 10 days ago, when he came to
her home and asked if she knew
whether or not the house that was
vacant above on the hillside was
rented. She did not know. Next
day he called and told her when he
met her in the yard that he. had rent
ed the house from Schneiderwind, the
owner. He said that another man
had rented it and paid 81 down, but
had not taken it. This man Miss
Munshaw describes as being about As
years of sage, with black hair and
moustache, though his hair was
sprinkled with considerable gray.
Tuesday evening, just after dark, a
light spring wagon drove up to the
house and two or three men got out.
Miss Munshaw does no know exactly.
Her father thinks there were three in
the party. The next incident about
the place was Wednesday morning,
when a pony was hitched out in front
of the house, but the spring wagon
and horse which had been attached to
it We're gone.
Cudahy after looking over the room
which had been described by his son
turned to those with him and said:
"Boys, this is undoubtedly the place.
I'm fully satisfied"
This afternoon IN official of the
Omaha National bank confirmed
Cudahy's statement that he had
withdrawn from that: institution
1915, 900 in gold with which the latter
states he paid the ransom to secure
the return Of his son.
"Pat" Grove is believed by the
local police to be the leader of the
gang. A force of Chicago detectives
began work today on the case.
One thing that is puzzling the po-
lice at this time is how they can
punish the kidnappers, should they
be captured, there being no law to
cover the case. ri
There is an offence known as "kid-
mapping in the criminal statutes Of
Nebraska, which carries with it a
pe%nitentiary sentence on conviction
ranging from two to seven years, but
it only applies to kidnapping with
intention Of carrying the victim out
side of the state. Manifestly it
would be impossible to prove that the
abductors of young Cudahy carried
him outside of the state because SO
far as is known they merely took him
to a point southwest Of South Oma-
ha, and if they had any intention Of
carrying him out of the state they did
nothing to furnish tangible evidence
of it. Hl
Another ~penitentiary offence defined
by the Nebraska criminal code is that
of "child stealing" but this secton,'
too, seems to have no application to
the present instance because it refers
only to stealing children under 10
years of age, while young Cudahy is
Is.
The suggestion has been made that
the %kidnappers might be held on the
charge of levying blackmail, mas
much as they used their possession of
young Cudahy as a mean of extorting
money from his father, but nothing in
the Nebraska statutes covers this
phase Of it. So far as can be ascer-
tanned by the police in the examina.
tion of the law the only charge which
can be successfully brought against
the perpetrators of this outrage is that
of false imprisonment which is not a
crime, but merely a mlsdemeanor,
subject to a fine and Jail sentence
only. From this it will be seen that
the problem what to do with the
kidnappers, should they be captured,
is almost as difficult as the problem
of fixing the identity Of the men.
ACCEPTS INITIATION.