The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
RANSOMED FOR $4,000
The Father Left it in a Spot They had
Appointed.
IN A FEW HOURS HIS SON APPEARED
His Story Shows That the Kidnappers Had
Been Plotting For Some Time to Spirit
Away One Of His Sisters.
Police Without Clue.
(By the Associated Press,)

Omaha, Neb.. Dec. 20.-There is reioic-
ing in the home of Edward Cudahy, the
wealthy packing house owner and capital
list of this city Edward Cudahy, Jr who
was kidnapped Tuesday evening, after
being held six hours for a ransom of
$25, 900 in gold, which the young mans
father unhesitatingly paid, has been re-
turned to his family and tonight the boy
and his parents are receiving congratula-
tions from his relatives and friends.
statement of the conspirators,
overheard by the lad while he was in their
power, indicates that they had been at
tempting for month to secure possession
of one of his sisters. Young Cudahy to-
day related the story of being oyerpower-
ed, placed in a closed carriage, blind
folded, bound and carried many miles
from the city, to a place, the location of
which he cannot identify, and his father
made known the details of long ride
into the country to deposit bag contain
ing $25 900 in gold in a place indicated
in a letter written Wednesday to MIR.
Cudahy by the outlaws, naming this con-
dition as surety for the return of the
boy. This sum was TO be deposited in
place indicated about five miles north of
the city on a lonely road leading up the
bank of the Missouri river Mr.. Cudahy
called into consultation the chief of po
lice and his friends and discussed plans
looking to the capture of the gang when
they should make an appearance at the
point of rendezvous named in the letter.
The great strain on the family, howev-
err, caused Mr.. Cudahy to abandon all idea
of capturing the men in whose power was
the life of his son and he decided to at
once comply with all demands of the ban
dts Absolute secrecy was necessary ana
a trusted messenger was dispatched 20
the bank to secure the gold. After secur
ing the money he started out entirely
alone. To identify himself he had at
tached to the dashboard of his buggy
red lantern, which was one Of the con-
ditions in the letter.
Mr.. Cudahy drove to the appointed
place. where he found near the road
white lantern suspended from a short
stake driven in the ground near the river
bank. Nobody was in sight. He at once
alighted, placed the bag of gold conven
iently near the stake and returned to the
city without hearing a sound.
That the bandits were near the spot
and at once secured the valuable pack
age cannot be doubted, for about one
o'clock this morning the young boy ran
breathless up to the door of his fathers
home and rang the bell for admission.
Two policemen, who in the early even
ing had been placed near the family man
sion had later been sent to the stable
by Mr. Cudahy who feared that the men
seeing the officers would drive away with
out leaving the boy.
Notwithstanding the entire police and
detective force of the city, several Pink
ertons from Chicago, and half a hundred
of Mr.. Cudahy's own men have been
searching diligently for clue looking
to the capture of the outlaws ever since
the return of the young man up to eleven
tonight nothing has developed to give the
least idea of the identity OF the men who
perpetrated the crime. Young Cudahy
says there were SIX of the men, but that
all wore masks.
Chief of Police Donohue said tonight
that every effort was being made to bring
the abductors to justice, that there were
probably three instead of six men, that
they had been figuring on it for at least
six weeks and that the police suspect GER
tain parties. He said that Mr.. Cudahy
evinced but little desire to prosecute, but
tonight Mr.. Cudahy announced he, would
pay $4,000 reward for the apprehension
of the abductorS.