Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-12-20
EDWARD CUDAHY
RETURNS.
He Claims to Have Been Abducted
From His Home by Two
Men.
VERY MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
A Big Ransom Had Been Asked for the
Boy by His Two Kidnapers The Po-
lice Doubt the Abduction
Story.

Omaha, Neb., December 20.-EldWar,
Cudahy, Jr., son of E. A. Cudahy, tn
millionaire packer who was abducte'
early on Tuesday evening, returned t.
his home at 1 80 this morning. Mr.. Cud
ahy said: The boy was abducted.
don't know yet how, nor where he wa
taken, He was returned to the house b!
the men who took him away. The!
brought him to the gate and left hin
there. The reward will be paid. Fur
ther than that I positively decline t,
speak"
| 1t is learned from other sources tha
the boy was brought in a hack to !
point near his home and there released
With him We're two men. 1t is said ht
had been kept in an old house about
five miles southwest of South Omaha
Whether Cudahy paid the large ransorr
| demanded is not known. Since the
strange return of the boy the police are
inclined to discredit the abduction theo-
ry. With two officers stationed in tn
Cudahy yard they think it would b;
impossible for two men to accompany
the boy to the very doors of his fathers
house without attracting attention.
SOUNDS LIKE A ROMANCE.
Omaha, Neb., December 20.-The Bee
in an extra edition says that $4,000 IN
gold was the price paid by Edward a,
Cudahy the millionaire packer, for The
return of his son, Edward Cudahy. Jr.,
who was abducted by a gang of kid
napers on Tuesday night. Yesterday
noon Cudahy received through the
mails a proposition to return the boy.
safe and unharmed, provided that $25,
600 was paid that night. In the letter
We're full directions where the money
was to be left. Plans were discussed for
capturing the bandits at the rendezvous
designated, but were dropped as i'm
practicable. Finally. impelled by the
strain under which the entire house =
hold was laboring, Cudahy decided to
comply with the terms offered. Tn :
money was secured by trusted mes
senger, sworn to secrecy, and W As
brought to the Cudahy residence. 1t was
all i'm golf. After dinner Cudahy had
one of his horses harnessed to a-ligat
buggy, and with the money and a rel
lantern, drove alone five miles west OF
town on the Sherman avenue road, un
til he came to a white lantern hanging
on short stick by the side of the road.
He deposited the sack close by tn
white light. Then, without seeing any
one, he returned home. The boys cap
tors, after securing the money, bundle |
the lad into a hack, and he was Sc
down close to his fathers house about
1 o'clock this morning. Where he hal
been, he was unable to say, but he
thought he had been taken about fTc
miles south of South Omaha. There is
absolutely no clew to the identity of the
kidnapers.
The boy says that he was seized o,
the street by two men who told him
that he was a fugitive from reform
school, and they We're deputy sheriffs
They placed him in closed carriage
threw baby shirt over his head, ga%-
best judgment, to lonely cottage west
of South Omaha, where he was chained
to the floor and kept a prisoner until
put in hack and returned home this
morning. He was guarded by two mel
and was provided with sufficient food.