The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-21


/ harm viii befan you or yours"
Boy Tells His Experience.
When young Edward Cudahy arose
/ today he was questioned concerning tho
, circumstances of his disappearance,
| and told Of his experience. He said he
| was in front of General Cowan's house,
just across the street from his own
home, on his way hack from the Rus
tin residence Tuesday evening when
TWO men approached him. one of them
! stepped up to him and said, we are
| sheriffs from SHARPLY county, and arrest
YOU as Eddie MCGEE, who escaped from
the reform school"
The lad protested that he was not the
/ mythical Eddie MCGEE. but his cap
tihed. They placed him in buggy and
! drove 70 Thirty-siXth street and thence
{ south to Leavenw0Tth street.
As they approached LeavenWorth
/ street q motor car passed them The
/ boy recognized the conductor and Sald
( to his captors. There is a nliin who
/ knows me; he can identity ne But
I the captors Immediately blindfolded
/ him and whipped up the horse IEs
boy thinks that they crossed LeaVen-
worth street and then drove IN south
. erly direction. Presently they came 10
/ q house. which in the opinion Of the
lad is somewhere in the southwestern
part of South Omaha.
Young Cudahy was taken from the
buggy and placed in a room ana
Grained 20 the floor.
EdWa r,udahy. jr.. remained there
all night. sd the next day. His hands
were tied IA the chains on his feet
/ oreve n ed him from getting a good view
of his surroundings, even AFTER the
blindfold had been removed. he
knows, however, that he was IN an
/ erapty room. and that the blinds on the
/ windows were closed
One Came from Denver.
On the trip to the place OF imprison-
ment, the men. he says. talked little
about themselves. He gathered from
them that there were six N the gang
One of these men came from Mexico
recently and from from Denver very
lately. and was an expert in the kid
i naping business. After the mysterious
house was reached one man guarded
him during a greater portion of the
DAY. The second man was IN the room
at intervals. From conversations De
tween the abductOrs and himself the
Young man learned that the abductors
had been seeking to abduct one OF the
girls of the family, and had been plan
ming this coup for four months
At night, for some unknown reason
/ the men released young Cudahy from
/ his chains and said; We are going to
, / take YOU home" Then they led him TO
a hack. He was driven rapidly through
/ darkness IN ThiTtY-SeYenth and LeaV-
J euvOrth streets. where he was allowed
/ to leave The carriage. From there ne
I walked home, arriving there shortly
after / O'Clock in the morning. The
: bandits made no explanation 10 MN
why they gave him his freedom
Speaking of his experiences While IN
the power of the kidnapers, young Cud-
, ahy said:
7 could tell by the mems footsteps
/ resoundiug throughout the house that
il was vacant and stripped Of furniture.
J observed also that they struck no
; + light. I would have been conscious OF
, a sense of light had they made one, for
, / the bandage could not have excluded
; all its rays. The men still moved about
/ in absolute silence, exchanging no
word One Of them found an old rick
ETY. chair somewhere and pushed me
down upon it. Then he removed the
/ cords from around my wrists and sub
stituted for them a pair of handouts
with chains attached, and made the
! latter fast to the rounds Of the chair.
A pair Of leg irons were Clapped upon
my ankles and the chains Of these were
also locked about the legs of the chair.
I'm this uncomfortable position /
spent the most Of twenty-fOur hours OF
my Incarceration. though at one time
for a period of about five hours I should
: Judge. the chains from my wrists were
removed and I was permitted to lie
| down on the floor. One of my Captors
/ provided an OvercOat which served as a
pillow. I tried to sleep, but my nerves
were too badly shattered to permit it.
During all of this time I partOok OF
no nourishment but once, although the
men who was with me often asked me
if I wanted anything. Once I said
did. and he went and got me cup OF
coffee and some crackers.
Could Hear Telephone.
LAS soon as 1 was chained to the
chair. one Of the men went away, but
ne kept returning every few minutes
( when he would tap lightly upon the
door and would engage my guardian IN
I a whispered conversation. ] could not
: catch a word Of whar they said. After
each one Of these interviews, the man
/ on the outside would g away, and al
ter moment or so ! could hear the
tinkle Of a telephone bell which sound
ed a long way off. l believe they were
I in telephone communication with some
persons in Omaha all the time.
THE man who kept watch over ms
/ was drinking heavily all the time. Al
first he did not talk at all, but after
/ we had been alone together for six OF
seven hours he began TO get garrolOus
! He talked about all sorts of things and
/ his talk Tambed throughout, whether
I from drink OF design 7 could not say
Finally he became bOlder. Two OF
I three tunes ne touCntQ upon the SUP
/ feet of my abduction, and / gathered
from his remarks that there we're sis
/ men in the gang, Of which he was 9
/ member. He said one thing which was
very much to the point and which
startled me.
90 Do you know, he asked, that We
/ have been watching that house Of yours
out there for the last two months
/ Well we have What we really wanted
was 10 get one of the little girls-youl
. little sisters-but we did not get tbs
/ chance Finally we became desperate
! and determined to take the bull by the
horns and nab you.
The boy tonight is apparently none
the worse for MS experience.
Late tonight Mr.. Cudahy announced
he would pay S25. 600 reward for the
apprehension Of the abductors Of hi!
son. s., 600 for one and $4,000 for tive
of them.
The cunning of the gang who had thu
boy in keeping and their thorough
knowledge of the geography of the city
are evidenced in the plans they laid
Close by the place where AIr. Cudahy
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