The sun., 1900-12-21
ONAHO PACKER
Pays RANSOM
FOR HIS BOY
Kidnapped gudahy Youth is
Released on Payment
of $25,O0O
STORY OF TIE KIDNAPPING
The Goa Says the Boy Told
His Father That He Was
seized Tuesday Evening
Only BLOCK From His
STORY OF TIE KIDNAPPING

Omaha, Dec 20.-It cost Edward
Cudahy, the Omaha packer, just $25,0O0
in cash to get his 15-year-old boy away
from the kidnapers, who held him 40
hours.
The young man, for whom 200 police
men had searched night and day for AZ
hours, suddenly appeared at his fathers
residence. He was released from hack
| two blocks from home and started on a
| run for the house. lie was apparently
well when he arrived. His mother was
standing at the front door with her hus-
band. They had evidently been apprised
| of the hour of the boys arrival.
The boy told his father he was sud
denly grabbed by man Tuesday night
d block from the Cudahy house as he was
returning home from neighbor's, thrust
into hack and bound and gagged.
He was carried to an old house neal
South Omaha, where he was closely
guarded. A sack was thrown over his
head so that he could not see his captors.
He was asked many questions about his
father and the prospects of his paying
So, 600 ransom. :.
There were two men with the boy all
Tuesday night and Wednesday, when
, one of the men left.
Ii was late on Wednesday evening when
this man returned to the house, and the
prisoner heard him telling his companion
that he could only get promise of SlO,'
600 from Ed Cudahy. The cash was tc
be brought to a point near the house last
night by the family lawyer. Ii he was
alone at the time, the boy was to be hand
ed over to him.
If any trick was played on them, they
| i 1-.I1 4hosu 1t1fix
, | their escape.
The kidnapers kept horse saddled il
the shed near the house all the time
They gave the prisoner nothing but crack
ers to eat. :.
The Omaha police are inclined to credi
this story. although if Chief Donahue ha
any formal statement from the father a
: to the details he has not made it public
The whole city has been greatly excite
over the affair. 1t has appeared most II
credible that 16-year boy could b
ts kidnapped in the heart of the city an
plans to secure the ransom carried o
with such boldness as has characterize
this affair.
!, Notes From Abductors.
Is One of the abductors brought two di
l. ferent notes to the Cudahy residence
70 which the plan for ransom was propose
,f In each death was threatened If any a
u tempt was made to arrest the merA,
!. The father was inclined to let the p
!. lice follow the man and cause his arres
Il but the tears and fears of Mrs. Cudal
J, caused the money to be paid over
q preference. The man who delivered tt
Il note to the Cudahy residence is said
~ be well known western crook.
=, =. The Cudahy residence is still guard
- by a policeman to keep back the curio
~ crowd. Edward Cudahy did not go
- his office.
- Chief of Police Donahue says he G
= poets to make an arrest of one OF the
legged abductors very soon.
The entire police department and hu
dreds of private citizens were searchi
for the missing boy all day Wednesdi
II. but without unearthing the slightest cl'
as to his whereabouts. At 6 o'clock t
police changed shifts, and the oncomi
at force continued the quest until far il
es- the night. After the first news of it W
on, sent abroad early in the day but lit
zee else was talked about
ing Business in the Cudahy packing hol
ght at South Omaha was practically suspel
in ed, while employees from its every
ON paltment turned ont and participated
m the search. Policemen and detectives
by trolled the railroad yards to make s.
on. that the boy was not spirited away vi
but one of the outgoing trains. Telegra
ove giving his description were sent to
crews of all trains that had left Omi
since his disappearance, while sheri
marshals and constables in every to
within radius of 100 miles We're notii
AN, of the abduction.
rec Circulars were hastily printed contt
late ing the boys description and pictu
at and these were sent to the police dep
Nj, ments of every city of Importance in
the middle west. Well known haunts
Ken crooks were under surveillance,
nere throughout certain portions of the c
tbo particularly the western part hous'
house canvass was conducted during
of Wednesday and until far into
night. A score of clews We're folio
up, only to be abandoned later as usel
the
the Alien Labor DepOrted by Cannd
the Montreal, Dec. 20.-Several workr
the recently imported into Hamilton by
that contractors for the erection of the
the perial Cotton company's building I'll
bapa boap dnnnrtpd Inv the alien |;