Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-25

men, but all wore masks whenever in
his presence. The only one he can at
tempt to identify was one who kept
guard over him during his incarcera-
ton in the lonely building in which he
was held.
The Letter.
The second letter sent to Cudahy by
the bandits read in part:
Eve have kidnapped your child and
demand $4,000 for his safe return. If
you give us the money the child will
be returned safey, but if you refuse
we put acid in his eyes and blind
him and then we will Immediately kid
nap another millionaire's. child we
nave spotted and demand 100000 and
get it, for he will see the condition of
your child and realize the fact that we
mean business. Get the money all in
gold, five ten and twenty-dollar pieces;
put it in white wheat sack; get in
buggy alone at o'clock on the night
of December 10; drive south from the
house to the center of the street, turn
west and drive back to Ruser's park
and follow the road towards Fremont"
when you come to a lantern light
ed by the side of the road, place the
money by the lantern and at once turn
your horse around and return home.
you must place a red lantern on
the buggy so we will know you mile
away.
! This letter must be returned with
the money, and any attempt to capture
us will be the saddest thing you ever
done.
"Cudahy, you are up against it, and
there is only one way out, give up the
coin. If you don't the next man will,
for he will see we mean business, and
you can lead your boy around the rest
of your days.
Follow these instructions and no
harm will befall you or yours
The Boys Story of Capture.
Young Edward Cudahy today said
ne was just across the street from
home on his way back from the Rus
tin residence, Tuesday evening, when
two men approached him. One said:
1--WE are sheriffs of Sarpy county
and arrest you as Eddie MCGEE, who
escaped from the reform school,
The lad protested that he was not
the mythical MCGEE, but the captors
placed him in a buggy and drove to
|Thirty-sixth street, and then south to
lLeavenworth street. Here they blind
folded him and whipped up the horse
The lad thinks they crossed Leaven
worth street and drove southwark.
Presently they came to a house
which he thinks is somewhere in the
southwestern part of South Omaha
Young Cudahy was taken from the
buggy and placed in room and chain
ed to the floor, where he remained al
night and the next day. On the triI
the men, he says, talked little. He
gathered that there were six in the
gang. One of the men came from
Mexico recently and one from Denver
The latter was an expert in the. kid
mapping business.
After the mysterious house wa!
reached one of the men guarded hin
, during the greater portion of the day
A second man was in the room at in
tervals. From conversation between
the abductors and himself the DO.
learned that they had been seeking tt
abduct one of the girls of the famil.
and had been planning this coup TO
four months.
Boy Released.
At night the men released youn
, Cudahy from his chains and said:
I'VE are going to take you home"
Then they led him to a hack. H
l was driven rapidly to Thirty
: and Leavenworth streets, where h
was allowed to leave the carriage
From there he walked home. arriyin
about / o'clock in the morning.
; Reward for Abductors.
Late last night Cudahyi announce
he would pay $4,000 reward for tn
> apprehension of the abductors of hi
, son. and $4,000 for one and $4,000 TO
: two of them.