The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28
AFTER KIDNAPERS
Omaha Detectives on Trail OF
Young Cudahy's Abductors.
CHEF or POLICE WEAVING A WEB
One Innocent Dane Arrested. hut Easily
Proves An Administrations Pat
Grove Stin Suspected of Rcing
The Leader In the Crime.

There was considerable connection
In police circles in Omaha Monday,
December -. when the officers brought
in a Dane named Ed. Johnson, suspect.
ed of being one of the Cudahy kid
nappers. His personal appearance
tailed exactly with the description
given By Miss Munshaw of the man
who inquired about the Schncidcrwind
cottage about ten days before the
abduction. She said he apparently
wanted to rent il. She described him
as a man about forty-tivc years of age,
black hair and mouNtachc, through
which were s~prinklcd many gray hairs.
She said he was of medium hcighth
wearing "A dark suit,
The police officers have been seek
ing this man ever since, and Sunday
found him ia a little cottage at TWEEN
ty-sixth and Hickory streets. This is
not very far from the house where
young Cudahy was imprisoned. There
are several children in the family, the
eldest daughter keeping house for the
man. 1t is said his wife deserted him
over a year ago. Johnson was brought
III lilt III vi " 'lil' vi IoliN' hii''
put into the sweatbox. lie was also
confronted by Eddie Cudahy, who
listened to the mar talk for "a few mo
ments, and at once said cmphatically
that he was not the man who arrested
him on the street and carried him off.
Later johnson proved an alibi and was
released.
The Importance OF this arrest lies in
the fact that it's sequel proves con
clusively hat there were but two kid
nappers, whereas NJ the outset there
were supposed to he four, and for two
days the police have said that there
were but three. There we're two 9TH
err men described by the neighbors, one
a tall man of light complexion, and
the other II little stocky fat-faccd man.
From the several descriptions of this
big fellow by the neighbers in the vi
entity of the S~chneidcrwind cottage
the police detectives are certain that
he is the notorious Pat Grove: whose
criminal rccnrd in Chicago and Sou,h
Omaha stamp him as one of the most
accomplished and daring crooks in the
country.
There is every reason to believe that
Grove left Omaha after the abduction
and arrived at Denver on the frs,
train. There is a studied effort on tn,
part of the chief of police and his de
tcctives to give the impression thai
Grove is not wanted, but the Facts re
main that they have been working
on his trail ever since the kidnapping
and know his movement for weeks
prior to that time. If Grove is limo
cent he knew he would be suspected
and pulled out To avoid trouble.
A detective who knows him like q
book said that Pat Grove undoubt
eddy planned the abduction, and hired
a man to assist him; that the hired
man would get but very little of tn,
plumber, and thai the strong proba
bility is that Grove is the only mar
, who knows where the gold coin il
buried. This much is certain, il
Grove is found he will have to prove
an alibi. A perfect description of tn,
second man is in the hands of the Off
GERS.
|, lie it was who guarded the boy il
the cottage, and there is no doubt tina
Eddie Cudahy would know the mans
! voice the moment he heard it. TIL,
detectives also have got this man.
m"anderings pretty well lined NJ
covering a weeks time prior to tn,
abduction, and the presumption is tina
he is a stranger in these parts.
Chief Donahue has said he woul,
y give no more information in the cas-,
until arrests had been made, yet h,
: claims to be gratitied with progress
made SO far.