New-York tribune., 1900-12-23
APPARENT APPROVAL OF RANSOM
OPINIONS OF CUDAHY's ACTION REGARD
ING KIDNAPPED SON SEEM GEN
ERALLY FAVORABLE.

"Cudahy did right"
That seems to be the verdict OF a great majority
of men who discussed yesterday the ransoming Of
young Cudahy by his father. who paid s25,O00 In
gold rather than run the risk of having his son
killed or deprived of his sight his abductors
threatened.
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff has a in Yale.
When asked yesterday If Cudahy did right, he said
All things considered. think that Mr.. Cudahy
did what I should have done under the circum-
stances and that would have been right and prop
can be considered cooIIy after the event, but if
any man loving his boy had been placed as Mr.
pretty much he did. Cudahy had the money
and he wanted his boy back safe and sound, and
on the verge OF insanity the stealing Of the
and noble impulse in making the ransom demand
ed secondary consideration. He took big chances.
If he had failed to get his son. then he would have
been quite GENERALLY condemned, but the abductors
kept faith with him. and Mr. Cudahy succeeded
thing to him I think he did right; He also acted
properly in Offering Large 6 tob his shs He
will doubtless be willing to spend much more than
s2 600 in order to bring the guilty ones TO Justice
Dr.. Baxter T. smelzer, of the State Board Of
Health, said:
think that any father under the same circum-
stances would have done about as Mr.. Cudahy did
OF IL is terrible thing to think OF MS ACT
of crime The abductors are likely 10 be captured.
ward and n they are captured Mr.. Cudahys course
will merit the appreciation OF his Fellow cluzens
Assemblyman-elect Charles s. Adler said;
He had to get the boy, back and it took heroic i
measures to accomplish that. If the men VINO stole
the boy had tricked him and taken his money ana
kept the boy as well, there would nave been
grounds for condemning his action in paying over
the money but he got the boy back believe
however, that the police of Omaha will catch those
men yet. Cudahy has offered large reward, ana
other rniIlionaires will doubtless write him telling
him that II he needs assistance he shall have IL
The State under such circumstances. ought to orer
a large reward. Stealing children is just as mean
as numbering them, and the practice ought 10 be
stamped out. If IT costs hundreds OF thousands
of dollars
AssembIyman Price, of Brooklyn said:
I'm not the father OF a fifteen years old. but
I think that Mr.. Cudahy. by cooperating with the
police could have hDFsed the two men and the
horse without great difficulty As soon as he started
out that night get the boy Cudahy should have
notified the police There were two hours when the
abductors were busy with their end OF the con-
tract 10 tell what going on In the city. and
i'm that time police, II they had been advised in
time could have watched every thoroughfare. Two
men ard a boy in buggy driving around in Il
small city after midnight under such circumstances
would have been detected without difficulty I'm
afraid there will be a number OF abductions as a
result OF the successful stealing OF young Cudahy.
Former Inspector Byrnes said;
What man would not have done as Mr.. Cudahy
did? The OF saS0Oo was as nothing IL occurs