The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-22
OMAHA POLICE ARREST AL
LEGGED KIDNAPEk.
YOUNG cuDAHy IS CERTAIN
Positively Identifies Prisoner as
Man Who Stood Guard
Over Him.

Omaha, Feb. 19-Police have under
arrest James Callahan, charged with
completely in the abduction of Edward
Cudahy, Jr., on the night of Deem
Der 10. MM@.". r.
Callahan was arrested last Saturday.
but the police have kept the fact Sc
cret until today in the hope of secur-
ing other arrests. Young Cudahy has
positively identified him as the man
who accosted him near the Cudahy
residence and represented himself to
be the sheriff from an adjoining coun-
ty and forced him into the buggy,
and also as the nan who kept guard
over him at the Melrose hill house
during the 80 hours he was kept pris-
oner, pending negotiations for the
ransom of $25, 900 which Cudahy paid
for che return of his boy.
Daniel Fl. Burris, who sold the
horse and buggy to the two men who
are supposed to have used it to pro-
ouAo VAO 0OuuOVAOHS 01oO 1uSuUlllOu
Callahan as n of the men with
whom he made the deal. Marie
Larsen, servant in the employ of J.
N. H. Patrick Of whom the kidnapers
rented the house, was the third person
to identify Callahan and says he is the
man who paid a months rent in adj
vance for the cottage in Happy Hollow
which the bandits abandoned two
weeks before the abduction, fearing
discovery.
Callahan was arrested by Pat1olmen
Deuberry and Dryer, both Of whom
are old acquaintance of the prisoner,
II Of them having gone to school
with him. They also knew that he
was a close friend of Pat Grove, for
whom a large reward has been offered
as leader in the kidnapping. Their
suspicious some time ago were aroused
by remarks dropped by Callahan in
connection with discussions of the
Cudahy affair. These suspicious were
communicated to the chief of police,
who made a quiet but thorough in
v~estigation, which led to Callahan's
arrest.
Cudahy, ST., today told the reporter
for the Associated Press of the arrest
and said his SOL had identified Gala
han as M Of his abductors, and that
the prisoner had also been identified
by two other persons. Cudahy feels
confident that the police now have one
of the right men and that other arrests
of equal Importance will follow.
Young Cudahy's Identification of
the man seems most complete. 10
sgether with his father, he called Sun
day at the Office of the chief of police
and confronted the prisoner. The
men had a conversation lasting half
an hour and after Callahan had been
taken away, young Edward said: ~
would never forget that voice, and I
also remember very distinctly his pc
culiar manne of pronouncing certain
words. In his present talk he used
these same words, and pronounced
them the same. As I had several good
looks at the man while he was guard
ing me, I can be pretty sure hat this
is the man wanted"
Callahan denies absolutely that he
had anything to do with the kidnap-
ing, but admits that he was a close
friend to Grove. He says he can prove
an alibi, and states that during the
time which it is claimed he was guard
ing young Cudahy he was at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Kelly, living at
Poppleton avenue and Fifty-third
street, which is a short distance from
the Melrose hill house. Callahan to-
night made a statement as follows:
II know nothing, absolutely moth
ing about the kidnapping of Edward
Cudahy, Jr. If Idid I would be the
last man in the world to tell it, be-
Gauss if I did and Pat Grove proved
to be connected with the crime he
would run me to the end of the earth
and rut u knife through me. There
is no danger Of me turning states evil
dence, even if I had kno Wedge of the
deed, which would assist the state in
convicting. Rather would I serve a
term il the p%enitentiary than take
chances of acknowledging that I had
information discriminating to myself
or anybody else, for I know the people
of this city would not rest until they
had hanged me to the nearest tele-
graph pole. I have several people
who will swear to my whereabouts On
the night of the abduction and two
days following.
"Again'I will say that, nobody can
bring evidence to show that I was in
any way concerned in the kidnapping.
"The statements of those who have
pretended to identify me with the case
go for naught. I know none of them
have ever seen me mol have I had any
dealings with Them"
Mrs. Kelley tonight was asked con
corning the whereabouts of Callahan
at the time of the abduction, and said
the day following the deed he was at
her home, but acknowledges that she