Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-02-28
FOR KIDNAPPING.
An Omaha Man Is Arrested and
Jailed.
He Is Accused of Being One of the
Gang that Abducted Young Cuda-
lay He Denies His Guilt and
Claims He Can Prove
an abb.

Omaha, Neb., Feb. 20.-The police
have under arrest James Callahan,
charged with completely in the abduc-
tion of Edward Cudahy, jr., on the
night of December 10. Callahan was
arrested last Saturday, but the police
kept the fact a secret until Tuesday,
in the hope OF securing other arrests.
Young Cudahy has positively identi
fled him as the man who accosted
him near the Cudahy residence and
represented himself to be a sheriff
from an adjoining county and forced
him into a buggy and also as the big
man VINO kept guard over him at the
Merose Hill house while he
was kept prisoner, pending the ne
eutiations for the ransom of $4,000
which Mr.. Cudahy paid for the return
of his boy.
Daniel II. Burris, who sold a horse
and buggy to two men who are sup
posed to have used it to procure the
abduction, also identified Callahan as
one of the men with whom he made
the deal. Marie Larsen, a servant
in the employ of j. ii. Patrick, of
whom the kidnappers rented a house,
was the third person to identify Cal
lahan, and says he is the man who
paid a months rent in advance for a
cottage in Happy Hollow, which the
bandits abandoned two weeks before
the abduction, fearing discovery.
Callahan was arrested by PATROL
men Deuberry and Dwyer, both of
whom are old acquaintances of the
prisoner. one 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 kidnap-
ping.
Young Cudahy's identification of
the man seems complete. Together
with his father he called Saturday
on the chief of police and confronted
the prisoner. The men had a con-
versation lasting half an hour, and
after Callahan had been taken away
young Edward said:
81 would never forget that voice,
and also remember very distinctly
his peculiar manner in pronouncing
certain words. In his present talk
he used these same words and pro-
nounced them the same. AS | had
several good looks at the man while
he was guarding me, / can be pretty
sure this is the man wanted"
Callahan denies that he had any
thing to do with the kidnapping, but
admits that he was a close friend of
Grove. He says he can prove an
alibi. and states that during the time
which it is claimed he spent guarding
young Cudahy he was at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Kelly, which is
short distance from the Melrose Hill
house.
Mrs. Kelly was asked last night
concerning the whereabouts of Gala
han at the time of the abduction and
said the day following the deed he
was at her home, but acknowledges
that she does not know his where
abouts the night before.
Callahan is SO years of age and has
lived in Omaha for several years. He
was employed in the packing house
of the Cudahy Packing Co. at South
Omaha up to three months ago. He
has not been employed for some
time, but the police claim he has been
spending money freely and taking
life easy. In 1898 he was given a five
year penitentiary sentence for high
way robbery, but after serving IS
months was paroled. Six months
later he was convicted for stealing
and sent back to serve the remainder
of the sentence.
The chief of police says the fact
that Callahan has an alibi prepared
leads him to believe that he has the
right man. Prior to the Kidnapping
Callahan is said to have been in
Groves cOmDanV dailV He intro
duced Grove as Mr.. Johnson" and
they took rides daily in the vicinity
of Russcrs park, which is near where
Mr.. Cudahy left the gold on the event
full night.
Callahan last night made state
ment as follows:
81 know nothing about the kidnap-
ping of Edward Cudahy. If | did [
would be the last man in the world
to tell it, because if | did and Pat
Grove proved to be connected with
the crime. he would run me to the
end of the earth and run a knife
through me. There is no danger of
me turning states evidence, even if |
had knowledge of the deed which
would assist the state in conviction.
Rather would / serve term in the
penitentiary than take chances of ac-
knowledging that | haG informant ton
discriminating to myself or anybody
else, because | know the people of
this city would not rest until they
had hanged me to the nearest tele-
graph pole. | have seven people who
will swear to my whereabouts on
the night of the abduction and the