The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04
THREATEN THE ABDUCTION OF ONE OF
THE DAUGHTERS
TWO LETTERS TO MR.. CUDAHY
Demanding the Withdrawal OF Ills
re or Reward for Their A~pprehen-
sson-A Telephone Message to the
Residence Telling Where n Letter
Can be Found In the Yard -Speciai
Meeting OF CITY ounci on This Sub
iect-A Statement by the Mayor
Especial TO Baltimore SUM-

NoPNNAdA W odlNilAAoAC o0L.t
Omaha, Neb.. December 3o.-The cruel
heartlessness of a second letter which
the ~kidnappers threw into E. A.
Cudahy's yard. threatening to TAX n
of his little girls, las caused a shudder
to pervade the people OF this city.
Public indignation is at a high pitch
and must soon take some form of pub
lie expression The detectives infer
from the letter that Patrick Grove was
positively connected with the crime and
that the criminals are still in Oh near
this city. This second letter reads like
the first. 1t says:
Mr.. Cudahy: We are surprised to
see that you have offered a reward Of
s25, 900 for the arrest and conviction of
three kidnappers.
Didn't think you would do that, as
We treated you fair and thought You
would treat us fair. Now, we la this
to say: Withdraw that reward and
have the withdrawal advertised in the
newspapers as much as you had the re-
ward advertised, or we will get anoth-
er n of your children-this time one
of the little girls-and it may not go as
we'll with her as it did with the boy.
You know we can do this. If you
doubt it just remember how easily we
pulled the other job off.
Now, if you are half as smart as you
showed yourself to be the other time
you will not show this letter TO the po-
lice or anyone. It's your affair and no
| one else's. They can't do anything to
help YOU, as they are a lot of d
fatheads. They have been at work on
the other case two weeks and are a
thousand miles from the first clue.
The chief knows Pat Grove isn't in
this. You've your boy and we've got
the money, and both of us ought to be
satisfied. Let the matter drop right
| where it is, or there's be one empty
chair in the Cudahy mansion"
This letter is written in pen and ink
on the same kind of yellow paper as the
first, and evidently by the same person.
1t vas found by a servant of the
Cudahy household early on the morn
ing of last Thursday. Someone called
up the house by telephone and asked IL
MI. Cudahy was in. The servant ans
wered that he was not.
WELL" came the voice over the
phone, you go out in the front yard
and you'll find q letter near the gate.
It's addressed to Mr.. Cudahy. See that
it's delivered to him personally and to
no one else"
The servant went out at once and
found the letter.
Mr.. Cudahy says he has not with
drawn the reward, nor will he do so
The reward offered stands as originally
announced.
John Smith, a broommaker employ
ed by the Schneiderwind Broom a.
tory, has positively identified Patrick
Grove as the man who in his presence
rented the Schneiderwind house on
Grover street, which was used as a
prison for Eddie Cudahy while he was
being detained for the $25, 900 ransom.
(By Associated Press.)
Omaha, Neb., December 31.-A spe-
cial meeting of the city council was
called for this afternoon for the purpose
of taking measures against the Cudahy
abductors. Mayor Moore issued the
following statement:
This case has come to a pass where
it is the public's duty to step in and re-
Iieve the terrible strain under which
the CudaH family is living. THAI las,
letter from the ~kidnappers puts such a
serious coloring on the case that it is
not right to expect Mr.. Cudahy tc
continue his offer of s25, 900 reward fol-
the arrest and conviction of the mer
who stole his boy.
Il have wired the governor urging
him to offer a reward. A special meet
ing of the council has been called FOL
this afternoon to consider the advisa
bility Of ~appropriating $10,0 00 for an,
person who may bring about the con
viction of the kidnappers. The count.
will also be asked to give some money
and / have no doubt but we will swell
the sum to $25, 600.
1T is not comfortable for the Cudah,
family to be living under a threat tina
a bullet will end the life of one of thei
children in case their reward is con
tinued, and law and order demand tina
an end be brought to such proceedings