Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-01-02
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1901

TIE HOUSE LOCATED
Place Where Young Cudahy Was
Kept Q Prisoner Found
DESCRIPTION OF The KIDNAPERS.
Cndahy Paid Twenty.Five Thousand Doll
lars for His Boys ksleas,-Formsr
Empioyses suspscted-A Pug
plIns Legal Question.
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 21.-The result
Of twsnty.fonr honrs' work en tine
part OF the police OF the city and half
r hundred detecfves has brought to
light rIhs location Of the house in
which Edward Cudahy. Jr.. was held .
prisoner for neaEay two days. and
from which hs was returned to his
home In the city at late hour on
Wednesday, night. The house is To-
caued four mues from THE city. and In
a place of easy access. but SO situated
as TO allow the desperadoes ample OPP
portunity to lay and carry out their
plans without mouesuation from in
qu1ring nel&hbors. Within easy COM
munication with rail and wagon roads
leadrnG in and out OF Omaha and
South Omaha, and on q high. knoll,
ir,.r a
alarm in case OF necessity, the one and
a half STORY shack had been admirably
chosen by the bandiis. No doubt ex-
lists i'm the minds of the police as to
the identity OF The place. Young
Cudahy himself was taken to the
house and identified many features
which he had recognized while a
blndfolded prisoner. The testimony
of the neighbors also is of mature
that leads everyone ITO believe they
have found the retreat of the abduct-
ors. Evidences show that they made
q hurried departure when their nights
work was completed.
This afternoon an official of the
Omaha Medicinal bank confirmed Mr..
Cudahy's statement that he had with
drawn $4,000 in gold with which the
latter states he paid the ransom TO
secure the return of his son. The re-
ward offered by Mr.. Cudahy has
caused those working On the case to
redouble their efforts, and Chief Dona-
hue said tonight he felt confident of
locating part or all of the men en-
gagged i'm the crime.
A visit was made this afternoon to
the house by Chief OF Police Donahue,
Capt. Hayes, Councilman Burkley,
Edward Cudahy. ST., his son Eddie,
the kidnapped boy, and two reporters,
tho laiuter reaching the house first.
Eddie Cudsahy pointed out the exact
spot dn the north room where he lay
Eom the thine he was taken to the
house Tuesday evening until removed
Wednesday night. He also said that
he bad drank from the oaken bucket
which stood in one OF the adjoining
rooms. He also irdicated the broken
stairstep which he had previously re.
ferred to as he slipped in going up
stairs to his imprisonment. Eddie
Cudahy said he had reclined ON the
noor from the time he entered tho
house until removed. He said he was
only about an hour, perhaps, going
from the point where he was abducted
% the house, and about the same ,tdma
IN rsturning 10 the point where he
wan released and told to go home.
A number of witnesses living in tha
VICINITY Of the vacant house in the
southwestern part of the city in which
young Eddie Cudahy was held a pris.
oner by kidnapers. have given full
and corroborative descriptions of two
Of the three men seen about the place
several days prior to and the day after
the kidnapping.
b. 4. Munshaw, an employe of thu
Cudahy Packing Company, living in
the next block from the house saw
two OF the men . number of times,
One OF them called at his house to in
quare about the vacant building and
Munshaw directed him to the owner
OF whom the house was subsequently
rented for a month.
II am sure have seen both of thess
men number of times before" said
Mr. Munshaw. 'E am positive that
both worked alt the Cudahy packing
plant some time ago. Further than
chat, believe I can lay my hands ON
one OF them dn q very short time"
The residents in the vicinity all de.
clared they had noticed rigs hitched
before the vacant houses most of the
day Wednesday, and several times saw
. bay horse hftched to post in FRONT
Of the house. One man in going by
on his way from work noticed a man
peering out Of one OF the upper back
windows. When he saw himself per.
cedved sprang back from the window
with a suspicious show of trepidation
Mrs. Schneiderwind Last night de.
scribed the man to whom she rented
the house. The description tallies in
every detail with that generally givc1
OF the light man. He was accompan.
led by woman, she says, and said
the landlord need not bother to fix ur
the house as he would do that himself
One thing THAT IL puzzing the police
at fhds time Is how they can punish
the kidnapeas, should they be cap
tured, there being no law to cover the
case.
There Is am offense known as sskid
naPng In the criminal statutes Of
Nebraska which carries with ii a pen.
soentfary sentence, on conviction
ranging from two to seven years, bui
n only applies 10 kidnapping with the
intention OF carrying aihe victim out
sade OF the state. Manifestly it would
% impossible to prove that the alb.
ouctors OF young Cudahy carried him
outside OF the state, because so far q
y 2 Known they merely took him u