The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-25
CUDAHY ON THE STAND
Boy Who Was Kidnapped Testi-
fies Against Callahan.

Omaha, April 25.-In the trial of Jas
Callahan. for the kidnapping of Edward
Cudahy at the opening of court this
morning, young Cudahy told about the
light mans return to the prison house
about II o'clock on the night of the de-
livery Of the money. He summoned the
dark man to come down stairs, where
they remained about half an hour At
the end of that time the light man came
up stairs and told the prisoner they
were going to take him home.
Edward told of the trip home, and of
his being set down by his captOrs on
Thirty-sixth street about a block north
of the pest house. He said that while
they We're driving in. the dark man
whispered to the light man and asked:
rs this Sarpey AIills2" and the latter
replied Yes
The boy identified what appeared to
be a section from the leg of an old paiR
of knit drawers and said this was the
part Of the blindfold that was left on
him when he was turned loose and told
to keep walking ahead till he came to
Leavenworth street.
Edward testified that he went back to
the house two or three days later and
recognized it. He said he knew it by
the outside steps and the broken places
into which he had stepped when blind
folded. He described the building and
told its location.
Inc DOy was asked ABOUT James Cal
lahan and told of seeing the accused the
Sunday afternoon following Callahan's
arrest He said Callahan and the chief
were talking and that Callahan was
rolling and smoking cigarettes
Then came the boys identification of
Callahan and it was positive and abso-
lutte
you may state whether the dark man
who put a pistol to your head and made
you a prisoner, and who guarded you
II i
walked down the street with you and
bade you goodbye when you were re-
leased was one and the same person?"
asked Gen. Gown.
1T. was the same man.
''Who was that mann"
Jim Callahan"
''The defendant here in this case?"
Yes, sir"
From this point on Callahan was re-
ferred to by name and no longer as the
dark man"
Callahan betrayed no emotion when
the kidnapped boy declared he was one
of the abductors, but a cynical smile
played family over his features
THE boy testified that Callahan's mus
tache was stubbier than it is now, at
the time of the kidnapping, and that it
was stubbier when first arrested than it
is now.
At 9:45 o'clock Attorney Haller. for
the defense began the cross-exaninatiO
of young Cudahy.
The boy admitted that he had gone
over the case with Gen Gown with ref
erence to what his testimony would be.
He again detailed the route traversed
as nearly as he could tell. He admitted
that the only direct view he had of the
dark mans face was when he first ap-
preached him, and admitted that at that
time he was pretty badly scared The
boy said he could not have identified
Callahan from simply seeing him He
col fo1 n \
there and wanted to see If he could iden-
tify the prisoner as the dark man. He
admitted that he identified Callahan
principally by his voice, and said that
ne would not be able to identify him by
his appearance alone.
In answer to a direct question, the boy
said he was as certain Of the identity of
Callahan as he was of the identity of
his father, or mother
He thought it hardly possible for there
to be another voice like CalIahan's
He said Callahan had a sort of
brogue, and gave a peculier turn to
some words and sort of talked through
his teeth. The boy admitted that he was
not positive as to Callahans identity at
the close of the first interview in the
chiefs office, but after a second sitting
was positive in his identity
The state made a strong point against
Callahan when John Rabbe. a young
carpenter living about a block from Cal
lahan's sister, Mrs. Kelly at Fifty-fourth
and Pcppleton avenue, was called to the
witness stand He testified by knowing
Pat Grove and that Grove called at Mrs.
Kelly's were Callahan was living about
20 times between October %, when the
Kellys moved there and the. time Of the
kidnapping. He said Grove always came
the same way and went in the back door
without stopping to knock. Witness said
he was working for Anthony Grove
Pats brother and Pat came there twice
and that Anthony told him that IL was
his brother Pat The last time witness
saw Pat Grove at the Kelly house was
December Il, four days before the kid
naping-