Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-20
A FRIEND Of PAT GROVE
PLACED UNDER ARREST,
CHARGED WITH BEING ONE OF THE
ABDUCTORS OF YOUNG
EDWARD CUDAHY.
IS IDENTIFIED BY THE BOY
PRISONER CLAIMS HE CAN ESTAB-
LISH AN ALIBI AND is
INNOCENT.

OMAHA, Neb., February 19.-The po-
lice have under arrest James Callahan
charged with oamplicity in the abduc-
ton of Edward Cudahy Jr., on the
night of December 18th. Callahan WIS
arrested last Saturday but the police
have kept the fact secret until TO-
day in the hope of securing other ar
rests. Young Cudahy has positively
identified 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 man
who kept guard over him at the Mel
rose Hill house during the thirty hours
he was kept prisoner, pending the
negotiations for the ransom of $25 ,000
which Mr.. Cudahy paid for the return
of his boy.
Daniel H. Burris, who sold aorse
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 en-
ploy of J. n H. Patrick, of whom the
kidnappers rented a house, was the
third person to identify Callahan and
says he is the man who paid a month s
rent in advance for cottage in Hap
by Hollow, which the bandits a5an-
doned two weeks before the abduction
fearing discovery.
Callahan was arrested by Patrolmen
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 lead
er in the kidnapping. Their suspicious
sometime ago were aroused by some
thing dropped by Callahan in connec-
ton with discussions of the Cudahy
affair. These suspicious were commun-
icated to the chief of police, who made
a quiet but thorough investigation
which led to Callahan's arrest.
Edward A. Cudahy, Sir, to-day told
a representative of the Associated
- nd cold biS
had identified Callahan as one of his
abductors, and also by two other per-
sons. Mr.. 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 complete. Together with
his father he called Sunday at the office
of the chief of police and confronted
the prisoner. The men had a CONVEX
sation lasting half an hour and after
Callahan had been taken away, young
Edward said:
Il 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 pronounced
them the same. AS j had several good
looks at the man while he was guard
ing me, can be pretty sure that this
is the man wanted.
Callahan denies absolutely that he
had anything to do with the kidnap-
ping, but admits 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 guard
ing young Cudahy, he was at the home
of his sister, a Mrs. Kelly, living at
Poppleton avenue and Fifty-third
street, Which is short distance from
the Melrose Hill house.
Mrs. Kelly tonight asked concern
ing the whereabouts of Callahan at the
time of abduction, and said the day
following the deed he was at her home
but acknowledged that she does not
know his whereabouts the night be-
fore
Tonight the ponce secured infor-
nation which they expect to lead to
the arrest of another man connected
with the crime. He is a coachman of
family friend of Mr.. Cudahy.
Callahan is SO years of age and has
lived in Omaha for several years. He
has been employed in the packing
house of the Cudahy Packing Com.
pany at South Omaha up to three
months ago. He has not been EN-
ployed for some time but the police
claim he has been spending money
freely and has taken life easy In
1898 he was given FIVE years peni-
tertiary sentence for highway robbery
but after serving Is months was pa
rolled. Six months later he was con
victed for stealing and sent back to
serve the remainder of the sentence.
The coachman is not suspected as
being one of the principals, but his
son is the man really wanted, and the
elder man is expected to tell of his
sons actions at the time of the steal
ing of the boy.