The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-03
YOUNG CUDAHYS
ABDUCTOR?

FORT DODGE, Iowa Dec 23-D.
amount of gold coin, for the possession
of which he can give no satisfactory
explanation, is under arrest in this city
on suspicion that he is one of the kid
napsEs. of Edward Cudahy, Jr.s.He has
been identified as q 1f former enploye of
the Cudahy Packing Company at South
Omaha and the Omaha police have sent
urgent messages insisting THAI he be
detained till they can investigate his
movements.
Allie got off the Illinois Central train
at midnight Thursday, having left
Omaha at 7:30 that evening. Tle claim
ed to have been injured while attempt
ing to pass between two seats in a car
and pretended to be suffering great
pain. He went at Once To Station
Agent Frantz, who sent him to the gem
eral hospital and notified Dr Ristine
the company's surgeon there.
His actions We're suspicious from the
start, ana when the doctor had made
a thorough examination If the man he
could find no injury such as would ne
eessitate treatment. Allie, however, in
sisted that he was in a dangerous con-
dition. He said he was member Of
the Methodist church and asked Rev
E. G. w. Pratt of the First Church of
this city to visit him. Conductor TItzey.
who had charge of the train on which
he came, made no report of any acct
dent to him, and did not remember any
way in which an accident coul1 have
occurred. AS the result of it's irvesti-
cation the Illinois Central railroad re-
fused to have anything to do with the
case and the hospital closed its doors
to the man. When he left he went tc
the Duncombe House the leading hotel
here.
Whatever his motive in shammng in
jury, it has brought him into trouble
The police We're led by his actions to
make inquiries whether a man of his
name was wanted in Omaha, but before
they got an answer they found that
there were much more important rea-
t sons for keeping him in sight. tiI
} as to who he might really b. came from
a nurse at the hospital, who reported
that he had in different pockets an6
: sewed up in his clothes Il large number
. of gold coins in denominations of tens
r and twenties. She could hardly move
his coat without shaking coin to the
2 floor. and he seemed to be the center
$ of stream of gold. The fact that this
elder Cudahy had given $4,000 in golt
to the abductors of his son the nigh
before Allie arrived here made her de
. eide to inform the police at once.
t Allie is a man five feet five ard three
j eighths inches in height. AT a random
$ guess he weighs over $50 pounds. He i
> dark in complexion, shows signs o
, having been a laborer and would h
!, taken for an Italian rather than al
Englishman, which he claims to be. Il
answering questions which the polio
have put to him, he claims that his res
\ idenee is Bombay, India, and that h
r came to this country last July. H
t said he had been here twice before
= His trade, he says, is that OF confec
5 toner, and he claims to be expert in i;
AS to his recent movements. however
; he has not been at ali satisfactory i
= his replies. There are two things tina
q the police want 70 know which he doe
). not explain. One is where he got hi
It gold coin and the other is where he wa
o last Tuesday and Wednesday, Iii