The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-09
EDNAPERS THREATENING CHINESE 70 THE RESCU|
The Writer Says He VIII BE Shot and
His Family Injured if lie Does not
Withdraw His Reward

| OMAHA. December 31.-The police
are looking for unu.her crisis in the
| Cudahy case. a third letter was re-
Ceived from the bandits at the Culdhv
residence this morning. A literal copy
of which could not be obtained. Ii Is
known, however, that the letter was
not unlike its predecessors; that it was
penned in imitation of capital letters
i'm order to defy detection; that the let
ters IN and IS" were written back
ward just as they We're in the first and
second letters showing positively that
the same man wrote all, and there Were
other points in each peculiar to all
The kidnaper did not, in the third let
ter refer to bullets, but he stated NJ
less explicitly that if Mr.. Cudahy did
not at once announce the Withdrawal
of the reward posted by him, a terrible
disaster would befall his household, and
that he would be given but few days
in which to make up his mind.
The scoundrel also wrote that Mrs.
| Cudahy had been talking about the
abduction of her boy altogether too
much and that it would be well for her
| to keep silent hereafter. The letter
was received in the mail and delivered
at the house by the mail carrier as was
the second letter last Thursday
General John G. Gown. the attorney
for Cudahy, said tonight that the lat
ter had made up his mind never to
withdraw the reward he posted, come
what may that he was determined
more than ever to prosecute the search
| for the sCOundrels two of whom he be-
lteved to be in this city or in South
Omaha.
Mayor Moores takes an active in
| terest in the CudahY case, and has de-
voted the day to devising some means
by which Cudahy may be relieved Of
/ the heavy load of responsibility which
he has had to carry, At the instance of
the Mayor and other city officials and a
/ few leading citizens, a special session
of the City Council was held this af-
ternoon for the purpose of posting a
reward on behalf of the city for the
arrest and conviction of the men who
| kidnapped Eddie Cudahy and now
threaten to shoot him unless Cudahy
Withdraws his offer of a reward.
The Council met at o'clock. The
clerk read a communication from the
Mayor in which that official called at
tention to the newspaper accounts of
| the receipt by Cudahy of a second letter
/ from the ktdnappers, and the brutal
| heartlessness of the threat contained
/ therein. Calling attention to the unen-
Viable nOtOriety which the crime had
given this city, and the duty imposed
upon it in the crisis; Offering to raise
the money by popular substitution if
1t be FOUND that there is no legal war
rant for such an appropriation, and
closing with a recommendation that the
city of Omaha, as a municipal corpora
ton, offer a reward of 900 for the ar
rest and conviction of the kidnapers-
$4,000 for one, $4,000 for two, and $25, 900
for three. The Council heard this COM
munication with approval and with but
little debate passed the resolution in
conformity Herewith, which closed
with a request for Cudahy to with
draw the reward which he offered, and
thus permit the city to assume the
responsibility.
This resolution will be given legal
force and effect by the passage of an
ordinance just as soon as Cudahy ex-
presses approval of the action. A mes
senger was sent to his home this even
ing with copies of the MAYORS letter
and of the resolution passed for Gu
dahy's consideration.
Notwithstanding the anxiety of Ma
YOr MOOres to relieve +. a. Cudahy of
the burden" of offering a reward of
$4,000 for the arrest and conviction of
the kidnapers, and the offering of an
other reward of $4,000 based on the
Mayors personal guaranty" to raise
it by popular subscription, Mr.. Cudahy
declined to be relieved of the burden
and announced that his reward will
stand.