Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-09
LDDIE tUDAHY ON THE STAND
Son Of Millionaire Packer Relates the Story
Of KIDNAPPING.
FIRST WITNESS IN THE CELEBRATED CASE
County Attorney sInbaugh OTerr TO
Prove Both Pat Grove and Jim
Callahan Were the Guilty
Men.
Jury Trying Pat Grove.
NJ. Rosenbaum. 14l2 Bancroft. Sian pai

Abner Thomas. colored 2l1s Nicholas,
c. H. Green. 222S South Fifteenth printer
John II. David. HOS William, dry goods
w. ii. Sloane. $50 North Twenty-fourth.
John f. oLeary, SIG South Twenty-first,
South Omaha, shoe dealer.
Robert Severe, colored. S21 North Twenty
sixth. South Omaha. janitor.
=, Charles NJ. Tracy, al North Twelfth.
s3Hth Gb5 r,o ,0maR@ & carpenter; s,n rb,r,eer,,
butcher
The above jury was secured in the Pat
Grove case In Judge Sutton's department
of the district court yesterday morning and
the trial proceeded with Eddie Cudahy, the
kidnapped boy. as the first witness in the
afternoon Young Cudahy related his
story in detail. County Attorney Slabaugh
In his opening address to the jury offered
TO prove that Pat Grove and Jim Gala
han were the kidnapers. The court room
continues to be thronged TO its capacity
with people eager to hear the testimony
against the man charged with kidnapping
a boy and holding him for $4,000 ransom
and securing the ransom from the boys
father.
OF the jurors examined during the fore
| noon three were excused for cause. One
of these had son working for the Cudahy
/ COulpdnNs ana ne huDllteu Iildt
that fact might have an influence on his
! verdict Another was excused on account
! Of poor health and the third because he
was unable to understand English readily.
Witnesses Must stay Out.
| When court convened in the afternoon,
Mr. English, in behalf of the defendant.
! requested that all witnesses be excluded
| from the room until after they have given
/ irnn 70 S1a-
baugh said he would offer no objection il
he could be assured that the defendants
! witnesses, whose names lie did not know,
would be excluded along with those of
! the state. He was given this assurance by
, Mr.. English and the court ordered all per-
| sons who are to testify TO remain out of
the court room during the hearing.
BY the time County Attorney Slabaugh
! had begun his opening statement the crowd
had grown large the bailiffs had some
difficulty in disposing of the people. About
thirty women were present and they were
given seats inside the railing
At the beginning of his statement County
Attorney 'Slabaugh explained to the jury
that It was the state and not Mr. Cudahy
Z that was prosecuting the case. Mr.. Cudahy
4 being tnereis,z a. witnsss- Lie .slsesl haiti
! stress on the fact that the charge is
| iVoDtIN ny DulllHE IN IedT, ana not KID
naping. He then told the story Of the
kidnapping i'm detail. as he said the state
would prove it in the evidence. He told
of the two men in the buggy who accom-
plished the kidnapping of Eddie Cudahy
and said he would show that the one who
remained in the buggy holding the lines
was Pat Grove. who at that time wore
light mustache. and that the other one,
who alighted and placed young Cudahy in
the buggy. was James Callahan He also
proposed to prove that Grove was one of
the men who bought the pony which was
ridden to the livery barn by the man who
telephoned the Cudahy residence about the
letter which had been found in the Cudahy
front yard. He also said he would show
that Grove was one of the men who sought
to rent building not far from the Grover
street house. where young Cudahy was
confined, and that the men had with them
a gasoline stove like the one described as
being in the room by Eddie Cudahy He
also said evidence of persons Grove has
talked to since the crime would be intro
duced we'll as written statements by
Grove himself.
Defense Gives No Tins
+, Mr.. English in his statement following
/, County Attorney Slabaugh. did not indi-
cate what line the defense would pursue
Two or three times County Attorney
Slabaugh interrupted him with objections
to the course his remarks were taking
, At one point he referred to varied public
sentiment about the case and the result
of Callahan's trial. When County ATTORNEY
Slabaugh objected to this Judge Sutton di
rected Mr.. English TO confine himself to a
statement OF the evidence he proposed tc
. present and not indulge in arguments.
0 At the close of the statement Mr. Eng
: lish urged the jury to keep in mind thc
, presumption of the law that the defendant
( is innocent until. proved guilty by tht
state and to hold judgment in abeyanc.
; until the evidence was all In.
As soon as Mr.. English had finished
s County Attorney Slabaugh called Eddi,
Cudahy the victim OF the kidnapping plot
y TO the stand. Before the examination begaI
the defense objected to the Introduction
OF any testimony on the grounds tha
n the information did not state a Grim,
F; under the laws of the state; that tn,
opening statement OF the county attorne,
= did not show the evidence would supper
0 the charge and that the acquittal o
James Callahan, the alleged accompllce o
, Grove was in effect an acquittal OF Crow,
himself Judge Sutton overruled the OBJ
lection and Mr.. Cudahy took the stand
He described In some detail the lay o
the land in the vicinity OF his home a
Thirty-seventh and Dewey avenue AM
then told of going to DIR. Rustns hous
a with a book about o'clock on the even
e ing of December IS, 1900, the night OF tn
O kidnapping. On the way. he said. he no
r tlced two men driving north in a buggy
r One of them looked at him very closely
He did not notice where they went III
e left the book at the house and starte
e back home at once.
d Gun at His Head.
i "On the way back" he said, "as / wa
near Mr.. wattles house ] heard a bugg
coming up behind me. did not pay any al
tention to It until heard it stop. l turne
around and the buggy was Just a little bac
e OF me toward the north and ive or six fee
from the curb. There were two men an
one of them. who had been sitting on tn
left side, got out and walked around tn
! horse toward rue. j thought he was goin
II 10 ask a question and stopped. But he pu
y a gun to my forehead and told me to com
u along quietly. i objected, but ne said wa
IL Eddie MCGEE and my aunt had offered a re
J. ward for my return 10 the reform school
n said my name was Cudahy. but the ma
n said. That game don't work thought
Continued on Third Pags.)