Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1900 — HOW HE WAS KIDNAPED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW HE WAS KIDNAPED.

Cudahy Boy Tells Thrill!nu Story of His Abduction and Release. - Edward Cudahy, Jr., son of the millionaire Omaha packer, who was kidnaped and returned to his home upon payment of a $25,000 ransom by his father, told the story of the kidnaping” to" the police Thursday. Edward A. Cudahy, the father, gave out a statement telling about the demand for the ransom and the method of payment. His experience was little less thrilling than that of his son. The letter written by the kidnapers demanding the $25,000 ransom was also given out. Mr. Cudahy announced he would pay $25,000 reward for the arrest of the abductors of his son. He offered $5,000 for one, or $15,000 for two of them. Young Cudahy’s story as related to the Omaha chief of police is as follows. “It was somewhere around 8 o’clock Tuesday night, as near as I can remember, and I was on my way home from Captain Rustin'a house, 205 Thirty-sev-enth street, and had reached Gan. Cor-

win’s place, which is 332 South Thirtyseventh street, only two doors from my house, when two men jumped out on m*. “One of them had a pistol and he shoved it in my face, and said if I made any noise he would do for me. “Then he said ‘I am the sheriff of Harpy County; you are Eddie McGee, and I arrest you for robbing your aunt of $500.’ “I thought that they had made a mistake, and I was not so very scared. But when I was told to get in a buggy standing near I felt differently. When I got in the buggy I was put between the two men who were masked. “We had not gone very far when a man on a horse rode up and spoke to my captors, asking if they had me. Then he rode ahead. "As the buggy neared Leavenworth street I saw a car coming, and looking through the lighted windows as it slacked up, I could see the conductor, who was an acquaintance of mine. I said that he would identify me. With that the man driving whipped up his horse and turned the corner. “When we reached Fifty-sixth and Center streets, near Rusers Park, I was blindfolded. I should say we drove about three miles afterward and when we came to a stop I was carried out of the buggy and up some steps and inside a house. I was taken through the halls and as the bandage was off my eyes I saw that there was no furniture. Everything was bare. “When I got to the second floor —the top—r was placed in a room and chained to the floor. One fellow, who afterward stayed with me, began drinking and pretty soon began to talk. He said that there were six men i« the scheme to carry me off and thut they had been laying for me for four months. “I slept in a chair that night, which was Tuesday, and was mighty tired the next day. The men who guarded me treated me well enough, but said my father would have to put up the stuff to get me back. I had something to eat, but the food was coarse. Wednesday night I heard the front door slam and some one came running upstairs. “It was late, but before I had time to think and after he had whispered to the jailer, I was blindfolded and put in a one-horse wagon. Almost before I knew it I was untied, the cloth taken from my eyes, and I was told to dig out. "You know the rest. I was found at Thirty-sixth and Leavenworth, only three blocks from home.” A pupil at the public aehool In Armstrong, Mo., refused to study Latin, and was expelled. His father, a Methodist preacher, took the matter before, the board* with the result that Latin is now an optional study. Mrs. George M. -Pullman, widiow oi the palace car magnate, denies the report that ahe will marry Gerard Berry, portrait artist. _ Wfllle Heinrich, Bell pfalne, N. Y., attached turkey wings to his arms, then jumped off the house. He’s badly don*

EDWARD CUDAHY, JR.