Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — KIDNAPERS STILL AT LARGE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KIDNAPERS STILL AT LARGE.

Police Looking for a Man Who May Clear the Myatery. In spite of the reward of $25,000 offered by E. A. Cudahy for thfe apprehension of the kidnapers of his son and the efforts of hundreds of detectives, attracted by the large reward, the criminate, at the time this is written, still remain at liberty. There is a belief, however, that if the police could lay their hands upon a criminal character named Pat Crowe, a former employe of Mr. Cudahy, they would find one of the kidnapers. Crowe has a number of hold-ups and train robberies to his credit and is accounted one of the most daring men who has defied justice in Nebraska. He is missing from-his accustomed- haunts and his relatives say they do not know where

he is. He was A ?n South Omaha, however, the day before the kidnaping and to an acquaintance, who had engaged him in conversation, said: “I have something big on; you’ll hear from me soon.” A few weeks before that time be had told another acquaintance in South Omaha that he was hard up. “But,” he added, “if I had a few dollars with which to buy some cooking utensils, a few window blinds and rent a small cottage for thirty days I would make the investment pay handsomely and we could have plenty of Christmas money.” It is supposed that Crowe on both occasions referred to the kidnaping Of young Cudahy. That crime was under consideration a long time, as one of the kidnapers told young Cudahy that the Cudahy house in Omaha had been under Surveillance for two months. The belief of the police that Crowe was concerned with the kidnaping is strengthened by the fact that the woman who owns the cottage in which young Cudahy was imprisoned has identified Crowe’s photo as that of the man who rented the house from her.

PAT CROWE.