The Oskaloosa Herald

Omaha, Neb., Dec. 24.—There was a decisive development in the Cudahy kidnapping case Sunday, although the disclosure is negative in kind. It has been learned that there were two bandits (not three) implicated in the abduction. One of the outlaws has been eliminated. The dark-complexioned man with the black mustache and black hair tinged with gray, so minutely described by Miss Maud Munshaw, was in the office of Chief Donahue Sunday afternoon, and was there confronted by Eddie Cudahy, his supposed victim. His name is Johnson. After carefully scrutinizing him, the boy said: "That is not the man. He is not tall enough by an inch and a half and he's not broad enough. He's too small in every way."

There is still a dark-complexioned man in the case, but he is larger than Johnson and younger. Otherwise he is very much like Johnson, having a black mustache and dark hair, slightly mixed with gray. If the police have any idea who this man is, they will not admit it. So far as they know, he was seen by but one person, and that is Eddie Cudahy himself. The other bandit was the light-complexioned man with the brown hair and long, light mustache, slight of build, and whose age is said to be somewhere between 30 and 35 years. This individual is described by three persons besides the kidnapped boy, namely: B. K. Munshaw, James Schneiderwind and Frank Glynn. He is the man who called at the Schneiderwind home to engage the cottage at Thirty-sixth and Grover streets, and who called up the Cudahy mansion from Glynn's livery stable to give notice of the letters being in the front yard. The police are satisfied that they know this man, and, if he is the person they think he is, he will probably be in custody within the next ten days, at least. If guilty, he cannot remain at large long, they say.