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Show JURY FAILS TO CONVICT ALLEGED KIDNAPER CROWt No Evidence to Connect Pat Crowe. With the Abduction of Eddie Cud-'any, Cud-'any, Son of the Beef Packer. Omaha. Tho Jury In tho trlnl Of J'ut Crowe, charged with the robbery of Kdward A. Cudnhy, tho Omaha packer, cr $25,000 In connection with the kidnaping of the latter'a Bon live years. ago, Friday afternoon, nftcr llf-tcen llf-tcen hours' deliberation, brought In n verdict of not guilty. 1 The kidnaping of Hddlo Cudahy, Do-ccmbcr Do-ccmbcr 19, 1U00. and his releaso upon the pnymcnt by his father of $25,000 ransom, created u great sensation, and tho search for tho kldnnpcrs was stimulated nt tho time by the offer of a reward of $50,000 by Mr. Cudahy. It was tho belief of tho authorities, that Crowe nnd Jpmes Callahan were the guilty parties, sut no trace of them could bo found until about'n year, ago, when Callahan was arrested. Ho was Identified by young Cudahy ns ono of his captors, but was released on trial as it could not bo shown that ho received any of the money and there was at that tlmo no Inw making tho kidnaping of a person over 10 years of ago a crime. Lnst Octohur Crowo was arrested In llutto, Mont., nnd was put on trial Februnry 7. Thcro was no ovldcnco to positively Identify Crowe ns ono of tho kidnapers. Crowo was recently Indicted In Council muffs, with others, on n charge of holding up a street car. |