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KIDNAPPING A BOY.
THE LOSS OF CHARLIE ROSS RE’
CALLED BY HIS FATHER’S DEATH.
Twenty Year Ago the Story of Abduction
Was Known in Every Household in Thit
Country —— It is Now Retold —'.l‘heor:,I
Only as to His Uliimate Fate.
Christian K. Ross, the rather oi
Charlie Ross, whose abduction made
him and his parents objects of world-
wide interest and sympathy, 'died re-
cently in Philadelphia.
In 1876, after the abduction of his
boy and after he had spent much 01‘
his fortune in searching for the fair-
haired lad, Governor Hartranft~ ap-,
pointed him Master Warden of the
Port of Philadelphia. He had been
appointed for his eighth consecutive
my” WILL non.»
tally Interested.
One Case, and There are
' Others.
There is alarge body of bolters in
the Nor-walks and vicinity. '
The movement has been gaining
force for some time and has become so
powerful that those interested are
anxious to declare themselves. They
are bolting ancient and useless methods
_ of treating catarrh and hay fever, and
they have come over in full force for
California Catarrh Cure because they
have tried it and know its worth. Here
,are the words from 3. Norwalk man
I who has tried many medicines and
. treatments before he got what he
term, having been continued by every I wanted California Catarrh Cure the
successive Governor
party.
abduction, entitled, “A Father’s Story I
of Charlie Ross,” in which he related
in a touching manner all the details
of the sad affair.
~ It was on July 1, 1874, that Charlia I
Ross, 4 years of age, was taken from
his home in Germantown by two men
in a wagon. A second child, Walter,
"was also taken, but abandoned by the
men after driving eight miles. Three
days afterward a badly-spelled letter,
in a disguised handwriting, was re-
ceived by the father, stating that the
child would not be returned without
a large ransom and would be killed it
any proceedings tending to the arrest
of the abductors took place. A reward
of $20,000 was offered by the Mayor
for the restoration of the child and the f
arrest of the abductors, but no clue of
them was obtained until August 2,
when a New York policeman. Captain
Henry Hedden, of the Thirteenth
Precinct, obtained—a clue implicating
William Mosher and Joseph Douglas!
"Gill” Mosher, William’s brother, fur-I
nished the clue by stating that his
brother had once approached him
with a sCheme for abducting one of
W- H. Vanderbilt’s children.
'l‘hereupon‘ a long and arduous
search began for Mosher and Doug-
las. It lasted four months and a half
without the men being found. On the
night of December 14, however, the
house of Judge - Van Brunt, at Bay
Ridge, Brooklyn, was entered by burg-
lars. It was unoccupied, but was con-
nected by a burglar alarm with the
g‘gsidence of the Judge’s son across the
street. Mr. Van Brunt, aroused his
'son and two man servants, and arm-
ing them, surrounded the vacant
house, Two burglars finally. came
out, and were called' upon to halt.
They replied with'pistol shots, and
the quartette opened fire on them,
killing one and mortally wounding
the other.
The two men were Mosher and Doug-
las. Mosher was dead’ and Douglas
was dying. Knowing that his end was
near he said:
9 “I have $40 in my pocket. I wish to
be buried with it. It’s no use lyin
now, ‘Mosher and I stole Charley it“ss
from Germantown.”
“Why did you steal him?”
“To make money.”
“Who has the child now?”
“Mosher knows all about the child.
Ask him.” .
“Moshcr is dead.
where the child is?”
“God knows I tell the truth,” he re-
plied, “I don’t know where he 5 .
Mosher knew.”
Walter Ross, the other child,
taken to Brooklyn and identified
bodies in the Morgue as those of e
tw0 men who had kidnapped him and
his brother."
“William Westervelt, a brother—in—
law of Mosher, acted as go-betweeu in
the attempted negotiations with Mr.
Ross and the burglars. Westerx‘elt
'as evidently willing to sacrifice
Douglass, but wanted to save his
Can you tell us
was
the
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- brother-in-law.
VVestervelt was brought to this city,
tried and convicted of complicity in
the conspiracy to abduct the boy, and
was sentenced to seven years in the
Eastern Penitentiary. He serve Li
sentence and is supposed to have re—
turned to New York.
One curious incident of: Westervelt's
connection with the case was the fact
that he was promised a. position 0n
the New York police force if he would
tell what he knew of the adbuction.
He- gave sufficient information to jus-
tify the belief that he did know of the
whereabouts of the boy, but constant-
ly declared that he would say nothing
until his appointment was made out.
This never came, and he was sent to
prison. '
Once, while his devoted wife was
urging him ..to tell what he knew alter
the incident of the North river, he re-
plied: “They will’nevcr get the boy.”
“Why?” his wife asked.
“Because he is beyond reach,” he re-
plied sullenly.
“What do ,you mean?”
Detective Charles F. Miller.
{/1
demanded
of this
city, who was present at the interview. fl
“Because he is beyond life.” said
~ Westervelt. '
This is taken in confirmation of the
generally accepted police theory that
Mosher and Douglass had thrown the
‘ boy into the North river when hard
Soon after the-
pressedby pursuers.
burglary on Long Island the body of
a boy‘wasi‘ound in the North river,
and, while it was never positively
identified by Mr. Ross as that of his
lost boy, the detectives claimed to
have received positive assurances that
it was Charlie Ross.
Robert—“Is Harry fond of female so
ciety?” Richnrd—“lmmoderately. I've
known him to play wlust with three
women'.”--—Bosion Transcript.
regardless . 01 , greatest and only known cure for ca-
_He wrote a book about the tarrh:
Mr. Alfred Platt, 9 Maple street,
; Norwalk. says: “I have been a great
’ sufferer from catarrh for over thirty
years, having contracted the disease
during the war. My whole head
seemed full of scabs, and the discharge
. from the nose and into the throat was
'something awful. My head ached al-
most continually, and I never got a
good night’s sleep. I procured. a bot.
tle of California Catarrh Cure at Plais-
ted’s drug store, South Norwalk. It
has given me more relief than I have
had for years; my head is very much
improved and I can now sleepall night.
It is certainly a great reliever, and I
am glad to recommend it. Nothing
among all the things I tried before
helped me one quarter as much in
months, as C. C. C. has in afew weeks.”
You don’t have to wait- to find out if
' it will help you for it relieves at once.
i To avoid Hay Fever in its season, use
’ C. C. C. now. It is a sure preventive
of this and all mucous-diseaSes. Use it
to break up your colds, and to prevent
colds " hanging on. ” Price 50 cents;
three times as much for one dollar.
EDMUNos 0N LABOR "reusrs.
Most Powerful of All, Least Often Con-
sidered in Their True Light.
At a dinner in Philadelphia given in
honor of the former Ambassador to It—
aly, Wayne MacVeigh, ex-Senator
George F. Edmunds touched a respon-
sive chord when he spoke on the hos
tillty that is now prevalent to trusts.
He declared that the hostility was all
one-sided, inasmuch as it ignored the
great labor trusts.
sn.id:‘
"Somebody has said something in the
course of this evening on the subject
of our economy, of the intensities of
the concentration of various trusts, su-
gar, oil, tobacco and rope trusts. We
find, in the newspapers which print
everything and anything anybody
wants to say many things we don’t
say, lots of things about these trusts.
But have they got them all? Where
is your plumbers’ trust? Where is
your plasterers’ trust? Where is your
carpenters’ trust? Where is your
every trust of'labor and organization
in every human industry that exists in‘
the United States?
‘fThere came under my observation
in your city of Washington a touching
illustration a few years ago. ,I had oc-
casion to employ a plumber to do a
small piece of'work for me, and, dur-
ing the progress of the work, he asked
me if I could not find a place for his
son in one of the departments. I
asked him why he did not take his
son into his own establishment, and
there teach him his trade. He said—l
can hardly state it without emotion
myself:
" 'Scuator, I cannot do it.’
“I said, 'Why?‘
“ ‘thy,’ he said, ‘the Plumbers“ Un-
ion only allows two apprentices iu the
State from a certain district, and my
son cannot get in.’
"I said, ‘Why don't you teach him
your own trade in your own shop?
and gentlemen, the reply he made was
this: _
" ‘Why, Senator, if I did, I could not
get a job in this whole city.’
“Is not that a trust which is wrong?
'Well, that runs through every trade—
sugar, rope, tobacco, railroads that are
bad, and all that, and so they may talk
about our honest men with wives and
families to support who» are willing to
work for one and two dollars a day,
but they can’t get it. Why? Because
their union or their trust won‘t allow
them. The standard is set for them,
and if they don't wait and starve their
families until they can reach that stan-
dard they can’t get work anywhere.
Everywhere they go they are met by
the same condition. of affairs all over
our ”United States—a workingman can’t
\Tul'li for what he wants to—he must
Work for what somebody else says he
trust work for.”
Three llrIillion 3-Cent Pieces Missing.
A few years ago 4,500,000 bronze 2»
cent pieces Were set afloat. Three mil-
lion of these are still outstanding
Three million 3-cent pieces are scat
tiered over the United States, but it is
very rarely that one is seen—From
Hai'd\V'a1‘e._____—_____
The Last llIinstrel. .
Poet—Do you. get many lays?
Editor—Yes, quite a number of peo-
ple pay their subscriptions in eggs.—
l\'ew York Journal.
VHckwi-re—Mud'ge has an India rub-
be-r imagination. -
Yabslcy—In-d'la rubber is hardly the
term. There are bounds to India rub-
bers—Indianapolis Journal.
. '\ N e rv e
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a quick acting tonic for nervousness
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Remedies, a separate cure for each dis-
ease, ‘for sale at all druggists; When
in doubt, write to Prof. Munyon, 1505
Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa., for free
medical advice.
The Panple ol the llorwalks are. III-
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