The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-28
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4 NEW AND SUSPICIOUS PHASE VFETaE CUH
| sriRACY.
A suspecting citizen of Philadelphia wrftet
to the New York Herald pt some length,
tembodyiDg In startling queries some strange
rumors which reflect criminally upon the
Father of the abducted child, land give to the
conspiracy an entirely novel phase. The
following Is the
FIRST QUERY. 500 81:
If You were the father of child four years
Of age, the dear and petted darling of your
| heart, and it should disappear on the LIST Of
July, in the full glare of the SUP, would you
wait until the Sd, two full days, before you
officially gre notice of the LOGS you bad sus-
| tanned; especially when an elder brother
who had been with the child had returned
| to your home two hours before dark on the
| day of the occurrence?
The answer from every parents heart IN
| the land is an unhesitatiDg "N0!" The
offices of kind friends, the buzZlng inquiry
Of tongues, the sharp click of the telegraph,
the services of the police would have been
called in at once. "Not a moment" says
the agonized mother, "will wait" The
father exclaims, 81 will neither eat, drink,
nor sleep until the child is found"
Then comes two kilograms one dated the
| 1st of July, as follows:
Sent on the 1st Of July was dispatch ut
| four minutes after from the Germantown
station to the Central office:
stHave you lost child [this in fguresl-
white slip pants? Have you description"
On the I'd of July the following from Ger
mantown:
"Haye you beard anything of that child?
Gross" !
Answer: emo"
These were all that the correspondent was
allowed to see three weeks after the abduc-
ton, and all the proof that Ross took any ac-
tion with the proper officials in the premises
Then follow the other queries which ques-
ton the fathers retcence to the press, &C.
cuse him Of apathy, as proven by his failure
to 90 and see Wooster, who was arrested as
one of the abductors, and cite as questiona-
able facts the following That the threaten
ing letters to the parents were destroyed
that no information could be gotten from the
mother, who said she was too sick to talk
about it; that the father could or would not
give any description to the reporters; that
be had sent one description to the Central
police-station and afterwards changed it.
From these and other similar facts he de-
duces his conclusions in the shape OF
AN INGENIOUS. PLOT.
The plan is not such a difficult one as at
first appears. am in business-a member
of firm. 1 find I am going 10 smash up.
Most business men know of such a catastro-
phe some time before the crash really comes.
I compromise with my creditors, and by
good management or good luck-cal it what
you william able to pay the three-moDths'
notes; l find I cannot pay the siX.months',
and | do not choose, for various reasons, to
90 to my relatives for money, though /
would not hesitate to 60 to them
for sympathy in case I lost my child.
I make an arrangement with certain
parties to abduct the child, take it to
place of safety, giving them twenty.four,
yes, say tbirtysX hours start. The people
are appalled, by such crime as child-steal-
ing, known only among the Gitalia and b.
hemans. 1t strikes terror 10 the hearts of
all parents, and touches them right at hearth
and home. A blaze. of indignation follows.
A meeting is called and money raised for the
purpose of securing the child's return. The
sum is a large one Gay 100000, and as soon
as it is raised detective, whom / have ar.
ranged with, walks home with the child and
pockets the reward, or share of il, as per
agreement This is a possible thing even in
our day of immaculate detective purity.
CONCLUSION.
This cannot be the case in the Ross abduc-
ton. The reward Of 10000 offered By the