The New York herald., 1874-08-02
whose statement am allowed to give .xc,ustve,v

whose statement am allowed to give exclusively
IN the NEW YORK HERALD, less only some pajr.
which the Philadelphia police have reap~--ea Nm.
not to divulge, possibly to cover up some of then
snortcomings
The oficers storv - substantiany iollows:-
About the 10th of last month large man, win
dark beard a stranger and apparently from the
wilds OF the.vest appeared in Allentown dusty
and apparently weary Sith travelling. having IN
has charges II tie boy about four years DID, with
light hair. remarkably intelligent aud evidently Ill
at ease For this chld the man purchased suit
OF colnna ane then passed out OF the city, taking
the cars JDr Seadlng, and remarkng that he was
bound West with his son and had a very long Jour
ney bseore MIN.
A, tss aiding he observed some movements which
esyited his suspicion and he remained in that city
all night. on the llth he was accosted by an on
Ger, who was already IN search OF the child steal
ers" and he asked his business In that part OF
the country. He replied tnat he was drover
non Texas and had just been to Philadelphia TO
thss, and during tue day the officer was APP
preached by another man, aud the two got into
conversation, during which the man assured the
o1cer that the suspected person was drover, he
thought rom Indiana tnat he had frequently seen
hIn, and was quite familiar wltn him.
This threw the officer Oh his guard, and on the
afternoon OF the l2tn the suspected party took the
tram lor TINS city where ne arrived wtn the lt,e M
boy in charge. Here he became alarmed at the
reports then In circulation regarding the move,
ments IN progress to capture the abductors. anu
It is believed that he nesltated IN regard TO the
road he would take Tor escape. lie nnaly took
the cars Tor the West, and al trace was lost ol nun
In gong through the cars oevond Altoona the
man and little boy were noticed by an empoye OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The child
was very fretiu, and the man appeared TO be
greatly bothered TO paciiy II. Al Pttsburg the
suspected man was last seen aud ne was Still
bound West
My informant is confident that this was the yer.
liable aoductor OF Charley Ross and his theory OF
= "A Western
OF means who Is chndless and who has taken TINS
suppose that this man did the Kidnapping himself.
He may have employed other persons TO do 1t aud
pad them ior their services, but his actions show
plainly that he knew how the boy was obtained.
My informant believes that this man has taken
the Ross child to the far West, and that he will re-
abductors kept the child In Philadelphia as
long as they oeemed 1t to be SAFE, IN
they demanded from Mr. Ross lie TANKS that
then they allowed the child TO be taken away upon
som money they could at any tune secure pos
session oil tue child by simply returning what the
western man mad paid taem, with liberal allow
ance Tor expenses &C., and the promise OF another
chlld.
OI couse this is all theory; but It obtains much
force when we remember that the caid steaers
are much more safe While hiding IN Philadelphia
than while travelling through country the resi-
dents OF which actullv suspect every stranger
who arrives OF being a kdnapper.
AT any rate my informant Is confident that Lit
tie Charley Ross has gone West wit, the party al
uded to- and ne SAYS be is ned in this opinion
!. by the Philadelphia detectives and the relatives
OF the child. He sees IN this a reason tor the fact
that no one has come forward to claim the re-
wards offered or oDtanable with immunity from
arrest put he cannot understand why the cupid.
ity OF some one has not led to an application for
the reward OF Detective Ta2gart OF $500 ioI
clew.
one of Mr. Taggart's ot1cers is now 10 the West
on what ne hopes Is a tran, put the child and It's
keeper have such start or him tAlt there Is very
little nope oil success
The --latest Developments In Philadel-
phfa-The Detectives Operations-The
Sentiment of the Mothers OF the Coun-
try-Interview with Lieutenant
Crout-The ssJaded Horses Clew.
PHILADELPHIA, August l, 1874
The latest development IN the Ross case is in the
form OF a mysterious advertisement, reading, In
one OF the daily journals, as Iollo~s:-
I WILL CONE TO YOUR TEaMS
As the party who signs this advertisement is a
veteran detective, am somewhat at a loss to un-
derstand what it means. Upon first sight it seems
to indicate that the kidnappers have made, in
| writing, a proposition to Mr.. Taggart, which he
! answers as above; but when l recall
the fact tnat hitherto all correspondence
coming rom the thieves, has been addressed di.
recty to the father regard the advertisement
as the means that Taggart Is main. use OF to
direct each communication hereafter 10 himself. l
am convinced that this latter reflection correct,
ment quoted above Is another one, written thus -
GS DnO REWARD WILL BE PAID BY Us TO
,po:OUU any pe,son sh3 ~ VII give us a clew s (which which
Brewster Ross and the name oI m person giving US the
go &, "a IN,
Pennsylvania Detective Bureau sou invest corner Of
Sixth and spruce streets, Philadelphia.
few days ago the Pennsylvania Detective
Bureau, which really has all tae first class business
OF the city, inserted an advertisement similar to
! the above though the reward offered at that time
/ was only one-haf as great. Taxing the adver-
tisements together their united
OBJECT SEEMS TO BE,
! Ffrst-To institute immediate correspondence
between joshua Taggart and the kidnappers.
| SecO1sd-To establish communication between
the bureau, of which Tsggart Is the head, and the
people at large.
| Whatever may be the doubts entertained con-
cerning the former OF these propositions the
latter one Is strictly true. Joshua
Taggarr mas already received numer-
GUS letters advancing different theories,
and announces himself willing to follow any SEN
sible ADVICE matter from what direction he snall
receive il. / believe q more interesting chapter
was never Afforded the general reading public
than that which the simple reproduction of these
letters would give. Some are rudey formed, nom
sensical, ridiculous, and some are, account OF
the theories propounded In them, remarkably
quaint and curious. Others, still, from mothers
wno deepest OF all. appreciate the woe and
wretchedness OF that Germantown household, are
sweet, tender and pathetic.
EXTRACTS.
81 knee at the BEDSIDE OF my own Sick child ~
says a letter directed to one OF the officers, "tnat
l may pray 1or that other child, whose absence Is
more to It's mother tnan my cnlld's death could be
to ne.n
IL never retire at night" says another letter,
"wIthout praying that before daylight dawns the
lost one Will be returned 10 It's nome"
al too have had my sorrows,v writes still
other mother. MY TOUR year. Old was taken from
me- not through the deep, innuman cruelty of
man. but through the all wise amp Denilicent prov
idence of God l arise from empty CRIB, and
throwing aside that personal Qr1ef which almost
crusnes me TO the dust. approach that German
town mother and say 10 her sister, my grel Is
hard TO bear uut yours s deeper, more hopeless
than mine. Wnen think o. yours, nine Is forgot