, 1874-09-27
GOTHAM.
osa oock"scenes---A Singular Process
sion.

Special c'orresDondesee of 1n- Chicago 7rt,nne.
| NEW foRk, Sept. 81 1874
| cufLD-sTEALlN0 sESsA11oS
| Us well us Philadelphia her Charlie Rors r11,.
terry. Mr. Hager, OF Brooklyn, z. D.. hayinr
loss his wife. engaged the services OF a nurse.
| Lizzie Munger, for his 4-months-old infsnt son.
Some obHtinacy OF the nurse made the father
distrustful, aud accordingly he discharged her.
| Asking the favor OF taking tho baby a short
| ride on tho feHy-boat, and obtaining consent.
the woman disappeared with her infant charge.
and neither was heard from until eeyerL daya
had elapsed, when child WAS found in =
lunber-yara, bleeding from q scalp-Bound.
and taken to Bellevue Hospital. Them
the distracted father, in anxious search
1oE his lost baby. hurried On reading of
the discovery OF the stray maif; and there hs
recognized IN the dying babe his own stolen
Guild Altar its death, the woman Munger waa
found. Arrested, and is in tile Tombs- Her state
ments are 10 conflicting that We ahau probably
never know what her motive WIS; whether cha
Stole the child IN tho hope OF reward, and being
frightened, abandoned it where it was found in
dying ttate, or whether her sole desire 1ay ra
vengo At being disuisscd.
SILL another case occurred recently, where
4-yoar-old child was stolen from the door by n
"ell-dressod woman. whose mission apparently
WAS begging. aud waa returned the third day
after TO obtain the promised rausom Tho
mystery attached to poor little Charlie
Ross seems to hare filled the minaa of these
klonappels with suro promise OF reward aud
chlld-EteainS will Boon become IN organized in
stitutlon IN our great city, as it has been in the
streets OF London and Paris for yea1z upless
broken up at once by the strong arm OF the law.
AsAD SIGHT.
Coming from m inspection OF the new steamer
CITY OF PekinG." few days ago. witnessed
sight Which was in sadcontrast to the gorgeous
display and attractive splen1or OF that noble
reshel,-as II life WAS all mado up Of con-
t;asts,, aud the sad always followed
dent with the regularity Of clockwork.
The steamship England was to sail, .ad among
the esteerage-pRssengers, ran and wsetched, who
crowded her deck. was a family-father, mother,
two sons. and daughter-Ieturning to Liver
pool, their old home. Tie eldest child. a boy Of
II. had met with fall, aud was para}yzed from
the result Of tha accident, and. when the surgeon
on bon1d saw the lad. he ordered him to be i'm.
mediately carried ashore ayaln. In vain the
family impiored and cntreatcd. sayiuc that tn1
noy was born in Liverpool, and that they had
sold every article they possessed. and ali thoi.
means were expended in buying the family steer.
age passage home. The surgeon was ine1orsble,
aud the poor boy, accompanied By bis mother
ship began to move from the dock, and The
brutal husband and father. calling to his young
er son to follow. jumped aboard again just III
the plank vas removed. aud sailed away for En-
nd,-lcaving the mother. one daughter, md
the paEalyzed ron, on the dock, utterly peuniess,
and objects OF pity and OF charity in their utter
r,isory aud abjecc woe. An old, old man, on
crutches. WAS also set ashore, although he pro-
tested that he had al"ays earned his own living,
and expected to do 30 for many years to como,
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