The New York herald., 1874-12-22

water here at the loot OF Third street. william
gave up the saloon soon after ne was divorced:
and and ne then lett New York. had seen nothing Of
that was 10 notify MIN when his mother died.
aid tnaL tnronya tne newspapers. ana ne came on
dead. That was thirteen years ago. Il was there
Martha, his second wife, met him. She says he
was running alter her. That's mistake. II was
fore she married MN. Ny wife told he' to have
nothing TO do with him. aud so did many time
Twas no Use, sne would have him. and she got
HIM. she mas always stuck very close 60 him. and
she tells the truth when she says he was
A KIND. GOOD HUSBAND
to her he leh the city shortly after his mothers
funeral but came back again ana nd got married. !
Only met him again when he nad the saioon
IN Grand street, near Laurens. met him down
town one day. and friend put my hand IN his
and asked US 10 become friends again. had kept
away from him because he had brought disgrace
and since that have not known much about him.
! think he took the cnd, and believe his wife
with him. and never lett him II she could
help IT. II he was n boat and she
did awning since he was married she didn't
know atout. why. when he was up the river she
her our, sne slept there at night when they would
allow her. It's mistake ior ner 10 say she lived
a. her mothers & AL @ sne time he was IN prison;
place TO place. she was in my house for q while.
She came 10 my wlie and sald, What am to do
go tor My wife took her in. sent ior doctor, and
her baby was attended to. We gave her q little
hail bedroom we had to spare. She never spent
day or night In her mofher's house. Her mother
saw her with her sick baby IN her arms on the
snd pSse asT see nss e IN ss mss
married, that's true. Bill used to send her money
e sa II Il ali soe es g @
York knew him. There are moi SIX policemen In
the el1y who , knew him they might have heard
didn't know him, nothing of the kind.
Ms was He not voo man 40 make ,ne
quietly and mind his own business. II Martha
Mosher don't know
WHERE CHARLEY ROSS Is
IN Philadelphia about the time he was taken away.
e Seee he a
along rnat child Will be found one o. these days,
anu then u VIII al come out. on, the stories
Mosher and Douglas took tnat child, and they took
HIM for dollars and dimes. 1t was y regular KID
class boatman and kept out on the river to avoid
this city: What-know what the police were
he S Knew it. why. 0! course, they were after HIM
! can't tell you what started them now;
discovered ou and IN tell W you @ such % history as % noveT
was written. Take youa week TO write 1t; yes,
"a, 1Sseaws P hm rs w
they were great friends. he was much
spsignt, | too, wen; Il % 15s BLACKSMITH a y y
take the trouble to say nv father was river thief
or pirate. He was nothing Of the klni,. and
better .V We can ali look BACK BIT and some Of
US might like TO look and more of us might not.
don't want to say anything against one
rest. Bill came back here in 1870. He
lived in Columbia street lor short Tune ns; He got
want 10 say anything against them either. 1t vas
about election time and the trouble was about
election He was arrested lor It, but nothing came
OF It,. lie nas not nved steadily IN this CITY for any
length Q, time since he gave up the saloon
cap he made: lie was also employed dis,
mantlng the Atlantic in South Brooklyn. think
his wlfes brother was engaged on
THE SAME JOB.
They were well acquainted, a~d think now and
again great deal togetner-l am not sure
whether two OF her-l mean Martha's-brothers
were not IN Philadelphia about the time this
been alter, but they were there no douot. OF tnat.
She is good woman, no better; KIND mother
not innocent OF Bill Moshers doings as sne pre-
tends; time Will prove that. Let superintendent
wans woa ST9s B Moser o1
yes, and lots OF things he didn't tell her, TO please
NM ,sne she was all bound up IN him.
nothing in the world but hun. That's all true
aoout the way she got him out OF Sing sing; and
she bothered the lives out OF the ofncers about
hlm: sne was after them night and day-neyer
telling you; 1t VIII all come out when the boy is
found. Do think ne Will be found? Yes
in the matter. Maybe Martha Mosner WIN hnd
him too; I'm pretty deal EN- Took HI him lar
enough. She ought to be able to tell how long
they were away from home. She can, too
guess. Now, there's that Coroner. He didn't see
they told tbem to surrender ana then
how til the shooting began a.. Now WIN You
e nis ns1s ead aaS sss aSs
back9 Why wasn't that brought out on the In
quest9 And why didn't they make them explain
all about the five charges III that pist0lg There's
that boat too. He never built that boat. But the
boy VIII be iound one OF these days, and then I'll
MRS. DoUGLAs ON MRS MosHER
A HERALD reporter had a brief conversation with
Coroner J. b. Jones, OF BROOKLYN, yesterday, in
which he inquired whe her that dlgnltary had any
Information TO impart bearing upon the lost child,
Charley Ross. The Coroner remarked that ne had
waow s much n e az S %sm sa0y Moyos Of ns
sae fssa' ( ass true 1' SAID s's0" that
to search ior the boy should say 1t would be well
to place two or three officers VINO are not known
BY her on her trail. Why, the day that Mrs. Doug.
pany with person who was said To be SIS ster-in-
law OF Mosher, IN order to obtain permission to
The woman, VINO called herself Doug.
was the pulteruo OF all the schemes and robberies
wnicn her husband carried out, and tnat she was
not, therefore, any better than he was. Well as
their commitment to jail, when two men came
up to me and came tnis, said the Coroner
upon the inside). They then told me they were
New York ofiicers, had the two women uncer their
surveillance, SO tnat need not be uneasy aoout
Douglas said should say that Mrs. Mosher would
bear close watching by superintendent Waliing