The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-29
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/ The letter OF the .susrieio Gus citizen to th
New York Herald insinuatjng grave charge
against Mr.. Ross the father OF the stole
Sboy. has created both excitement gnd indig
I1,ation aro and con III Phsladeiphla. a re
porter called upon llir. Ross on SatHrda
afternoon In relation to the article. and wa
authorized 20 say for him = that, while SOM
truth had been here and there interviewer
tintU the text, the letter was, ON the WHOLE.
base and yillainous .scandal' Mr.. Ross fur
Their added .sthat no man With any soul il
him could have done such thing, and hi
was at first disposed to coWhide the writer
but gentlemen, friends, had advised him TO
pay no further attention TO The sub ect.
The reporter thoroughly convinced Of the
| sincerity and truth OF MIR. Boss's answer
Withdrew, leaving the sorrow-stricken pa
rent to his sad reaectioDs. Mr.. Ross.is almost
heartbrokcn over the calamity which has be-
fallen him, and the CRIES at the loss OF bis
child is sadly telling upon him. On. Satur-
day afternoon he was so distressed and bro.
ken down that he could scarcely stand. The
publication of the letter above refeyped to
has also been severely condemned by gentle.
men long and personally acquainted with
Mr. Ross. They characterize IT'S publication
Us both false and cruei-crue3, particularly
at time when the father is suffering the
most intense grief at the loss Of one of his
household. s s' 49, 5ts
Mr. Ross has stated as reason for not
having made public the photograph of his
son, that 1t would do no good to print itasit
was taken some TWO years ago. In reply to
question as to his reason for not publishing
the letters received by him from the abduca
tors, Mr. Ross is reported to have said that
it was because no good would result there.
from.
The following card appeared in the New
York Sun of Saturday:
"For $4,000 will give evidence that will
lead to the conviction Of Charlie Ross's alb
ductors, who are now in this city. Address
me through the Sun, if an agreement can be
made. JOHN SMITH"
John Smith, although almost everybody
knows him, does not, in this instance, impre
those who should know what his promise is
worth very deeply. Very little importance is
attached to Smiths promise.
Chris. Wooster, who, it will be remem-
bered, was arrested on suspicion OF being
implicated 10 the Ross case, and afterwards
released, stated to one of the newspaper re-
porters on Saturday that he intended TO de-
liver lecture ut the Germantown Opera
House on Tuesday evening next.
The folio wing appeared in the personal
column of the New York Herald yesterday:
GA New York gentleman, OF ample means,
in the hope of saving the life of bis invalid
wife, who is growing insane over the Ross
abduction, will pay an amount equal to the
reward--yiz., $40, 000-for the return to him
of Charles B. Ross, in order that he may re-
store the child to its parents. While OPP
posed to compromising felony, he will act
squarely in this case for the above reasons.
On receipt Of an answer from the right par
ties, proposing any reasonable plan for the
exchange of child and money, money and
man will be ready. Business now. Adj
dress Arthur Purcell, General Post Office,
Philadelphia"
Although denied at headquarters, we I'M
derstood on pretty good authority that the
police have now in custody two men and
two women, all natives of England, and are
ut the present time working out what they
consider O clue to the mystery. One of the
men under arrest is said to answer the de-
scription oftone Of the abductors, the circum-
stances leading to his capture being as fol-
lows: 1t seems that in the latter part OF
June last two men, the one under arrest and
another party stillat large, hired horse and
buggy on four or five consecutive days from
a livery stable on New Market street, taking
it out at 8 A. NJ. and returning about Z.
NJ. This fact being ascertained by the Off
GERS their suspicious were aroused, and
search immediately commenced. 1t has only
been within day or two that they ascer-
tanned the whereabouts of the one now con.
tined in Jail.