The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-01-01

1t IS generally Known that Noodav
last, Immediately after the receipt ~ tbe
news of the killing OF Moshsr and Do1o-
lass N the Ray Ridge burglary. Gautsin
Helms. Chief Of the detective fcrse a
this city, went to New York acco,ura-
MED BY private citizens, for the purDosa
| of learning everything possible AZ 10 The
| identity OF the burglars with the ahSu-f-
ors. After the Identification WAS eorn-
pletei, they, in company with Mr.. Fran-
els ID. Lewis, q detective smpIoved bv
Mr.. Ross, engaged in eo-opsref;on uifS
Mr.. Walhng, the Superintendent of tba
New York Police Departmeut. in an
effort to get some new clue to tn. rv5,.,,..
abouts of the stolen child. Thes-,s-,it
OF TINS hAs already been pahls1sd.
Ihey, however, In the course Of TIE
searching inquiries made in New York
during the last week, obtained csrcum-
stangA information confirming the dy-
ing stafementof Douglass that the ehild.
contrary to the very general and popn-
lar oelief on the subject, is still living.
The Information was given direct. and
IN an unmistakable form, 70 one Of the
Philadelphia party, and BY him 10 the
police authorities, who were. close at
hand, but it can not be published in Is
specine form as he got it, because that
might defeat the expectation OF Tsttin9
any further Information from the same
source The following, however, wiu
give some idea OF some of the facts that
confirm the police departments of the
two cities that no harm has come to
Charlie Ross:
Z The abductors had always adhered
stnbbornly to one plan-that ia they
demanded that the go, 600 ransom
should be paid to them; that they should
then have some margin of time to ex-
anime the money and see that it was NOT
marked, and to get away to some dis
taneei and that for these purposes they
must have the money from i've to ten
hours before the child was handed over.
the boy being held for that time as .
kind of hostage for the good faith of his
friends. This plan the abductors stuck
10 from first TO last. On the other hand.
the police departments, and those who
represented the family and the citizens
reward fund, were as resolute that no
such plan should be carried out: that
they should make every possible effort
to recover the child and make his reeov-
cry the means of capturing the brigands.
and that there should be no compromise
of the matter that would enable the
thieves to get the money and then make
their escape. Thus there was a struggle
involving endurance and determination
on both sides. the thieves expecting to
wear out the patience of the suffering
family and the resolution of the police.
and the latter being determined to wear
out the resources and purpose of the
thieves. After struggle OF five months
it became manifest to the abduetors at
the close Of November that they were
baffled and beaten in the plan they bad
stubbornly held to for so long a time
and that they would have to adopt some
other. They had become very hard
pushed for the means of living, and this.
doubtless, compelled them to take the
risk of the burglary at Bay Ridge. They
had finally come to the conclusion to
abandon their first plan, and on the
night before they were killed at Bay
Ridge they were considering another
that they had partly worked out for re-
opening the negotiations on the basis of
a simultaneous exchange of the child for
the money. The obvious deduction
from this is that the child must have
been alive at that time, Sunday, Decem-
Der IL, or else the abduetors would have
had no necessity for considering any
change of plans, and especially a change
that would require the production of the
child at the time when the money was
paid
1t may he added that the police au-
thorities never had any reason to sup
pose the child had died, and now they
have the foregoing reason for the belief
that he was living few hours before
his abductors were killed.