The Republican journal., 1875-10-28
Singular Death OF a Child.

Tue theory of the kidnapping Of little Joscy
sullivan, 50 naturally taken up on account of
the stealing Of Charley Ross, has been aban-
doned. as appears from the following from the
New York Sun: ''Tye seen JoSeY." said Mr.
Sulivans clerk to Mrs. Sullivan about ) o'clock
Yesterday afternoon. "Iouve seen hIm: How
is her Is he all right" the mother inquired in
tones more joyful than she had been able to
command since her darling disappeared three
weeks ago. Hes all right" the clerk replied
and in replying he turned his head away and
quit the room before the mother could ask him
why he looked so sober. Mrs. sullivan forgot
her household avocations, and instead called
her younger children to her, "Brother JoSey's
found; he'll soon be home." She said so blithe-
somely that the children prattled instead Of cry
ING during their toilet distreSseS. At 3 O'Clock
Mr.. James Deyinc, Of the feed Dealers ncVine
Il Rush, II Washington street, was engaged
in rolling out the last few bales of a schooner
load of hay that had been piled mp in his ware
house since September g. After all but the
last six bales in the turtherest corner from the
door had been taken ont, he saw what seemed
the
BLACKENED LIMBS or 4 CHILD
wedged in between the bales. IL flashed through
his mind that this might prove to he the solution
ofthe mystery The disappearance of Jo>ey Sui
Ivan; so, without waiting to make Il closer eX
animation, he Went tor Mr. Sulivn's clerk. and
he identified the remains US those of the lost boy.
The features We're disiigured. and decomposition
was far auVaDceu, but the taken halr ana the
plaid dress Were proofs that could not be doubt
ed. The news OF the finding had been flashed to
the central Office, the coroner had been informed
that another corpse was awaiting his inquest,
and Mrs Sullivan sat still waiting. somewhat
impatient, perhaps. but hopeful and eXpectant.
The discovery was known to the residents of
the neighborhood. They crowded around her
door and around the warehouse in which the
body lay but ii was not until 4 o'cIOr> that
Mrs. Sullivan knew that her boy WAS corpse.
Her first intelligence WAS the bated uticraurc
of one Of the crowd around the door: 'Fhat's
Mrs. Sullivan, aud her boy is dead in Mad@n'S
cellar Mr.. Sullivan heard il IN hour later,
when he returned from his appointment with
a man who had promised to find the boy for
$500. As said before. the boy was
WEDGED IN BETWEEN TWO BALES
the furhest from the door of entrance. MIR.
Deyine says that when first stored the hay was
piled five tiers high. ON September H. the day
on which the boy disappeared, the hay WAS five
tiers deep. The boy had evidently climbed to
the top Of the bales. and fallen i'm and been
wedged between Them That next above him
is furrowcd apparently with his struggles IN
reached the lower bales, for his limbs were
stretched ou. in the easy posture of L sleeping
child and his arms We're folded across his
breast. There was no Cmacation to Indicate
that he starved to death. In view of the noise
made by passing vehicles and the distance Of
the spot where he lay from thc door at which
the men were working. it is not strange that
his crlcS We're not heard.