The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-09-20

OF these communications, Wnlcn e4tenAeu
through weeks and months. Various
means were suggested in these letters for
the release Of the child and the payment
Of the ransom. The money was to be
placed in box in Mr.. Ross store, and he
was to carry it around until some one
suddenly should ask for it, when he would
deliver it, and in six hours afterwards the
child would be returned. Again. he was
to put the money in valise and ride
with it on the rear platform of train
from here to New York, and then up the
Hudson river road to Albany, and wher-
ever he saw man with . lantern waving
q white flag. he was to throw the valise
off and the child would be returned to
him in few hours. Another meeting
was arranged At hotel in New York. It
is due to Mr.. Ross to say that while he
obeyed all these calls, it was always
with the full knowledge of the police, and
with the purpose Of securing the abduc-
tors. In no instance, however. did the
parties meet him. It was in August
when Westervelt came in communication
with the New York police. He professed
his willingness to help the officers to dis
cover these men and secure the child; at
other times he was only willing to help to
discover Douglass, protesting his unwil-
lingness to be the means of getting his
brother-in-law in trouble, but was always
loud in his expressions of willingness to
assist in recovering the child and work.
ing up the case to that end. The New
York authorities. believed him. Within
week after the abduction of the child.
while Mosher and Douglass were in hid
ing in Philadelphia, Westervelt came on
here, and stayed but few hours.
Mosher and Douglass stayed here until
the 4th or 5th of August, when they left
for New York or northward. Westervelt
had an interview with them on the 18th,
at his home, in New York, and on the
street. and told them they were suspect.
ed. This was while he was protesting to
aid the officers, and he received from
Mosher SIS. He came to Philadelphia on
tie midnight train TO find out from
Mosher's wife whether the house on
Monroe street was watched, and returned
at once. He returned to New York on
the 18th. On the 23d, Mosher and Doug
lass, intending to rob store at Rondout,
on the Hudson, Westervelt started to
help them, bat his heart failed him, and
the three spent some days in boat in
the ncighborhood. On the 18th, Mosh-
er' family broke up here and returned to
New York, where they lived in Wester-
velt's house. From that until the 18th
Of December we will show that Wester-
welt, who was processing to aid the police
in getting Mosher and Douglass and Sc
curing the child, was in continual com.
munication with these men, seeing them
at his own house, at the house of Madame
Moreau, a fortune-teller, and on the street
corners late at night. lie had repeated
opportunities of letting the authorities
know where these men were to be had,
and secure their arrest. Instead of this
he was secretly conveying
information Of the intention and actions
Of Superintendent Walling, aud there
fore aided them in carrying
out the object Of the conspiracy. On the
18th Of December Westervelt was with
Douglass and Mosher at o'clock in the
evening, and spent some time with them,
and then afterwards walked some three
hours with Douglass all the time in the
neighborhood Of a police station, where
he could have given him up. Douglass
and Westervelt slept that night in no.
tel, and in that interim, or at previous
one, new scheme for getting the ransom
for the child was discussed, the old one
not having worked. At I o'clock in the
morning Douglass left Westervelt for the
purpose Of meeting Mosher at the New
England House, in the negihborhood.
Westervelt was to meet Douglass on the
18th, 18th and 18th, the following week,
but early on the next morning Mosher
and Douglas, while attempting to rob the
house Of Judge Van Brunt, at Bay Ridge,
Long Island, whittier they had gone in q
sloop. we're shot and MORALLY wounded.
Douglass had the stealing Of the child on
his mind, and lying on the ground said,
before he died, that he and Mosher were
the men who carried off Charlie Ross.
Had Westervclt been conspiring in the in.
terest Of justice instead of against it,
Mosher and Douglass would have been
here to-day instead Of lying in bloody
graves, and Charlie Ross would have been
with his family. The death Of these men
Suut oAb al SOAALCo VI iblOs
Westervelt disappeared, and it was then
discovered that he had been playing into
the hands Of the two dead men. A bill
Of indictment was prepared by the District
Attorney, and Of his own motion, sent into
the grand jury. and true bill found. Ar.
fragments we're being made TO get re-
QUESTION for Westervelt, when, on the
suggestion Of superintendent Walling. he
came to Philadelphia, was arrested on the
bench warrant, committed TO Moyamen'
sing. and brought up here for trial to-day
lie Was in collision with Mosher and Doug
lass, not only in New York. but earlier IN
Philadelphia, and his hand appears u
every stage Of the case and I'll this while
this man could have put his hand on thesl
men and on the child. yet he did not
but, on the contrary, assisted them d
evading the pursuit Of justice. Abiding
1t some length to the difficulty Of secur
ing the attendance Of witnesses from New
7 ,rk, without whom some links Of th,
chain Of evidence against the prisinol
would be waiting, Mr.. Hagert concluded
with the usual appeal to the jury to CON