The Morning herald., 1876-08-01
The Turks Again Succeed.
EXCITEMENT IN PHILADELPHIA
LARGE Failure on Third Street.
CHARLIE ROSS.

6OSJOu '-UlOV6s WUU uA6 UCCh vOuCuCA i0I
By Captain Helms, Of the Philadelphia Polio.
force. as perfectly reliable gentleman, and
WHO has been connected with the Charlie /
Ross case since it has been given to the po /
lice authorities, Is out In another card Civ |
ing further clue as to the fact that the lost /
boy is still alive. In this letter he brings to |
light the mystel ious third person who hov-
cred around the case when MOsher and |
Douglass were killed.
The writer learning while on visit to !
Philadelphia in connection with the case that
all of MOsher's associates had been traced |
and examined with the exception OF one
Parker, alias Tom Richardson, photo |
graph Of Parker was furnished him, with
the request that he would ascertain whether |
or not he had been in Boston. From inqui- |
ries set on foot he subsequently ascertained
the following facts "Aparty, accompanied
by little boy, called at certain house and
inquired for woman. She had never been
an inmate, and then be asked to be allowed
to sit on the sofa and rest. He mentioned
that he would call again and left. The little
boy called for glass of water, said he was
not hungry, but had been travelling all
around, and came to Boston IN q Dig snip.
PICTURES IDENTIFIED.
Parker's picture and the photograph OF
Charlie Boss are called very good likenesses
of the man and boy who called. We next
hear of them living in Couch street, next
door to French woman, who now cOrrects
her testimony, and says the child with the
Parkers was four years old or more. The
child answers the description Of Charlie
Ross in the minutest particular. The dim
pie in the chin and even the cow-lick in the
hair are described by the French woman
and others, without prompting from the
questioners. Other pictures of children
have been placed with the picture of Char
lie, and they would ..pick out the Ross
picture as being photograph of the Parker
child. Charlie Ross had habit of placing
his hands over hiseyes when he met strang-
ers. The child with the Parkers would run
to the door of the French woman's room,
peep through his fingers at her, and then
grab cold potato from her table and eatit,
he was always dirty, thin, pale and hungry.
MosHER AND DOUGLASS CALL.
Two well-dressed strangers called at Par
ker's room, while in Couch street, and in
quired for Parker. Mrs. Parker denied
that he lived there, explaining to the French
woman, who was present, that Parker had
ordered her to do so. Mrs. Parker got re-
lief from the Chardon street bureau in Oc
tober, as Mrs. Parker and one child. We
have the testimony of two men who will
swear that once when Parker beat her, Mrs.
Parker said she could put Parker in State
prison for life, as the child with them was
not theirs, but q stolen one. When asked
where he got it she said In New Jersey,
and we brought it to Boston, part Of the
way by vessel She told one of these men
at another time that she was afraid to leave
Parker with the child, as he might kill it,
This party was present one Sunday when
they got the child drunk on gin, and says
Charlie Ross's picture is good likeness of
the Parker boy, whom he has held on his
knee many times. They left Couch street
in arrears for rent, with all their earthly
possessions In carpet bag"
THE EVIDENCE OF A CONVICT.
In corroboration of this statement the
writer of the letter has had an interview
with discharged convict in New York, who
says that ''he had heard Parker say in
Philadelphia that he had Charlie Ross safe
in Boston, and would never give him up
without 900 reward If he kept him un-
til be was twenty-one. Mrs. Mosher re-
luctantly admits that Parker boarded with
them In Philadelphia, but says he never
had child, and Mosher would never have
trusted Charlie Ross with him."
CHARLIE ALIVE.
The writer then states that the child held
by the Parkers was alive five months ago.
The last Information Of Mrs. Parker is that
she was in Lowell or Lawrence about six
months ago. Any person sending informa-
tiOn of the following described persons will
be suitably rewarded. Should the child
with them prove to be Charlie Ross, a re-
ward eff 81, 900 will be guaranteed Tom
Parker, about thirty years old, five feet
eight inches high, blue or gray eyes, dark
complexion, he dyes his moustache; his
weight Is $50 pounds, he has sloping shoul-
ders, with q slouchy Bowery expressions;
walks quickly; chews tobacco; talks with q
Bowery s'b'hoy's" accent. He is slightly
pitted with small pox. He peddles hat
whic hplaced upon door explodes when
proprietor Of an air gun. He would be
rather poorly dressed.
Jenny Parker, alias Julia Clements, is
two; weight, 1876. She has black hair, worn
in cnrls behind, round, full face; very swar-
thy, greasy complexion, brown eyes; plump,
short figure, and would be taken for an In
dian or French Canadian. She dresses
neatly. The child with them is six years
old, with brown eyes, very fair complexion,
hair light In cel0r and inclined to curl
whether short or long. There Is cow-lick
IN left side where parted, and dimple iu the