The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-04
The Charlie Ross Case.

ton Journal says the people are still excited
over the boy in the custody of Sheriff Nor
rll, who has been claimed to be Jimmy
Blanchard of Milford, n. H., is not the
Blanchard boy.
The question now in everybody's mouth
is, Who is the boy? Every hour the case
grows more complicated, and to demon
strate such fact, Saturday afternoon the
boy was taxi to the residence of q promi-
nent citizen who knew the family Of Hall
Stanton, esq, of Philadelphia. The boy
was taken into the pailor and given full
opportunity to inspect the family album.
After turning over the pages he came
across the photographs of two sons of Mr..
Stanton, and strange to say, lie said he
knew them and had been at school with
one of them at Philadelphia, and gave the
name of the teacher correctly. The PEG
pie of St. Adams who have avowed their
belief that the boy was Charlie Ross from
the start are in most jubilant spirits, and
Gross boy stock" has taken sudden rise.
An anonymous letter from Boston to
Sheriff Morrill,, says in conclusion 81
have read the revelations of the boy in the
Boston journal in full Of Thursday. No
boy of such tender years could concoct
such story, aud in the name of justice
and duty you owe the whole world, by
all means hold the boy for positive identi-
fication. promise you further and more
positive communication shortly"
The writer of this letter is unknown, but
| it is thought by many to come from the
man Butler, whom the boy says was with
him at the Boston, Lowell and Nashua de-
pot in Boston last Monday night.
The most mysterious part of this Charlie
Ross case seems to be the positive declara-
ito of Christian K Ross that the boy here
is not his boy. On Wednesday Mr.. Ross
entered the operating room of the Western
Union telegraph company at New York
city and the operator called St. Adams. In
response to the call, Mr.. Ross was given
a full description of the boy at St. Adams
the color of his eyes, his hair, his build,
his dress, what he stated were the names
of his sister and brother. (The boy said
they were Mary and Eddie) And Mr..
Ross, in reply, said: "That settles it ; it
is not my boy, and am much obliged"
After reception of the news Saturday
that it was not the Blanchard boy from
Milford, Mr.. Ross was again telegraphed
for. An immediate response came that he
would be at st. Adams Monday afternoon
TO settle the question 80 far as he was con-
cerned.
This is the query which is now puzzling
the brains of almost everybody for miles
around, ''if he is not Charlie Ross who is
he" Until Mr.. Ross arrives Monday, and
an expected arrival from Milford, N. H.,
of person who knows Jimmy Blanchard
excitement will be on the increase.
The boy has stuck TO his first story, tina
he was Charlie Ross, and all through the
excitement, the thousands of questions pu
to him he has not flinched an iota, and TIN
query is, who is he
A SUPPOSED PLOT To tAlIlHE HE bOl
A telegram from 81. Adams on Sunda.
evening, says: The officers at the jail her
about three o'clock this morning, dscoy
cred five or six suspicious looking me
lurking around the shed in rear of the jai
) building, who rapidly disappeared on find
ing themselves observed. A short tim
later they came back again, and when tn
: officers manifested an inclination to max
an investigation they ran up the street
few rods, unhitched a team and drove raplc
= ly away. OF course it is generally SUI
= posed that they were after Charlie Ross.
Mrs. Rugg has received letter from ST
lem, Mass, signed Mrs. Nelson, chargin
the careful guarding of the child fror
everybody, and especially detectives. Pull
lie excitement shows no abatement, an
. the arrival of Mr.. Ross, who is expecte
t by the o'clock express train to-morro'
5 afternoon, is anxiously looked for. I'll
boy selected pictures Of Mr.. and Mrs. Roi
from large collection which was show
him. Public sentiment refuses to entertal
! the belief that he is the missing Niilfor
| boy.