The New York herald., 1876-10-17
CHARLEY ROSS.
xxw cLEw--ANorHER MEMBER or rHE
MosHER GANG TURNS UP.

D l8W CIEW-ANOTAG6 0hADE6 VI xdE
MosHER GANG TURNS UP.
From the Philadelphia rimos Oct l6l
Although tho police authorities have used every
In their power 10 follow every clew TO tho
Charley Ross case yet the untrng Times yester.
aay obtained tho following information from trust.
worthy sources One month ago officer TAFT, OF the
First district informed by parties, whose names
arc withheld, tnat one Of the gang OF which Aosher
was a member In the city An investigation led
The authorities believe that tho story true as
the referred to had been seen with Mosher when
the former In the furniture business In South
street. before the child was abducted. Detectives
were then put upon bis track, and Il was dscov-
srsd that the ia connected with some sort Of
! gang and that he has the road con-
unualy. between Philadelphia and Harrisburg
stopping now and then Lancaster and Columbia,
and frequently at a little town on the Susquehanna
Kivor, opposite York. called Wrighsvie. Detectives
also kept busy IN the city, watching everything
aud every body that hat SUSPICIOUS look On tho 9th
or october, there beiug then doubt TO having
Spotsod the right man. Policeman TAFT the First dis
trict, and Constable Mckinney followed the
Harrisburg. who're ,aey captured him in house sup
posed 10 be the headquarters OF the gang The follow
ing Monday he was brought TO Philadelphia and lodged
IN the First district station house. at Twentieth
ftxwater streets He gave his name as Sam Bcnners,
and said that he knew nothing about case He al
ierward admitted that he had known Mosher, but de-
med having any knowledge OF Charley Ross Magls-
Collins gave him private hearing, at which Mr.
Ross present Nothing was elicited, aud Aagis-
rate Collins, after talking 10 him for about
hour, lett without obtaining anything further
Benncrs gwen another hearing. and he then said
that Charley Ross was in Pennsylvania and had never
OF IL; that no was not many miles from the
aty, and that he had him not longer than three
weeks Where the boy is Benners will not say,
tho officers who made the arrest and those who
been the lookout for the last forty days think
that the boy Is probably ia Wrightsve, or IN the
neighborhood OF Lancaster Columbia, in going
and fro between Harrisburg aud Philadelphia Bonners
always stopped NJ these places. WrigntsvIlle is a
man uring village and tho officers of opin-
Ion that the gang made It their principal headquarters
II is known that large number OF tho gang here In
this city, and tho police Just about periecting
their arrangements to arrest o number OF them.
District Attorney Sheppard visited by a
Times reporter yesterday, and said that be
would have nothing to say one way another
regard the case bct he admitted that the ciew
gooc one, and tnat the boy might yet be found.
added "that something has not bcen done in relation
20 tho Ross case. >. Magistrate Collins Detective
shark ey and Captain Hines visited but mono
Of them knew anything Of the recent developments.
Al the First district house
to give Information IN regard to the matter. They
refused to tell whether The person under arrest
there or not II 10 known that he was there up 10
late hour on Saturday night. Mr. Christian X. Ross
VISITED last night He also had nothing to say.
lie admitted, however, that he thought Benners d
the right man, and that II ho (oss) said anything 't
might thwxrt the ends OF justice" some OF The CON-
municative authorities TO think that the cew is
lhe strongest yet obtained and that the speedy
sovery oil the stolen boy IL quite probable.