Connecticut western news., 1876-09-08
A STOLEN CHILD.
Remarkable Story from OmRhH---Scene in Telegraph Omce---Mr. Ross Talks with the Child over the Wires---A Singular Coincidence.

The Omaha Herald of late date has the following A great deal of interest was created in and around the Western Union telegraph headquarters on Sun day afternoon by Justice Hale, Sheriff Hurley and several others bringing up a little boy to be identified, through the medium of the telegraph, by MT. Ross, in Philadelphia, as his stolen child, Charley. The supposed Charley was bright eyed, curly headed boy, about six years old, light complexion, and the | manners of 8 child used to better treat ment than that which falls to the lot of | the common offspring of humanity. He | was discovered by Mrs. Bushnell, who | lives near Prospect Hill cemetery, and | was living at the time in colored family | named Coffey. Mrs. Bushnell, who | lives but few doors from the place,
 had frequently observed the little faxen haired boy playing with the colored children, and became interested in the matter enough to question him. She | learned that he was making his home with the colored family, and that he had no parents. Ho could not give & very clear account of how he came where she discovered him, but told about once
 living in a great city. She became still
 more interested, and questioned him
 further, and learned enough to convince
 her that he was a stolen child, and to
 lead her to strongly suspect that he was
 the long lost and universally mourned
 Charley Ross. The prospect of $20, ,O00
 reward led her to take immediate steps
 in the matter, and she consulted Justice
 of General Strickland, procured all the l inf form tInO fthar-
 ley Ross, including photograph of the
 genuine boy, and took him out of the
 hands of the colored family and put him
 in the custody of Sheriff Burley, and
 took him into the Western Union tele-
 graph office, and an instant after broke
 in upon the meditations of MT. Ross in
 Philadelphia with the startling announce
 ment "Your boy is here ]" MT. Ross
 evidently lives very near & telegraph
 office, or else the unqualified announce
 ment that his little boy was at last
 found lent him the speed of Q hurricane,
 for but very few minutes elapsed un-
 til ar answer was flashed back in the
 form of 8 question addressed to the lit
 tie wanderer
 "What's your name 2"
 The operator interpreted the message
 to the little fellow, and he instantly re
 piled:
 "Eddie Ross, sir."
 "Have you any brothers and sisters ?"
 was the next query from Philadelphia. Answer-'' Yes, sir. I have two brothers, but haven't got any sisters. :" , Question-s' What are the names of your brothers and their ages2"
 E Answer-s' Henry Ross and Gus Ross. They were bigger than I am."
 This description of MT. Ross family v was partly correct, and the operators were asked to compare the photograph
 of Charley, taken when he was three , :, years old, and the present appearance of s the little boy, and the gentlemen were
 forced to telegraph the fact that there
 was remarkable resemblance. Ths n same curly, faxen hair, large, expres
 sive eyes and broad high forehead and '. intellectual appearance were common, v both in the picture and the boy who e stood at the operators elbow. MT. Ross a was evidently deeply interested; the Q very lines seemed to tremble as they e bore the query: "What is the color O. his eyesa"
 ? The operator left the matter to tho :. crowd, and they decided that they were a dark bluish gray. This color, MT | IGOSS uOb COIT0SJOuu WILL n the color of Charley's eyes, which wer, ' n light hazel. All of his children (six il number) had the same colored eyes, ant y o it was poted that the older they grey W the darker their eyes became, so tha 2 Charley's eyes at present should be of ef dark hazel color.
 ,e Whatever hopes the answers of tn fl little waif had raised in the breas6 o o Mir. Ross, they seemed to have beel st dashed to the ground, and he sadly or
 dered the sheriff to discharge the bo ;s from custody, after profusely thankin d him, MT. Hale and MT. Knight, tn n. chief operator, for their kindness. at The eager crowd piled the little bo ,e with fearful array of questions. Fl ,f remembered being carried away once b re a man in buggy while he was playin Ia with his little brothers. He also remem ,e bered of going in buggy to the cars to and going to another big city, where h "a says he saw the big ships that com to across the sea. Upon being asked ho'
 long it took him to go te New York
 which he afterward said was the plac
 where he saw the big ships, he replie
 that it took week, which, if the chil was really Charley Ross, would be i ln opposition to the theory that he wa SC taken directly to New York from Philt or delphia. He remembers the peopl y' whom te stayed with in New York, an or whom he calls his parents, very vel fy He says his father was cabinet maker h. and remembers how he used to men a. chairs aud make tables in the shop thu ry was near the house. He was brougt at out hero from New York by Germa family, with whom he has lived until r. ay gently. He says the family whipped an to abused him so, and would not give hi h. enough to eat, that he ran away an ne went to the house of the colored mal on whose name is Smith Coffey.
 eo The boy is a very quiet, manly lit Id fellow, more than ordinarily intelligen 5e with something about him, in mann' re and language, that will convince pc q. son in moment that he was not bol ed in the common walk of humanity. ar ne is, without doubt, a lost or stolen chil ys Charley Ross, as little Charley was thr' n- years old when he was stolen. and thr, ng more years have elapsed since tn "a, event. In his wanderings the little fe or low has had the painful misfortune as have had his arm broken and in the r ee duction of the fracture bad piece 'n- surgery was performed. Several of o citizens have teen interested in u to bright, manly little waif, among the al: General Strickland, who informed of that he intended to adopt him and li o1 him immediately from his present pa 're of life.
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 ed Oms by One the Roses Fall. ,es Another pleasant story has been rud ak ly swept away me ffanKin l1, Mass is Journal does it. It says: The thrillil U, acco11nt of tha ascana of Mir. Hall