The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-15
The Charlie Hsess Case.

The Philadelphia Times says that
letter was recently sent to Gov.
Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, :aquir.
ing if any guarantee of immu nifty
from punishment could be given By
him il Charlie Ross were returned.
In reply the secretary wrote: Sec
ton of article 4 of the Constitu-
ton of 1874 provides that mo par
don shall be granted nor sentence
committed except upon the recon-
mendation In writing of the Lieu
tenant-Governor, Secretary of the
Commonwealth, Acknowledgements,
and Secretary of Internal Affairs,
or any three of them, after full
hearing upon due public notice and
in open session. You will there
fore see that however the Governor
may desire to assist in the restora-
ton of the boy to his parents, he
has no authority to guarantee par
don or immunity to his abductcrs
or the persons who now hold him
in custody. Such q guarantee can
can be obtained, if it can be obtain
ed at all. through the Board of par
dons, whose recommendation the
Governor but rarely disres ards.
The Times adds: Con Wednes-
day morning a gentleman, who
since the abduction of Charlie Ross,
has interested himself in his recov-
cry, and who is one of the three or
four persons acquainted with the
ms and outs of the latest clue,
left this city for the loca-
ity near which the boy is sup
posed to be il hiding, and since
that time nothing has been heard of
his whereabouts.
The York PENN Dispatch also
has something to say on the subject.
1t says that james Logan, a private
detective, arrived in that borough
on Wednesday night, and is busily
engaged in working up the case,
and that he makes the following
statement: 6" have followed up
this case for nearly three years, and
have knowledge concerning it
which no other man possesses. l
have COMPOUNDED all the other de-
tectives, with their clues, and now
that Mr.. Ross has given up this one,
l take it up. / will not give the in
formation which hold at this time
1T would defeat my ends. have
documents in my possession which,
if true, as l fully believe them to
be, put the Ross mystery in an en-
tirely new shape, and one which
will startle the public as it has new
er been startled. All my investiga-
tons are made to add to the store
of my information, and not alone
to find the boy, but also to solve
the mystery surrounding his disap-
pearance and Whereabouts. The
boy is still alive, and l do not be-
lieve he was ever stolen for ransom
the plot is deeper still. The cause
of his abduction, or rather the TAX
ing of Charles B. Ross, is the end
and aim of my investigation. /
wrote to Mr.. Ross under date of
March y, 1875, stating that l never
would give up my investigation
until l found the person who was
the primary cause of the abduction.
L am occasionally alluded to in the
papers, indirectly, as a monomani-
&C on the subject of the Ross case.
l can only answer this with success
in my undertaking. The future
will Justify my work, and there is
method in my madness. The de-
tectiYes in New York and Philadel-
phia are as smart and intelligent as
any In the world, and had there not
been a Judas in the camp they
would have had the boy long ago.
l am private detective.
The Dispatch in this connection
remarks: "Our interview with Mr..
James Logan is full of startling in
terest, and he confided to US many
things which it is not proper to
mention here, but in few weeks
they may be spoken openly, and in
the meantime the public may rest
assured that the end is at hand, and
the denouement will be urprise
and sensation to all.