The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-02-08
Charley Ross.
THE LoNG-LosT BOY THOUGHT TO BE SURE
LY FOUND AT LAST.

PHILADELHIA, February 2 1t is not at
all unlikely that Cherley Ross has at last
been found. By far tue most promising
clew that has yet been obtained in the
long and tedious search for the kidnapped
ch lid has grown out of the discovery of q
lad who arrived at Baltimore about the
middle of January on a ship from Dem
erara. AS recited at the time the child
was a waif who bad been abused and neg
lected by mulatto woman claiming to
be his mother. The boy had been sent to
this country TO be placed in home, by
benevolen: American gentleman residing
in Georgetown, Demerara. There was a
slight resent blance to Charley Ross in the
little wanderer, and this was one reason
why his protector, Mr.. A. w. Perot, sent
the child to the care of his brother. who is
a merchant in Baltimore.
When The boy arrived in Baltimore he
gave the name of George Sylvano Signio
Rio, but he thought he had been called
Charley Ross. Captain Wilson stated that
the boy had been living i'll Georgetown,
Demerara, for the past four years, with a
mulatto woman claiming 20 be his mother.
This woman represented that she was born
in DemeIara, but when girl went to Phil
adelphia with her parents aud married a
white man, painter. Shortly after the
birth Of their sou her husband disappeared,
and the wife went to Boston to seek en-
ployment. Those who knew her saws she
ill-treated the boy, and it was suspected
that she was not hie mother. When the
boy first arrived in Demerara he spoke of
coming from Boston, and said the woman
had stolen him from his home. Several
months since be was deserted by his pre-
tended mother, and he became a street
ganain. Finally Mr.. A. w. Perot took him
out Of the street, and forwarded him on the
Potomac to his brother in Baltimore.
After Mr.. Ross failure to identify the
boy from the descriptions which seemed
so widely at variance with that Of his lost
one, the little stranger was placed in a
charitable institution to be educated The
institution happens tn be presided over bx
sister Of Mr. F. K. Womrath, member
of Councils in this city. Not long since
this lady wrote to her brother a remark.
able change was coming over the boy The
swarthlness of his complexion was wearing
OFT. lie was growing to look more aud
more like Charley Ross.
The boy said he once lived in a big
house on high hill, where his mother
taught him little song, and which is the
same one that Mrs. Ross taught her chill
cren. de also says that he remembers
leaving Boston, and while in Demerara
was obliged to wash in tank containing
kind of dirty water. He remembers be.
ing taken away from the house on the hill
by man in a wagon.
A picture was taken of the boy and
shown to Mr.. Ross, who says it is the best
picture of his son he has yet seen, while
Mrs. Ross can easily trace a resemblance
to the features of the lost boy.
Mr. Ross, who is never overhopeful,
strongly inclines to the belief that the bow
is his missing son. He has not yet seen
the boy, but will go to Baltimore for that
purpose next week.
+. 5. The father of Charley Ross arrived
in Baltimore on Tuesday last, and met the
Demarara boy, who, he declares, is not his
son.