Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-03
CHARLEY ROSS.
The Story of His ABDUCTION as Told IN HE
Father at fremont Temple.

The Story of HIS abduction, as Told IN lis
Father at fremont Temple.
Boston Herald.
About six hundred people assembled at
fremont Temple last night to hear Mr..
Christian X. Ross tell the story of the alb
duction of his little boy from his home at
Germantown, suburb of Philadelphia, on
the LIST day of July, 1874. There were on
the platform Lieutenant Governor Knight,
several members Of the Governors council,
the clerk of the Massachusetts Senate, and
many other gentlemen we'll known in public
and private life. Mr.. Ross was introduced
by the Hon. j. B. D. Cogswell; of Yarmouth.
The speaker stepped forward, and, after t 9
applause with which he was received had
somewhat subsidized, said: 'Ladies and gem
tleman, 1 don't presume to come before you
as lecturer; that is not my forte; my sole and
only object is to state plainly, simply and
clearly to you the leading facts of case that
is nearest to my heart. There are certain
events belonging to persons and families
that assume such an enlarged sphere and be-
come of such deep interest as to excite pub
lie attention, and the case of the abduction
of my boy was a case of this kind. The let
case,' said he, sshow that the business, was
to have been made permanent had the at
tempt to extort money from me boon sue
cessful. I refused to compound the crime.
and my own home has been desolated. I
think my refusal to compound the crime by
paying the villains the sum of money they
demanded, $780, 900; has made the children Of
other people much safer than they other
wise would have been; for the popular out
CRY that ensued when the fact of the abduc-
ton of my little boy became known showed
the kidnapers that their lives would not be
safe minute if they were arrested Mr..
Ross then went on to relate the facts con-
nected with the abduction, occasionally read
ing extracts from letters received from the
villains to show that the men really had the
child in their possession, and that up to the
time the reward of $4,000 was offered by
the citizens of Philadelphia, for the return
of the boy and the arrest of the abductors,
they were, if not in the city very near it, and
that the offering of the reward and the re-
newed activity among the officers that inn
mediately followed had the effect of driving
them from the city and out of the State. He
also read letters showing that the men Mosh-
or and Douglass, who were killed at Bay
Ridge, Il. l., while attempting to commit q
burglary, were, without doubt. the men who
kidnapped the boy. Their death he regarded
as an unfortunate circumstance, because they
would have been very soon arrested, and
then they might have revealed the boys
whereabouts. AS the lecturer related the many
journeys made by him in the vain attempt to
recover the child, it was very evident that he
had the full sympathy Of his auditors. He
spoke, during the lecture, of an attempt that
was to have been made by the same men to
abdnct little grandson of Commodore
Vanderbilt, and then compel his parents to
pay large sum as ransom. Had the attempt
been successful, he had information from
the men themselves that his little boy would
| have been killed in order to show the parents
| of other little ones what to expect in case
their children were stolen and the ransom
demanded was not forthcoming. The in
situations that have been thrown out re-
garding the disappearance to the effect that
he or his family knew where the child was
were referred to, and Mr.. Ross announced
his determination to prosecute the search as
Hong as God gave him strength SO to do. n
conclusion, he announced that he would
speak in the same place on Friday night Of
this week, upon the pleasing incidents that
have occurred during his long search.