Daily Republican., 1879-05-08
CHARLEY ROSS DEAD.
New York detectives EtOry-Wbat
he knows about This Remarkable
ase.

he knows about This Remarkable
sase.
Charley Ross dead or alive, will al
ways he the subject of curious specula-
tion and theories will bespnn upon the
slenderest threads at the slightest pro-
vocation. The latest view Of the case
is thus given by the New York CORES
pondent of the Philadelphia "Press."
was speaking to an efficient detective
officer by the name of GoldiEg who has
been in the New York service twenty
years. He has been repeatedly sent to
European countries for escaped crimin
ais, and recently brought home from
South America a forger from Pennsyl-
vania whom he had chased around the
Continent-6rst to Calloa, and then to
Lima, and so on, down the west coast
and through Smiths Sound into
the Pacific, and up to Montevideo, and
finally caught him at Rio. | said to
this man: Have you any theory as
to that boy, Charley Ross, who was
stolen from Philadelphia ?"
81 have very distinct theory" he
said.
"Some time after the boys disap-
pearance, but good while before Doug.
lass and Mosher, his captors, were kill
ed at Bay Ridge, the body of little
boy with light brown hair was found in
the water near Bergen Point, dressed in
eirls clothes. The body had been two
or three months in the water when
found, and it was buried, no claim hav'
ing been made for it by anybody, and
no notice of any lost child having ap
peared in any of the papers of this vi
cinitv. When Douglass and Mosher wert
shot, it was found that their resort wa:
|, about Bergen Point, on the flats Of New
ark Bay. The little body was then dug
up, but was so decomposed that Mr.
Ross failed to identify it. have NJ
doubt myself that it was his boy. Hat
i. the boy fallen off any tug, barge, pro
! peller or anything that passes through
!, the Kills, the alarm would have beer
given. Had it belonged to any person
: of its blood or kin there would hav'
been an alarm. Taken out of the wa
ter so long after its calamity and alread.
. unrecognizable, of course it went rap
idly to decay after burial. The fac
: that Mr.. Ross did not recognize it as hi
d child only shows that he was conscien
y tious."
o What were Douglass and Mosher?'
"They were pirates. They general
J hauled their boat up on the mud abou
" Bergen Point, very good place fo
+ them to rob barges and other vessel
> that came up through the back Kill
e and down from Newark. With thei
IL Yacht or cat boat they could take Aigh
IS from Jersey into New York at any time
or run up to Connecticut.
. "How do you account for such pirate
II being away over at Germantown, Penn
: sylvania!"
le "More than probably they went ther
~ for the purpose of stealing that boy
v They had been seen around Mr.. Ros
ie house several days before the boy WI
" taken. He lived on lonely lane, an
&c those fellows with their wagon had Il
SNORT CUT OVtI w tHb lOIh Iodu'
le 1 presume that they got tired of sma
~ piracy around the waters and thoug
" they wonld make big strike, an
IA picked out the spot and the boy, al
ne then driving all night onthe good roa
" between New York and Philadel phi
IT, they could have put the boy in the
le boat anywhere below Newark. If n
"a "a supposition is correct they keep hi
eu until repeatedly deceived in their hop
ID, of large ransom, when, in order
=, avoid punishment and to kept the
nc 'is work of revenge, they rugged the lit
la a fellow out in girls clothes and dropp'
'o him overheard. You recollect tn
T. when they were shot, the only enc W
he 1T could speak opened his mouth as if
II. memberiAg nothing else but this GRIN
On and exclaimed: "We are the men "
10 took Charley Ross