Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-06-05
CHARLEY ROSS.
The Pisus,bis Ihssry Of 81 Expe-
Fisaesd Desecttvs. sd
Srr..pondsnce Psaad.,pAia Pr,

Gsrrespondence Philadelphia Pres.
New Yoax, April SOL was speak.
ing last night 10 . very efficient detec.
tive police ofiosr BY the name Of Gold.
ina, who has been In the New York ser
vice twenty years. he has been repeat
edly sent TO European countries for
escaped criminals, and recently brought
home from South America Q forgrr from
Ps~upsylysnia whom he had chased
around tbs oontinsnt-Ant to Callao.
then TO Lima, and 90 on, down tbs west
coast and through Smiths Sound into
the Pacific. and up to Montevido. and
finally caught him at Bio. / said TO this
man: "Have you any theory ~ to that
boy, Charley Boss. who was stolen from
Philadelphia"
II have a very distinct theory. "hs
said"
"Soms time after the boys disappear.
anoe, but Q good while before Douglass
and Moshsr, his captors, were killed ct
BAY Ridge, the body Of . little boy with
light brown hair was found In the water.
near Bergen Point dressed In girls
clothes. The body had been two or
three months In the water when found.
and
IT WAS BURIED.
No claim having BEEN made for II By
anybody, and no notice Of any lost child
having appeared In any OF the papers
OF this Vicinity. When Douglass and
Moeher were shot, Il was found that
thsir resort was about Bergen Point, on
the fats Of Newark Bay. The little
body was then dug up, but was 90 de-
composed that Mr.. Ross failed to identity
II. have no doub, myself that 1t was
his boy. Had that boy fallen Oh OF any
tug, barge, propeller or anything that
passes through the Kills, the alarm
would have bean given. Had 1t be.
longed to any person OF it, blood or kin
there would have BEEN an alarm. Taken
out Of the water 30 long after IT. calsm.
ity, and already unacceptable, Of course
Il went rapidly to decay after burial.
The fact that Mr.. Ross did not recognize
It as his child only shows that 10 was
conscientious"
""whAt were Douglass and Moshsri"
..Thsy were pirates. They generally
hauled their boat up on tho mud about
Bergen Point, . very good place for
them to rob bargss and other vessels
that came up through the back Kills and
down from Newark. With their yacht
or cat.boat they could take flight from
Jersey into New York Of any time, or
run up
10 CONNECTICUT"
Chow do you scooun. for such pirates
being away over at Germantown Penn
more than probable they went there
for the purpose Of stealing that boy:
They had been seen around Mr.. Ross
house several days before the boy was
taken he lived on . lonely lane, and
those fellows With their wagon had the
short cut over to the York road. ! pre-
sumo that they got tired OF small piracy
around the waters aud thought they
would make sgood big strike, and picked
out the spot and the boy. and then
driving all night on the good road be.
tween New York and Philadelphia, they
could have put the boy In their boat
anywhere below Newark. II my suppo-
sitiou IL correct they kept him until re-
peatsdly deceived In their hopes Of .
large ransom. when In order to avoid
punishment and 10 keep their word Of
revenge. they rugged the little fellow out
10 girls clothes and dropped him. over.
You recollect that when they
we're shot, the only one who could speak
opened his mouth % II remembering
else but his crime, and eI-
claimed: We are the men who took
Charley Rossl'"