The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-05-28
CHARLEY ROSS.
The Theory of an Experienced Detective.
philadelphia Press1

The Theory of an Experienced Detective. 4
Philadelphia Press.l gsa
I was speaking last night to very efficient
detective police officer by the name of
Golding, who has been in the New York
service 20 years. he has been repeatedly
criminals, and recently brought home from
South America forger from Pennsylvania
whom he had chased around the continent
first to Callao, then to Lima, and so on, down
the west coast and through Smiths Sound
into the Pacific, and up to Montevideo, and
man: Have you any theory as to that boy,
Charley Ross, who was stolen from Phila-
delphia?" 7 tel.astl Nous O. b-i's
II have a very distinct theory" be said
~ Some time after the boys disappearance,
but q good while before Douglass and
Mosher, his captors, were killed at Bay
Ridge, the body of little boy with light
brown hair was found in the water near Ber-
gen Point, dressed in girls clothes. The
body had been two or three months in the
water when found, and 1t was buried, no
claim having been made for it by anybody,
peared in any of the papers Of this vicinity.
When Douglass and Mosher were shot, it
was fo1nd that their resort was. about Der
gen Point, on the fats of Newark bay.
The little body was then dug up, but was
so decomposed that Mr.. Ross failed to
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was his boy. Had that boy fallen off of any
tug, barge, propeller, or anything that passes
through the Kills, the alarm would have
been given. Had 1t belonged to any pei son
of its blood or kin, there would have been
an alarm. Taken out of the water SO long
after its calamity, and already unrecogniz =
bic, OF course it went rapidly to decay after
burial. The fact that Mr.. Ross did not
recognize it as his child only shows that he
was conscfentlous." as.s'f
"What were Douglass and Mosher?'
They were pirates; they generally hauled
their boat up on the mud about Bergsn
Point. q very good place for them to NIB
barges 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 at any
time, or run up to Connecticut"
/ How do you account for such pirates
being away over at Germantown, PennT'
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. presume that they got tired of small
piracy around the waters and thought they
would make good big strike, and picked
out the spot and the boy, and then driving
all night on the good road between New
York and Philadelphia, they could
boat anywhere below Newark. II
my superstition is correct they kept him
until repeatedly deceived in their hopes Of
large ransom, when, in order to avoid pun
isnment and to keep their word of revenge
they rugged the little fellow out in girl,
clothes and dropped him overheard. You
recollect that when they were shot, the only
one who could speak opened his mouth - Il
\ remembering nothing else but this crime
and exclaimed. 1--WE are the men who tool
Charley Rossl' -174 sN5
lis 1t often that children are stolen in thii
country?' ss5s -. ~. rod.
"Not very often. About once In 10 or 1:
years tnefe - = cni,o ssssnng case. a.
child, and she was sent to the penitentiar,
| for eight years"