The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-31
ROMANTIC, BCT DELCSIyE.
The Charlie Ross Discovery Epidemic
Breaks Out in New Form.

Inc Snarlle moss discovery epidemic
Breaks Out in a New Form.
| BROOKLYN, \. y, Oct, 80. -Charles
Augustus Plnkham, the sailor boy, has ar
rived here from Portland, Maine, and il
| convincing many people that heels the ver.
table Charlie Ross. The story OF his kid
MAJ ping by Jesse James is one Of the most
remarkable ever told, and shows that re-
| ioubtable freebooter TO have been pirate
as we'll as train robher. Charlie SAYS:
II was picked up in the street in Phila.
delphia, put on board a steamboat, taken
to Bpstou, thence by rail to Portland and
Wiuterport. was kept in large house
| IN which there seemed to be u
great many children, but | did
not see any of them for very long time,
and did not see a woman all the time |
was there, After about TWO years they let
a girl come into my room to play with me
once in while, and sometimes let u, 90
out in the yard to play, 1t was large
yard, with high boards all around it, The
girls name was Fanny riescall,
lni she said that man named Jesse
lanes stole her from Brazil. From
! he girl | afterward learned that
the men who stole me were
Jesse james. Piukham and two other meu
named Davidson Pinkham was q very tall
man, the tallest man ] ever saw. Je>se
James was not SO tall, but was good sized
man. james was Of dark complexion.
one Of the DavIdsons wore black mus
tache, and the other side .whiskers. James
WAS commonly called Jesse by the rest.
Jesse went with me when was first taken,
but did not stop long After a long time
the girl Fanny and we're taken on board
II vessel rugged like bark.
and were taken to the southern coast. 1t
ght have been to Texas, but anyway 1t
was where twas warm Here jesse James
and the others came on board aud brought
their horses with them. The horses would
come when called, and wonld act like cir
.u, horses do, There were stalls for the
horses On each Side, and section of the
0road>ide Of the bark was so fixed that it
could be moved, and when We made port
hey would run out platform. take their
lorSrs and ride off. Jesse and the rest
seemed - own the bark, aud managed il
u they pleased, aud when they went OH
shore would leave Il large man III charge
who was kinder to us children than the
est The bark was nothing but pirate,
and once we were chased by a cutter, but
escaped, The bark was loaded with lots OF
thin-s, and had many guns on board. By
guns | mean rifles. AT last we made q
small port IN Brazil, and the large man was
eft alone on board. He had been drink
M, suppose, for he opened the door
.
children. come out, aud then he told US to
20. The girl took me, and We went ashore
md wandered around for a while, and at
sst went to a spanish hotel aud stayed there
hree DAYS until the bark sailed. Finally
We got a passage to New York. That was
about 1--WE years ago. After we got on
shore the girl tod me that my name
vas Charley Ross and she told me always
% remember it. 1t seemed to bring things
back 10 me when she called me Charley
'Ross, and ! remembered things | had
forgotten. learned TO cook and shipped
On the bark Ada Carter, from Bos-
ION to Brazil, and Fanny went with me.
She wanted to lind out about her people,
and learned that her father and mother
we're bota dead, When ne got back she
,, went to i've at Lynn. and was at work in
shoe shop. From Lynn she went to Law
renee, where she was at work in one of the
, shoe shops in the tinishing.roOm when |
!, heard from her. | saw her last about two
gears ago. ] then shipped in the j. b.
Brayton, bound from Fall river TO
south America, and on the
way | was very sick with fever.
Nv hair came off, and when ii came out
again it was darker than it had been.
While l was sick things seemed to come
, ba tx to me some way and knew that | was
Charley Ross, but I did not know who
Charley Ross was. i never lead a book
about Charley Ross, and never heard Of
Charley Ross except what Fanny said, until
about two years ago. can read little,
and make letters, but don't know how to
put them together. While on board the
bark with Jesse and the rest expected to
be killed. l heard one of them say
once, what shall we do with
the boyH and the other said, We'll
kill him. They didn't give me enough to
eat sometimes, and then sometimes they'd
whip me. This year was in the schooner
Lizzie NJ. Stewart, and we landed at place
called Winterport, and went ashore with
; the cadtain. While there saw large
i building and lot Of rock and things near
E the house looked natural to me. Still 1t
might not have been the place. don't
know who am, of course, but think am
Charley Ross. think Mr.. Ross must be
my father, and want to see him.. "
Do; Pinkham is very ignorant and is unable
to recall names, except by a great effort,
y and is rather confused about ordinary mat
e ters, but he appears to be very honorable
in his feelings, and to cherish real affec'
ton for the mother ho cannot recall. the
l.. relies chiefly on the Nore that Frank James
= may be induced to 81, what he Knows
! about him | Fro lanes falls tn rN-
;. suo u tie way as, he d"rH's
!. Us pr"Pr>r iu ln ''S'i'' '!G' IT,
!, Ia 20 right The ., 'he ii n ny -
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