The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1885-05-07
CHARLEY ROSS FATE.
nEAsONs why az WAS Nor KILLED.
An Associate Of {" mn . mssIsF who says
the Boy - Alive.

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Christopher Worcester, alias Charles
Wilson, was arrested in New York city,
after the arrest Of Frank Slater and
Henry Kerrigan, q boy, for stealing e
horse and wagon belonging to William
McClave, q Hunters Point lumber mer-
chant An official at the Brooklyn
police headquarters said: There is a
/ great deal behind the arrest Of these
fellowH. Slater Is an all-around thief.
When Sergeant Reardon arrested him
he begged the sergeant 10 destroy a GER
tain memorandum found on him, say
ing II he didn't 1t would go hard with
one Of the force. Finally he broke
down and confessed everything. The
boy Kerrigan stroye to break the force
Of the confession by denials. His con-
fession has not only put us on the road
70 the recovery Of horses and wagons
which have been stolen hereabouts, but
we can by II locate property stolen in
other parts Of the country and from st.
Louis TO Montauk Point. The boy
Kerrigan Is fourteen years old. His
father, 1t is said, was Slater's cousin.
He is q smart one. II Slater had not
confessed SO much / do think the lad
would have made the affair all right by
Ibis straightforward lies"
a Worcester is sixty years old now and
% known In every prison as Charles
Wilson. But as Kit Worcester he is
notorious for his connection with the
abduction OF Charley Ross.
Eyes, was connected with that
GlQA. - 0Ofd NVnpQnofnw efoonI 80
ed and locked up as the abductor / \
spent nine days in Jail and then was
released. / believe Charley Ross is
alive. Bin Mosher, one OF the two
men who abducted him, was shot and
killed while trying to work Judge Van
Brunt's house at Bay Ridge. Mosher
didn't kill the boy He was not that
kind Of man. H would not have |
anything to do with q bloody crime.
Why, he was like woman in his feel
ings. He was very kind man.. No,
he took good care Of the boy when he
found he could not return him and
good care is being taken OF the boy
to-day.
"When / was released 1 went to Mr..
Ross and was frequently in communion
lion with him. 1 opened communica.
ton with the men who took the boy.
ALI they wanted was $500, but he went
70 the police with the letters. They
knew every time he called on the police
and so when the Aldermen got at the
case they wrote that letter you remem-
Der to the police and put the price for
he boys return away up. About this
lime was staying in o saloon on Third
street, Philadelphia. All hands knew
hat had been acting as a go-between,
% some Of them suggested that good
way for me to act If was called on
gain would be to open an Office for the
ecovery of lost property.
'"The suggestion was q good one and
was at that time that / first saw the
nan who, with Bin Mosher, stole Char
~ Ross. A few weeks afterward 1 was
allied upon and / submitted my plan to
lr Barnes and Others. They all liked
!, but didn't put 1t into operation, be-
ause they wished me to play false To
he men with whom / would have to
ave the dealings and as they wouldn't
l0k at the scheme in any other way II
topped. This was Just about the time
lat the newspapers were crying out
gainst compromising felony by giving
reward to the thieves. II the Office
nd been open Charley would have been I
ONE in few days. Bill Mosher had
rother, and believe, from what have
card him say of that brother, that he
ade known to him all about the boy"
EDO you know the boy Kerrigan, who
as arrested with Slater ?" 9
eyes"
HE lives in the house in which you I
ere arrested? ?"
yes; but don't live there; visit y
q place once in while" =
''How old is the boy?" :
"About fourteen years old; about the 4
% of Charley Ross; but he is not 9
harley Ross. He is ark-featured; '"
harley is light-featured; SO is all the a
ISIS family. Besides, Charley is more !
fined looking. The Ross stock is 81
cd. Oh, no, he lis not Charley Ross. ?
lyone who has ever seen any member a
the family can see that This Ross =
se," Worcester continued, ''has stuck y
me, and whenever'anything comes up a.
brings me into prominence. But II a
At be helped now" p
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