Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-12-05
CHe gLEY ROSS FOUND.
e. e. EowninS Turns cut to be
the Man.
RENO, New. Dec. 3, IS.

RENO, New. Dec. 3, Sc.
To THE EDITOR OF THE APPEAL
Our usually quiet and sedat'
burg has had several experience
this week which have shaken on,
society to its foundation and caus
ed people to enquire of each -wha
next. First in order came the en-
tertainment Of the Washoe Min
strels on Monday night. They
played to crowded house and oul
home Rule Talent acquitted itself
Powning in the title role was I'M
mense and played like an old stager
He says he can do it again. Col
onel Lindsay brought down the
house with his inimitable extrava-
ganza, Take it Bob
As Cassidy was not present on
account of some bank troubles in
our sister State of California, our
own Nasty sang for him, Dollars to
Dumplings" with fine effect.
Gross receipts nine dollars and a
half.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the
stock boom attracted the attention
Of everybody from the banker to
the servant giyl. The shoemakers
and BARRIERS even got excited and
dug up old stockings and emptied
their contents on the market for
shares in the Comstock mines.
Several millionaires are now num-
bered among our residents and still
the end is not yet.
But the greatest excitement pre-
vailed on Thursday after the death
of Doc. Hogan, when it became
known that he had at the last hour
made confession. You no doubt
have been advised by wire that our
patriotic Doctor is no more-yes-
he died as he had lived, and had it
not been for his own testimony to
the contrary, every one here would
have mourned his loss as irrepar-
able. But alas for hun an hopes
and conclusions, the Doctor was
not what he appeared to be.
But to make long story short,
for have not much time to write,
it appears from a statement made
to your correspondent by Father
of the Seventh Day
Baptist's church here. to whom the
Doctor told his last story IN this
world, that he the Doctor was the
abductor of Charley Ross who was
taken and carried from his parents
il Philadelphia some seventeen
years ago. But this is only a be-
ginning Of the denouement, for the
Doctor whose pulse was growing
more feeble every minute, still more
the good Father by say
ing that the veritable Charley Ross
is now and for years has been llv-
ing Reno under an assumed name or
rather name gwen him by the
Doctor for reasons best known to
himself. But as life was fast eb-
bling away and few moments more
would be his last, the Doctor after
asking forgiveness from the more
than bereaved parents Of Charley
and the prayers Of the church for
The welfare Of his soul, only had
strength enough left to say that
Charley Ross was now known as
g. G. Pownlng.
1t is not thought here that c. c.
alias Charley Ross knows
lnything Of his early years, or of
he Doctors conspiracy, as all will
'emember that Charley was but
.hild when kidnapped.
No one here processes to be able
o solve the mystery or the inten-
ion of the Doctor EXCEPT that it
vas not for the purpose of gain.
Will give you more particulars in
ny next. II. II. B.
LArER.-Since the above was in
ype special dispatch from Reno
tates that Hogan has been resus-
itatcd by receiving a nomination
rom the Greenback party, renoun-
es his former death-bed statement
nj now asserts that Powning is
he man who struck Billy Patter-
on in New Jersey several years
go.
An EuuuirinR Per60p.