Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-28
CAN'T BE CHARLEY ROSS.
Christian X. Ross, the Father, Saws De-
cidedly He Is Not.

Christian X. Ross, the Father, Saws De-
cidedIy He Is Not.
A special dispatch from Boston of date
the 26th says: In company with World
reporter Mr. Christian X. Ross reached
Boston tonight, and an interview Was
arranged with the boy, Charlie Nc
Christy, whom the New York police be-
lieve to be the long-lost Charlie Ross.
The story of the work of Chief Clerk 9.
4. Grant, of the New York Police De-
partment, and the arrival here OF Detec-
tive Adams was told exclusively III the
World this morning.
After an extended interview with the
boy Mr. Ross failed to identify him, and
tonight he still feels that he isl no nearer
the child than at the hour on that sunny
July afternoon in 1874 when his son was
kidnapped by Mosher, Douglas, and
Westervelt.
CAN MR.. ROSS BE MISTAKEN?
If Christian X. Ross after the lapse of
sixteen years, in which his curly headed,
fair-haired child of three years has grown
to manhood and become a creature like
the associates with whom he has grown
up, does not identify Charley NcChristy
as his son il, after so many false clues
which have fallen into nothing, and skep-
teal, undecided, and with a predisposi-
! tion-unconsclous perhaps, but per-
fectly natural-to find in the youth in
question another boy than his own, how
by antithesis, it recalls the case OF the
vulgar Butcher orion, whom Lady Itch
borne recognized as her long-lost child.
Lady Tichbone, it will be remem-
bered, received the butcher as the heir
TO the Tichborne title even in the face of
the strongest circumstantial evidence
| that he was a fraud. She died IN this
belief. 1t turned out that tho man
Orion, whom she believed to be the son
she had borne her husband, was sharper
and she his dupe, but she believed in
him to the end. He was tried and SEN
fenced to imprisonment for sailing under
false colors, and no one had the slightest
| doubt that he was fraud. Yet his pu-
tatiye mother embraced him as her child.
PERHAPS DECEIVED.
This young fellow in sixteen years,
and with the hand-to-mouth existence
he has led IN that time has changed far
more than boy brought up in the same
conditions in which he was born could
possibly do Could his father, with the
image of the gentlyreared, delicately-
nurtured babe whom he remembered,
believe that the rough, untutored
youth whom he finds in q Jail and O
companion of thieves was the same
golden. haired child whom no had
LOST 1t would take a tremendous eff
fort 10 believe it-a positive identified
ton that admitted of not jot nor O
title of suspicion. But MIR. Ross had
been deceived so many times. and he
has admitted that he now stees himself
against any hope of ever finding his child
again. May he have not been mistaken
III his way as Lady Tichborne was il
hers?
Mr.. Ross declares that he is entirely
satisfied that the young man who ha
lived with the McChristys under The
name of Charley McChristy, and who
has lately been saying that he is Charley
Ross, is really no other than the seconC
son of Burglar Bill Mosher, who WIS the
principal abductor Of Charley and whC
was killed at Bay Ridge in 1874 Will,
committing burglary in the house o
Judge Van Brunt.