The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-27
AFTER MANY YEARS.
The Long Lost Charlie Ross is
Said to be Located.
IN HIS PRISON CELL HE SITS
In Boston-He VIII Open Saloon in Chicago
Evidence of his Identity-Inspector
Byrnes' Opinion.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.l
New YORK, Nov. 26.-The World pub
fishes three pages of this story. 1t is more
than probable that Charlie Ross, the long
lost kidnapped SOD of Christian K. Ross,
has at last been found. The detective bu-
reau at New York police headquarters is
fully convinced that it has discovered
the boy. Charles A. Grant, chief clerk Of
the police commissioners of New York, is
the man who has worked the clue down to
point where Inspector Byrnes was con-
suited, and the latter's detectives
called in by Mr. Grant, who has
been following the case diligently
but quietly for several months, and
he now feels NO hesitation in stating
that he mas located Charles Ross in Mas
sachusetts city. The World is aware of the
boys present location and ne will be seen
by World reporter to-day.
About three months ago Charles A.
Grant, chief clerk of the police commits
sioners, was told that Charlie Ross, the
four-year- old boy who was abducted from
his parents home in Philadelphia in July,
1874 was alive and well in this city. The
boy is a typical New Yorker in his manners
and education, New Yorker of the Bow
cry type. Charlie was twenty years old
May last and will be of
age in few months, therefore,
knowing he would then be Independent
of those who reared and concealed him, one Of
the persons in the secret has spoken at last.
1t is the old Mosher-W stervelt- Douglass
trail and it is therefore all the more prob
able for those who had cognizance of all the
circums stances subsequent to Charlie Ross
abduction never doubted for moment that
Westervelt and Mrs. Mosher knew where
Charlie Ross was, or what became of him
after the calling of Mosher and Douglass
who stole him.
| And now comes very strange thing,
| Charlie Ross had not gone to his fathers
| house for two reasons. because OF his
affection for the woman who had brought
him up and treated him very kindly. Q
Because of his contempt for his real father
and mother which has been carefully in
| culcated from his early youth. They have
been represented to him as heartleSs per-
sons who preferred that he should die
rather than part with portion of their
wealth For this he has cast them or
along with his brothers and sisters and his
plan is to wait until he becomes of age and
then open saloon IL Chicago announcing
himself to the world as the long lost
Charlie Ross at the same time and produc-
ing proofs that will silence all doubt.
After preparing a voluminous mass of
O4 btlC SuOJCSb OC1uS Gull
1 WINGED in his own mind that he really had
found the lost boy, Mr.. Grant communi
Gated with Mr.. Ross in Philadelphia,
through a member of the city council
there named George w. Boyer. Six weeks
ago Mrs. Ross gave Mr.. Boyer list of
questions to ask the boy. Three weeks
later Mr.. Boyer had another interview
with the parents. Mr.. Ross said there was
no reward outstanding. 81 have spent
$50. 900 of nv own and my friends money -
he said. II am poor man now, working
for my living, and L cannot beg more aid
: from MY friends
Mr. Boyer explained he did not want any
of the reward himself nor did his friend in
New York want any reward, but a person
who had information of great value did and
! would not tell what he knew without re-
, ward, and from that day to this Mr.. Ross
, had heard nothing further from Mr..
Boyer.
Ross is now in Boston, where he is in jail
waiting trial for larceny.