Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-27
is CHARLIE ROSS tTNEg'
New York peteotNesscialm
to Know Him.
KNOWN AS CHARLIE M'CHRYSTY
Has This Great Mystery at
Last Been Cleared2
Reared on the Bowery and Aspires to be a
Bar Keeper In Chicago During the Fair
"A Strange Story.

~The New York World yesterday prints a
two-page story of the finding OF Charley
Ross, the kidnapped son of Charistian X.
Ross of Philadelphia. The World claims
that the detective bureau of New York City
and Inspector Byrnes are convinced that
they have at last discovered the boy.
Charles A. Grant of the New York police
commissioners office, has been following
the matter up, and says he has located the
abducted boy in Massachusetts, city. The
World says:
WHAT CHARLEY is LIKE NOW,
He is now typical New Yorker in his
manners and education-a New Yorker of
the Bowery type,the product of a hard life,
a continual sordid struggle for existence
Charley was 20 yeas old May 4th last
and will he of age in few months.
Ono of the persons in the secret has
spoken at last. 1t is the old Moscher-
Westeryelt- Douglass trail that has been fol-
lowed, and ii is therefore all the more
probable, for those who had eognizance of
all the circumstances subsequent to the
Charley Ross abduction never doubted for
momentthat Westeryelt and Mrs Moscher
knew where Charley Ross was or what be-
came of him.
Charley Ross has not gone to his fathers
house since he was told the story for two
reasons, first because of his affection for
the woman who brought him up and
treated him very kindly, and second, be
cause of his hatred for his real father and
mother, which has been inoculated from
his early life.
MR.. ROSS CONFERRED WITH.
After being convinced in his own mind
that he really had found the lost boy Mr..
Grant communicated with Mr.. Ross in
Philadelphia, through n member Of the
city council, George W. Boyer. six weeks
ago Mr.. Ross gave Mr.. Boyer list of ques-
tons % ask the boy. Three weeks. later
MIR. Boyer had another interview with the
parents. Mr. Ross said there was no re-
| ward outstanding.
II have spent $4,000 of my own and my
| friends money. am poor man now
| working for my living, and ! cannot beg
more and from my friends.h
Mr., Boyer explained that he did not
want any of the reward himself, nor did
| his friend iii New York want any reward;
but person who had information Of great
| value did, and would not tell what he
1 knew without reward.
now HE MAS FOUND.
A World reporter called on Mr.. Grant at
police headquarters to-day Yes he
said II am confident that the boy | have
1 been watching is the lOng-lost Charley
i Ross | am sure of it, MY first informal
ton came through liyeryman, He told
me that young woman, a friend Of his,
had told him that She knew where Charley
Ross was to be found. | went finally To
see the family Of which the young woman
was member. Her name is Tate, and
she lives with her mother and brother al
No. 80 East llSth street, on the top floor
The young woman's brothers name is
Willie, He is about Is years old, and fol
the past four years has been the chief ehun
Of Young Charley Met hrysty,n who is,
believe, no other than Charley Ross. Foui
months ago Charley began to tell his chun
a few little scraps of history. One day hi
said
MY name is not McChrysty. nor is /
Westerveltn lie also said You can e
down to the Aston library and YOU will SCI
my picture, and the picture Of my fathe
and my mother, and the woman am liv
ing with. My name is Charley Ross, but
do not want to be known. In 1892, whei
the Chicago Worlds Fair is running an
going TO Chicago to open a saloon, ant
everybody in the world will come and SCI
me, just like they come to see Stew
BrOdie1
Nr. Grant detailed how he and younj
Tate worked together to get at Charley
identity, and how the questions secure,
through Councilman Boyer of Philadel
phia were all correctly answered Thre
weeks ago Charley ran away, and he wrot
from Boston to one of his friends that h
was at Boston and intended to stay there
; Tate wrote him deCoy letter, trying to in
;; duce Charley to come TO New York
Only few days ago Charley wrote that h
was in jail for larceny; companion ha
stolen valise and he, Charley, was al
rested while the other escaped
: WHAT MR.. ROSS SAYS,
4 World reporter visited the father il
: Philadelphia, who said: II hope, indeed
/, but | don't believe. | study not to believ
. in the hope that some day I'll be agre,
7 ably disappointed was the substance {
i his interview
ON the morning of December 18th, 1874
/ the house of ] Holmes Van Brnt
: brother Of Judge Van Brunt at Bay Ridg,
. L, l., was entered by two burglars, Bot
= were shot by members of the family, an
!. Joseph Douglass confessed as he lay dyin
J. that he and William Moseher, his con
e panion, had abducted Charley Ross an
: held him for S20,000 ransom. Moscht
i. knew where he was, but Moscher WI
/, dead and Douglass never spoke again. Tt
= Grant investigations have traced the DO
to the woman into whose hands Moscht
ii hp how