The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-20
A CHARLEY ROSS FOUND.
After Years of Search Detectives
Find the Son of an Oregon Man.
FrOra The PJ jJulJeJrbio T0roes

Find the Son of en- Oregon Man.
From the Philadelphia Press.
PIrTsBURG, Sept. 1T have found
Harry. We are coming as fast as steam
will carry u.s." Such was the telegram
sent yesterday from Pittsburg by Govern
ment Detective w. G. Negus to George W.
Whitbeck, a millionaire of Portland, Ore.
Mr.. Whitbeck and his wife for six long
years have mourned as lost their baby boy,
Harry, who was spirited away from their
princely home when mere infant. Detec-
tive Negus was encountered on a Virginia
and Charleston train coming from Home
stead, this county, where he unearthed
Harry, having found the little fellow with
a mill worker named G.. G. Lang, of that
place. Mr.. Negus' story was as follows:
George w. Whitbeck was one of the
successful real estate dealers on the Oregon
coast. He retired from business ten years
ago and married Lydia Robinson daughter
OF one Of the wealthiest California Forty
miners. She was Mr.. RobInsons only
child, and he gave her dowry of $500, 900
The couple built fine residence on the out
skirts Of Portland. Within two years this
little fellow Coating Harry ON the head
afectionately) came into the world. He is
7years old to>day.
"Old Mr.. Robinson came TO live with his
daughter, saying that his greatest pleasure
in life was to be with his grandson. Envi-
GUS people, however. were around. and one
afternoon, when the child was IA months
old, he was spirited away. A diligent
search was prosecuted, but no trace Of him
could be found. The parents offered fabu-
lous amounts OF money for the return of
their boy.
"About a month afterward the family
received communication from San Diego,
Cal, purporting to be from the kidnaper,
stating that if $4,000 were forthcoming the
boy would be returned. Mr.. Whitbeck
advertised that double the sum would be
gladly paid and no questions asked if the
anonymous writer would bring the boy
back, but the miscreauts, evidently fearing
trap, did not turn mp. The old grand
father pinned and fretted for his grandchild
and finally died.
MIR. Whitbeck has spent over $4,000 in
useless search. Detective after detective
has owned himself baffled aud retired from
the field | have been steadily travelling for
two years in search of the boy, and in that
time have visited almost every city in the
United States. | came across my first true
clue at Omaha about SIX months ago, when
learned that woman having q strange
child bearing the peculiar marks which l
knew belonged to Henry, had left there two
years previous for P1ttSburg.
Il LOIIoWeQ on ana IounC ChoI tue woman
had married man named c. G. Long, a
miner, and had gone goodness knows where.
l plodded ahead and yesterday located
Long at Homestead. His wife was dead,
and l found Hapy playing in the mud
with some Hungarian children l knew
him in an instant. He is tie exact counter
part of his mother, and l Immediately
grasped that little fellow and literally tore
his clothing off i'll search of the birthmarks
which Harry carried.
II found then Long says his wife told him
that she had got Harry from another
woman, who passed the boy off as her own,
and could not afford to keep him Long
didn't make any fuss, and hurried the boy
off to HON stead. got him some new clothes
and cleaned him up, and now We are going
home 70 his mother"