St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-18

river bank, and he howled according to
programme. When the gator came out
of the water to get him l missed him,
and lie grabbed my Sl00 dog. chain,
stake and all, and went back into the
water with him. | hunted up negro
who had dog, and we got the big
gator next day. l cut him open and
found the chain and collar which my
dog had worn, but you can understand
that the dog was not there"
SIS
Columns have been written in the
papers on the subject of the abduction
of Charlie Ross from Philadelphia in
tie year 1874, and the public is still
wondering whether the boy is now alive
or not. &. ii. Ives, travelling manager
stopping at the Ryan yesterday, is the
man who handled the case from the
start. and he is sure that the missing
boy is dead, and has been dead since a
few weeks after his abduction.
Il was engaged by the Charlie Ross
searching committee of Philadelphia to
find the boy if possible" he said to
reporter for the GLOBE. 81 have worked
OH all the clues which have ever been
discovered. and it has been my impress
sion from the start that the boy died
shortly after he Was taken away from
home. Mosher and Douglass, who stole
him. wrote to Mr.. Ross on the follow
ing day instructing hi IN to send his
answers to them through the personal
columns Of the New York Herald. In
order to prove that they had the child
in their possession they sent home pOr-
TINS Of the boys dress. think they
sent home one OF his stockings on one
occasion. The father did not have the
$4,000 which they demanded as ran
som, but he tried his best to raise it.
They made all kinds of dates with him,
agreeing to produce the boy as soon as
the money should be paid over. On one
occasion they were to meet him in the
Fifth Avenue hotel, where he was to
register under an assumed name, and
they were to meet him there. They did
not come, however. Then they ar
ranged to meet him on various walks
which he was instructed to take, but
they did not meet him. Then they
wrote him to stand on the back platform
of car Oh the New York Central road
and throw off a package containing the
money to man who would be standing
i'll a eOrnfield with a white flag. We
had some sharpshooters i'll the baggage
car armed with Winchesters, and they
were to pick off the men who would be
at the flag pole. But we saw nothing
of them
''One day he got letter from them
stating that the boy was sick. 1t was not
generally known that he was suffering
from kidney trouble. which, if not at
tended to properly, would cause his
death. The description which they gave
OF the boys illness left no doubt that the
boy was suffering from this trouble. In
a few more days they wrote again, stat
ing that if the boy died his blood would
be on the head of his father. 1t was but
few days afterward that Mosher and
Douglass were killed on Staten island
while they were trying to rob the house
of Judge Van Brunt. They tried to eff
feet an entrance to the house, which
alarmed the son of the judge. He Sc
cured shotgun aud shot both of the
men. One OF them died instantly, and
the other was too far gone to give any in
formation. Their boat was found short
distance away, and in the boat was the
clothing of the boy. He had undoubtedly
died and his body cast into the water"