The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03
THE SEARCH FOR CHARLIE ROSS.
RnscalIy New York Police Officers
Prevented Success Being Attained.

Prevented Success Being Attained.
From the Philadelphia Enquirer.
So many years have passed since the
child Charles Ross was stolen from his
home in Germantown that the crime is
lost to the memory of many, but that
has not deferred some people from still
making the attempt to palm off a bogus
youth upon the afflicted family as the lost
son. The latest effort of this kind was
made by woman who represented her
self as the widow of one of the two burg
lars who were killed at Bay Ridge. L. l.
while trying to rob the house of judge of
'he courts. The woman brought with her
young man, who, relative Of the bov
says was fiat headed and beetle browad
ana could in no way have borne resem.
oiahce to what little Charlie would have
ueeh at manhood. She had the story of
the disappearance pat enough--how the
.Mo children, Charlie and Walter, were
Iqgcoyed from the lawn of the house. at
"ashlhgton lane and Chew street, by the
I"o men in a wagon, Mosher and Doug
+assi now they were driven into the coun-
HN, Where Walter the elder, was dropped
anu now $4,000 ransom had been offered
tor me recovery of the younger son. Other
avs she seemed familiar with, but her
scneme had nothing else in it.
Many believed the boy to be dead. There
nave been a hundred or more alleged char
- out IN no instance has the father. who
las travelled all over the country. had any
-tOpe after once seeing the alleged child or
sOuIh produced. The secret of his fate
piooaoly died with the Bay Ridge burg
a a@ts, one Of whom expired Immediately
Itler being shot, while the other only lived
iOHS enough to say that his companion
3 1.au known where the child was, that the
,du was still alive, but that he himself
ne" nothing of his location.
- Hdrrat1ng some of the facts the reia-
IVES OF the Ross family also shed more
-isut upon the efforts to find the boy. and
Hiaue the important statement that once
"nen success seemed assured they were
I1IIustrated by one of the police captains of
Nv II OK, man who was charged before
e'.e LeXow committee with having acouir-
el wealth by the most CORRUPT means. II
as there, he says, the kidnappers had ar
-alised tQ deliver their prisoner upon the
cement OF the $4,000. They had exacted
"e condition that Mr.. Ross and those
Helping him should leave New York upon
o-a OF a special train, a locomotive and
N'ie car, bound for Albany.
~ AZ one point along the road a colored
-1l'tern light was to be waved, and the
Money at this signal was to be dropped
~ ~ the side of the track Further up the
n"eK there was to be another light shown,
~, tliu mere the boy was to be delivered to
,HIeH- According to the relatives story,
r rt9 rescuing party took along an expert
iit1ieman, with the object of manning the
oee napper whoever he might be, and then
b., Jung MS capture. They made the trip
Su1 nothing came of Il. No lights were
1 M and no other clew was obtained
ne police captain in question, the rela-
~, I've says, gave the tip to the thieves that
oae sharpshooter would be on board the
ar Walter Ross, the son who was
saItopped by the country side, was married
ABOUT two months ago.