The times., 1897-08-01
CARR ON THE HIGH SEAS
Probability That He Boarded a
Steamer at Baltimore.
NEW AND PLAUSIBLE THEORY
Has q Record as an Ocean -yagrant
and May Have Taken This Means
OF Escaplng-seen 10 Jump
Train ON tlat Night OF The Crime
Police Despondent.

James Carr. the ravisher Of little Rosa
Robinson, Is still at large. and il begins
TO look like even tie police and detective
depart tments are beginning TO despair Of
his being aprrehended
Detective Boydleftearly yesterday morr-
ing for MarllhsNine, Va. believing that
possibly the party under arrest there
might throw some Ii ght on the where's bouts
OF Carr It was known before the de-
tectire left mat the man arrested there
was not Carr. but it was thought that
he might he able TO give some facts
which would lead 10 the discovery or the
Iatter'S whereabouts
Detective Boyd returned last night at
- Late hour aud reported that hrs trip
had been a fu1itless one. that the man
arrested was joan X. Maggener. well
known - wampoodle' tough. who was
simply heating mis- " ay out Of the District
To a Times man Debectiye Boyd said:
before / as sent on my trip l knew
that the man was not Carr, but it was
thought the party under arrest might
be able 70 tell us, il he woaid, where
Carr was That was the only hope we
had, sud Ia this We were disappointed
although Maggener was a running mate
Of the flend who outraged Rosa Robinson
The trip amounted TO nothing, as Waggeler
would not tell anything
CertaiA factsin connection with the early
life OF James Carr, the ravisher CT little
Rosa Robinson, have just developed, and
they furnish a basis for what may explain
the failure OF the police TO capture him.
Instead ufthe fug1uTe's hiding in the woods
about the city or beating his way west
ward he is now safely aboard an ocean
steamer bound for some foreign port, accord
ing to the new theory.
The plausihility OF that theory may be
gathered from the following @~s+s urhirh
are wei known to neighbors
James Carr was an unruly
ing his early boyhood, and he a.
a strong desiie To assoc ate "
rawdies Il his neighboThooG
ten years Of age his mother d.
him TO school, and as she
Of relatives i n Dublin, Irels
Guided that she would pla
school In that city Accprdi
was sent across the water,
relative. The wayward yom
susted with the restrictions
him there, SO he determl nee
He left school one night, am
ward shipped aboard cattle
for Baltimore
His appearance here few
q big surprise TO his parent
soundly thTashed for lear
Instead CT this doing him
him determined to leave
did. His Familiarity with 4
a cattle ship made il easyf
job ON one OF them, SO
tramp" bound for Liverpool. He sua -.
there nearly year, and then came back,
working his way as before.
Since that time he lived more or less at
home, though he frequently embarked on
'hobo" expeditions.
A police officer of the Sixth precinct,
who lis familiar with the tramp" steam
ers OF Baltimore, said last night that there
was nothing to prevent Carr from catch
ing the 11,45 express to Baltimore the
might he committed the crime and Sc
curing position on one of the "trampsu
going out from Baltimore.
The captains Of these vessels, as rule,
care nothing about the antecedents of the
men they employ, 50 they are able to
perform their work.
carrs familiarity with work Of this
description and his acquaintance among
the ''roustabouts" in Baltimore make it
possible that he took this means OF es-
Gaping
fact in support Of this theory is that
Private Detective McDeviJt has secured
reliable information that Carr did jump
the ll:45 train for Baltimore at the cor
ner of First street and Delaware avenue
northeast on the night the crime was COM
mitted.