The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-26
CHARLEY ROSS CASE REPEATED

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Charley Ross. > years old, was stolen
on July 3, 1874.
Amos shaIlcross, 10 years old, disap-
peared on Oct. II. 1860.
Charley Ross was the son of wealthy
parents. He was held for ransom, but
so great was the public clamor that his
abductors feared to restore him and it
has been believed ever since that he
was put to death.
Amos ShalIcross is heir to a fortune
of $780, 900 in his own right, his share
in an estate Of $500. 900 left by his
father He has been missing forty
three days without the discovery of a
tangible clew, and a general police
alarm has gone throughout the United
States.
Observe the similarity of the names.
The word "Shallcross' is almost a per-
feet anagram of the words 'Chas.
Ross SuperstiOUs persons are Won
deTing if il is an omen.
Railway stations and ferries in every
city in the country are being watched
for young ShallcTOsS, and vigorous
search is being made in the roadside
haunts of trampS from coast to coast,
but the boy seems to have faded from
the face of the earth.
a glimmer of hope came on Thurs
day, but it is growing weaker with the
passing hours. Chief of Police Kelly
OF Paterson, \. J.. informed Director
of Public Safety English that a boy
answering the description of young
ShalicrOss had been seen there on We'd
nesday afternoon. He was then be
lieved to be in the company of a tramp,
and they were making their way to
ward Jersey City. This lad begged at
a in so IN
there that he was travelling with a
'+chum- and that he had no money nor
parents Such statement would prove
one of two JhingS-either that he was
not young ShallcrOss, or if he were
that he had been cOerced into the
falsehood by the tramp or gang of
JTampS who held him in custody.
Since then detectives have been
securing the northern part of New Jer-
sey and watching every approach to
Jersey City and New York. Up to a
late hour last night no sight nor sign
or the boy or of any one like him had
been caught.
An evening dress party was held at
the Shallcross home last night.
Mrs. ShallcToss told a reporter that
she has not and probably would not
put the case in the hands of private
detectives. nor would she offer a re-
ward for the return of the boy. She
added that she had confidence in the
ability of the newspapers to effect his
restoration, and she will be content to
await the result of their work. Asked
II she viii go to Plainfield should fur
Their Information come from there, she
said that Sc would not unless she were
sure that her son had been found.
Mrs. ShallcrOsS last saw her son
when he kissed her goodbye and
scampered off for school on the morn
ing of Thursday. Oct II. He carried
his books and his lunch. and, SO far as
she knows, not a cent of money. Amos
was as impatient of restraint as boys
of his age are, but no more so. Know
ing this, his mother was not agitated
at his failure to come home to supper
that evening. After the meal friends
called at the house, and it was not I'M
til late hour that she remem beTed
the absence of the lad
The nearest friend Of the family, DR..
W. W. Nuss of Wissnoming, was sent
Tor and asked for advice. Hoping that
the boy had gone to the home of one of
his schoOlmates, they decided TO with
hold the case from the police as long
as possible, dreading the publicity
which would follow.
On the following Monday DR.. Nuss'
son Walter reported that he had met
Amos at Ninth and Market streeas.- and
thai he (AmOs) had told him he had
left home and could not go back. The
police were then Informed of the case