The Washington herald., 1909-03-20
ROSS CASE RECALLED
Philadelphia Boy, Stolen in
1874, Was Never Found.
MYSTERY Is PARTLY CLEARED
other Noted kidnapping Cases Are
Those of the Clark Baby in New
York and that of Eddie Cudahy nt
Omaha = Disappearance of Marvin
Child Is Also Called to Mind.

/ The Charlie Ross kidnapping undoubt-
/ edly heads the list Of famous cases. be-
cause the boy was never found. and be-
cause 1t was the first TO attract national
! attention he was a son OF Christian 4.
Ross, who lived IN Germantown. near
I Philadelphia. He was four years of axe.
and had a brother aged nine. In June.
1874 the two boys had become acquainted
with two strangers who hung about their
home and frequently gave them candy.
on July the strangers took the BOYS
for ride. and 81 rio of the older one
not far from his home. Charlie was
+, taken in a wagon 20 a place OF hiding.
The father reported the case 70 the po-
lice and negotiations for the boys re-
turn were begun through newspaper. ad-
vertisements. The police made a house
20 house search. finally settling on VIII
lam Mosher. who was an itlnerant oil
merchant. and had been a canal boat
man. and William Douglass. who had
been in his employ as the kidnappers.
Body Thrown Into Bay.
II developed later that Mosher and
Douglass had gone into a sloop on New
ark Bay after the kidnapping and had
kept the boy there for a long time. The
boy is believed 20 have died or the sIoop
from an inherited kidney weakness and
neglect and his body was thrown into the
bay. The two abductors lived on the
slOOp long afterward and committed
many robberies. They were killed BY the
police while burglarizing a house on Long
Island
The kidnapping OF Marion Clark. an
eighteen-months-old child. in Central
Park. New York. on May p, 1859. was
the next case 70 attract general notice.
Her father. Arthur Clark. was empioyed
By a publishing firm. and a week previous
Mrs. Clark had engaged through a news
paper advertisement a nurse girI call
ing herself Carrie Jones.
When the girl failed 10 return from the
park with the baby the father went there
and found the empty baby carriage. A
note was delivered 10 the mother that
day saying that the baby would be safe
so long as the police and newspapers
were not notified.
Then began a hunt. The little girl was
found on June L al farm house up the
State, fifty miles from New York.
woman and man who had taken the girl
there were arrested the same day and
later the Jones girl. whose real name
was Bella Anderson, was found She said
that the man and woman, Mr.. and Mrs
George B. Barrow. had cOncOcted q pisn
10 make some money in that way and had
her advertise for a place as nurse girl
purely for that purpose. Barrow wes
sent to Sing Sing for fourteen years. and
the others got shorter terms.
Paid Heavy Ransom.
Eddie Cudahy, the young son OF Edward
A. Cudahy. the Omaha packer. was kid
mapped on December IS. 1900 The how
was sent out early in the evening 10
take some magazines 70 a neighbor. and
was not beard from after he went IN the
peighbor's house Early the next morning
the Cudahy oOachman found a note on
the lawn addressed 10 Mr. Cudahy which
stated that the boy had been stolen and
would be held for $4,000 in gold
Mr. Cudahy put the money in the place
specified, after a search all day proved
ruthless. and five hours later the SON re-
turned home. The boy said he bad bae,
accOsted by two men who said tbav
were officers with warrant TO arrest :
person named Magee.
he was told that he would be shot II
he made any outery and was put n
buggy and taken away after being bIInd-
folded lie was taken to a vacant bo,,ea
and at midnight the next day was told
ne was 10 be released. Re was nut in
the buggy and taken 10 point a quarter
OF mile from his home, where he urae
released. The house was located fovr
miles from the city. The Pinkertons ana
police at once fastened the kidnapping on
Pat Grove who was known to he IN the !
city at the time. Grove was never az
rested for the crime, although he wrote |
letters TO Cudahy in which he admitted /
ioing the job.
The disappearance Of Rpur-year-old Hor-
ace NJ. Marvin, son Of Horace K No
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