Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

been killed by the eruption Of Mont Pc
lee. Wherever Johann Salvador may be,
lieves him to be still alive. He lately is
sued an edict that the large estate which
awaits the runaway in Austria be held in
tact until 1917.
Of our naval officers troubled the public
for three years prior to the vanishing of
the archduke. February II. 1887. Lieut..
Edward W. Remey, brother or former
Judge Advocate General William B.
Remey and of Rear Admiral George c.
Remey, walked down the gang plank OF
the steamship Roanoke to be swallowed
into the mazes of New York city, and
never heard of more. Had he been
man of irregular habits there might have
been some suspicion as to the cause of
his disappearance but he was a sober,
highly esteemed and popular officer. with
an irreproachable record. Detectives the
world over have searched for him without
avail.
Our other vanishing naval officer was
ex-Passed Assistant Engineer Richard II.
Buel, son of Rev. Samuel Buel, then dean
of the General Theological Seminary in
New York. The younger Buel had served
in the civil war with distinction, and
was a we'll known figure in both naval
1889, he started from New York for Bos-
ton, but has never been heard of since
in spite of the dilfgent efforts which his
family and friends have made to locate
him. Like Remey, he was man whose
personal habits would preclude the usual
theories which spring up in such cases.
What has remained our most perplex-
ing disappearance mystery directly pre-
coded these cases. 1t twas the vanishing
of Charley Ross, youngest OF the five
rye,%to
do resident of Germantown. Philade lphia.
Charley, then four, and Walter, his six
year-od brother, disappeared from the
sidewalk near their home July ]. 1874
After their parents had spread the alarm
Walter was returned the same night by
man who had found him crying on a
street corner in Kensington. Walter told
his parents that several days before two
strange men had given candy to Charley
and him. These mon had returned to
the neighbor1lood July ], in a wagon, and
when the two children asked them if
they had any firecrackers for the coming
Fourth they had invited the youngsters
to Jump In and drive to a fireworks store.
ter to go into a store and buy the fire.
crackers, but when he emerged from the
shop he found that the wagon had gone
with Charley and the two strangers in it.
Charley has never returned to this day.
although his mother, now a gray-haired
old lady, still waits for him in the Ger
mantown mansion. During the days fol-
lowing his kidnapping his father received
anonymous letters demanding $4,000 ran
som and threatening the child's ''annihi-
lation" II police trap were set when
the ransom was called for. After ex-
hausting the ingenuity Of the police, the
father through newspaper personals
arranged various meeting places, where
the transaction could be effected. but
each time the kidnapers were scared
away. Then the father made 200 long
journeys to run down false clues, and his
vain search cost him in all 100000.
The following December Mosher and
Douglas. two burglars. were fatally
wounded while robbing the house Of
Judge Van Brunt, at Fort Hamilton, L.
l., and Douglas. while dying, whispered:
"Mosher and 1 stole Charley Ross"
But when asked where the boy was he
but gasped: "Mosher knows all about
the child. Ask him. But Mosher had
already gone to that realm from which
no traveller returns. and he had taken
with him the key to the mystery of