The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-05-16

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me Douglass. I
The pair had a previous police rec
ord. But their offenses had been al
of a petty character Ostensibly ]
their business was peddling stove pol: !
ish and repairing stoves. Their real
business was burglary and sneak
thieving.
These men had passed through Ger
mantown. and seeing Charlie, stole the
boy on an impulse, an inspiration to 20
after "big money" it seemed to them.
1t was a crime Of daring ordinarily be-
yond the two petty thieves. When they
realized the enormity of their crime 4,
against society and the law they were
terrified.
These things the dete ctives learned
as, slowly enough, they turned up
relatives and friends of Mosher and
some acquaintance of Douglas.
And they traced the movements OF
the kidnapers ~tediously and methodi-
cally from the moment the men first
accosted the child on his fathers lawn
until they reached New York City.
But these friends and relatives knew
nothing that was of real value. They
were Of the low East Side class and
the rewards offered we're not to be re-
sisted. They we're as willing to deliver
the criminals in the hands of the law as
were the detectives. In the hope OF
gaining the coveted money the Gin
formers" made guesses at the where
abouts of Mosher and Douglas. And
none of the guesses were right.
Six hundred thousand copies of a cir
cular, describing the boy, giving his
picture and offering tremendous re-
wards, were struck off and distributed
in America and in foreign lands.
All along the trail the detectives
chung to the belief that Mosher and
Douglas were in the vicinity of New
York with Charlie Ross. This theory
they based upon some concrete facts.
The kidnapers had been tracked to
New York City; and then the big city
had been microscopically watched, ma
king their escape therefrom altogether
improbable. Yet, raking the city and
, its environs as with a fine-tooth comb,
failed to reveal a trace of them or
anybody who had seen them.
! In the meantime, Mosher and Doug
las, seeing the furore they had thrown
the world into, were paralyzed by fear
of the consequences of their CRIME, and
straightway they went into hiding.
Their hiding place was a cabin-yaw
I or catboat and they lived aboard in
out-of-the-way corners of New York
e harbor. They held on to their victim
: through sheer dread of leaving a clue.
Hidden among the small craft in OBJ
$ scure corners of the great and busy
e harbor, the kidnapers had found a SAT-
: place, the only n possible.
Day after day the men and the chile
8 lay il their tiny cabin, no human being
. seeing their faces. Neither of the me-
ever showedh mis- face above deck save
g when one or the other ventured fortl
at night to beg or steal food.
1.-The search for Mosher and Dougla
v was the closest ever made said tn
veteran detective. ''Clues were pickle,
up anywhere and everywhere-a wor
overheard on a street car, an expires
e sion dropped by some corner loafer, I
n laughing allusion in some bar or broth
a Gland traced back by the detective
d with almost incredible ingenuity. An
'. the most definite of these clues Away
il brought them to what might be Gale
the vicinity Of the men; that is, thei
ID friends or relatives; but never availin
If ANYTHING. And the reason was simpl
G. enough-not one of these friends o
ID relatives knew the hiding place of tn
III k%idnapers.
e. IA word dropped by chance led US I
an old woman who lived over nea
v Greenpoint. In her we unearthed
~ most remarkable old character. Sh
told US all about Mosher and Dougla.
20 from the time they returned to Ne
10 York up to the hour of u convers
ton with her. She was full of detaili
ID but when we Investigated her story W
n couldn't verify a single point in it..
al "When we told her this she insiste
Or that it was all true. She gave US tt
narratives again with the most circun
i. startial detail. That impressed us. "
10 set out again to verify it. Again "
didn't verify it. We lost good time ar
good money.
ar 1--WE had many discouraging expel
" ences of the anne nature. Despite o.
oor best efforts, we could never get beyol
r. the point at which the kidnapers al
ot the boy vanished after reaching Ne
York.
he ''The police finally found a m,
he named Glib Mosher, brother to the XII
or naper. Glib agreed to deliver up t
two men, provided his brother was
nj lOWeu W tulll . D.
Douglas. Walling, then superintende
MT of the metropolitan force, agreed
he protect Mosher and Glib went Oft to 8
"a. range with his brother, promising tn
,s. he would have Mosher and Douglas
so a certain corner of the Bowery at !
he clock that night. a..
as superintendent Wallace told of t'
d. detectives to seize the men when tn
he appeared. The two sleuths, sneeri
of at the old buffers credulity, went
M the corner, waited half an hour, tn
'ey abandoned their vigil as a foo
ell watch. :,
Of "And fifteen minutes later the k
tn napers appeared. They went into
saloon on the cornell and drank.
of 1.-THE proprietor of the place did I
know Mosher and Douglas, but he "
we'll enough acquainted with the criI
ace nal class, his chief patronage, to s.
mise that they were lawbreakers OF
ere sort or another.
OK. s.And Mosher and Douglas hurrie.
i'm departed, never more to be seen IN
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