Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-07-25
REWARDS OFFERED
Fifty Thousand Dollars viii Be
Given For Scrap of Paper.
BIG SUM FOR CHARLEY ROSS.
A Public Subscrip tion to Go to Finder
of Kidnapped Child Met With Gener-
Gus Response--Governmen Rewards
For WANTED" Persons.

Fifty thousand dollars reward is of
fered for a scrap Of paper which. If
found, might make the advertiser rich
er by no less than f500.000.
Among the English millionaireS
whose deaths were chronicled in the
paper of last year was one Sir John
Murray Scott. Fortune had smiled
upon him in strange fashion. says the
New York Times He had, when quite
a young man. been adopted by an
enormously wealthy art patron and
his wife as their son. and at their
death he had had bequeathed to him
the greater part of their fortunes. He
died unmarried short time back.
leaving will by which large por-
ton of his fortune was left to lady
relative Of his benefactors. Among his
papers, however, it is asserted. was
found Il paper on which he had made
minutes Of a codicil altering his will
codicil by which. if it were ever
duly executed, one Of his brothers
would benefit to the extent of no less
than f5000O0.
Was the codicil ever executed? If so
the keenest search has failed to re-
veal it.
Among the biggest rewards ever of
fered have been those for the diScov-
cry of missing children.
"Lost.-On the LIST inst q small boy
about four years of age. light complex
ion and light curly hair
Such was the first advertisement an
nouncing the loss of little Charley
Ross. Charley Ross parents We're not
rich. The public was stirred by their
grief, and subscription resulted in
the offer of a great reward. A letter
received by the father left no doubt
that the child was in the hands of
scOundrels keeping him for ransom,
Even the money offer did not persuade
them to release him-7the terms were
not big enough. Detectives, hot upon
the track of the missing child, suspect
ed two desperadoes named Douglas
and Mosher of being his stealers Six
months had elapsed and no trace Of
the scoundrels had been discovered
when one night burglars were detected
in river residence on Long Island.
One of them fell before the revolver
other disappeared in the darkness.
Il am dying" groaned the wounded
man. THE other man is Mosher. He
stole Charley Ross"
They were his last words His hear
ers rushed away in pursuit Of the sec
Ond man. When they came upon him
they found him dead with a bullet in
the head. The only man who could
have restored Charley Ross to those
who sought him was dead.
British clergymen and keepers OF
parish registers are frequently appeal
ed to in the advertising columns of the
newspapers by the offer of rewards for
the discovery of the records of births
marriages and deaths. Most of such
rewards offered amount to only a SOW
ereign. Few reach to IS. -Four or five
years ago an advertiser offered no less
than $500 for the discovery of the rec
ord of marriage.
The advertiser was a man who had
gained a considerable fortune in Aus
tralia. and he was now devOting part
of it to clearing up the mystery Of his
birth. His mother. a young lady of
about twenty-five. had died at the time
he was born in obscure lodgings in Lon
don. and the baby was left to the mer-
cieS of strangers = the people with
whom she had lodged. who had been
considerably affected by her story that
she had been secretly married to a
gentleman of the name of TrevaniOn,
young officer in the army, who had
pledged her to secrecy and had been
called away with his regiment on for
eign service. The boy. brought up and
educated at their expense. in time
went to Australia in search of fortune.
Among some papers discovered at the
death of the stranger who had been to-
him as a father he found one that APP
peared to throw light upon his parent
age-a love letter. The advertisement
he inserted in the papers met the eye
of parish clerk in little country
CuuICI III w UlCtSttI billy. w H. SGulCll
ing among the musty parchments in ain
old oak box in the church vestry.
came across the entry of the secret
marriage.
Once upon time the person who
could clear up sensational crime
might be a fortunate individual. Ten
thousand pounds We're offered by the
English government i'll 1882 to any one
who would give such information as
should lead to the discovery Of the as
sussins of Lord Frederick Cavendish
and Mr.. Burke in the Phoenix park.
Though there We're at least Il dozen
persons concerned in the fearful deed.
not one came forward till james Carey.
the chief offender. did so in order to
save himself from the threatened gal-
lows. Five thousand pounds were
vainly offered by the city of London
for information respecting the miscre-
ants who tried to blow up London
bridge with dynamite. 1t 1884 Scot
land Yard discovered that an attempt
made to blow up the German embassy