Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-08-29
FIND CHARLEY ROSS
IN OHIO THIS TINE

New Brunswick, N. j., Aug.
25.-A man protesting to bel
Charley Ross, who was kidnap-|
ped from Philadelphia thirty
uine years ago, when he was tour
years old, recently revealed him
self to members Of law hrm IN
Cleveland, Ohio. He told them
that a man named Rodgers, liv-
ing in Savreville, n. j., could
identify him, and prove his story
true.
The Cleveland lawyer wrote to
a newspaper in New Brunswick
eight miles from Sayreville.
Chief Boyer. of the Sayreville
police, read the letter when 1t
was published. After hunting
through Pegtown, Birch Creek,
Parliu, and other neighborhoods.
that make up the scattered town.
he found Terry Rodgers, suppos-
ed to be the Rodgers mentioned
in the letter from Cleveland,
working as foreman in the clay
banks in Peg own. He admitted
that there might be something
in the story"
That's all the police chief get
out Ct Rodgers, but he searclit d
further and few old-timers who
remembers mysterious" boy,
who lived in Sayreville for about
fifteen years, and went away in
the year of the great blizzard.
1888.
Mrs. Mary Morris, seventy
three years old, said that the
strange boy who left in the biz
card year was Charley Ross, that
he had a birth-mark the size OF
her thumb, and that if she could
see the Cleveland claimant and
find that he had a birth-mark in
the same place she would say
that he was Charley Ross, grown
up.
Charley Ross, the boy of Mrs.
Morris story, was brought to
Sayreville by Captain Albert
Campion, a barge captain, on a
night so bad that the boat was
barely able to beat its way up the
Raritan river. Campion said the
boy was his nephew from Phila-
delphia. He put him to board
at the home of Mrs. Henry Bar
clry, who had a big family of
boys.
Three days later Campion
went away and a German brick
yarder and barge hand, whom
everybody called "Maggy,' came
into the village covered all over
with bruises and cuts. We found
out that he and Campion had
fought about something in a
shack in the woods.
Every little while Campion
came back to Sayreville and paid
Mrs. Barclay..money for the boys
board. We didn't see "Magpy"
again until the blizzard year,
1888. Then he and Campion got
to drinking again, and had an
other fight. A few days later
Campion took the boy away from
Mrs. Barclays and that's the
last we saw of him. We still
believe that the boy was Cam
pion's nephew. But little while
after that last fight with CAM
pion, "Maggy" returned to Sayre-
vile with his face all banged up.
very angry at Campion. When
we asked him what they were
fighting about, he said he had.
helped 'Campion do a job and
hadn't been paid. Then he said
so much more that one of tie
girls there said in a joke, Why,
that boy must haye been Charley
Rosa
".That boy was Charley Ross.
Maggy said. What do you
know about himT
s.The girl explained that she
had read about Charley Ross
having been stolen from his home
in Philadelphia for money. |
Macy" talked some more then.
He said that CAmpion had taken
the boy because he had grudge
against the boy s mother. Cam
pion had been getting money
ever since, Maggy said, and
Maeey hadn't been getting his
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