New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
Island Searched Following
Report of Child Re-
sembling Lost Lad
Seen With NOmads
By Caroline Appleton Dawes
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, July 5.

Here IS the keynote Of a
~ hue and cry that has sur
vived the ages, mysterious
and alsurng, firing the imagination of
the crassest modern scoffer. The man
who is cold to sensational news, who is
unconcerned with the morbid details of
murder, suicide, white slavery and
dope, and even the blasting hazard of
street accident, thrills over the ancient
alarum of gypsy kidnapping.
Little James Douglas Glass, stolen
from his parents in Greedy, Pa, in 1916,
has been veiled in mystery as dark and
romantic as was ever the theft of a
dukes son, shouted through the streets
of an early English hamlet by town
crier, or the tiny daughter Of a Hun
garian nobleman searched for through
the forbidding mountains of southeast
ern Europe. The gypsy race is worn
| smooth and elusive by ages of rowing,
and nearly impossible to apprehend.
Striking though their racial character
istics, easy of recognition, impossible
to forget though the, scenes of gypsy
| encampment may be, they can move on
and vanish in night-in an hour
and leave no trace
In the course of seven years Charles
Glass, Of Jersey City, has searched tire
lessly for his lost child, in every coun-
try which possesses police operatives.
His wife has hovered on the brink of
q complete prostration, now aroused by
some nearly certain clew, now bitterly
disappointed at the complete refuta-
tion of report which had held out
every hope of recovery Of her boy. Of
all these rumors, some of which have
proved to be sound links in a chain of
evidence, probably the most tantalizng
and elusive is now being followed in
Porto Rico, where there are many per-
sons who claim to have seen and identi-
fed little Jimmie Glass within the last
few weeks, travelling with band of
gypsies answering in every particular
the description of the Costello family,
who are supposed to have taken the
child and who are described in the
circular issued by Mr.. Glass and John
Bentley, Director Of Public Safety for
New Jersey, who has interested the
Department of Justice in Washington
in the case and appealed to Senator
Edge, of New Jersey, and the insular
Cocfalloc Eluda pN1ice
In Worldwide Search
The Costellos, leaders of a gypsy
band, have bobbed up in police reports
and immigration records all over the
world and have slipped through the
fingers Of the authorities in every
case. Any clue to their whereabouts
that is delayed in transmission is very
nearly useless and an unfortunate de-
lay which has occurred in the official
bureaucracy of Porto Rico, enabled the
gypsies to move on before a warrant
could be issued for their apprehension.
The cablegram received by Mr..
Bentley on June r, stating that the
gypsies. accompanied by a child
answering the description Of Jimmie
Glass, lived near Aguadilla, Porto
| Rico, and signed Ismael Calderon, was
challenged by the authorities in Porto
Rico, and during controversy over the
truth of Calderon's statement the
gypsies disappeared from the neigh
borhood where Calderon claimed to
have seen them, and presumably took
refuge in the hills. The insular police
and other officials of the insular gov
ernment are hard at work repairing
the damage done by the delay, but the
gypsies and the child are still at large,
although it's extremely improbable that