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Show IS CHARLEY ROSS IN ENGLAND ENG-LAND ? Mr. Walter T. Baker, of 1G19 Market Mar-ket street, vtho, on the oth of September, Sep-tember, received a letter from Nelae Bootb, saying that the latter assisted in the abduction, and knew of the present whereabouts of Charley Koss, and urging Baker to use the knowledge know-ledge thus given him in restoring tho child, the particulars of which have been published, roreived the following follow-ing loiter, in Nelso Booth's handwriting, hand-writing, on the 8th inst. The letter was m.iiled in Philadelphia on the 8th., and the New York date is evidently evi-dently a blind. "New York, October 9. Baker: You are a dam fool, and Koos is crazy, t Now you are in danger. I thought you had more stuse. So hear, you have almoet loat your chance for getting the boy. What made you give it away. You must now do as I Bay, or I will go for you, sure, for God Bake don't aay anything to any one now, but work for me. I want you to find Gusto, and then I will insure you the boy. if you go to Bradtord, Eng., and make inquiries, you can find him easy. You must be quiet about it when you find him, which ib very easy to do. I will have it fixt, for I will manage to get him a , letter, and if I don't, you go as I Bay, I and show him this, thia winter he will be about there or York i know thia, you must keep from Ross and everybody else, Here is the Bccret : GiiBto EugliB name i& Sam Hurbet, and by this name you will find him, if he see this I think it will be all right, tell him thia: the child Boston gave you in New York ia Charley Koss," and then tell him who Charley Char-ley Koss is, for he don't know. I ought td kill you, for you have been trying your best to nab me. do as i Bay, dam you, and stop you hunting for me. X want Ross to have his boy. you Leave next week, and you can succeed, thake this with you, and don't show it to a living sole, but Gusto or Herbert, if you do, I wold murder you. so Beware, Baker. From you know Who." Mr. Baker then published the following fol-lowing personal in the Ltdrjer on the 12th instant: Boston: Send me an order on Herbert, Her-bert, to deliver to mo. I will go. B. This personal brought out the following fol-lowing letter enclosing the order for the boy, which Mr. Baker received on the 14th. The envelope bore a two cent Btamp, and was postmarked post-marked "Philadelphia." It was written on a small slip of paper, evidently evi-dently out of an account book, and was as follows: Baker, I seen your notice yesterday. yester-day. , I geas all right, i will not rite any more, not ono lino, but I want Rosa to have his boy, and you to get the reward, give thia other pape to Sam Herbet, or gaato. You may the help. I will hear all about it, When you get back. Nelae Booth. if he can't road, you read it to him, he will knowall abot it. In the letter waa folded the following fol-lowing order, written on a sheet of note paper, and addressed, on an outside fold, to "Sam Hurbet:" , New York, America, October 13, I87u. Sam Hurbet; Give to thia man Baker my little boy, which I gave you to keep for me last October, in York state, America. I have Bent him over for him. I have made up with the old woman, and wa all going to live to giLher. I have had a big stake, and I gea we can live all light. It I owe you anything send word by B.ikcr and 1 will fix it. You know who I mean, little Charley Sprague, my ton,R:ito, ia all ruivJy to come to New York state, ao don't detain him. Oblige, Hiram Spraguo, your old Irieud, Boston Mr. Baker went to Mr. Rosa ad soon aa he received this letter and gave him all the information he had. Mr. Ross had previously telegraphed to the Scotland Yard detectives, but what reply he received, if any, ia not known. Joseph lioas, Mr. Rosd' brother, traced the man known aa "Gusto, " and found that such a man came to this country, nearly three years ago, and traveled from New York to Savannah in a wagon with two horsea, and accompanied by a woman and aeveral cnildren. lie was traced to New York again, where, in October, 1874, he left the country in a steamship. Mr. Baker has traced Noise Bootho to a house in Acorn alley, below Spruco street, between Seventh and Eighth, but he hiw not been arrested. Mr. Baker says that his friendu have furnished the money to pay his expenses to Europe, and that ho in-Lenda in-Lenda to start in a Cunard steamer to-day for Liverpool. Phil. Times, Oct. 23. |