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Show THE PHILADELPHIA KID- : NAPPINC. New York, . The TiUnuu't Phil-: adeJphia correspondent writes con-' cerntng the Koss abduction case a?' follows: The cI.isb of people who? doubt that there has been any reap kidnapping and believe the elnid is; in the hands of friends who have' jtaken him away for purposes of their! ,own, increases constantly, and would' oe much larger if it were not for the :iatural feeling on the part of con-! -cientious peopie that it is better vling to the also theory of the case1) .nan run a risk of wronging the par-; ents by entertaining suspicions which might prove cruelly unjust. Never-; tiieless detectives ought to have look-'j ed at t'tic case from the first irr ai its' .xocsiblc aspects, and worked out care-' fully two or three dirl'erent theories eoneieveable to account tor lbedis-1 appearance of the child, instead of following exclusively the one which looked "the most probable that of kidnapping f)r raiorn. Full faith is now placed in the supposed Aden- town clue bv the police. There l- vidence thai they have no trace o:J .he party after they put the elder boy. att oi the b-acvy. Acconimg to th.- -ton- worked up by reporters m Al-j entown, a man brought a child inW that city on a train from Harriaburg i about a week after the abductioo; he purchased a suit of clothes for thy ."oy and had his hair cut. At tins , ate day tne people who Baw tin-transactions tin-transactions have got it into their :ieals that the child looked like Ciiar-jley Ciiar-jley Koss, and that the man acted sus-Ipiciously, sus-Ipiciously, and enterprising reporter have analvzed the notion and made the most of it. The improbability oi one of tne kidnappers runnuig about the country with the child under hi.-arm, hi.-arm, travelling on railroads and visit-;ng visit-;ng large towns where the polict night be supposed to be on the alert :or him, does not appear to have -truck anybody. In all probability the man was a Western drover, as tu pretended to bo, and had come East with cattle. |