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Show TWO HUNDRED LIVE CHARLLK ROSSES. Many Iti'nresontatives f the Kidnapped Kid of I'liiladelplii;!. Pinkerton's detective agency, since it was employed, three years ago, to solve the Ross mystery, by J. W. Jouea, George L. Harrison, George Puiller, and Amos R. Little, acting for citizens Irom whom, they had obtained ob-tained subscriptions amounting to $20,000, for the purpose of accom plishing the work, has discovered he- i tweeo iy0 and 200 boys in various parts of this country, British America, aud Europe, each of whom, according accord-ing to firdt reports, answered more or less to the description of the lost child, and caused the detectives to do a grent deal of traveling, which resulted in uothiug better lhau the collection of many interesting stories relating to the abduction case, but iu which ihe atiducted played no part. Tlieae Mr. Allau Piukertou intends to pub ii-h if the boy he found. Guardians of the supposed Charlies have bnen shadowed m nearly every slate and territory, but always with tbe same result. The work done tor the pur-pos pur-pos of solving thia greatest mystery of the ago has raked up, here and theie, other mysteries ot a minor character, some ot them possessing no slight touch of the romantic. Following are epitomes of some of the more interesting ot ihe stories above ref.-rrrd to as being on the Pinkerton records: nkw York's! c:iarlie. Iq the winter following the ahduc-tiou ahduc-tiou a telerum was received here from the chief magistrate of a town in the northeastern part ot New York, stating that a hoy had been found there who was Charlie Ross, beyond a doubt, and that the detectives need not wmle any more time io search of the child. The magistrate gave a full description of the boy, with the exception ot hia eyed, to which no reference had been made. Thia description de-scription was the same as that of Charles. A Pinkerton man hurried to the town and no sooner arrived there than he learned toat one of the policemen had gone to a neighboring village where the boy was slopping, his object being to have the exclusive1 honor of returning the losl Charlie to I his home. Hiring a horde and car-1 riaup, lor which he was obliged to! deposit $1.50 ac security, the detective ! hy this means reached the village, half an hour before the arrival of the policeman, and was rewarded with the discovery that the boy had brown eyes and therefore could not be Charlie. Scotland's charlie. Early in the same winter Mr. Jones and other gentlemen actively engaged in the search had reason to believe that Ihe hoy w;ia iu New Orleans. The child was accompanied by an intelli gout woman, whose movements, as described to the d'.'teciives, almost convinced Iheui that she was iu constant con-stant fear of pursuit as if for some! crime. Sue and the boy lelt New j Orleans together, but were tracked by i a detective from the Gull to the lakes, thence acrjss to Canada, and alter-ward alter-ward to Boston, where the punned ' arrived iweuty-four hours ahead oi tho officer, aud immediately sailed for Liverpool. But the cahle brought two or three pairs ot lynx eyes to Ihe I docks in lhat city iu time to survey j the fieeiug woman aud h.T charge as soon as Lhey landed. WiUiout delay 1 ohe resumed travel aud never flopped uuul she reached an ohicure h.mlet iu the norm ol S.olland. Tue de teclivea had lollowed at a distance safe hut mire. Having niiide good utie ot an opportunity lo examine and question the boy, they found only aut iher didappuiutmeut. Tr ie, when tthowu a portrait of Mr. and Mra Ross, the little fellow said that they were his papa and mamma." But he was not Charlie, neither wm he the only one ot the two hundred supposed Charlies who uttered the exelanmtious, "papa!" and "mamma!" upon seeing pictured of the lost chiiJ's parents. It ' w,u soon ascertained that ihis ' Char-he" Char-he" was the illegitimate child of a young woman belonging to a wealthy , Jnd highly respected lamily, aud the myBienous flight through the states and acrosa the Atlantic was explained. Virginia's charlie. Some months later telegraphic cor-rpspondence cor-rpspondence was received in thia city from a small town near the southern border ot Virginia, stating thai Char lie waa there, and giving a description which was not only the most ex tens ive and minutely detailed that had been received from any quarter up to that time, but which also agreed in every particular with the personal appearance of the stolen child. A trip southward -and the obtaining of additional proof that a sensationalist dots not always stop lo draw tine distinguishing lines between dark hair and light hair, or between blue eyes and hazel eyes, aud the list of disappoint disap-point man Is was lengthened. A TZXAS CHARLIE. Subsequently a child, answering very closely to the description ot Charlie Ross, waa traced to a place near Corpus Christi, in Texas. This boy was under the chargo of u woman, wo-man, aud the most remarkable pait of the story was that the had been regu larly receiving remittance ot money troru this city. For more than three weeks a detective kept a. cou slant watch upon the house in which the woman and child were stoppiug. Finally he enticed Hie child to a apct where they would be unobserved, hut an examination convinced him thatj Charlie Ross was as tar from his! reach as ever. He showed a portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ross to the litt e follow, who, like "Charlie" of Scot land, clapped hia chubby hands in delight aud said that they were ' papa and mamma." And so the record of the Pinter-tons, Pinter-tons, under the head of "Charlie Rosa," goes on almost ad infinitum, Philadelphia Times. |