Author: Norman J. ZieroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Little Charley Ross
Author: Norman J. ZieroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Little Charley Ross. America's First Kidnapping for Ransom, Etc. [With Plates.].
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Author: Norman John ZIEROLDThe Father's Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child
Author: Christian Kunkel RossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kidnapping
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Father's Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child
Author: Christian K. RossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kidnapping
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Kidnapped
Author: Paula S. FassPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195311419
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A look at the history of child kidnappings and abductions in the United States, the motives of the perpetrators, the activities of the media, and the results in the law and in public opinions.
Defy All the Devils
Author: Norman ZieroldPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504050886
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The “fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful” account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and the desperate manhunt to find him (The New York Times Book Review). On July 1, 1874, four-year-old Charley Ross and his older brother, Walter, were playing in front of their stately Philadelphia home when a horse-drawn carriage pulled up with two men who offered candy and fireworks if the boys would ride with them. Hours later, Walter came back, stating that they had ridden through the city until the men abandoned him in the street but kept Charley. Soon after, their father, Christian K. Ross, received a demand for $20,000 in return for his son. Ross went to the police for help—and before long, the case became a national phenomenon. A popular song pleaded for the boy’s safe return. The Philadelphia police searched every home in the city, and thousands of people falsely reported that they had seen Charley or knew his whereabouts. Meanwhile, the kidnappers’ ransom letters were becoming more threatening and bizarre. The press, eager to fan the flames of hysteria, printed wholly fabricated stories and even accused Christian Ross of orchestrating the whole thing in order to hide the fact that Charley was illegitimate. And then the men who took Charley went silent . . . This is the chilling true story of a crime that transfixed a still-growing America, the unlikely series of events that produced the case’s most tantalizing clues, and the tragic twist of fate that plunged the Ross family back into darkness and haunted them for decades to come. Originally published as Little Charley Ross.
Charley Ross, the story of his abduction, by his father
Author: Christian K. RossWe Is Got Him
Author: Carrie HagenPublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 159020896X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This “relentlessly suspenseful” story of America’s first known kidnapping in nineteenth century Philadelphia is “elegantly told, superbly accomplished” (The Philadelphia Enquirer). In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family’s front yard in Philadelphia. A ransom note arrived three days later, demanding twenty thousand dollars for the boy’s return. The city was about to host the America’s Centennial celebration, and the mass panic surrounding the Charley Ross case plunged the nation into hysteria. The desperate search led the police to inspect every building in Philadelphia, set up saloon surveillance in New York’s notorious slums, and begin a national manhunt. With white-knuckle suspense and historical detail, Hagen vividly captures the dark side of an earlier America. Her brilliant portrayal of its criminals, detectives, politicians, spiritualists, and ordinary families will stay with the reader long after the final page. “Hagen skillfully narrates a saga that transcends one kidnapping, a saga tied up with the World’s Fair that was about to open in Philadelphia.” —Kirkus Reviews “As Erik Larson mined the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair for Devil in the White City, Hagen chronicles a tragically more relevant 19th-century story.” —Michael Capuzzo, author of The Murder Room
The Father's Story of Charley Ross
Author: Christian Kunkel RossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kidnapping
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Father's Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child; Containing a Full and Complete Account of the Abduction of Charles Brewster Ross from the Hom
Author: Christian Kunkel RossPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230325965
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. INTERESTING CASES OF TRACED CHILDREN--INTERVIEW WITH A SHOWMAN. S long as it was believed that the abductors were living, and likely to prove enemies to society, no reward was offered for the restoration of my child, which was not conditioned upon the arrest of the kidnappers. It was felt necessary for the safety of the homes in which little children are, that the villains, who had introduced into the country the atrocious crime of child stealing, should be punished, so that the deed would not be repeated. They were terribly punished--suddenly and violently their lives were forfeited while in the act of committing a less heinous offense. The villains were therefore off the record, and we believing that it was then right and proper, a reward, as stated in a previous chapter, was offered for the restoration of the child. The time specified in the offer of that reward expired on the 2d of January, without resulting in anything of practical benefit. A number of anonymous letters were received from persons professing to have possession of Charley, or claiming to know where he was secreted; answers to which were made through the newspapers, but no response was in any case ever received. With the death of Mosher and Douglas, the-hope of a speedy return of our stolen child was raised to the highest pitch. Indeed, it seemed almost a certainty, and we awaited his coming in almost breathless suspense. The quivering between hope and fear, the agonizing doubts, as moment after moment went slowly by, became almost beyond endurance, and the strain seemed more than human strength could bear. To be brought seemingly so near to the recovery of our dear little boy, and still to be" left to excruciating uncertainty, is terrible. Yet with the...