Banditisme

1878 · réf. 4165 — Philadelphia: The Author 1878. First Edition. Original publisher's embossed brick color cloth. Very good. 8vo. There are numerous illus. and facsim. in the text. A tragic case of a young child accompanied by his brother who were enticed into a cab on their way to school in Philadelphia. The older brother was released several blocks away but Charley was never seen again. The Ross case is generally acknowledged to be the first American kidnapping for ransom. The book offered here is the account written by the boy's father; it contains facsim. of the ransom notes illustrations of the children and a nearly daily account of events subsequent to the disappearance. The case was never solved; both kidnappers were killed in an unrelated burglary attempt their bodies were identified in a municipal morgue by Charley's brother as the men who had abducted them. Individuals pretending to be Charley Ross turned up well into the 1920s. The Author hardcover books