Aged Man
Charged As
names of Harry and John Ingle.
Two detectives, who accompani- ed the brother to the house, placed a copy of the notice offering the reward on the table, and Ross ad- mitted he was the man concerned.
but the boy had great diMculty fr recognizing his brother.
Kidnapper The brother recognized the boy,
STRANGE CASE OF HENRY ROSS
30-YEAR-OLD WARRANT
Honry Ross, 70, whose address was given as Lovell Street, Shof- field, was recently committed by the Shefeld magistrates to the Leeds Assizes for trial on the charge of kidnapping a boy named John William Whitnear, aged four years and 10 months, on Septem- ber 18, 1004.
Mr. J. J. McAvoy, solicitor. appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. F. S. Scorah, solicitor, for the defence.
Mr. McAvoy, In opening the case, said that Ross was arrested on a warrant taken out in 1904, and the offence was under section 66 of the Offences against tho Person Act. The penalty for this class of offence was Boven years' penal servitude. The warrant
was taken out on sworn informa- tion by the father of the child which was taken away.
Proceeding, Mr. McAvoy sald that the two principals in the case were Ross and John William Whit- near, who was now 36 years old, the person who was taken away
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by Roan. The defendant in 1904 was friendly with the boy's par- ents, and although he was separat. ed from his wife he was attracted to the boy and his brother. Often he used to take them away on day excursions. One day in October, 1901, Ross sent to the boy's mother and asked if he could take the boy John on a fishing excursion. The mother gave her consent and that was the last time she saw har boy for five years. She had no idea where he want, and as he did not return that night she complained to the pollee.
́TRIP TO AMERICA
A warrant was taken out by the boy's father, and Mrs.' Whitnear offered £5 reward for information that would lead to the discovery of the boy's whereabouts.
In 1909, Mr. McAvoy went on, the police heard that Ross and the boy were living in Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Whitneur could not afford extradition proceedings against the man, and it was de- cided that his other son, then 21, should go to the United States and Identify the boy. The brother left England on March 6, 1909, in the Mauretania and went to the head- quarters of the state police in Newark, New Jersey. After that they discovered Rosa and the boy Ilving as father, and san under the
The American police told the defendant that they could not arrest him, but that it would bo bettor for him if he left the town, because if the citizens got to know about what had happened he would probably be lynched. The boy returned home, and the street and the house where he lived in Sheffield wore decorated to wol- coma.him.
After that the affair was moro or less forgotten, but the warrant was still in force, and on Jan. 23 cortain Information was received by the police. The files were scarched, the warrant was brought out, and on Jan. 24 two detec tives visited Ross, when he ad-; mitted that he was the man named in the warrant. He then made a statement.
ROSS'S STATEMENT
Mr. McAvoy then read the alleged statement, which was to:
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the effect that Ross in 1900 was him there for you to keep"?—No, living at Lovell Street with his two sisters when, he said, he mot Jenny Whitnear. The statement continued:-
She used to come in and see my sisters, and I became very friendly with her. Then the Whitnents moved from Lovell Street, at which timo they had three children. Mrs. Whitnear told me that I was the father of her son John.
Did he say: "If you will keep away. I shall pay towards the child"?-I never went near him.
the eldest son of Mrs. Woodward, William Houson Whitnear, 57, described how he visited Newark, New Jersey, in 1903, and brought his brother home.
THE "DOY" IN THE BOX
John William Whitnear, the boy, John Whitnear knew of my aa- now a man of 35, living near sociation with his wife and en- Rotherham, said that he remen- couraged it. Mrs. Whithene kept bered being in a ship with Ross, asking me to take the boy John and being in Newark. At Newark away. I was very fond of him Roas went by the name of Ingle, and I took him to my sister's home and once when he (the witness) at Manchester. I did not tell Mrs, called him Ross "he gave me a good Whitnear of my intention to take hiding." the boy away.
Ross. That is not true.
Mr. McAvoy, referring to the Whitnear Bald that when he re- statement, said that this was the turned to England he and his Srst time it had been suggested brother Fred wrote to Ross several that Ross was the father of the times, and Ross used send him boy. Mra. Whitnear would in-money and presents. His father dignantly deny it. She never sug-knew of those presents, but he did gested in any way that the man not think his mother did. should take the boy away.
Mr. Seorah. Looking back now,
It looks as if he wore fond of you? Mrs. Jane Woodward, formerly-Yes. Mrs. Whitnear, said that she was And you were fond of him?- now aged 69. John William Whit-That is correct,
near, the boy concerned in the He treated you like a father?— ense, was the youngest of her three Except for the time when I called
him Ross..
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You don't like this-what we are Cross-examined by Mr. Scorah,doing to-day do you?-No.
she agreed that she and Ross were about the same age.
Mr. Scorah. For some reason or another the events of 30 years ago have been taked up again?— YCA.
If you had had any control over. this, nothing would have been done about it--you don't approve of it, do you?-Not a
blt.
Mr. Scorah submitted that the case should go no farther. He If you had had your way it contended that Ross had a clam would not have been so, would of right, and the 'fact that he had it?-Yes, it would.
claimed that right to the child was You deliberately say that?— sufficient to bring him within the Yes, because he wanted punish-provis0. mont for what he did to me and Mr. Scorah added:-"A nephew my husband.
of Ross, u mun called White, think- Mr. Scorah-In view of your an-ing that the old man come home swor I shall change my line of from America was a man of means, cross-examination altogether. pestered him for money, and when Anawering question, Mrs. Wood- the old man was unable to satisfy ward agreed that she and the Ross this demand, then this man said: family became very friendly. They "Very well, I will see that you get Ilved close together and visited each into trouble.' Then you get the other. She denied that she knew surreptitious visit to the police. that the neighbours were talking about her association with Ross, and that Rose had bought furniture for the house or paid for the up- keep of her house.
Mr. Scorah. Didn't the time arrive when Ross cooled off towards you? I do not remember that.
Did you
don't Bay: "If you come back. I shell put the child on your mother's doorstep and leave
It may be that the person I have referred to may have not heard the last of this, and of his part of it, and something may be done to get, him the justice which, in my sub- mission, he ought to have."
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The magistrates said that prima facie case had been made out, and Ross was committed for trial at Leeds Assizes, bail again being- allowed.
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