Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-24

fed their Willingness to return I'll Penn
sylvania without requisition papers.
AT first the woman refused to talk
to the police. She is said to have
been slightly intoxicated when arrest
ed Hoping her condition might be
better later, the police locked her up
for a few hours.
Laughs at Detectives.
Shortly after daybreak Chief s<oh-
ler escorted her into his private Of
flee and began a grilling examination.
She appeared frightened when he
threw a nurses gown over her shoul-
ders. She was angry, too, and at
tempted to pull the chiefs hair. She
became reconciled in few minutes,
and talked about the kidnapping IN
commonplace manner.
Il used to get the newspapers every
day." she said. MY, had a lot OF run
reading the prophecies of different
slemths and near sleuths. There were
a lot of things charged up to the folks
who had the boy that were not true.
That the woman is clever and OF
good education was proven by her
conversation. She carefully warded off
every advance that the police made
which might have caused her to
answer questions which she should not
have answered. She has not confessed
that she kidnapped the boy-far from
it. She has said she was in charge OF
him, but that is as far as her story
goes.
Man is Tartar"
John Doe" her mysterious partner,
proved a tartar. Every question he was
asked he answered guardedly and but
little of value was obtained from him.
Chief Kol,led asked him about him
SELF his. name and other questions.
"You tell me the answers first and
then TIL tell them back to you. Listen
to what the s,,ssSnan tells you. What
ever she says goes Doe" told the
chief.
The woman said during the night:
II am the kid that framed up this
job, all right
Willie whitla's place of captivity
while he was in Cleveland was an old,
rnoccupied abandoned residence on
Prospect avenue, southeast The man
and woman ate most of their meals at
restaurant of the hotel Thrope,
across the street from the old resi-
dence This enabled them to return to
the captive without leaving him alone
long.
"Are-4t five days ago." said Thomas
e. Tfrope. proprietor of the hotei to-.
day, "the man and woman began com
ing to the hotel for their meals.
know now they resembled the descrip-
tions / have read OF the kidnappers
Neither offered any information con-
corning their business
Prisoner Admits His Name.
z The man under arrest for completely
in the Whitla kidnapping, has admitted
to Chief Kohler, that he is James
Boyle, a plumber, whose home is at
Sharon, Pa He insists that the woman
prisoner is his wife.
Mystery Back Of Whole Transaction.
Mrs. Harry Forker, wife of the
brother of Mrs. James P. Whitla, of
Sharon, was seen at her home in Nor
walk, O., today. When the descrip-
tion of the woman under arrest was
told to her, she exclaimed: That's the
woman Mrs. Forker then broke down
and declined to say anything further,
or explain her remark. She would
mot name the woman. The woman un-
der arrest still refuses ito give her
name, but declares that she is not a
relative of the Whitla's, as was first
suspected here 1t is firmly believed
that the arrival of Mr.. and Mrs. Whit
la and Willie here this afternoon, VIII
clear up the identity of the woman.
She declared that her identity not only
will cause surprise in Sharon, but 1t
will reveal a scandal involving prom
inemt persons in the Pennsylvania
town, Papers are being prepared to
have the prisoners taken to Sharon at
once. They will not be prosecuted here.
Mr.. and Mrs. W'hitla, their son and
daughter, together with Harry Forker,
brother Of Mrs. Whitla, all of Sharon
arrived here this afternoon