The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09
MRS. BOYLE FOUND
GUILTY BY JURY
Convicted of Aiding in the Alb
ductiOn of Little Willie
WhitIa Of Sharon.
WOMAN INSISTS THAT
REAL STORY is UNTOLD
Declares She Will Commit Sui
eide Before Serving
Prison Sentence.

MERCER, Pa, May S.-MrS. James
II. Boyle, formerly Helena Anna Nc
Dermott Of Chicago, was convicted to-
day on charge of aiding in the alb
duction Of Willie Whitla of Sharon, Pa.
y motion for new trial Will be made
Monday. 1t is said that Judge vii
ljams will overrule the motion ami I'M
mediately pass sentence on the woman
and also on her husband, who was con.
vieted of kidnapping yesterday.
Both, 1t is said, will probably be sent
10 the Western Pennsylvania prison at
Pittsburg for long terms. Boyle is liable
to life imprisonment and the maximum
sentence in the case of the woman is
twenty-five years.
An appeal to the supreme court of
Pennsylvania will bN made. In the
the Pennsylvania courts have jurisdjc-
ton in the case of Mrs. Boyle will, it
is said. be fought
Two ballots were taken by the jury
IN the case of the woman. The first
was eleven for conviction and one for
acGUittal. The second was unanimously
for conviction.
Is an Ideal Stole.
Manifesting the same stoical indiffer-
ence to her fate which has characterized
her throughout her trial, Mrs. Boyle
sat immovable as the Jury returned its
verdict. a heavy veil which she has
worn throughout the trial concealed
her features, so that It could not he seen
whether her color changed, but there
was not 4 movement of her body TO
Indicate that she SO much as heard her
doom pronounced. Her indifference
was even more pronounced than il has
been during preceding portions Of the
trial.
The courtroom was crowded almost TO
suffocation when the jury filed in at
30 aud the foreman announced they
had agreed. The crowd was warncd
that no demonstration would ho toll
Grated, and the verdict was read in
silence.
Quietly as if preparing to go out for
a walk, Mrs. Boyle drew on her gloves,
arose from her chair and went with the
sheriff back to her cell.
Judge Miller, Mrs. Bowie S attorney
has announced that he Will make mo-
tion on Monday for a new trial. 1t
it believed here that the motion VIII be
overruled, and that both Boyle and his
wife will be sentenced Monday. The
penalty in Boyle S case is from ono year
in Tho penitentiary TO a life sentence,
and in Mrs. Boyle S case the maximum
is twenty-five years.
Could Not Stand Prison.
Life in the penitentiary would kill
ME IN week or ten days, and rather
than submit to this [ would take the
Dutch route, - said Mrs. Boyle this
morning.
Like her husband she is anxious to
tell more than has been brought out in
the trial of herself or her husband re-
garding the kidnapping of Billy
Whitla.
1'If Jimmie and 1 are sent to the
penitentiary, she said, ''we will not
go alone, Others will go with us or
Join us there.
"Half the truth has not been told
in this case One other man, who
planned the whole affair. has not been
arrested, I am willing TO suffer for any
crime | may have committed, but
there is no evidence that | have been
mixed up IN this ease and rather than
quit this earth aud take justice from
my maker
Judge Miller, counsel for Mrs. Boyle,
asked for instructions TO the Jury 10
bring In verdict Of not gnilry. He
intimated that powerful influences
were being brought to bear to convict
the woman, and there was Nellcd ref
erenceS to the suppression Oh the eHolts
of the Boyles to bring into the case the
name Of n third party.
Blanes Her Beauty.
On her way TO jail, after conviction.
Mrs, BOYLE expressed the belief that
she had been convicted TO satisfy the
venom and jealousy Of some Mercer
women,
"Had l been Il plain girl, she said.
Etbese same women would have piticd
me. If the jury had acquitted me |
believe these women would have tarred
and feathered me, a sacrifice had to
be made, and Jimmie and L arc the VIC
Tins.
E1They think they will railroad mo TO
the penitentiary. They will hnd they !
are mistaken. NY fight has only been
begun Jimmie and j were not allowed |
TO open our mouths at the trial. Now |
we will do the talking, and the people |
will know upon whom the blame should |
fall,
II admit that Boyle brought the boy
TO me at Cleveland; that / cared for
him. was kind to him, entertained him,
/ never asked why he was there--never
asked where Jimmie got him. He asked
me, as his wife, TO take care of the boy
for a few days, and / did so, If that is
4 crime there are millions of wives wait
ing TO be convicted.
''I tried to make this explanation.
but was choked of. In the future they
won t be able TO choke me off