The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-23
There Are Kidnapers,
loo, Who Do Not Send
Back the Children
eoys and Girls Are Led Away by
Others Than Those Who Take
Them Driving or Snatch Them
Up In the Street.

! are belonging
Them Driving or snatch Them them, every OF these
Ei Up the Street. n,rerts has shared in a degree
with eyes and minds upon
% little the suffering and the visited
n upon the Whtla
their mothers have suffered all
the bitter anguish that has been reality with the mother OF Billy
\ Whtla.
Awakening they curly heads" and
In bed and their joy that of the Wha mother who today
probably the happest woman in the world.
The Wh1a boy in school and told his
teacher by his father a his Office
The took the boy in a buggy and drove away.
On the from the school the kdnape had the boy address
letter his father the letter demanding from the father $4,000
y If he to his boy again alive.
Asceranng that the had really been kidnapped the father
upon mother and
about the demands of the abducor
Messages exchanged father directed leave
the money in a park in Cleveland.
This he did but the police lowered and the abductor failed
to carry his of agreement.
The fathers attitude defiance toward the police
and he opened negotiations with the kidnaper again.
He did not prosecute
He wanted his boy
He his boy pros
trated mother
Messages exchanged again through newspapers
$4,000 left again designated point last night little
Billy walked into Cleveland hotel into the his father
There vicious crime the calendar
perated against the Whita family
Here hoping kidnaper child and
dealt with his dasardly before he make
rowady heatsone his against
other parents love and money.
The police of the country have duty perform that
society running stole Billy
Whila.
Monday afternoon Detroit the police aded pool parlor on
Lafayctte-bvd.
Among the hangers nine boys
be oene for boys visit these pool and
that ofene PERMIT hang these
places for the proprietor of the place WAS NOT NTERFERED
WITH while the young arrested
Does your boy hang the cheap pool
If he does your boy is in the hands of kdnaper.
He being led from school and OF hands
The proprietor of cheap pool who permits boys in his
place encouraging boys denes the devils
workshop.
you find your boy of these breeding places of crime
the for there law reach him and HE is
AS MUCH OF A MENACE TO THE HOME AND SOCIETY
AS THE MAN WHO WOULD PICK YOUR CHILD UP AND
CARRY HIM AWAY IN HIS ARMS
The dnapers only boys girls up
in the and call for them school
There kdnape all along the path that little feet tread
The rich who shop where young boys and
girls employed kdnaper
the due the heavy levied fra and
kdnspers - '---'o-' -
The propretors of the cheap lodging Detroit whose
the police have just discovered dnapers for
the bitter brought homes and for which they
brilliantly lighted ceiling gilded
pictures the wall kdnape inviting boy out of your
The proprietor of the cheap theaer who permits youths
The bloated proprietor of the cheap dance hail. of which De-
troit has many is kidnaPer of the lowest type
villain Sharon Billy" Whita
They however
They than kdnapers for in the of kdnaper
y the child seldom suffers.
They bring the suffering the anguish
N and THEY DO NOT RETURN THE CHILD
Detroit mothers and fathers have stood in horror while
the search for Billy Whitla going you synpa
mother father of boy put your
in their places look close those loved your
home.
WHERE DO THEY SPEND THEIR TIME WHILE OUT
OF YOUR SIGHT?
Do know?
~ If you don't know well you make it point
Better yet, keep them in your sight
There is danger all sideskidnape lurking every
ready pick them and carry them far away.
&A Keep them
They always safe AT HOME.
I'll WOMAN SUFFRAGE REFERENDUM
NJ Women only
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