The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-26
WOMAN s NAME
SURE TO CAUSE
BIG SENSATION
Some Mystery About the Kid
naping Which Recently
Startled Country.
EFFORT BEING MADE
TO SHIELD SOMEBODY
WILLIE WHITLA IDENTIFIES THE
PAIR UNDER ARREST AT
CLEVELAND.

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| = Sharon, Pa, March 24-Believ- =
- ing that the most interesting part -
- of the story OF the kidnapping of -
= Willie Whitla is yet to come, the =
&: people of Sharon are waiting in =
:: eager expectancy for the positive :.
:: Identification of all the persons ar =
= rested at Cleveland. That others =
= besides those who are now charged =
:: with the crime are implicated in :.
- it, is doubted by few here. and the i
= discovery Of the others in the case =
= promises sensation when the =
= facts become known. =
- That there would be an effort to =
:: prevent the making public Of -
y names which may be involved in -
= the case was surmised today by =
= reason Of activity in certain lines, =
= but the probability is that the par =
= ties in custody viii not be permit =
= ted to withhold the names OF other =
= persons implicated when the case =
:: comes to trial =
Cleveland. o., March 24.-WiIHe Whit
la today identified the man and woman
held on suspicion by the Cleveland pO-
lice as the persons who kidnapped him
from the school at Sharon, Pa, last
Thursday, and held him for the $4,000
ransom which was paid by his father
Monday
Willie said that the man. who gave
the name Of James H. Boyle, was the
one who took him from school and car
ried him to Cleveland and placed him
in the house in the east END, where he
was held until the money was paid, and
that the woman was the one who cared
for him at the house where he was de-
tanned, and who acted the part of
nurse.
Boyle said the woman is his wife The
police have no other Identification OF
the couple than the names given. So
far as the man is concerned, the police
believe the name is correct. Boyle is
said TO reside in Sharon, and is
plumber by trade. He is said to have
widowed mother, four brothers and a
sister.
The woman declared that her identi-
hcation would cause a sensation in
WhitIa Strangely Silent.
Mr.. Whtla would say nothing re-
gaTdins the woman. He said he knew
Boyle slightly.
Immediately after Willie had seen the
prisoners they were taken TO the county
ADuA AAUu-Gr clAu NilEAE dDl4-dAtu ULGOiE
the grand jury. They were examined
to aid in an attempt to find indictments.
The charge, under the laws of Ohio,
against the man and woman, if an In
dictment was found would be black
mail.
As Boyle and his wife are held by the
police on suspicion only, an indictment
viii afford a means Of placing them
under arrest formally.
Immediately after leaving the grand
jury room, Mr.. and Mrs. Whitla, Willie
and the janitor of the Sharon school left
for Sharon.
As the prisoners have not waived ex-
tradition, they will be held here for two
or three days until the necessary papers
for their removal TO Sharon can be ar
ranged.
Suicide at Cleveland.
A woman known as Mary Deiner. who
the police say may have been an aSs0-
ciate Of the kidnapers OF was impli-
Gated in the plot, committed suicide to-
day by drinking morphine. The woman
drank the poison while standing in
front of a drug store in the east end.
not far from the house in which WhitIa
was detained here. She died in an am
bulance while being taken to a hos
pitaI.
Attorney Whitla, accompan MED by
Mrs. Whitla and their son, arrived here
at I O'Clock today.
Two private detectives who repre-
scented Whitia first went to the police
station in an effort to see Chief Of Po-
lice kohler to arrange for the identi-
flea ton.
The chief would not admit the detec-
tives, and stated that ne would hove
nothing to do with them. and would
deal only with Whitls and his son.
This was reported to Whitla- and an
other dispute occurred which promised
for time to stop the proceedings. Mr..
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