Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-05-12
LIFE FOR JIM BOYLE.
Twenty-Five Years in Penitentiary
for Woman.

SADlIdlloh vi dholnSI uuy IL N1Slt
expected determination to commit
suicide is not successful, James
Boyle and his wife, convicted of kid
mapping Willie Whitla from his home
in Sharon in March, will have begun
long terms in the Western peniten-
tiary, at Pittsburg. Boyle will go to
the institution on life sentence.
Mrs. Boyle is under sentence of i'm
prisonment for 25 years. BY good
behavior she can cut this down to
fifteen years.
That death is preferable to impris-
onment in Mrs Boyle's opinion was
indicated by reported attempt to
take her own life last night by swal-
lowing morphine, alleged to have
been obtained from fellow prisoner.
This morning the sheriff found
razor serreted in Boyle's clothing.
Reprimand by Judge.
After Judge Miller, of counsel for
the Boyles, had completed his plea
for leniency, Judge Williams, the
had anything to say. Boyle merely
said, 81 have not" and shook his
head. Judge Williams then said:
"Mr Boyle, the crime of child
stealing in ancient time was punish
able by death. In Pennsylvania the
law is more lenient."
"You took good care of your prize
package. You had to treat him well
to get what money was demanded.
"Since your arrest we have inves-
tigated your record. We find that
you have been convicted in the Mer-
Ger county courts previously to your
arrest for kidnapping. You have
| been charged with larceny, receiving
stolen goods, assault and battery,
escape from Jail and many other
crimes. All these have had their in
! fuence with this court in making
us come to the decision that we have
reached that your punishment shall
be the maximum sentence, imprison-
ment for life
Both Prisoners Reply.
After the sentence had been i'm
| posed on Boyle, he arose and said to
the court:
your honor, you are wrong about
my record"
81 think not, it is a matter Of
| court record" replied the judge.
When Mrs. Boyle was ordered to
| stand up to receive sentence she was
asked if she had anything to say.
|. 81 did not do it and l think the
! evidence upon which / was convicted
was very flimsy," she said.
| THAT was matter for the jury
| to determine" said Judge Williams,
and then, after a brief review Of the
case, he imposed the sentence.
Both Prisoners Collapse.
Both Boyle and his wife collapsed
completely upon hearing their SEN
tences pronounced. When they were
started back to the Jail from the
| II,
W, h assistance down the steps, but
came limp and unable to stand He
was lifted into the old-fashioned
omnibus in which the prisoners have
been transported between the court
house and the Jail. When he was
placed upon the seat inside the We
hicle, he was left for moment, un-
supported, and fell nearly out of it
before he>was caught. He had to be
carried to his cell
Mrs. Boyle was in even worse con-
dition. She was unable to walk down
the steps from the court house to the
street, and was carried by Sheriff
Chess and Chief of Police Livermore
down three flights Of Stairs. She was
lifted into the omnibus, and when
the jail was reachc she was again
lifted out by these officers and car
ried to her cell, where she wept vio-
lently
That the threats of a double sui
eide made by Mrs. Boyle last night
were not idle was shown to-day when
1t became known that a razor which
was secreted in Boyle's clothing was
found to-day and that Mrs. Boyle had
taken quantity Of morphine be-
tween midnight and daylight. Mrs.
Boyle was made partly unconscious
during the night and was very sick
this morning. 1t Is believed the ef-
feet of the morphine caused her to
collapse in the court room. AS fur
ther precaution Sheriff Chess to-day
took from Mrs. Boyle three hat pins
and removed all the glasses she had
in her cell.