The Forrest City times., 1909-03-26
OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA oFFI. clALs DETERMINED TO BRING
 MEN TO JUSTICE.
k|OMAPERs RECEIVED s10,000
Money Was Paid to Woman in Candy Store and Lad Was Put on Street Car and Directed to Where
 Father Waited.

Cleveland, O-Litte Willie Whit la is found; now to find the men who stole him.
 A man hunt began in Ohio and Pennsylvania that has had no paral- Tel since the detectives ran down Pat Grove, kidnaper of Eddie Cudahy. With the departure of James P Whit la, taking his son, Willie, to the moth CT who awaits the boy in Sharon, Pa, the second chapter of one of the country's famous Kidnapping cases closed. and the third began Willie Whitla was restored to his father at the Hollenden hotel in this city. In obedience to summons contained in the kidnapers fourth let ter, received at Sharon. the father came to Cleveland, left $10,00O in greenbacks at Cleveland store. then went back to his hotel and waited.
 Boy Is Placed on Car by Captors. At S:30 his boy was brought to him by men who had found him on troll ley car where he had been placed by his captors and told to say absolutely nothing except his destination. The police of the two states will unite in the man hunt, for, although the crime was committed in Pennsylvania, the ransom was paid in Ohio. There are two means by which the kidnapers may be traced The first and most promising is by the personal descrip- tions given by the boy they stole, and by the few with whom they unavoid- l ally came in contact while negotiat- i inss for The 4<ansom sahe second is through the currency received from Mir Whitla
 When Attorney Whitla met his boy in the hotel lobby, he cried: This is my son that was lost and is found. I wanted my boy, that was all. I did not want to have his captors caught
 Father Is ResentfuI.
 But, with Willie safe beside him. resentment that was but natural and human arose against the men that have caused Mrs Whitla the greatest suffering that can wiring mothers heart, and. while as yet taking no active part in the hunt for the kid napers, he gave the police all the in- formation at his disposal.
 This was little. Bills that made the S10.000 ransom were in denomina- tions of $5, $10 and s20. This by or der of the men W ohreceived them. A report that Whitla had marked them is not verified at this time. That amount of currency in small bills. however. would make it's pos sessors conspicuous. unless they scat ter it among a number of confeder- ates, and thereby increase the risks in another direction.
 The lad had been placed on the car at the eastern outskirts of the city. A man who waved goodbye to him until the car was out of sight had placed in the boys hand slip of paper asking that he be put off the car at the Hollenden hotel corner and directed to the hotel On the car. however, G. w. Ramsey and Ed ward Mahoney recognized the boy, and, with a policeman they notified upon dIlSltlng at the HOtelj dCSoM- panied him into the lobby.
 Tried to Disguise Him.
 AZ attempt had been made to dis guise the lad He wore a pair of smoked glasses and large tan cap, which was pulled down over his ears, and the father said it would have been difficult to have recognized the boy in such a garb had he passed Linn on the street.
 Willie is in perfect health. He says he has been we'll treated, and ever since his capture has been constant Iy indoors. He believes he was taken from Sharon to Warren. and thence to Newcastle, Pa.
 MT. Whitla said he received let ter from the kidnapers at his home in Sharon, saying that if he called at a confectionery store in the east end of Cleveland he would be told how to obtain his boy unharmet.
 IL is his opinion that he was in Ashtabula on Saturday night at the time his father was to leave his s10,- 900 in Flatiron park.
 Willie Whitla and his father left on the Erie train at s a. ID. A big cheer ing crowd gathered about them at the Hollenden, and gave them noisy farewell.