Evening journal., 1909-03-24
KIDNAPPING
SUSPECTS HELD
contInued from rIrst Page.


they made no attempt to leave town.
Last night Police Captain shattuck and
Detective Wood shadowed the pair to
saloon. and when they came out made
the arrest. Just outside the police sta
tion the man tried TO break away. but
after a chase he stumbled and fell and
was captured.
At the first search the only money
found on them was $5S IN currency
carried by the man. Then the police
matron undertook the job. Concealed
ON the womans clothing she found
s0.S4S. The money was tied in $500
packages with pink tape bearing the
imprint Lawrence. Saratoga, n. "
While no identification OF the bills by
numbers has yet been made. Whitla
said over the telephone early to-day
that The ransom greenbacks were sep
grated in precisely this way, even to
the lettering on the band
Detective Ward. who came here from
sharon last night says the descrip-
tions OF the man and woman tally with
that given by Billy the last thing be-
fore he left the Whitla home. Billy
described the man as about 40 years
OF age, fve feet seven or eight inches
! tall. Weighing 160 pounds, with thick
black hair, smooth face, and old
clothes.
The woman. he said, was five feet
eight inches in height, weight, about
liO pounds. blonde with light eyes.
The story Billy told last night. diff
/ fered materially following his recovery
when he still felt the dope administer
cd by his captors. lie told precisely
the location of the building where he
was kept prisoner for three days, and
mlnuteiy described the room.
When the police searched the
! Granger early to-day they found that
the suite occupied by the pair answer
ed to Billy's description I'm every de-
tail Most conclusive of all the evil
dence was Jar OF candy drugsed with
chloroform.
Brought Child to House.
william Mears, the man who keeps the
Granger, says the couple now under ar
rest came to the house on March lS, and
! engaged the suite they occupied when cap
turod. No child was ever seen there, but
a Young woman who has a room near says
/ she saw the man on Friday evening enter
tho house with boy Of about s. II was
Friday evening that Billy was brought "a
Cleveland
Chief OF Police Kohler said this morn
ing that he expected Whitla and Billy
would be here from Sharon possibly before
noon whitla told tho police over the tele-
phone early to-day that he was reluctant
TO submit the boy to any more fatigue and
excitement but that he would bring him
here IL justice demanded
1T certainly looks 10 me as II these are
the people" said whitla- II have Just told
Billy and he is all excited over IT,"
"win YOU prosecute the Cleveland
couple IL they are identihedy' he was
asked
"wn I? You bet your life wlll" was
the answer the wire brought back.
I'VE could have arrested these peo-
pie Sunday" said Chief Kohler to-day.
III Whitia had answered q letter writ
ten him by the Cleveland police we
could have recovered the boy and
money and had the kidnappers I'm
custody. Whitla did not seem to want
TO cooperate with us.
I'VE will turn the prisoners over to
the Pennsylvania authorities as soon
as they get here" said <ohler. Its
up TO them to prosecute"
The arrest was made on a tip given
the police by Patrick O'Reilly. a saloon
keeper.
The couple had planned 10 leave town
at once. They visited OReilley's sa-
loon and bought a number of drinks.
The man told O'Reilly that he was
having trouble i'm the city, and wished
10 leave secretly. He asked O'Reilly