The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-03-26
THE KIDNAPPERS
UNDER ARREST
Man and a Woman Captured
In Cleveland.
HAD $3.50 IN CURRENCY

When Placed In Custody the Woman
Said: 81 Planned the Whole Thing,
and There Will Be He'll In Sharon"
Police Confident They Have the
Right Parties.
Cleveland. o.. March 24.-In the ar.
rest here of a man and woman having
1890 in their possession the police be
lieve they have captured the hdnap
pers of Willie Whitla. In fact the
woman in the case, who Is somewhat
befuddled. admitted that she had been
responsible for the kidnapping. When
placed in custody at the central police
station. she said to Captain Shattuck.
Il am the one who planned the whoie
thing. There will be trouble for me
and hell in Sharon"
Beneath the woman's skirt was
found 1890. All Of it but sac was
bound in packages, with the original
/ slips placed on the money when Whltla
took il from the bank still around 1t.
Captain Norman Shattuck and De
tective Frank Wood made the arrests
in the east end of the city. When
near the police station the man broke
away from Detective Wood and ran
towards an alley. The police official
fired two shots from his revolver ln1o
the air and the man stopped. The wo'
man made no attempt to escape
The woman appears to be well edu
Gated and is refined in manner. she
saws she spent fifteen years OF her lie
in convent in Pennsylvania, but de-
MES that she has ever been in trouble
before. Both the man and the woman
deny that they know the name OF each
other. They admit they are not man
and wife According to the police
tbev we're intoxicated when placed IN
custodv. Due to their condition they
were not questioned closely by the
notice and we're locked in separate
cells. Captain Shattuck is said t'
have secured his description OF the
lidnappers from Willie Whitla, an
this description led to the arrest
Willie told Captain Shattuck tina
the woman who kept him a prison
had smallpox scars on her face. INT
woman in custody has such spots o.
her cheeks and appears to have ha'
smallpox She is a tall blonde, prol
ably twenty-five years old. She wa
droeeed IN a black silk skirt, a gra
coat and black hat The man Is dar
and smoothfaced.
Paid $4,000 Ransom.
Little Willie Whitla. WAC was ki'
mapped from school in Sharon las
Thursday. was returned to his fathe
at the Hollenden hotel in this cit
on Monday night. In compliance Wit
an agreement that had been entere
into between the kidnapped boy
father and an agent of the hdnappel
here the boy was placed on stree
car on the outskirts of the city an
started to the hotel. Two boys, G. '
Ramsey and Edward MahOney, reco
nized the lad on the car and, taklI
him IN charge, cOHuuStcu Nm ~ -
father who was in waiting accordiI
10 a prearranged plan which he ha
followed at the dictation OF the kl
manners. The boy wandered about u
hotel lobby unannounced for sever
minutes asking bell boys for his fath
before the latter knew his son was
the big foyer. The moment the anxio
parent heard that a strange boy was
the hotel sauntering in aimless fashl'
he rushed across the lobby, grasp
him in his arms and smothered
face with kisses.
An attempt had been made TO q
guise the lad. He wore pair
smoked glasses and a large tan G
which was pulled down over his ca
and the father said it would have be
difficult TO have recognized the boy
such a garb had he passed him on t
street.
Willie In Perfect Health.
Willie is in perfect health. He sa
that he has been well treated, and e'
since his capture has been constan
indoors. He believes he was tax
from Sharon to Warren and thence