The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-31
K|DNAPERS INDICTED
Charge of B|ackmai| Made
to Insure Punishment.
NOT TO BE TRIED IN OHIO
Abductors of Willie WhitIa Must An
swer Pennsylvania for the More
Serious Crime - Extradition 10
Asked.

ported an indictment against James
H. Boyle and Helen Boyle, alias Faulk-
ner, charging them with Matchmaking.
The charge is based on the payment
of $4,000 ransom by J. P. Whitla for
the recovery Of his son Willie, here
last Monday.
The finding of an indictment against
Boyle and his wife is only a formal
precaution. They will not be placed
on trial here, but will be taken to
Pennsylvania as originally planned.
Indictment to Be Club.
Extreme punishment for kidnapping
in Pennsylvania is life imprisonment.
In Ohio the extreme penalty for black
mailing is five years in the peniten-
tiary and a fine of $1,000.
The indictment is to be used as a
sort of club for the protection of the
local officials and for the prosecution
of the kidnapers in event of failure
to obtain a conviction In Pennsyl-
vania.
This phase of the situation has an
especial bearing upon Mrs. Boyle,
who, so far as known, took no physical
part in the actual kidnapping which
occurred at Sharon.
The last doubt in the minds Of the
local police officers as to the actual
identity of the man held for the kid
naping was removed yesterday when
Thomas F. Boyle of Sharon visited the
prisoner. He said the prisoner is his
brother, James.
Sharon Awaits Prisoners.
Sharon, Pa, Mar. 26. - Although
there is little probability of James H.
Boyle and his mysterious wife be-
ing brought here from Cleveland, all
Sharon anxiously awaits their return.
Every train that comes in from Cleve-
land is being closely watched in the
hope that Sheriff William Chess Of
Mercer county will decide to return
the suspects to Sharon for arraign-
ment.
A rumor was current that an at
tempt would be made to quietly slip
Boyle and his wife into Sharon on an
early train, and lock them up before
anyone but the police were aware they
were here. Later it was reported that
the couple would be returned to Mer
Ger, the county seat. IA miles north
east of Sharon. Although there is
snow storm and blizzard now raging
in this section, and there is no direct
railroad connection between Sharon
and Mercer, several people drove
across the country in order that they
might be present when Sheriff Chess
arrives with the suspects. Sheriff
Chess is in Cleveland, and he has not
told his deputies when he will return
with Boyle and his wife.
Boyle Not Moving Spirit.
Boyle might be returned to Sharon
and arraigned with safety. There is
a feeling here against the kidnapers
of Willie Whitla, but Sharon people
do not believe that Boyle is the brains
of the scheme which was executed in
carrying away the boy. Residents
who have known Boyle since he was
a little boy insist that either his wife
or third party planned the kidnap-
ing. Boyle is regarded as shiftless
sort of a fellow who might have been
Influenced by the cunning of his wife,
or carried out the kidnapping for a
third party, but it would be difficult
to convince many people here that he
originated the crime.
Interest centers in Boyle's wife, the
slender blonde woman, who, as Helen
Faulkner or Helene McDonough, Boyle
SNI tn a
unsolved problem to Sharon residents.
When she visited here at the time OF
the death of Boyle's uncle, she was re-
ceived by the best people in Sharon,
and was we'll liked.
Extradition Is Asked.
District Attorney Lininger believes
that he has stripped the case OF all
the cloak of mystery, and that the
two kidnapers stand revealed as the
only criminal participants in the TAX
ing away of the Whitla boy. The coun-
ty prosecutor prepared and sent requi-
sition papers to Gov. Stuart at Harris
burg to extradite Boyle and his wife
to Mercer county from Ohio on
charges of kidnapping.
Gov. Harmon expected to receive
the extradition papers tomorrow
morning. Boyle and his wife will
probably be brought to the county
Jail at Mercer on Sunday. District
Attorney Lininger said to-day that the
Whitla family did not know Mrs.
Boyle, and he believed that only Boyle
and his wife were concerned in the