Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-25
YIELDED BY RUSSIA BLACKMA|L IS CHARGE
Consents to Austrian Increase Kdnapers Indicted by the
of Territory Cleveland Grand Jury.
HOPES OF AVERTING WAR WILL BE TAKEN TO SHARON
Annexation Herzeg Exradon Papers Probably Will
vna Agreed To. Signed Tomorrow.
OBJECTION TO SERvIAN BROTHER IDENTIFIES BOYLE
verbage May Settle the Strange
Balka OF
KidnaperS Indicted by the
Cleveland Grand Jury.
WILL BE TAKEN TO SHARON
Extradition Papers Probably Will Be
Signed Tomorrow.
BROTHER IDENTIFIES BOYLE
Mystery, However, Still Surrounds
His Accomplice-Strange Death
of Woman Suspect.

Oh w oman suspect.
CLEVELAND Ohio. March e,-The
county grand jury has reported an in
dictment against James II. Boyle and
Helen Boyle, alias Faulkner. charging
them with blackmail. The charge is
based on the payment OF sia,0D ransom
by j. p. Whitla for the recovery Of his
son Willie here last Monday Reauisi-
ton papers have already been prepared
in Pennsylvania, and it is believed that
they will soon be submitted to Gov. Har-
mon of Ohio.
The last doubt in the minds OF the local
police officials as to the exact identity cf
the man held for the KIDNAPPING OF Willie
Nhitla of Sharon. Pa, was removed to-
day when Thomas F. Boyle of Sharon
visited the prisoner and identified him AS
his brother, James. Arrangements wele
made between the brothers TO obtain an
attorney for the prisoner and prepare his
defense.
Don't Know the Woman.
Up to then Boyle ad not taken any
steps toward looking after his own inter
suspect. but could say nothing regarding
her other than that she is the wife OF
James Boyle. He said he knew nothing
of her and that she is unknown in Sharon.
The local police are making no effort to
learn of the womans past history OF TO
eStab blish her identity
We are not concerned with what the
woman was Chief of Police Kohler
said today. I'VE have captured her. have
identified her as the nurse that cared
for Willie. have made a prima facie case.
and when We have delivered her and
Boyle to the Pennsylvania authorities
our connection with the case is at an
end"
Attorney J. H. Whitla. father Of the
boy. accompanied by Chief of Police
Grain Of Sharon. called upon Chief Koh
Ter today to arrange the details for pros
ecuting Boyle and his wife. Mr.. Whitlt
said he would lend every effort to this
end. and expressed his desire to work
in harmony with the officials.
Checks Up Ransom Money.
Whftla also checked up the s9.SiS
taken from Mrs. Boyle. He identified
the bills and their wrappings as those
he prepared for the kidnapers, and which
he paid over I'm the little east end candy
store last Monday. Mr.. Whitla returned
to Sharon today.
1t was stated at police headquarters
that the prisoners would he released TO
the Pennsylvania authorities as soon
the extradftion papers were signed. This
may be completed today, but is not cX-
pected until tomorrow.
There is still a good deal of mystery
about the woman prisoner. The police
say that she has been known as Helen
Faulkner and that she has a record in
several cities. Boyle represented to his
folks in Sharon about three years ago
that he had been married to a woman
who had some money and was well edu-
Gated. Helen Faulkner was well known
In the resorts of East st. Louis. wherA
she said that she was burlesque actress.
She could sing well and was very apt
in drawing pencil pictures About the
same time Boyle worked In East St. Louis
at his trade as plumber.
Couple in Trouble Before.
Last May Boyle and woman who is
thought to be Helen Faulkner got into
trouble at Springfield. Ill. They We're
arrested on the charge of having worked
a badger game, and were subsequently,
ordered to get out of the town.
The detectives who have talked with
the woman under arrest say that she
has a peculiar combination of charac
teristics Apparently she has been well
educated and she talks French fiuently.
At times she bears herself as a renne'i
woman and again she exhibits all the
coarseness, both in manner and speech.
of the sums. That she has a good deal
of tenderness in her make up WAS shown
by her treatment of Willie Whitla while
she looked after him, and by her actions
yesterday when the boy identified her
at police headquarters. Even Mrs.
Whitla was prompt to thank the woman
for the care she had taken of her boy.
Woman's Death Battles Police.
The police had hoped to learn a good
deal about the woman prisoner from
woman of the name of Mary Diemer.
with whom she associated while she was
in Cleveland. The Diemer woman hal
been traced by the detectives to cheap
lodging house. She readily agreed to ac-
company them 10 police headquarters.
and started with them down Ontario
street.
After three blocks she complained Of
feeling i'll and sat down on the curb. The
detectives called an ambulance, and ia
this conveyance the woman died before
reaching Charity Hospital. 1t was found
she had swallowed morphine. but physic
ians of the coroner's staff doubt whether
the morphine ended her life.
Her death looks to me like it might
have been a case of pure fright" said
one of the physicians.
The Whitlas remained here only
short time after yesterday afternoon S
proceedings at the police headquarters.
They went TO the Holenden House, re-
conference and then left in a cab for the
Erie station.
Willie Identifies Kidnapers.
The Whitla party was attended by mobs
as it went about the city yesterday
afternoon When it reached the Of
flee of Chief of Police koher. Boyle
brought in for Identification. He
little pale and nervous. There was a
faint smile upon his lips He was seated.
the party forming semi-circle in front
of him Chief Koiller asked Willie If he
had ever seen the man before.
Sure" said Willie. brightly: why. that
is the man left Sharon with. He TOOK
me to Cleveland, then TO Ashtabula.
| last saw him in Cleveland"
He had a mustache when | first saw
him at the schoelhouse. Willie supple
mented, but he must have cut il off
later This is the way he looked when
| last saw him in Cleveland"
Boyle smiled sarcastically throughout
the recital but said not a word. He
eyed his accusers defiantly. He was taken
back to his cell and the woman was
brought in.
She was defiant apd naughty and
stared blankly at MIR. Whitla and the
others. Her only relapse from an in