The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-14

was taken from here to the peniten-
Itiary at Pittsburg Monday, James
BOYLE gave out the following inter
view. to be used under his name:
ON the morning of -, between
1.-THE hours of -, Dan Feeble, IT.,
was found dead on the sidewalk in
front of the Mauser Block, East Fed
eraI street, Youngstown, and over the
prostrate form was Mr. Harry Forker,
of Sharon, Pa, holding in his right
hand a package of letters that was
gathered from the sidewalk near the
dead body of Mr.. Feeble.
AS he was about to depart from the
vicinity he was intercepted by the
writer and a man who has since passed
to his reward, Mr.. Dan Shay, saloon
keeper of Oak street, Youngstown, O..
In Mr.. Forker's hurry to leave the
scene he failed to find two envelopes
that contained four letters. The same
we're picked up by Mr.. Shay and later
taken to his place of business on Oak
street.
THE writer and Mr.. Shay examined
and read the contents of same, which
proved beyond a doubt the presence
of Mr.. Forker there at that time.
The letters were from lady, two
from a point in New York State and
the others from Cleveland, 0. At a
later date Mr.. Forker was apprised of
the fact that the writer held these let
ters in his possession and asked If he
could use the same A letter was i'm
mediately sent to the writer by Mr..
Forker, stating that he (Mr. Forker)
would like to have a personal talk
with the writer, which meeting took
place day or so after. Mr.. Forker
acknowledged he would pay a sum OF
money for the possession of said let
tiers. The amount not being consid-
cred sufficient, was refused and from
that day on and up until March, 1908,
the writer on the pretext of exposing
the letters and the coincidence of Mr..
Forker being discovered bending over
the PROSTATE form of Mr.. Feeble, had
received at different times amounts
of money from Mr.. Forker to remain
silent.
oAho,,t civ noouthc 400 when 7 re-
turned to Sharon with my wife | met
Mr.. Forker on East State street, and
informed him that unless ] received
S.. 900 between then and the time
intended to leave Sharon l would hold
the secret no longer.
"He then informed me that it was
impossible for him to get that amount
of money, but some time in April,
1909, he was to come in possession OF
a certain amount of money and would
then turn some over to me, which was
satisfactory at that time.
'On my leaving Sharon on March |
y, 1909, ! proceeded to Cleveland. O.,
and on the same evening I addressed
to Mr.. Forker, No. 2449 East State
street sharon, Pa, letter which
read as follows:
Mr.. Harry Forker, Sharon, Pa
Dear Sir: have decided not to wait
any longer in regard to the money
proposition, and If I don't hear from
you soon, there will be something ex-
posing Sincerely yours.
az. ]. BAILEY,
"'Cleveland o.
ION March 16, 1909, l received an an
swer to the same, which read: /
Friend Bailey: You know the
circumstances and the promise | made
you when YOU left here, but if you are
really desperately in need Of money !
as you profess to be, I will outline
little plan which with your co-opera-
ton, can be very successfully carried
out. viz. The abduction of Jess
Whitla's son. I can arrange to have
the boy brought to Warren, o., due
there at 1918 with escort
(There is no signature to this letter.)
II left cleveland at S:15 a. m. and
arrived at Warren at 1000 a. m; then
proceeded to Niles, o. by street car.
| boarded an Erie train and arrived
at Warren at 11:18 a. m, but falling
to see the boy and his escort, got of
at Warren and remained in the vicinity
of the depot
About ten minutes later boy and
escort arrived, and was then In
formed that they drove from Sharon
to Warren.
al informed party to take the boy
up along the Plttsburg & Western
track, leave him there and that l
would attend 10 the rest Of Il, and |