Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-31
HELD FOR KIDNAPPING
Mrs. Boyle Unable to Furnish
Bail in $4,000.
SHE PLEADS "NOT GUILTY"
Valves Examination and Is Recon-
mitted to Mercer Jail.
FEAR PROSECUTION WILL FAIL
Expected Woman Finally Will Be
Turned Over to Ohio
Authorities.

MERCER, Pa, March 31.-Mrs. Helen
Boyle, wife of James H. Boyle. kidnaper
of Willie Whitla, was arraigned before
Justice of the Peace Thomas McClain
at this place today, charged with kid
naping.
She entered plea of mot guilty"
and was held for the action of the grand
jury in the sum of $4,000 bail. Her
husband waived a hearing at Sharon
Monday and is held in the Jail here on
a similar bond.
The woman was taken from the Jail by
Sheriff Chess, and the two, followed by a
couple of deputy sheriffs, went to the
Office of the justice, about a square dis
tant. Mrs. Boyle was asked if she would
plead guilty Or not guilty, and replied:
why. 1 am not guilty. and 1 enter a
plea of not guilty"
DO you want to have a hearing at this
timer" said the justice. ''or will you
waive a hearing?'
For the present." she replied, lit will
be better for me to waive any hearing.
We'll, that is about ALL" replied the
justice. "Of course there will be bail In
this case. 1t is fixed at $25,OO0. Have
you any one that will go on your bond? p
No replied the woman, and there
upon she was committed to Jail to await
tlic oI the STdHu jury
Visitor Will Be a Witness.
While the identity of the man who Wis
tied Mrs. Boyle in Jail here Monday, al
legged to be her brother. is known to the
woman, ex-Judge Miller and Attorney
Stranahan, it is not probable the public
will know who he is until the trial is
called some time in May.
Attorney Miller Informed Sheriff Chess
today that the man was not an accom-
plice of the Boyles i'm the kidnapping. He
stated the man had satisfactorily iden-
titled himself to him, and tn. ugh il was
Impossible at present TO make known his
name or from whe e he came, these woul1
be made known at the proper time. He
| assured the sheriff that the visit and Wis
itor were both perfectly proper, and thai
the man would be witness at the tria
In May.
The opinion is expressed that the kid
naping charge against the woman will
fall fiat, and that eventually the Ohio au
charge OF biackmail. From present indi-
cations her husbands defense will be
mental irresponsibility."
Whitlas GO to Seashore.
PHILADELPHIA. March 31.-On theil
strain under which they labored for sc
Whitla of Sharon, Pa, with little Willie
who was kidnapped, and their daughter
Selma. stopped off in Philadelphia fol
more than an hour this morning before
boarding a, train for the seashore. The
family will remain in Atlantic City fol
about a week and will return to Sharon
to aid in the prosecution of the alleged
kidnapers I'm going to see the At
lantic ocean. It's fine to be back witt
papa again. exclaimed Willie.
Il am much pleased that my sol
is with me again. alive and well. that
can think of but little else said the
father. They have said l will claim
the reward offered by the state, but il
is not true. To have my son back is the
most splendid thing in the whole world
The reward probably will go to the Cleve-
lald police who worked so nobly for us
I'VE shall rest ourselves in AtlanIi.
city he continued, and then Willie vii
go back to school in Sharon as though
nothing had happened