Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-23
DEMONSTRATION MARKS
RETURN OF>WILlIE WHITLA
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Whitla is safe with his father. He
walked into the lobby of the Hollen-
don hotel last night and ended the
search which hundreds of detectives
have been making in scores of cities
and towns in the central states since
Thursday, when the boy was kidnapped
from his school in Sharon, Pa.
The recovery of the boy was the re
suit of an agreement made by the
boys father with woman who acted
as agent foI the kidnapers. MI
Whitla is known to have carried $10,-
0C0 in cash to the meeting place. He
refuses to tell whether or not he paid
, the money, but he has said often that
he willingly would meet any demand
of the kidnapers if his boy were re-
| turned unframed.
Willie Healthy and Happy.
| Willie is in perfect health. He says
, that he has been well treated and ever
, since his capture has been constantly
indoors
He believes he was taken from Sha-
ron TO Warren and thence to Newcas
tie, Pa. 1t is his opinion, expressed in
happy schOolboy way, that he was
in Ashtabula on Saturday night at the
time his father was to leave his $10,-
600 in Flatiron park.
The boy says he was in a place
which recamhlad q bocn;tal aud that
, his captors were doctors.
| In the delivery of the boy the kid
napers kept their identity hidden In
compliance with the agreement entered
into between the kidnapped boys faith
er and the agent of the kidnapers, the
boy was placed on a street car on the
outskirts of the city and started to the
hotel shortly after s o'clock.
Boy Hunts for Father.
Two boys. G. w. Ramsey and Ed
ward Mahoney recognized the lad on
the car, and taking him in charge, con-
Quoted him to the hotel, where his
father was waiting, according to a pre-
arranged plan which he had followed
at the dictation of the kidnapers.
!, The boy wandered about the hotel
lobby unannounced for several min.
utes asking bellboys for his father
before the latter knew his son was in
the big foyer. The moment the anX.
ious parent heard that a strange boy
was in the hotel sauntering in aimless
fashion, he rushed across the lobby
grasped him in his arms, and smother
ed his face with kisses.
An attempt had been made to dis
guise the lad. He wore pair of smoli
ed glasses and large tan cap which
was pulled down over his ears
Father Obeys Letter Offer.
The recovery of the boy came through
letter the father of the boy received
yesterday from the kidnapers at his
, home in Sharon saying that if he called
: at a confectionery store in the cas-
o end of Cleveland he would be tol(
q how to secure his boy unframed ant
well fed"
n Shortly after noon he left Sharon
for Cleveland. He was unaccompanied
= His immediate family and the privat,
detectives he had in his employ h,
F.. apprised of the proposed secret meet
:, ing, but insisted that he make the tril
alone.
Every one of them was warned tina
he must be allowed to go unheedet
), and no attempt at the capture of tn,
;. kidnapers be made Whitla was cer
:, tain that if he spoiled the plans of hi
:. sons captors last night he would neve
= see the lad again. His experience p
: Ashta5ula served as a warning
q whitIa Meets Woman Agent.
D. About 2 o'clock yesterday Afternoon
@ Mr.. Whitla went to a candy store il
r. the east end. With him he carried tn
8 $4,000, expecting that it would be dc
g handed of him there. He was met b
g woman who detailed to him tn
e terms OF the kidnapers. With all tn
n eagerness of distracted parent, Whit
% la agreed to them Immediately.
# Detectives in his employ say that h
r. paid the money, but on this point tn
Is father declines to commit himself
v. Half an hour later he returned to tn
II Hollendon hotel and awaited develol
% mentS.
u, Legislature Acts.
IF Harrisburg, Pa, March 23.-The sci
e ate last night unanimously adopted
le concurrent resolution Offering a rewar
# of $4,000 for information leading t
- the arrest and conviction of the kit
If napers of Willie Whitla.
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