Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-03-23
KIDNAPPED BOY
RETURNS
Father Pays Ten
Thousand Dollars
Ransom
left At ONCE FOR HOME
Police Of Cleveland, Ohio,
Still Seeking the
Outlaws.

Cleveland, Ohio, March 23-Vast
throngs filled the streets this morn
ing when billie" Whitla. the kid.
mapped child. was returned to his
father in the Hollenden hotel The
boy was placed on street car in the
outskirts of the city and was sent to
the hotel where the parents waited.
Previously by agreement, the father
left ten thousand dollars in little
suburban grocery where few mo-
ments later man entered and re-
ceived the money. The boy was then
sent to the father The latter made
no statement but left at once for his
home at Sharon. Pa. The police are
still seeking the kidnappers.
WiIlie's Story.
| Whitla received the newspaper men
later Willie told his story as best
he could
Papa" said the boy in tone OF
childish prattle, 81 have been buggy
riding, been on cars and in nice big
white house that looked like hos
pital. have been treated nice and
had lots OF good things to eat
/ "One man, tall and with black
moustache, came to the school house
Thursday and told my teacher Mrs.
Anna Lewis, that you wanted me at
your Office. | went out to buggy
with him. ! got in and then he got
in. Then we rode away. On the way
down town he asked me to address
| letter to you. did so and dropped it
into mail box. He was awfully kind.
I'VE went from Sharon to Warren.
We had the incest trip. The man who
was the same one who brought me to
the car line tonight, was nice to me.
when we got TO place, the man
said was Warren, the man left the
buggy in the road. Then we got on
what ! think was an electric car.
don't just remember what it was, but
it was something like street car. |
became sleepy when we got on the
car and slept most of the way to the
place where we We're going.
when We got to a town that the
man called New Castle they took me
to big building and turned me over
to woman, She was good to me,
The hospital or whatever the build
ing was, was clean place. There
, was a man there who looked like
! doctor, because he had whiskers-
Short gray whiskers. The people in
the hospital said that | must do just
| what they told me to do If did not
obey them they said they would take
me to a place called the pest house
where folks that have smallpox have
! to go. 1t was not clean or pretty
place, they told me. | walked the
chalk line Just like good boy, papa,
| like you have told me to do.
"On Saturday night | was taken
away from the hospital and l think
we went to a town called Ashtabula.
We travelled in buggy and on foot.
Early in the morning we went back
to the hospital. | heard one of the
men say "there will be nothing doing
tonight, guess
81 might have been fight in Cleve.
land, though papa, for some Of the
town saw tonight on the car looked
! like the place we went to Saturday.
"They told me all along that | was
just taking little vacation was
not going to be hurt they said. So
just acted nice and had a good time
| playing around the hospital. I knew
| would get back home all right and
Just supposed Mr.. Jones was one OF
my friends who was treating me nice
because you wanted him to treat me
that way, papa, dear"
The boy told the story slowly. His
father sat as if in a trance. The mu.
sic of his boys voice seemed to charm
him. t
Stroking the blonde locks of Willie
he said:
God bless you my darling boy
"Whitla handed the boy to Detec-
tive Perkins and reaching into grip
produced little night dress for the
boy. Whitla stripped the little
sweater, pants. stockings, shoes and
underclothes the same ones that the
boy wore away when he was kid
naped from off the child's form and
robing him in the nigh'gown prepared
him for bed. He was asleep in few
minutes. s
AT a conference with Captain Shat
tuck of the Cleveland police, Whitla
said that he believed that his boy had
ben drugged after being taken from
school by the kidnapers. He came to
the conclusion, he said, because the
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