The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-24
MAN AND WOMAN
UNDER ARREST
FOR KIDNAP ING
Cleveland Police Make Quick
Catch of AbduCtorS of
Willie WhitIa.
OFFICERS FIND MONEY
IN THEIR POSSESSION
LAD TAKEN HOME TO MOTHER
WHOLE TOWN TURNS OUT
TO WELCOME HIM.

Cleveland. O., March 23.-In the arrest
here tonight of a man and a woman
having $9,9S9 in their possession, the
police believe they have captured the
kidnapers of Willie Whitla. The woman.
who was somewhat confused, admitted
that she had been responsible for the
KIDNAPPING. When placed in custody at
the Central police station, she SAID 10
Captain Shattuck:
Il am the one who planned the whole
thing. There will be trouble for me
and hell in Sharon tomorrow"
Beneath the woman's skirt was found
So. 1888. All of it but $40 was bound in
packages with the original slips placed
on the money when Whitla took it from
the bank still around it.
Captain Shattuck and Detective
Frank Wood made the arrests in the
east end of the city.
Bullets Stopped Him.
When they neared the station the
man broke away from Detective Wood
and ran toward an alley, while the po-
liceman fired two shots from his re-
volver into the air and the man stopped.
The woman made no attempt to escape,
The woman appears to be well edu-
Gated, and is refined in manners. She
SAYS she spent fifteen years of her life
in a convent in Pennsylvania, but de-
MES that she has ever been in trouble
before Both the man and the woman
deny that they know the name of each
other. They admit that they are not
man and wife According to the police.
they were intoxicated when placed in
custody. Due to their condition they
were not questioned closely by the po-
lice, and were locked in separate cells
Man Lives in Cleveland.
Both will be arraigned in police court
tomorrow on the charge of abduction,
according to Detective Wood Attempts
we're made to communicate with Whitla
n Sharon tonight. but he could not be
coated. The man says that he has
been a resident of Cleveland for seven
.een years He claims TO have a moth
n and sister here.
Captain Shattuck is said to have Sc
cured his description Of the kidnapers
rom Willie Whitia.
Willie Whitia told Captain Shattuck
,n Monday that the woman who kept
him a prisoner had smallpox scars on
Ter face. The woman in custody has
ed spots on her cheeks and appears
20 have had smallpox. She is a tall
blonde, probably % years old. She was
dressed in a black silk skirt, a gray
,oat and black hat The man is dark
md smooth-faced-
Swallowed by Detectives.
Today detectives heard that a man
md a woman answering the descTip- |
ion of the kidnapers had been seen on |
he outskirts of the city They came |
downtown and bought numerous arti- 1
les of clothing, rendering So and SO |
bills in payment, ii was learned Later /
!, report came that the people had left |
/ package in a downtown store which /
proved to consist of discarded clothing. |
Captain Shattuck and Detective Wood 4
rallied the woman and man around the 1
business districts of the city for several /
lours during the afternoon, but delayed /
aking them into custody. Shortly after |
lightfall the police learned that the two 1
lad gone to the east end of the city.
The police walked up behind the pair. /
md Captain Shat took the woman 1
~ the arm. Detective Wood securing /
he man. The couple staggered, say |
he police. IS if they were intoxicated. |
They made no protest against accom- /
,anying the officers. The man was |
Iowncast and would not talk. The wo- /
nan chatted with the policeman at her /
ide at first, and asked to be released.
1t was then ,she admitted having 4
damned the kidna ping.
In the meantime the man attempted /
o escape, and the revolver shots of /
captain Shattuck brought him to a
tandstill. Whitla says ne has the |
numbers of the currency bills handed 4
he kidnapers, and the police are COM
,aring the money found in the possess
ion of the prisoners with the memoran-
Ia of Whitla.