The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-31
HOW they GOT Him
THE LAD TELLS HOW he WAS
STOLEN
And Carried OF, and How the Kid
nappers Treated Him While They
Had Him.

Cleveland, Ohio, March 22.-Ful-
ly 1000 gathered in the Railways
and lobbies of the hotel when it
became known that Willie Whitla
had been surrendered to his father
at the Hollenden Hotel this evening
as related in another column. Those
who were unable to get into the
hotel stood on the sidewalk and
shouted for glimpse of the boy.
Again and again they called him by
name and implored his father to
bring him out and let them look
1T him. Whitla acquiesced to the
request Of the crowd, and carrying
the boy on his shoulder, walked down
into the lobby. Mounting a raised
platform in the centre of the lobby,
Whitla gave every one a chance to
see both father and son.
Cries of Speech" caused Whitla
to say a few words as follows:
t'This Is my son. He was lost and
is found again. If live thousand
years, never can do enough to re-
pay the press. the police and the peo-
pie who all have done noble work in
helping to fiEc my boy and in extend
ing their sympathy to me and my
family and relatives" ;"
The father then sought to induce
the child to say few words In re-
sponse to the crowds demand, but
frightened, Willie began to cry, Sc
the assem- blage cheered him again
and desisted in it's efforts to make
! him speak.
! Later the boy related his story
20 his father and the newspaper men
as collows:
IA man, tall and with a black
mustache, came to the school hou e.
] Thursday and told NY school teach,
er, Mrs. Anna Lewis, that you want.
ed me at your Office. 1 went out tc
a buggy with him. On the way dowr
town, he asked me to address let
ter to you. T did this, and ther
| dropped it into a small box. He wa:
awfully kind.
1--WE went from Sharon to War
rem. The man, who was the same
one who brought me to the car line
tonight, was nice to me. He tucked
the robe about my legs. Gee, h
was good.
when he got to a place the maj
said was Warren, the man left th'
buggy in the road. Then we got OF
what I think was an electric car.
was sleepy when we got on the car
!; when we got to town that tn
man called New Castle they took M
to big building and turned me owe
, to woman. She was good to me
The hospital, or whatever the build
Ting was, was a clean place. Their
was &. man there who I think was
doctor. He looked like doctor, be
cause he had short, merry whiskers
'tThe people in the hospital toll
me that I must do just what the
told me to do. II did not obey then
they said they would take me to
, place called the pest house, wher
!, folks that have smallpox have to 90
walked the chalk just like a goo'
boy, papa, like you've told nee t.
dc.
stOn Saturday night was takel
away from the hospital, and I thinl
we went to a town called Ashtabula
We travelled in buggy and on foot
Early in the morning we went baci
to the hospital. / heard one of tn
men say: There will be nothing
, doing tonight, guess
They told me I was taking
little vacation. I was not going t
be hurt, they told me, so I just actet
nice and had good time playin'
around the hospital. knew I woult
get back home all right, and jus
supposed 'Nr Jones was one of m.
fathers friends, who was treating
me nice because you wanted him Il
treat me that way, papa, dear"