The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-10
mrs. BOYLE IS
FOUND GUILTY
n Cam Realize Feeling Of Crucifed
Christ She Says-Aided in
whitla kidnapping.

ttV Wuitia. one may De sentences
~ - years imprisonment.
The Jury in the Mercer county cour
@pught In this verdict against her thi
EofIl0on. Boyle was found guilty O
1naping. Thursday.
Mn. Boyle was indicted on tw,
1oryes. Kidnapping and aiding an,
1betting q kidnapping. The prosecu
Hon dropped the first charge and IN,
second was the only one left for III,
! jury to decide. Il was a swift verdict
& shortly before noon the case wa
y placed In the jury's hands. Within
4ye minutes II returned a decision
X ON account OF the absence of Judg,
Williams, who had given recess anC
gone TO lunch. the verdict was no
read until 1870.
The jury took two ballots On tn,
uret one man stood for an acquittal
but he soon yielded when he fount
Y that he stood alone.
This writes the final chapter OF the
Whitla kidnapping case. which begaT
on March Is when the only Son q
Attorney ]. p. Whitla was stolen from
his school In Sharon. Pa. An epilogut
may follow. for Mrs. Boyle has the
x money 10 carry the case higher anc
says she will appeal.
The woman's only chance for acquit
& tal was the doubt her attorney tried
\ 10 raise in the minds of the Jury as
10 whether or not the acts charged
y against her were committed in Penn
oylvania- He contended that her al
legged crime was committed in Cleve-
land. but the jury decided against
v him.
Mrs. Boyle received the verdict
I; with ashen face and pale lips. but
made no comment.
But her instinct for the dramatic
y was unconcuered. AS she was led
4 away to jail she remarked: Il can
now realize the feeling OF the crucifed
u Christ"
Only few feet away from her were
u the two women she had helped wrong,
AIRS. Whitla and her sister. Mrs. Frank
Il Buhi. Billys aunt.
lent II pity II must be so.' said
Hrs. Whitla. II could never gloat
a over q woman in distress. The rea-
& non we felt we must push this Is TO
a protect other people from the awful
+ torment we had 10 go through"
Her arm frightened around Billy who
y nat cuddled by her side.
Judge Williams said as he left
4 court: Il think | will sentence the
Boyles on Monday. | want TO get
4 over with"
Attorney Miller, for Mrs. Boyle,
raid that he would file a motion for
n . new trial on that day. No motion
& viii be fled for Boyle. Nothing can
I BE done for him." said Miller.
The verdict was received without
demonstration and Mrs. Boyle's trip
back TO the Jail was undisturbed
Those who Kissed and fiouted her yes
terday now showed nothing but pity
William f.. McDermott the Chicago
. brokers' clerk. said TO be a brother OF
Mrs. James II. Boyle. today made al
apparent acknowledgement OF the rela
+, ti0nship. He appeared for the first
Z time In court where the woman Is on
trial for kidnapping Billy whitla AMI
& took q seat beside her. McDermott Is
quoted as saying that he will spend
all his small savings to keep his sister
from prison. To his influence is at
( tributed the woman's consent to keep
on the stand and deny the prosecu
ton chance to probe her past life.
In beginning his argument for the
\ defense Attorney s. II. Miller told the
= Jury there WAS no mere evidence that
Mrs. Boyle did anything in Mercer
\ county toward aiding in the kidnapping
that that she committed an act really
toward the kidnapping itself. He said
n this because the prosecution did not
AJAX conviction for kidnapping, the
flrst count OF the indictment. but only
& for aiding In q kidnapping, the second
y count Miller asked the court 10
charge that Mrs. Boyle could not be
convicted unless IL was shown she
ccommitted some overt act in Mercer
s county," and that no act In Ohio could
Y be used against her. Attorneys for
N the prosecution denied Millers con.
s. tention that there was no evidence OF
m overt act In Mercer county.
THE evidence that Mrs Boyle said
\ at Sharon she was expecting money
from her father" said Miller. lis 10
evidence that she planned there 10
\ ret a ransom for Billy Wh;tla. II you
start In TO guess, the decision might
as well be left to the crowd. II might
y - well be left to the crowd of women
u Who SO far forgot themselves as to
surround Mrs. Boyle In the court yard.
did not fear they would do her
a harm. But their actions were a dis
grace to Mercer. They forgot them.
= ne'yel See that you do not forget
& yourselves.
II do not say that Mrs. Boyle did
not do something In Ohio that makes
4 her amenable 10 the law there. | 10
maintain that she has done nothing
\ NJ this county
Attorney q. A. Gordon began his
argument for the prosecution soou
after ten o'clock. Compared to a
kndnaper," he said "a burglar is re-
npectabIe. A kidnaper must be mark
"a ne q man without human sympathy
aud this Is the sort OF man Boyle is
admitted TO be.
Keep I'm mind how detailed and
carefully made must be the plan by
+ which ransom for a kidnapped boy Is
collected. Mrs. Boyle SAID in Cleve
land she was the 'Frail little woman
3 Who planned It. No one denies thi.
e nfatement The plan must have bee1
F mode, somewhere. Mrs. Boyle was liv
5 me IN sharon just previous to the kid
+ nopinG We say the Boyies planned
IS <h6 kidnapping In sharon. The fac
Mat they both said when they lef
{txn that they were going to Den
Itet when IN fact. they went to Cleve
mA. Indicated that they wanted {;
ncool their movements and that tn
f NJ for the kidnapping had already
5 |'fs Boyle listened to this arraign
1900 with her chair tilted baci
f 1~xinrf the wall facing the speaker
~ 1nV0IIed eyes and pifsed lips
+ ~ ~ Gordon said Jimmy Boyle wa: