The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-25
Exveeti.r q sensstion.

sharon. fa.s MAT. Z4.-beuoViHB tHdt the most interesting part of the story of the Kidnapping of Willie Whitla is yet to come, the people of sharon are waiting In eager expectancy for the positive Identification of all of the per- sons arrested at Cleveland last night. That others besides those who are now charged with the crime are im- plicated in 1t are doubted by few, and that the other part of the case prom ises a sensation when the facts become known.
 That there. would be an effort to pre- vent the making public of names which may be involved in the case, was sur missed today by reason of activity In certain lines, but the probability is that the parties/in custody will not be permitted to withhold the names of other persons implicated when the case comes to trial.
 / Thomas Boyle of this city, manager of the Shenango Hotel. owned by the widow of his uncle. John Boyle. who | died recently, left this afternoon for Cleveland after receiving a message Ifrom a cousin saying the man in GUS | tody Is his brother.
 James Boyle, believed to be the man under arrest at Cleveland has been a resident of sharon all his life until | about six or seven years ago. Since | that time he has been in the habit oi making infrequent visits here. his last trip to his home being shortly after | Christmas, when he came here with 6 | woman he introduced as his wife. Int two remained at the home of Mrs | Michael Boyle, No. 34 Ormond-avenue | about six weeks and the young mai | took his wife around among all thu | friends of the family. He said he hac
 married her In Denver, Colo. about {
 year ago and that she come of veal thy family. According to those who me l the young woman. she was quite a lin l guist and an accomplished musician
 She created a very favorable impress | sion.
 | After waiting to attend the funera
 of his uncle. John Boyle. proprietor O. the Shenango House. three weeks ago Boyel left Sharon on March 12. It wal | the following day, according to thu Cleveland dispatches, that he rented the fiat in which the Whitla boy wal
 kept prisoner. The uncle of Boyle wal
 warm friend of Thomas Forker
 Mrs. whitla's brother. who sold Boyl, Shenango Hotel for the Forker estate
 Besides his mother. Boyle has thre brothers. Thomas. Joseph. and Michael
 and a sister. Ella, all of whom are es
 timable people. Boyle was locked u
 once in Mercer. the county seat. an, l anOLu6f budIOus oh
 charges, and each time broke jail, bu
 the cases were settled.
 Mrs. whitla and family. who left q
 11:22 this morning for Cleveland. ac
 companied by several friends and de
 tectives, returned tonight. fully satis fled as to the correctness of the iden tification by the boy of the person
 under arrest.
 Attempts of the relatives of willi
 Whitla to identify the woman suspec
 held in Cleveland was useless. ac
 cording to a statement made by Harr
 Forker. an uncle of the boy. here to
 night. Forker stated positively that h
 had never seen the woman before.
 Willie Whitla is sorry that his frien
 MT. Jones" is in the police station
 On his way home from Cleveland to
 night, he began talking about "Mr
 Jones'" who, he insisted. "is a goo
 fellow. no matter what they say abou him."