The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-23
KIDNAPPED BUY BACK
 WITH HIS PARENTS
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T w lie, was cheerful enough. The mysterious one and the youngster skipped in school boy fashion toward the trolley line, jest ing in the meantime.
 A few rods from the car line the man stopped the boy. Pulling pair of smoked glasses from his pocket he adjusted them to the lads head with the remark ; You'll look better in these,' the sides of the black yarn cape were pulled care fully over the boys ears. A slip, which Willie was to hand to the conductor, was put in the boys pocket. It read
 Note to Conductor.
 Send this boy to the Hollendon hotel, double quick"
 Willie says the man told him that if anybody asked him who took him to the caf line to tell them 1t was MT. Jones'"
 Just tell them your name Is Jones, too, If you want to-" said the kidnaper All right, MT. Jones'" answered Willie Presently a car came into view and the mysterious MT. Jones drew the boy closer to him.
 Well, Willie, you are going downtown now and you will see your papa pretty soon," he said.
 This delighted Willie. He swung onto the car quickly, according to the conduc- tor. MT Jones" paid the boys fare and then got off the car and disappeared waving a friendly adeu. This salute to his little captive was continued until the car had disappeared in the inky darkness of the night.
 Recognized on Car.
 Presently Edward Mahoney, aged seven- teen, sat down in the seat with the boy. Mahoney, like most every other person in Cleveland last night, was looking for Willie Whitla. So he started a conversa- ton.
 Whats your name?" he queried.
 Jones'" answered Willie, as his kid naper friend had told him to do.
 But Mahoney was not to be fooled. He called his friend Ramsey over from an. other part of the car and showed him Willie. He suggested that it might be the missing child. Then Willie showed them his transfer slip, saying that he should be put off at the Hollenden Hotel, and they were convinced it was he.
 The boys took Willie to the hotel He skipped through the doors ahead of them and into the lobby.
 Willie didn't see his father in the lobby Walking over to the clerk he asked: Have you seen my papa?"
 Who Is he, boy?" he was asked.
 "Oh, 1 am MT. Whitla's Willie,' he re- piled.
 Crowd Bushes In.
 The crowd nearest the boy who heard the words rushed In around him. The father and his boy were then brought to- gether and the rapidly increasing crowd gave frantic cheers for them both. Father and son went to the formers room Then through the door came these words, spoken by the father to the boys mother on the long distance phone:
 I i,, arms. He is safe. Glory to God, Mamma 1t Is the happiest hour of my lfe.'
 Fully 20oo people gathered in the hall ways and Hobbies of the hotel. Those who were unable to get into the hotel stood on the sidewalks and shouted for a glimpse of'the boy. Again and again they called his name and implored his father to bring him out and let them look at him. Whitla aequiesced and carrying the boy on his shoulder, walked down into the lobby. Mounting raised platform in the center of the lobby, Whitla gave every one chance to see both father and son. Cries of "Speechl" "Speech!" caused Wnitla to say a few words as follows:
 This is my son. He was lost and is found again. If I life a thousand years never can do enough to repay the press, the police and the people who all have done noble work in helping to find my
 
 me and my family and relatives"
 The father then sought to induce the child to say few words in response to the crowds demand, but, frightened, Will lie began to cry, so the assemblage cheered him again and desisted in their ef- forts to make him speak.
 Boys Story.
 Later the boy related his story to his father and then said:
 "A man tall and with black mustache, came to the schoolhouse Thursday and told my school teacher, Mrs. Anna Lew is, that you wanted me at your office. went out to buggy with him. On the way down town he asked me to address a letter to you. I did this and then dropped 1t into a mail box. He was awfully kind.
 We went from sharon to Warren. The man, who was the same one who brought me to the car line tonight, wal nice to me. He tucked the robe about hny legs. Gee, he was good.
 "When we got to place the man said was Warren the man left the buggy in the road Then We got on what 1 think was an electric car l was sleepy when we got on the car
 When we got to a town that the man called Newcas stle, they took me to a big building and turned me over to woman.
 
 whatever the building was, was a clean place. There was a man there who think was a doctor. He looked like doc to because he had whiskers, short gray whiskers
 Walked Chalk Line.
 "The people in the hisptal told me that I must do just what they told me to do If 1 did not obey them, they said they would take me to a place called the pesthouse. where afolk that have small pox have to go. l walked the chalk line like good boy. papa, like you've told me to do.
 "On Saturday night I was taken away from the hospital, and l think we went to a town called Ashtabula. We travelled n a 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, I guess
 "They told me l was taking a little vacation. l wasn't going to be hurt they told me, so I just acted nice and had a good time playing around the hospital. I knew I would go back home all right, and just supposed MT. Jones was one of my friends, who was treating me nice because you wanted him to treat me that way, papa, dear"
 Before retiring for the night Mir Whit la admitted that he had paid $1O,0O0 to the woman in the candy store. It was in currency. The woman did not count the money. MT. Whitla believes the woman was an Italian,s but refused to disclose her identity.
 Although Cleveland police believe the agent who met Whitla today in the East End candy store Is a party to the kid naping plot, Whitla refuses to agree with them. He says he thinks the woman merely acted as an intermediary in order to aid in the safe return of the boy He asked the police not to arrest the woman.