The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-03-26
KIONAPERS
IDENTIFIED
willie WhItIa ConirOnts CaptOTs
In Cleveland Police Station.
PROVE TO Be SHARON COUPLE.
Says Man is the One Who Took Him
from School and Declares Woman is
the One Who Cared for Him and
Acted the Part Of Nurse.

the One Who Cared for Him and
Acted the Part of Nurse.
Cleveland, March 25.-Willie Whit
la Identified the man and woman held
on suspicion by the Cleveland police
as the persons who kidnapped him from
tAe school at Sharon, Pa, last week
and held him for the $4,000 ransom
which was paid by his father Attorney
James p. Whtla, Monday. Willie said
tne man, who gave the name OF James
ii. Boyle, was the one who took him
from school and carried him through
a tortuous route to Cleveland, then to
Ashtabula, back to this city and placed
him in the house in the east end,
where he was held until the money
was paid.
Willie also declared the woman
was the one who cared for him at the
house where he was detained and who
acted the part of nurse. Boyle said
the woman is his wife BOYLE is said
to reside in Sharon and is a plumber
by trade. He is said to have wild.
owed mother, four brothers and a sis.
ter.
The woman, who is accredited with
being Sle wife OF Boyle, declared soon
alter her arrest that her identification
would cause a sensation in Sharon.
When the identification was com.
pleted Mr.. Whitla would say nothing
regarding the woman He said he
knew Boyle slightly.
Taken Before Grand Jury.
Immediately after Willie Whitla
had seen the man and woman at the
CInual ponce station they were taken
to the country court house and there
appeared before the grand jury. They
were examined for the purpose of aid
ing. the jury in its attempt to find an
indictment against the two prisoners
Inc charge under the laws OF Ohio
against the man and woman, if an in
dictment was found, will be biacknail
This is based upon the payment OF
the $1,000 ransom paid by Mr.. Whitla
AS Boyle and his wife are held by
the police on suspicion only, an indict.
ment Will afford a means of placing
them under arrest formally and then
they can be held indefinitely.
lmme~ lately after leaving the grand
jury room Mr., and Mrs. Whitla Willie
and the janitOr of the Sharon school,
which Willie attended, left Tor Sharon
AS the prisoners have not waived
eXtradltion they Will be held here for
two or three days until the necessary
papers tor their removal to Sharon
can be arranged.
A woman known as Mary Diener,
who, the police say, may have been
an associate of the kidnapers or was
implicated in the plot, committed sui.
ciGe by drinking morphine. The wom-
an drank the poison while standing
in front of "a drug store in the east
end, not tar from the house in which
Willie Whitla was detained here. She
died in an ambulance while being
taken to hospital,
Lair Of kionapers is Located
The police located the house in
which the Whitla boy was held while
in Cleveland. 1t is the Granger" /
downtown apartment house Of the bet. |
ter order. 1t is three.story building, |
several suites, most OF !
which are occupied 1t is located on |
Prospect avenue, near East Twenty.
second street, The man and woman
rented a suite on the second floor
front, Willie said he spent consider
able time at the front window and no. |
tced the names on the street cars
which passed, He also said he read
a sign across the street, which he re- |
membered. 1t was through the aid Of
the signs and the street car signs that !
the lair of the ktdnapers was located
The building is in a populous district.
The kidnapers ate at a restaurant
nearby.