Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-04-01
BOY IDENTIFIES
HIS ABDUCTORS
WILLIE WHlTLA RECOGNIZES
MAN AND WOMAN CAPTURED
BY POLICE.
WILL BE TAKEN TO SHARON
A Woman, Who the Police Say May
Have Been an Associate of the
kidnapers, Commits Suicide
by Taking Poison.

by Taking Poison.
Cleveland, O.--Following the posi-.
tive identification of James Boyle
and his wife Helen as the kid.
napers of Billy Whitla, yesterday, the
woman finally broke down and admit.
ted her part in the entire affair. When
first arrested by Capt. Shattuck and
Detective Wood Tuesday night Mrs,
Boyle was defiant and refused to give
up even her name. Yesterday, how.
ever, this mood entirely disappeared.
Boyle still maintains stoIid silence.
Cleveland, O.-Willie Whtla yes.
terday identified the man and wo-
man held on suspicion by the
Cleveland police as the persons who
kidnapped him from the school at
Sharon, Pa, last Thursday, and held
him for the $4,000 ransom, which
was paid by his father. Attorney J. p.
Whitla, Monday. Willie said the
man, who gave the name of James II.
Boyle, was the one who took him from
school and carried him through tor
tuous route to Cleveland, then to Ash
tabula, 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 that
the woman was the one who cared
for him at the house where he was de-
tanned and who acted the part of a
nurse.
Mans Name is Boyle
Boyle said the woman is his wife
The police have no other Identified
tion of the couple than the names
given. So far as the man is con-
cerned the police believe the name is
correct. Boyle is said to reside in
Sharon and is a plumber by trade.
The woman, who is accredited y-th
being the wife of Boyle, declared soon
after 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 lie
knew Boyle slightly.
Attorney Whitla, accompanied by
Mrs. Whitla. their son and daughter,
Willie and Salina, boy schoolmate
of Willie, Harry Forller, a brother of
Mrs. Whitla, Janitor Sloss, Chief of
Police Crane, Detective Kempler, Dis
trict Attorney Lininger, Former Dis
trict Attorney Cochran and Detective
Ward, all of Sharon, arrived here at
/ o'clock yesterday.
Immediately after Willie Whitla
had seen the man and woman at the
Central police station they were
taken to the county court house and
there appeared before the grand jury
They were examined for the purpose
of aiding the jury in it's attempt to
find an indictment against the two
prisoners. The charge, under the laws
of Ohio, against the man and woman,
If an indictment was found, will be
blackmail This is based upon the
payment of the $4,000 ransom paid
by Mr.. Whitla. AS Boyle and his wife
are held by the police on suspicion
only an Indictment will afford means
of placing them under arrest formally
and then they can be held Indefinitely.
Leave for Sharon.
Immediately after leaving the grand
jury room Mr.. and Mrs. Whitla, Willie
and She janitor Of the Sharon school
which Willie attended. left for Sharon.
AS the prisoners have not waved
eXtradition they will be held here for
two or three days until the necessary
papers for their removal to Sharon
can be arranged between the COVER
nors of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Woman Commits Suicide.
A woman, known as Mary Diener.
who the police say may have been an
associate of the kidnapers, or was i'm
plicated in the plot. committed sui
eide yesterday by drinking morphine.
The woman drank the poison while
standing in front Of a drug store in
the East End. not far from the house
in which Willie Whitla was detained.
kidnapers Caught
Cleveland, GA man and
woman, whom the police say they are
positive are the kidnapers of Billy
Wnitla, are behind the bars. Nine
thousand eight hundred and fifty dol
lars in currency, which was found on
the woman, is locked UP in the station
safe. This currency was tied in $500
packages with pink tape bearing the
imprint Lawrence, Saratoga, n. Y"
When told of this fact, j. p. Whitla
exclaimed Immediately: THAT is the
money. The money gave had the
same pink tape around the packages,
with the same imprint ON the tape"
We'll, you've got us There'l be
-- to pay in Sharon tomorrow" said