Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-03-27
THE kIDNAPPERS
UNDER ARREST
Man and Woman Captured in
Cleveland
THEY HAD $3.50
IN THEIR POSSESSION

when Placed In Custody the Woman
said: ~ Planned the Whole Thing,
and There VIII Be He'll In Sharon"
Police Confident They Have the
Right Parties.
Cleveland, O., March 24.-In the ar
rest here of man and woman having
$9790 in their possession the police be-
Heve they have captured the kidnap-
pers of Willie Whitla. In fact the
woman in the case, who is somewhat
bofuddled, admitted that she had been
responsible for the kidnapping. When
placed in custody at the central police
station, she said to Captain Shattuck:
Il am the one who planned the whole
thing There will be trouble for me
and hell in Sharon"
Beneath the woman's skirt was
found $979O. All of it but $40 was
bound in packages, with the original
slips placed on the money when Whitla
took it from the bank still around it.
Captain Norman Shattuck and De-
tective Frank Wood made the arrests
in the east end of the city. When
near the police station the man broke
away Efrom Detective Wood and ran
towards an alley. The police official
fired two shots from his revolver into
the air and the man stopped. The wo.
man made no attempt to escape
The woman appears to be well edu'
Gated and is refined in manner. She
says she spent fifteen years OF her lie
in a convent in Pennsylvania, but de
MES that she has ever been in trouble
before. Both the man and the woman
deny that they know the name OF each
other. They admit they are not man
aud wife According to the police
they were intoxicated when placed in
custody. Due to their condition they
were not questioned closely by the
police and were locked in separate
cells. Captain Shattuck is said to
have secured his description of the
kidnappers from Willie Whitla, and
this description led to the arrest
Willie told Captain Shattuck that
the woman who kept him prisoner
had smallpox scars on her face. The
woman in custody has such spots on
her cheeks and appears to have had
smallpox She is tall blonde, prob
ably twenty-five years old. She was
dressed in a black silk skirt a gray
coat and black hat. The man is dark
and smoothfaed.
Detectives heard that a man and
woman answering the description OF
the kidnappers had been seen on the
outskirts of the city. They came down
town and bought numerous articles of
clothing, rendering IS and $40 bills
in payment. it was learned. Later q
report came that the people had left a
package in a downtown store, which
proved to consist of discarded cloth
ing.
Captain Shattuck and Detective
Ward trailed the man and woman
around the business district of the
city for several hours. but delayed TAX
ing them into custody. When the po-
lice learned that the two had gone to
the east end of the city they walked up
behind the pair. and Captain Shattuck
took the woman by the arm. while De-
tective Wood secured the man. The
couple staggered. say the police. as ii
they were intoxicated. They made no
protest against accompanying the Of
ficers The man was downcast and
would not talk The woman chatted
with the policeman at her side at first
and asked to be released.
1t was then she admitted having
planned the kidnapping. In the mean
time the man attempted to escape and
the revolver shots of Captain Shattuck
bronught him to a standstilI.