The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-25
KIDNAPERS IN
COUNTY JAIL
At PITTSBURG
Will Not Be Taken to Sharon
Until the Excitement
Dies Down.
EFFORT BEING MADE TO
UNRAVEL WOMAN'S PAST
WHITLA REACHES HOME WITH
THE MONEY RECOVERED AT
CLEVELAND.

Pittsburg March 25.-Fearing for the
safety of their prisoners if they were TAX
en- TO Sharon or the county seat at Mer-
Ger. the police tonight brought James II.
Boyle and his wife, accused of kidnapping
Willie Whitla, to the Allegheny county
Jail here. They were brought here in d
special car from Cleveland. The prison.
ers were guarded by sixteen detectives
and officers.
The alleged kidnapers will be kept in
jail here several days and at some time,
when the public is not expecting it, they
jail, where they will be kept until the
grand jury convenes the third week in
April.
Boyle and his wife have made it easy
for the police by waving eXtraditiOn pa
pers, and coming voluntarily to Pennsyl-
yania.
Please say that I don't get up on ia
bIes and dance, won't your said Mrs
Boyle. Il never was burlesque actress,
nor have 1 ever been on the stage at
all"
Story of Charlie Ross.
In all the annals of abduction Of chill
dren by scoundrels who sought money for
ransom, that Of Charlie Ross, the little
Germantown boy. remains the most IA
nous and atrOcious- On July /, 1874, the
little fellow was picked up by two men
as he was playing in the streets and car
risd away in a buggy, Just as Wine
Whitla was. lie was on his way 10 ScnOOl
with his older brother, and the two were
having fun. as school children will who
have some time TO spare. Charlie and his
brother were both seized. thrown into the
vehicle and driven to the Shackamaxon
street wharf on the Schuylkiil river, but
when the abductoTs reached that point
they concluded the two were too much for
the crime in hand, and the older was put
into the street. 1t is also n theory that If
the elder was permitted to go home ran
for he vrgrrFd 10
certain on account of the formers story.
From that moment all trace of Charlie
Ross was obliteTated- Unlike the kid
napers of Willie Whitia- those Of Charlie
Ross at once put themselves into Contin-
uous correspondence with the parents Of
the Coy. The father was by no means a
wealthy man. but he signified that he was
willing to paw any sum within his power
for ransom. He also had promise OF HI
ersl financial assistance. It was believed
that two men named Douglas and Mosher
were the abductors. Many letters were
exchanged, but the police struck the trail
and the pursuit came to be so hot that
the kidnapers apparently gave up hope of
securing their booty. and when the letters
ceased all trace of the boy and abductOTs
was forever lost, except for the fact that
IL Douglas and MOsheT were really the
criminals their careers were ended years
later by being shot to death while en-
gagged in an attempt at burglary
Tt was always complained by Ross that
LS Nputu nave SStNlV ~ tlS Wy u tlte bp-
lice had kept their hands off the whole
affair. He believed that he was on the
point of meeting the men when they
were frightened away. 1t was a general
belief that the kidnapers killed -She boy
but at frequent intervals some person
would discover a boy that was the sure
enough Charlie Ross. and for years poor
Ross was lured from one part of the
country to another to look at children
whom he could not at all recognize as
resembling his child. though the descrip-
tons sent him seemed TO suggest his iden-
tity. As the years passed growing and
grown Charlie Rosses cropped IN from
time 10 time. and many were the in
stances in which men of . and 30 years
claimed to be the lost Charlie. asserting
that they had positive remembrance Of
the circumstances in which they we're
taken from home.