The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-29
MY HUSBAND IS
+ NOT |NsT|GA7OR
OF KIDNAPPING
" MRS. JAMES BOYLE.
WOMAN IN JAIL FOR WHiTLA
BOYS RANSOM TRIES TO JUMP
FROM TRAlN-DENIES NAME
WAS McpERMorT.
MRS. JAMES BOYLE.

MERCER, Pa, March 27.-Mrs.
James Boyle. who, with her husband,
Is under arrest for the kidnapping OF
Willie Whitla. the eight-year-old Shar.
on lad, who was ransomed for $4,000,
declared today that her husband was
not the instigator OF the Kidnapping
and that the truth of II has never been
told She made this declaration In the
county jail, where she arrived from
Pittsburg about noon after she had
attempted TO escape from the train
Sheriff Addison Gumbert allowed her
TO walk 10 the end OF the passenger
car TO get drink OF water. and she
dashed out of the door. rhe sheriff
spr' ing after her and captured her
Just In time.
After being placed in JAIL Mrs.
Boyle. In an interview. positively de.
MED that she had heen In any way
identified with the abduction OF Willie
Whitla. Sitting on the edge OF n Jail
cot. her masses OF red gold hair hang.
Ing loose about her sholders, she shed
tears as she described the way she
had been involved iE crime through
her love for the man she married.
Willie Whitla was brought TO ne
after | had twice been telcphoned TO
ct the Granger" she said Il was TOLD
that he was the son If man known
TO Mr.. Boyle and myself. that his fam
lily had an infectious disease ard they
wanted the little boy kept out or
danger. ! am not prepared to discuss
the extent to whicl, my husband Is
implicated in this AFFAIR, but will say
10 you as | hope for mercy In heaven
that Jimmy Boyle was not the instlsa
tor OF this kidnapping and that the
truth about II has never been told.
Where made my mistake was
that when I found ont how the land
lay after the first visit OF the detec.
'ives. instead OF making clean
breast OF II. threw nv fate In with
the guilty people and became myself
criminal In the eyes of the law
Love is blind. true woman may walk
into the Jaws of hell with her eyes
wide open for the ran she loves. I
do not think | have done anything
extraordinary. Willie Whitla was
mistaken when he said | wore n
nurses costume What I wore was
the print gown and dust cap always
wear about my homework. The child
did call me nurse and that is the
reason"
"Is your fathers name McDermCtt.
and are you from Chicago"
II will take n diving oath " neces
sary that nv name never was Nc.
Dermott. or McDonough. or Wilson ~
Faulkner. Nobody knows my name
! have no relatives In Chicago except
a cousin, and she would not know mo
II she saw me. NV father and mother
are both dead. have no brothers Or
sisters. have no doubt the McDei-
motifs. OF Chicago. are respectable
people. but my father was a man 81
distinction outside tie fire depart
ment."
AS Mrs. BOYLE made the last re-.
MARI she flushed to the roots OF her
hair. laid a hand on the arm OF the
interviewer and begged that her par
entage be not inquired into.
Information received by detectives
today establishes beyond doubt that
Mrs Boyle was originally from Louis.
vile, and that she way well known as
girl In the vicinity Of that city She
speaks with pronounced southern
accent and Is a woman OF culture.