The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-26
.WH|TLA K|DNAPERS
/. LODGED IN JAIL
At P|TTsBURG
AUTHORITIES DEFEAT WRATH or
SHARON PEoPLE-WoMAN re.
FUSES TO CLEAR MYSTERY or
HER PAST LIFE.

PITTSBURG, Pa. March 26.--Jas.
Fl. Boyle and his wife. who are charR'
ed with kidnapping s-year-old Willie
Whitla. of Sharon. Pa, are today lodg.
ed in the Allegheny county jail mere.
Sixteen detectives and officers guard
ed the prisoners who arrived from
Cleveland by way OF New Castle last
night. The special Pullman car was
kept securely locked and no one was
granted admission to see them except
a few newspaper men. Boyle and his
wife were brought here TO defat the
wrath OF the Sharon people.
When the prisoners were being TAX
Ell to the railroad station in Cleveland
they were greeted with boots and
jeers. The departure from that city
practically closes the case as tar as
Cleveland is concerned. In the event
OF non-convictlon in Pennsylvania.
however. Boyle and his wife will be
taken back 10 Cleveland To stand trial
on the charge OF blackmail. The
grand jury returned true bills against
them yesterday for accepting the $10.-
600 from j. p. Whitla for the surren-
der of the Whitla lad.
A great crowd surged about the
party when the prisoners arrived at
the station in Cleveland. Each pris-
oner accompanied by two patrolmen.
walked through the crowd who jeered
and hooted them. Boyle said he ex-
pected to be sent to prison in Penn
syivania. There was no way. he con-
tended. to connect his wife with the
kidnapping. Mrs. Boyle said she first
saw the Whitla boy I'm Cleveland and
hnf oh cd IN flf, Nj -
other part of the case.
After arriving In Pittsburg the pris-
oners were spirited to the jail. Boyle
and hisw life werep laced in an auto
mobile belonging to Harry Perkins.
Boyle was manacled and guarded By
| two detectives, but the woman was
allowed to be free in this respect. She
talked with the officers and was in q
cheerful frame OF mind. Mrs. Boyle.
on her arrival at the Jail, said: This
| looks q little better than Cleveland.
anyway"
'e-Thep fisoners will be kept In the
| Allegheny court jail for several days
when they will be taken totthe Mercer
county jail, where they will be kept
till theg rand jury convenes the third
week in April.
Coming down on the train yesterday
Boyle talked freely. but the woman
talked little and refused to give any
clue as 10 her past. She stated, how
ever, that she came originally from
Brooklyn, ~. Y.
Mr.. Whitla accompanied the prison
ers from Cleveland, but left the train
at Youngstown, going from there 10
| Sharon.
please say that | do not get up
on tables and dance. won't your
said Mrs Boyle to a press representa-
tive In the parlor car. And say also
that never made the remarks attrlD-
uted TO me-"
You mean about there being h. in
Sharon"
Yes" and she smiled as II she en-
loved It. II guess that's what Sharon
! had. wasn't IT," But | never BIAS
phemed. And | never was burlesqua
actress, nor have | ever been on the
stage at all
| "Did you know any OF the Whit'a
family or their relatives before you
saw them in Cleveland?'
II never saw any of them except
the boy before yesterday.
II came from New York; no, was
rot born there; | don't think | care
to say where | was born. nave
lived in the west good while, and
met Mr.. Boyle there. We were mar
ried about a year ago; | could not
say exactly.
Yves. was educated In a convent,
and spent several yesrs there. what
convent? Well, think I'd rather not
say. II might be embarrassing TO the
INNS Won know.
You see, I've been instructed not
to say anything about myself or this
matter. You're a newspaper man :
Well. some of the things the papers
have said about me have been mighty
TERRIBLE. and wish you would give
the correction that | am not the vu'-
gar person some have made me out.
You recognize our position here; IL -
bad enough without talking too much
about IL. No. | am sorry. but do not
think | would care TO say any more
about that subject than | have told
YOU"