The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-23
sy DOROTHY DALE.
(Copyrtght 1909. by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association

lose. It's q fine little game whe
we're winning, and there's no us
"a WEIGHING when we lose. We can't a.
be alike In this world. I've had
knock down. But I don't care. II wi
be all the same q hundred years fror
now I'm no worse than lot OF VIC
" men out OF Jail. Sometimes peopl
N who are knocking me now will symps
thize with me. But don't car
whether they do or don't"
These sentiments express the phi
osoDky OF Anna McDermott, calle
Mrs. Jas. Boyle. the woman In tn
Billy" Whitla kidnapping case. who /
confined In the county jail here await
ing trial
For three hours yesterday I sat II
this woman's cell and listened TO he
s. strange talk and witnessed her Quee
q actions and marveled at her acting
That's II, she's an actress. She's IN.
& principal actor on the stage OF he
imagination. Sometimes she's a come
dtenne, sometimes a tragedienne. She
loves the excitement of IL. She adores
the glare OF the spotlight OF publicity
\ No one need waste any pity for her
for she L. delighted with herself. She
- just aching for the day TO come
3 when she will sit In court. have law
yers wrangle over her and have news
paper men describe her clothes and
artists sketch her face. She's a queer
type. Is Anna McDermott.
How Mrs. Boyle Looks.
As went up the winding jail stairs
that end almost In front OF her cell.
the woman was standing leaning
against the iron grating. Her plump
child-like. oval face WIS pressed
against the bars. She smiled and at that
moment was pretty. No fatigue or
worry wrinkles defaced her counter
ance. Her skin is velvety white. her
eyes iustrons. her eyebrows carefully
peEciled. and she had drawn pencil
marks under her lashes and from the
corners TO give the fashionable long
effect. | saw her when she was ar.
rested In Cleveland. The only change
imprisonment has made in her ap-
pearance Is that the golden tiuge il
fading from her hair: & 10 several
shades darker But she still combs
4 with Madonna like droop from
ne center. hiding the lobes OF the
ears, and ties IL with DOW knot.
The woman wore a navy blue XII
mono, frightened with lowered trac.
cry. IL showed the long white ~"
OF her neck.
ct isn't at all bad here" she said.
AZ IL she were showing NE her new
nat And. indeed, 1t wasn't bad.
Comfortable Jail Life.
Cell hardly applies to Mrs. Boyles
quarters. II Is room OF fair size,
furnished with double red, table
chairs and bath tub. There was a
red ingram carpet on the floor. Maya
zines and papers were scattered about
Against the wall hung a black silk
dress and long light coat. On the
radiator lay q heap Of embroidery
trimmed lingerie. Newspaper cuts OF
herself and magazine pictures were
Iinned about. and where the walls
we're bare she had drawn crude fancy
beads OF women.
\ y Mrs. Boyle talked first Of how she
spends her time.
II read the magazines" she said
"but when I've finished page | don't
know what's on 1t. I've written a
atory. Wouldn't you like to see it,"
She brought eight written pages OF
her views OF the excitement aroused
7 over the kidnapping case The theme
was that the public is cruel In trying
81 W l6kt tuclT lie wv
beople (herself and Boyle), who treat
+, "a little Billy kindly. other children
have been kidnapped without it's caus-
ing such fuss. the story says, but
lust because there were big dollar
eienss behind the whitla boy the puo-
nc went crazy, when other poor chill
dren. hungry and abandoned, do not
arouse a bit OF sympathy.
4 u ssuf1Ix, yxyhltf. fuu,t Httla cod uLa
beople think he is" she said. He
like any other child"
There is a dramatic passage In the
Eomans story In which she says she
wishes kidnapping were punishable by
death Then would have a trial
before a Judge OF whom l am not
afraid, and my dead mother would be
there" II says.
whats the User"
The story begins with the stanzs OF
original poetry:
In the year two thousand nine.
One hundred years from today,
Little Billy, Jim and Helen
All will have gone to decay.
So what's the use?
She 10 also sending out a chain OF
prayer letters 10 the members of the
sheriff's household.
Questions about the kidnapping or
who her relatives are were met with
what has been described as the "pok'
or face" The soft, white features
would suddenly freeze rigid. The
eyes would widen and harden like
marbles. Then the woman was not
pretty. But personalities. Mrs. Boyle
Was perfectly glib about them.
To prove that her red tresses de-
serve praise. she shook them loose.
They fell thick almost to her waist.
Il have never been so placed SO
that had to work." she explained
Grandly as she locked her long,
smooth white fingers. "Once an artist
wanted me TO pose for him, but he
only offered me rs cents an hour, and
thought that outrageously little, az
had q good deal OF money then"
She talked easily OF the different
ci<ies and actresses and stage condi-
tons, showing wide knowledge o.
both.
she mentioned Kansas city and St.
+ xoois ~ disxgreeabie places. It's In
Kansas City that Frank Minor, sup
Dooed husband Of the woman, whose
><orrect name In thought by the an.
ohorities 70 be Frank Parker, was ar.