Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-03-27
KIDNAPPERS
IDENTIFIED
Billy WhltIa Recognizes His
CaptOrs In Cleveland.
SENSATION DIDN'T DEVELOP

That She ls James BoyIe's Wife
Nothing 10 Known Of Her - The
Elder Whltla Offered No Informa.
tIon.
Cleveland. o., March ga woman,
whose actual identity is as much en-
shrouded in mystery as 1t was when
she was arrested on suspicion of hav.
ing been involved In the kidnapping
OF Willie Whitla, was the moving
spirit In the famous case. the police
charge. Beyond the assertion of James
II. Boyle. her companion and alleged
co-conspirator, that she is his wife.
not a word can be obtained to clear
the situation.
Sweated thoroughly by the police.
the woman. beyond breaking down and
giving way to tears. keeps her own
counsel.
"That is the woman who acted as
the nurse" Willie Whitla said when
first he saw Mrs. Boyle"
Hello. Willie" the woman exclaim-
49,. rs che laid her hand upon the
boys head and for an instant fondly
caressed him.
The woman and the boy met Ia the
private Office OF Chief OF Police Kohler.
The boy established the connecting
link between the mysterious woman
and the offense. After all was done.
the police were confident that they had
IN their custody the one who planned
the coup and directed its successful
contamination. Considerable informa-
ton concerning Boyle was CLEANED
from many sources. 1t was said that
Boyle and the woman were married
year ago in Denver.
Mrs Boyle intimated several times
that there would be a sensation in
Sharon as soon as her real identity
were made known. This assertion has
spurred the police to exhaust every
effort to find out who she Is and what
her Sharon connections are. After she
had been seen by Attorney J. p.
Whitla, father of Willie. the police
were no nearer q solution of the mys-
terry. Whitla proffered no Information
to the police. He did not indicate
whether he knew her or not. He posi-
lively refused to discuss the woman.
When arrested the woman said:
II am the one who planned the whole
thing. There will be trouble for me
and hell in Sharon"
Beneath TIC woman's skirt was
found s9790. All Of 1t but $40 was
bound in packages. with the original
slips placed on the money wien Whitla
took Il from the bank still around 1t.
Paid $4,000 Ransom.
L'..le Willie Whitla. who was kid
mapped from school in Sharon last
Thursday, was returned to his father
ut the Hollenden hotel In this city
on Monday night. In compliance with
an agreement that had been entered
into between the kidnapped boys
father and an agent OF the kidnappers
here the boy was placed on O street
car on the outskirts of the city and
started to the hotel. Two boys. G. w.
Ramsey and Edward Mahoney. recog-
nized the lad on the car and. taking
him In charge. conducted him to his
father, who was In waiting according
to a prearranged plan which he had
followed ut the dictation OF the kid
nappers. The boy wandered about the
hotel lobby unannounced for several
minutes asking bell boys for his father
before the latter knew his son was In
the big foyer. The moment the anxious
parent heard that strange boy was in
the hotel sauntering In aimless fashion
he rushed across the lobby. grasped
him in his arms and smothered his
face with kisses.
Mr.. Whitla said that he received
letter Monday from the kidnappers at
his home in Sharon. saying that II he
called at a confectionery store In the
: east end of Cleveland he would be
told how to secure his boy. unframed
and well fed
Shortly afterwards he left Sharon
for Cleveland. He was unaccompanied.
He went to a candy store in the east
end. Here he was met by a woman.
who detailed to him the terms OF the
kidnappers With all the eagerness of
q distracted parent whitla agreed to
them Immediately Half an hour later
he returned to the Hollenden hotel and
awaited developments.
He admitted that he had paid $10..
600 to the woman In the candy store.
The police have located the house In
which the Whitla boy was held while
In Cleveland. II is the Granger" a
down town apartment house of the bet.
ter order. II is three-story building.
containing several suites. most Of
which are occupied. II Is located on
Prospect avenue. North East near
Twenty-second street The man and
woman rented a suite on the second
floor front. Willie said he spent con-
siderable time at the front window
and noticed the names on the street
cars which passed. He also said he
read sign across the street. which
he remembered. 1t was through the aid
Of the signs and the street car signs
that the lair OF the kidnapDers was 10