The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-04-01

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KIDNAPERS CAUGHT
Required Ransom Paid Agent-Man
and Woman Described by Willie
Whitla Arrested-1he Woman Had
the Money and Confessed.-Gcv.
Stuart Offers $4,000 Reward -
Identified on Wednesday-The
Boys Description Led the Police TO
Suspect the Man and Woman.
On Monday }. +. Whitla, father OF
Willie, the kidnapped boy, received
note telling him where to go and COM
municate with a woman in Cleveland,
Ohio, who would tell him how to Sc
cure the boy. The first plan having
tailed on account of the watching of
detectives, Mr.. Whitla went alone,
found the woman and paid the $1O,-
DO0. He then returned to the Hollen-
den Hotel and waited. The kidnaper
dressed Willie in disguise, paid the
fare and saw him off on the car. He
was soon in the arms Of his father
and back to Sharon where the whole
town went wild in rejoicing over
Willie's return
Cleveland, O., Special.-In the ar
rest here Tuesday night of a man and
woman having $9,79O in their pos
session, the police believe they have
captured the kidnapers of Willie
Whitla. In fact, the woman in the
case, who is somewhat bcfudd!ed, ad-
mitted that she had been responsible g
for the kidnapping. When placed in
sustody at the central police station
she said to Captain Shattuck: - am
The one who planned the whole thing
There will be trouble for me and hell
in Sharon Tomorrow
Beneath the woman's skirt was
found 1890. All of it but $40 was
bound in packages with the original
slips placed on the money when
Whitla took it from the banks still
around it.
Whitla says he has the numbers on
the currency bills handed the kid
aapers and the police are comparing
the notes found in the possession of
the prisoners with the memoranda of
Whitla.
Sharon people who heard of the ar
rests in Cleveland suspect q woman
well known there. The woman sus-
pected has not been living with her
husband for some time, but has been
making her home there. She is said
to have had intimate knowledge of
the Whitla family and to have known
chat Mr.. Whitla would unquestionably
give up any amount for the recovery
of his son.
Gov. Stuart offered a reward
Of $4,000 for the arrest and convic.
lion of the kidnapers.
On Wednesday Willie Whitla iden.
tilted the man and woman held on
suspicion by the Cleveland police as
the persons who kidnapped him from
the school at Sharon, Pa, last Thurs
day and held him for the $4,000 ran
som which was paid by his father,
Attorney j. P. Whitla, Monday.
Willie said the man, who gave the
name of James II. Boyle, was the one
who took him from school and carried
him through a torturous route to
Cleveland, then to Ashtabula, back to
this city and placed him in the house
In the east end, where he was held
until the money was paid. Willie
also declared that the woman was the
one who cared for him at the house
where he was detained and who acted
the part of a nurse.
Boyle Says Woman is His Wife.
Boyle said the woman is his wife.
The police have no other identified.
ton of the couple than the names
given. So far as the man is concern.
ed the police believe the name is cor.
ret. Boyle is said to reside in Sha-
on. and is a plumber by trade. He is
said to have a widowed mother, -four
brothers and sister.
The woman, who is accredited with
being the wife of Boyle, declared
soon after her arrest that her identi.
fication would cause sensation in
Sharon. When Identification was
completed, Mr.. Whitla would say
nothing regarding the woman. He
said he knew Boyle slightly.
A woman, known as Mary Diener
who, the police say, may have beer
an associate of the kidnaper, or was
implicated in the plot, committed
suicide Wednesday by drinking NOR
phine. The woman drank the poison
while standing in front of drug
store in the east end, not far from the
house in which Willie Whitla was de.
tained here. She died in an ambu.
lance while being taken to a hospital