Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-23

1 Continued from FlfSt PaSeb
Hotel in anticipation of catching a
| glimpse of the lad whose whereabouts
| had become a puzzle to the detectives of
| the land.
Gee, papa" said the younGster. as he
| was being helped into Il taXicab. Il hope
mamma is on the front porch waiting
! for U.S.
| she will be there was the simple
answer from the father, as he clasped the
| hand of his boy
The speed Of Cleveland taxicab did
not deter hundreds from following to the
Erie depot. where Whitla senior and
junior boarded a train for Sharon. The
father appeared to be the happiest man
| in northern Ohio. and Billy professed
to believe that a real chu-chu was more
| better than one of them street engines
James p. Whitla was not inclined to
discuss the matter of ransom or the plans
| of the family in dealing with the kid
naparS.
Il am so glad to have the boy in my
arms, said the father, half smiling and
| half crying. that ] have given no
| thought to the kidnapers That will be
! up to the police, and as l live and
breathe. l am not worrying over their
| movements
Called for by Hayes"
| The ten-thOusand-dollar ransom of Billy
Whitla was paid to his kidnapers in a
little grocery store at East 53d street and
| Standard avenue an hour after noon
| Monday.
| The money was received by an ordina-
| rily dressed WOrkingman who gave his
| name as Hayes.
| He picked up the package filled with
yellow backed bills. smiled nonchalantly
and left. Mrs. Bernard Hendrickson
temporarily in charge of the store for her
mother, Mrs. Margaret Uhle. forgot to
notice which way the man went. and at
the door of the little grocery is the last
trace the police have of him.
| The Hayes man stepped into the store
| at noon and asked II package had be en-
| left there for him. Mrs. HendricksOn.
without netting his appearance, told him
there had not been.
An hour later a prosperous-looking man.
who said his name was Williams, came In
with small package In his pocket.
He said he wanted to leave 1T for a
man named Hayes. said Mrs. Hendrick-
| son today. He asked if Hayes had been
here. and / said he had Williams left
the package, and not two minutes later
| Hayes came in and asked:
lis my package here?'
Il told him that it was. and he smiled
| Without another word he took it from
where it lay exposed on the cigar case
and went away.
| The Chle grocery store is in the rear
of Stanard School. and is one of those
| familiar small establishments where
school children may purchase pencils and
| notebooks.
| Its customers are frequent, and the
place was exceedingly well chosen for
! such transaction when publicity was
| not desired.
| Mrs. Uhle. the proprietor. has conduct
ed the place for seventeen years. She
was not In the store when the passage
| of the ransom took place, and only her
i ia ugltpr the wife of 9mDlONp of the
! Natural Gas Regulator Company, was a
| witness to the transfer.
| Throughout the development of the plans
| the kidnapers show that they operated
with the utmost skill. Each time they
have appeared in any public place their
Trail ends where they wanted it TO end.
| Trail Lost at Door.
At the East End store. where the money
was paid. the tracks Of the man who got
it end at the door. At Payne avenue and
East Both street. where the boy was
taken to board the car. there is no trace
Of the man who accompanied him beyond
the vacant lot where he stood and
watched the boy take the street car.
Whether they will ever be captured is
problematical.
| 1t may be a day or two before Billy
Whistla is able to tell the whole story of
his Wanderings. When he came into the
Hollenden Hotel Monday night he was
daZed.
He scarcely knew his father when the
man leaped to linn and seized him in his
arms.
He did remember that woman gave
him medicine" evidently a strong mar
cotic. for many of the childs recollections
are hazy in the extreme. His heavy eyes
and unaccustomed. dizziness of speech
prove that he was i'm stupor much of
the time that he was in the custody of
the child thieves.
Even when he came to the Holleuden
Monday night he thought he was in
Ashtabula or Akron-he had heard the
men tell of those two places. He knew
that he had been in Warren and in New
Castle. He thought he had been in the
latter place three days.
He had been in bed much Of the time,
ne knew. This was while he was drugged.
| Woman an Innocent Agent.
The Cleveland police are not inclined to
believe Mrs Hendrickson was a party to
the KIDNAPPING plot, but that she was
merely an innocent agent used for the
payment of the $4,000 ransom. Mrs.
Hendrickson said today:
"A man. whom had never seen before.
came i'll here just at moon Monday. He
asked for some stogies. and as he paid
for them asked how business was. He did
not seem nervous. but rather good ma
tured. He told me his name was Hayes.
and that he had expected q package to
be left here for him. l told him there
was none. and he said he would come
back. He said man named Williams
would leave it for him.
From what can remember. the man
seemed to be Irish. Certainly he was
neither German nor Polish, and he was
neatly dressed
1T was nearly an hour after that that
a finely dressed man, whom I now be-
lieve to be Mr.. Whitla. came in and said
he had a package for Mr.. Hayes.
Il told him Mr.. Hayes had been in
Whitla left the package. wrapped in a
newspaper / did not know there was
all that money in 1t. He had hardly got
out of sight when Hayes came in.
Your friend just went out l said
!. HE laughed and said 1t was too bad
gave him the package and he went
away. I never saw him before"