RM Beneronte, Pa., March 26 1909. S— » “It's My Boy, My Darling Willie,” He Cried as He Pressed Chiid to His Breast—Paid the $10,000 Ransom to a Woman—Lad Was Placed on a Trolley Car and Sent to Hotel—Wags Well Treated by Abductors. i { Cleveland, O., March 23.—Little Wil. lie Whitia, who has caused the police of the entire country endless worry | since he was kidnapped from school in Sharon lest Thursday, was returned to his father at the Hollenden hotel here Monday night at 8.30 o'clock. In! compliance with an agreement entered into between the kidnapped boy's father and an agent of the kidnapper: | bere the boy was placed on a street | car on the outskirts of the city and started to the hotel. Two boys, G. W. | Ramsey and Bdward Mahoney, recog: | nized the lad on the car and, taking! bim in charge, conducted him to his father, who was in waiting according to a prearranged plan which he had followed at the dictation of the kid nappers. The boy wandered about the botel 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 a strange boy was in tke hotel sauntering in aimless fashion he rushed across the lobby, grasped him in his arms and smothered his face with kisses. An attempt had been made to dis guise the lad. He wore a pair of smoked glasses and a large tan cap which was pulled down over his ears, and the father said it would have been difficult to have recognized the boy in such a garb had he passed him on the street. Willie In Perfect Health. Willie is in perfect health. He says ‘that he has been well treated, and ever since his capture has been constantly indoors. He believes he was taken from Sharon to Warren and thence to New Castle, Pa. It is his opinion, ex- pressed in a happy schoolboy way, that he was in Ashtabula on Saturday night at the time his father was to leave his $10,000 in Flatiron park. Mr. Whitla said that he received a letter Monday from the kidnappers at his home in Sharon, saying that if he called at a confectionery store in the east end of Cleveland he would be told how to secure his boy, unharmed and “well fed.” Shortly afterwards he left Sharon for Cleveland. He was unaccompanied, He went to a candy store in the east end. With him he carried the $10,900. expecting that it would be demanded of him there. He was met by a woman, who detailed to him the terms of the kidnappers. With all the eagerness of a distracted parent Whitla agreed to them immediately. Half an hour later he returned to the Hollenden hotel and awal.ed developments. He admitted that he had paid $10. M0) to the woman in the candy store. “The woman did not count the moncy. Mr. Whit'a believes the woman wa: -ar Italian, but he refuses to disclose ‘her identity. As the hour for the child's return approgched Whitla became nervous. He rubbed his hands and silently prayed for the quick return of his boy. Laughed and Jested With Kidnapper. In the meantime little Willie, the kidnapped boy, feeling comparatively safe in the bands of his kidnappers. for he was being treated kindly, was being prepared for return to his father. The woman at the candy store had done her duty. She communicated with the captors of the boy and told them that the father had made no ar- tempt to trap them. The kidnappers were satisfied. So the boy was brougat from his hiding place. The kidnapper. according to Willie, was cheeriul enough. The mysterious one and the youngster skipped in schoolboy fashion toward the trolley line, jesting in the meantime. With all arrangements made and hia tracks apparently well covered, the kidnapper took the boy's right hand in his brawny left and they continued briskly along toward the car line. The lad skipped gaily enough with his companion, the promise of seeing his “Dad” and “Ma” urging him forward. They chatted with each other. Willie says the man told him that if anybody asked him who took him to the car line to teil them it was “Mr. Jones.” “Just tell them your name is Jones, too, if you want t5,” said the kidmap per. Presently a car came into view and the mysterious Mr. Jones drew the boy closer to him. “Well, Willie, you are going down town now and you will see your papa pretty soon.” he said. This delighted Willie. cnto the car quickly, according to th: conductor. “Mr. Jones” paid the boy's tel counter and the scene closely re sembied a panic, Across the lobby the father, his eyes red from weeping, heard the piping voice of his son. Frantic with joy a. the sound, he rushed through the office corridor and in a moment was fighting his way thrcugh the spectators. Plung- ing and squirming, knocking bystand- ers right and left, the frenzied paren: made his way to the bewildered bo, in knickerbockers standing solemnly with automobile goggles in front of the clerk's desk. . The kidnapped boy saw his parent | coming. He opened his lips to speak. The words were never spoken. Grasp ing Willie in his arms, the happy fatl. er lifted the boy into his arms and | planted a score of kisses on his lips. “It's my boy, my darling Willie,” he cried. Tears gushed from his eyes. He pressed the child to his breast and hugged him tightly. Willie smiled a little. He was glad to see his papa, but he did not realize what all the fuss was about. Willile Tells His Story. Whitla received the newspaper men later. Willie told his story as best he could. It was not a lucid story in every way, but it was romantic from his childish lips. He could not remem. ber every place he had been, but he gave an idea of his travels so that it will be possible for the police to cover a part of the trail made by the kid- pappers. “Papa,” said the boy, “I have been buggy riding, been on cars and in a nice big white house that looked like a hospital. I have been treated nice and had lots of good things to eat. “One man, tall and with a black moustache, came to the school house and told my teacher that you wanted me at your office. I went to the buggy with him. I got in and then he got in. Then we rode away. On the way down town he asked me to address a letter to you. I did this and then dropped it into a mail box. He was awfully kind. Abductor Was Good to Him. “We went from Sharon to Warren. We had the nicest trip. The man, who was the same one who brought me to the car line, was nice to me. He tucked the robe about my legs and made me comfortable. It was a nice ride and 1 enjoyed it. Gee, he was good. “When we got to a place the man said was Warren, the man left the bugggy in the road. Then we got on what I think was an electric car. 1 don't just remember what it was, but it was something like a street car, | don't know what became of the hors. and buggy. I was sleepy when we got on the car and I slept much of the way to the place where we were go ing. “When we got to a town that the man called New Castle they took me to a big building and turned me ove: to a woman. She was good to me. The hospital, or whatever the building was, was a clean place. There was a man there who I think was a doctor. He looked like a doctor, because he had whiskers, short gray whiskers. “On Saturday night I was taken away from the hospital and I think we went to a town called Ashtabula. We travelled in a buggy and on foot. Early in the morning we went back to the hospital. I heard one of the men sa) ‘There will be nothing doing tonight, | guess.’ Told Willie He Was on a Vacation. “They told me all along that I was just on a little vacation. I wasn't go- ing to be hurt, they told me. So I just acted nice and had a good time play ing around the hospital. I knew | would get back home all right and just supposed ‘Mr. Jones’ was one of my friends who was treating me nice because you wanted him to treat ma that way, papa, dear.” The boy told the story slowly. At times he stopped and kissed and hugged his father. The father sat as if in a trance. The music of his boy's voice seemed to charm him as no music ever had before. A minute after the lad finished his narrative and the detectives were standing around al- miring him. the father said: “Willie, I am happier tonight than I ever have been before in my whole life.” Cut In Prices Said to Be Responsible For It. Cumberland, Md. March 23.—Th~ receivers appointed for the Maryland Rail company, an independent concern employing several hundred men here, were bonded in $50,000. The cut in steel is said to be responsible for the failure. Through the panic of 1907 work was steady and the plant was the main industry of this city, Big inducement For Eight Round Fight Between Johnson and Jeffries. Chattanooga, Tenn. March 23. — Chattanooga, Tenn., March 23.—Cha:- tanooga capitalists offered a purse of $100,000 for an eight round fight be tween Jack Johnson, champion heavy weight, and James J. Jeffries, the fight to be pulled off in this city. 28,000 Barrels of Whisky Burned. Danville, Ky., March 23.—Fire that started in the malt warehouse of the Searcys distillery, at McBrayer, de- stroyed 28,000 barrels of whisky val ued at $300,000. ——————— His Merit Card. Mother surprised) — Why, Johnny, how did you happen to get the merit for good behavior at school this ? 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The whine of a dog, which was watching beside the body of his mis- tress, attracted the attention of pas-| sersby in an Evanston street house in Chicago, and on entering the po- lice discovered that Mrs. Ella Barber, aged sixty-five years, had been dead for ten days. Thursday, March 18. Repr- .entative Lafean, of Pennsyl- vania, has introduced a bill in cor- gress making Columbus day, Oct. 12, a legal holiday. President Taft accepted an invita- tion to attend the annual spring dinner of the Gridiron club, to be held in Washington, April 17. James W. Keller, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural college, and for some time the first assistant LEATHERS BROTHERS, Commercial phone. | ccal mine, near Evansville, Ind. chemist of the department of agricul- ture of Pennsylvania, has been ap-/ pointed chief, to succeed Professor F.| D. Fuller, who goes to Washington to take a government position. Friday, March 19, Lyman C. 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