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Beneronte, Pa., March 26 1909.
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“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
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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.
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His Merit Card.
Mother surprised) — Why, Johnny,
how did you happen to get the merit
for good behavior at school this
? Small Johnny—It was like this,
Harry Jones won it, and |
if he didn’t give it to me I'd
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Wednesday, March 17.
Mrs. Elinor MacCartney Lane, the
novelist, died at Lynchburg, Va., while
on her way south with her husband,
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Rev. Alexander Craig, former pre-
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