Show BoYLL fOUND Kidnaper of Willie Whitla Refuses to Offer Evidence Evidence Evidence Evi Evi- dence in D Defence fence THAT uTHA T IS THE MAN AN VICTIMS VICTIM'S lS l'S ACCUSATION Youthful Witness Tells the Story in Manner That Cannot Be Doubted MERCER MERGER Pa May 6 James James H. H Boyle was this afternoon found guilty of Willie Whitla of this city about two months ago When court convened this afternoon counsel for Boyle entered entered a plea of nolle or a refu refusal al to offer any evidence This assured Boyles Boyle's tion After be being nt out fifteen minutes tho jury returned a verdict of guilty as After After the conclusion of Boyles Boyle's case caso Mrs Boyle Bole was as taken into court the intention intention intention in in- in- in being to take up her case at once Billy Whitla on the witness stand today pointed his finger at Boyle as the latter sat in the prisoners prisoners' box and said with a that could not be doubted That is the man Hundreds crowded the frail building serving for a temporary courthouse when court convened this morning and the doors were ordered locked to prevent prevent pre pro vent a possible disaster from over over- crowding James Boyle this morning entered a formal plea of not guilty the jury was sworn and the opening address to the jury was made by T. T C. C Cockran in in charge of the prosecution Billy Whitla was the tho first witness and before being sworn in iu caused a a rip rip- pIe plc of laughter when he answered tEe question as to where boys bop go o who do donot donot dont not nt tell the truth by saying They go o to hell In his boyish way ho he told the tho story of the tho man who said his name was Mr J. J Jones ones calling for or him im with ith a buggy m gy at the school and telling mm him he no had been sent bent to take him away on ou account of smallpox that he was to take others also and that Billy Billy would meet his friends on the train Billy said Mr i Jones gave him m a aletter aletter aletter letter and asked him to write his mothers mother's namo name and address on it that he did so with a pencil and aud the man mailed it in Sharon When Yuen isled asked to describe the difference in the mans man's appearance then and now Billy s said id that when he first saw the man man he be had his whiskers here bere pointing to his upper lip Hp He lYe said theman the te theman teman man took the whiskers off olT after a while Ho He told of the thc drive to Warren the subsequent trip to Niles an and Ashtabula of visiting a park at Ashtabula and aud standing beside a cannon Then Thea he said he was taken talen to Cleveland Clove Cleve eland e land where he was told ho he was in a hospital It contained he lle said two rooms i and a bath He told of hiding in the bottom of the tho hug buggy v and in tim the box under the wash stand in n the hospital hospi hospi- tal tallest lest the tIle doctors should see him and put him Mm in a He lie said Mr and Mrs l J Jones ones directed him to do so Numerous witnesses at the morning morninE I session testified e to l having seen e Doyle Boyle lec and the boy In each others other's rh corn com i pany Mr l Whitla the ra father her told of or the I abduction and the three letters he re received received received re- re demanding a a. ransom He lie told of his compliance with all the conditions imposed Mrs B. B A. A Hendrickson with whom the package containing was left in tho thin Cleveland store identified Boyle as the theman theman theman man who secured the package from front her |