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Show KIDNAPED BOY RETURNED HOME Willie Whitla is Restored to Kis Parents After Four Days of Heart-Breaking Suspense. Distracted Father Paid $10.0C0 h Cash to Unknown Woman and Boy is Placed on Street Car and Sent Back to His Parents. Cleveland. Little Willie Whitla who has caused the police of the entire en-tire country endless worry since he was kidnaped from school in Sharon, Shar-on, Pa., on March 18, was returned to his father at the Hollenden hotel here at 8:30 o'clock Monday morning, March 22. In compliance with an agreement entered into with the kidnaped kid-naped boy's father and an agent of the kidnapers here, the boy was placed on a street car on the outskirts out-skirts of the city and started to the hotel shortly after 8 o'clock. Two boys, G. W. Ramsey and Edward Ed-ward Mahoney, recognized the lad on the car, and, taking him 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 kidnapers. An attempt had been made to disguise dis-guise the lad. He wore a pair of smoked glasses and a large tan cap which was pulled down over his eyes, and the father said it would have been difficult to have recognized the boy in such a garb as he passed him on the street. Willie is in perfect health. He says 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 Newcastle, Pa. It is, his opinion, expressed 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 admits having paid a ransom of $10,000 for the return of his son. The money was paid to a woman in a candy store. Mr. Whitla believes the woman was an Italian, but refuses to disclose her identity. |