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Show KIDNAPER BOYLE ACCUSES - UNCLE Of WHITU BO! Man Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Kidnaping Says He Only Carried Car-ried Out Plans Laid by Another. Mercer, Pa. That which was intended in-tended as the closing chapter of the Whitla kidnaping case Monday night proved to be the most sensational chapter of them all. First, James H. Boyle, convicted of the kidnaping of Willie Whitla, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge A. J. Williams, of the Mercer county court, and Mrs. Helen Boyle was sentenced to twenty-five years' imprisonment with a fine of $5,000. Mrs. Boyle, though crushed by the weight of her sentence, made an effort ef-fort to speak in court, but the judge partly turned away. It is thought that the woman intended at this time to make the address which she had threatened to do. exposing persons whom she claimed had been connected with this most sensational kidnaping, but she was not given the chance. Boyle, too, tried 'to enter into an argument with the court, 'but he, too. was not given any leeway and he left the court house with a smile which the people did not then understand, but they did later. Within three hours James Boyle, under the shadow of prison for the rest of his life, had given out a public, signed statement upon the kidnaping of Willie Whitla. In it James Boyle accuses Harry Forker, brother-in-law of James P. Whitla, father of Willie Whitla, the kidnaped boy. of having framed the entire plot of kidnaping and he tells of a sensational murder which occurred in Youngstown. Ohio, some years ago, and the convicted kidnaper alleges in the statement that he has for years been blackmailing blackmail-ing Forker in connection with this crime. To Boyle's charges, both Henry Forker and James P. Whitla have made emphatic denials. |