| Show BUNGLING OF CLERK SPOILS SCHEME TO GET BOY PLANS MUST BE ti tiBE 11 A r r. r j I Special Train With Steam Up and Squad of Detectives Aboard Awaits Signal That The Chase Can Be Begun Began I MOUNTED CONSTABULARY WAITING AT STATE LINE I Ml All These Plans Go Awry However However However How How- ever and Conference Is Held to Make Further Plans to Get Heir to Great Estate 34 PARENTS WILLING TO PAY PAT J t Cleveland Clevela 21 i But for the bungling of a secret letter intended for j rt James P. P Whitla in an Asta- Asta bula hula hotel last night Billy I Whitla year old Sharon Shar Shar- it 1 I I on Pa boy tonight would 7 I be safe in the arms of his s distracted parents All AU night in bills lay beneatha beneath a cannon in Flatiron park I Ashtabula left there by Mr Whitla under instructions instruction f O the the- p ei- ei eiA i A o'clock s morning J I returned to the cannon there hoping to find the money gone and in its place a notice notice notice no no- I tice that his Ms son would be he heI returned to him at the Smith I house Ashtabula within an anI t I I hour But the money Untouched untouched untouched un un- touched since he lie had deposited deposit deposit- ed it there at 9 o'clock Saturday Sat- Sat Saturday Saturday evening was still mill there The bungling by the hotel clerk of the letter left by the kidnappers in the Smith house for Whitla frustrated frustrated frustrated frus frus- the return of the child and halted halt the chase of the abductors Detectives and police have been awaiting the recovery of the boy pending pending pending pend pend- ing negotiations vl with th the kidnappers In Cleveland secreted In Hollenden HoUenden hotel a big squad of ot detectives commanded commanded commanded com com- by O. O B B. Perkins head of ot tho the Perkins detective agency of Pittsburg awaited the word which should slip Blip their leash Near Ashtabula squad waited while on the tho Ohio stateline state line armed with authority to invade In Ohio Ollio awaited 23 members of or tle Pennsylvania constabulary who rushed to Sharon from Crom Saturday night A special train had been prepared In Cleveland to carry the Perkins squad to Ashtabula Plans flans lans of or Detectives This was planned and conceived by bythe bythe the detectives when Whitla received a 0 communication Friday written la to Continued an on Iol Three I CLERK SPOILS SCHEME TO GET KIDNAPPED BOY Continued from One Oue part b by Billy Whitla and In part by chirography of ot a woman of whom a trace already has been seen In the The letter ordered Whitla to come to the Smith house in Ashtabula Ashtabula Ashtabula Ashta- Ashta bula Sunday night and there get a aletter aletter aletter letter addressed C. C A. A White This was as to contain final instructions The letter leter was handed to Clerk Temple of the tho Smith house early earh Sunday Sunday SUnday Sun SUn- day evening The Time youth inquired for C. C A A. A White The Tho clerk Temple Fl said paid mb no such guest was wa there The Time boy left heft lef the letter leter and disappeared Puzzled Puzzled Puzzled Temple opened it it It I ordered 1 White to place un under er Butt But cannon at Flatiron park an and return at 3 o'clock If I the money was wn gone he was to await the coming coming of or hiSson his hisson son soil at the Smith house alone alono within an hour Temple showed shO et the letter to a Cleveland traveling man who saw its Us import and took tool it to a policeman and tho the policeman took It to his chief chic Confederates of the time It kidnapers undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- un- un saw this bungling Vita Whitla arrived as the traveling man returned with the letter leter and claimed it i. i He lie carried out the ho orders but the kidnapers alarmed had fled ned Whitla awaited with wih slight hope At 10 o'clock this morning he came camo into Cleveland Tho The Perkins squad returned to Sharon with wih him The next step Is being debated tonight tonight to to- to- to night In Sharon Unleashing detec detec- detectives tives police and constabulary Is advised advised advised ad ad- by some Another effort to no nc- for tor his sons son's return is la hope Ho Ito know that tho UJo realise lio isri 10 carried l' l lout out thi orders o of ot abductors rl l But t It Is realized realize d also that tho the kidnapers Rn l know n w tho ha do 10 der and com constabulary ar awaited oni only tho ho signal to tal tako c up the tho on a ahot a ahot a ahot hot trail t al J Ha In Slims Clew Allentown Pa March 21 Alien Alen Allen Allen- towns town's entire police force Is t tonight hunting entro for tor Willie Whitla the J kid kid- Sharon bo boy Tho TIme clew they the theare arc are working on Is more promising Word than any that has ha turned up came over the thc wire about 7 o'clock that his iris captors had brought tho lad from Buffalo DuCalo over the L rail rail- rai- rai road At 9 o'clock operators operator at the East Pennsylvania junction where the time Lehigh Lehigh Le- Le high Yale Valley Central Railroad of New Jersey an and Reading railroad Join on the tho outskirts of this ef city telephoned tho timo police hea headquarters quarters that they had hadeen seen een two men with a child answering the description of the time Whit Whitla boy and looking like meo his published picture picture- picture The Themen Themen Themen train to get away men asked for Cor a 1 rh or freight on any au- inc men passenger and bo boy looked tired and travel stained B By the time Ume the operator hadt had telephoned t and amid before beCore he could sot got the trainmen to aid him to hold the trio the men and boy had Imd disappeared inthe In 11 tho the darl darkness passenger trains out There are aro no Every freight crew after 9 aCer thorough ha has been notified and a r and arid search is being made by officers volunteer citizens afoot and b by auto auto- mobile Searchers think the they are aro hoton hoton hot hoton mobie on the trail and aro are working May Ia Delay Bo Hoy's Hoys s neo e Recovery Cleveland 0 O. March 21 The The 21 The arrest arrest ar an- rest In Ashtabula 0 O. tonight of two boys hired last night to deliver to tho the Smith hotel a note noto with Instructions to James P. P Vh Whitla I a through which the time father of or Willie Whitla placed Flatiron FlatIron Flatiron Flat- Flat in the under a cannon n iron park ma may thwart the tIme efforts to negotiations for the lads lad's re rc ro- ro renew covery coven Planting last night failed In Willies Willie's recovery because Clerk Temple Tern Tem plo of ot th the Smith hotel opened the kidnapers kidnapers' kid kid- note addressed C A. A 1 White I chief ehler the police shown to and It was sas Apparently I this was with wIh the time knowledge knowl edge of the time confederates of or the kidnapers kidnapers kid kid- and they became alarmed who sni said they were hired The The boys bos bo's Just around the corner from the hotel to deliver time the note being given a dime for delver their service have described the theman theman who employed them Ashtabula police man mann though requested by Mr Whitla are not to search for the time kidnapers active Citizens too are talking of ot the kid kid- forming a posse to capture nape rs |
