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Show the timo is too 6hort in this to dls-regard dls-regard throats. If money will bring lack the boy, I will readily pay the $ 10.000." The mother is prostrated at the Whitla home. Sho did not sleep Inst night and today clings pathetically to her daughter, Sallna. 10 years old. The mother refused to allow the girl to go to school today, the same school from which her boy was kidnaped yesterday. yester-day. The rip: in which the boy was carried car-ried away was hired In South Sharon yesterday morning by a short, hcavy-cet hcavy-cet man with a black moustache. Ho said ho wanted to do some eollocttng and would return it about noon. At noon, a rig was found deserted l at Warren, Ohio which has now been I identified as the one engagod by the . kidnapers. KIDNAPED FOUND Father Willing to Pay j $10,000 Ransom for j His Restoration ! Sharon, Pa., March 19. From reports re-ports received this afternoon concerning concern-ing the kidnaping of William Whitla. it is bolieved the lad was drugged by his abductors immediately alter they had taken him from school and placed him In their buggy. The ac- j counts of Bevoral persons who aro ai j leged to have seen the two men and boy driving along the road toward Warren. Ohio, agree that the boy was wrapped in blankets and was apparently appar-ently asleep on tho lap of one of the men. The case is expected to rival the famouH Cudahy case at Omaha. Many points of both case& are identical. ! Elaborate preparations are under way looking to the capture of the abductors. ab-ductors. The boy's mother, if sne could, would instantly pay the demanded de-manded ransom of $10,000, but as to how, when and whore the $10,000 13 to be paid, has not been made known by the kidnapers. Police In all parts of the country arc today conducting a rigid seamen lor the missing boy. j Sharon, Pa.. March 19. Frank H. Buhl, tho millionaire iron and steel man, uncle of William Whitla, th kidnaped boy, today' stated he would spend $100,000 to recover the boy. Notwithstanding a. rigid search ait last night by many officers in western west-ern Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia, no trace has yet been found of the kldnapera of tho 8-year-old eon of James P. Whitla, a prominent prom-inent and wealthy attorney. The lad's relatives, somo of whom are millionaires, are, making every possible effort to locate the child and his abductors. No decision has yet or can be made regarding the ransom ran-som of $10,000 demanded by the kidnapers kid-napers for the safe return of the child. Mr. Whitla Immediately complied wltn the terras contained in the letter received re-ceived yesterday from the men insofar inso-far as tho insertion of the advertisement advertise-ment in various papors about the country Is concerned. The advertisement advertise-ment is to the effect that ho is willing will-ing to pay the mmeom of $10,000, but no word has been roceived from the kidnapers as to when and where this money is to bo paid. 1 A squad of Pennsylvania state con-I con-I stabulary reached here today to assist in the search. The father, dry-eyed and full of tho fighting spirit, is in constant communication commun-ication with nearby towns and orders ! every clue, no matter how slight, run down. Mr. Whitla refuses to divulge the letter he received from the extortionists ex-tortionists in Its entirety. He Is greatly depressed and said that ho , would surrender everything hG owns "11 it would effect tho immediate restoration re-storation to him of hia boy. He added: "I will endeavor to get in communication with my boy's abductors. ab-ductors. It looks as though . thoy would put a terrible threat into execution. exe-cution. Advice is good, but perhaps |