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Show BOYLE AND HIS WIFE SENTENCE! TO LONG TERMS IN THE STATE PRISON .' Husband Must Serve Life Imprisonment and His Companion 25 Years for the Kidnaping of Willie Whitla They Collapse and Are Carried From the Court House Boyle Says a Sensation Will Follow Fol-low His Disclosure of the Real Culprit apprentice here, and was about IS or l'j years of age. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O O O HARRY FORKER THE MAN. O O O O Mercer, Pa., May 10. James O O H.Boyle gave out today a state- O O ment marked "By JRS Boyle," O 1 O In which ho tells of tho alleg- O O ed murder at Youngstown, O.. O O several years ajtro of Daniel O O Reebi-l. Jr. He tells of the O O finding of Reebel's body on the O O sidewalk, and says, "Over the O O prostrate form was Mr. Harry O O Foraker. of Sharon, Pa., hold- O O ing in his right hand a pack- O O age of letters that were gath- O O ered from ihe sidewalk near C O Ihe bodv of Reebol." O ' O O He says Dan Shay, new dead, was present. In For ker's haste he left four letters, suys Bojle, who further declares For ker paid him money regularly reg-ularly for yeii-3 lo keep qulH During Bole s recent visit to Sharon, Shar-on, he says, he demanded $5,000, which Forker promised to obtain in a short time. On returning to Cleveland he wroto Foiker and received in reply an unsigned un-signed letter, prjpo-ing tic abduction. He says the abduction was carrb-d j out and he says that he (Boyle), showed the letter to Mr. Whitla In Cleveland and says Whitla promised i If he would substantiate the Youngstown Youngs-town letter, he (Whitla) would seo that there was no prosecution. Mprrnr Pa M;i- 10 James II. crivo sentence, she was askcJ if she had anything to sa . ' I did not do it. and I think the evidence evi-dence upon which I was convicted was verv flimsy," she said. "That wan a matter for the jury to deci le," said Judge Williams, and then, after a brief review of the case, he imposed the sentence. According to "Jimmy" Boyle, the mysterious third person Involved in the WJiItla kidnaping case will be named soon after "Jimmy" Boyle and his wife reach the western penlteu-Barv penlteu-Barv at Pittsburg to which they were sentenced today. Boyle has engage 1 a Pittsburg lawyer of high standing to take charge of his case, and, in the appeal which will be taken, Bole says his lawyer will name this person, im-! im-! plicatlng him not only in the kidnaping 1 case, but In another charge of a serious nature al3o. Boyle said today that the statement he would Issue through his attorney would startle the country. lie said lie realized now that he and his wife had made a mistake in not making the matter public soon after their arrest. "But," he said, 'both Helen and I hae been bluffed Into the delusion that, by keeping silent, everything 1 j would he made all right, and we would ! escape with sentences of not more I than a year each, with special priv-j priv-j lieges accorded us during our impris- onment. Realizing our mistake, we I have not Liken the preliminary steps i to defeat the manifest plan of those Interested in keeping the name of this other paity quiet. We have the steam roller going now, and have plenty of ammunition to keep it going." Boyle told something today of Ihe Boyle was sentenced today to life im-- im-- prison ment in the Western penitentiary peniten-tiary at Pittsburg for the kidnaping ot "Billy". Whitla. Mrs. Boyle, indicted as Mary Doe., received a sentence of twenty-five years, with a fine of $5,000 and the costs of tho prosecution. Bojle did not create the scene in court he had threatened, aud did not utter a woid prior to his sentence. HI counsel, however, made a plea for both Boyle and his wife, asking leniency in 1 both cases He stated that, until a recent re-cent period, the extreme penalty for j kidnaping In this state was ten years, and. in view of the fact that the buy liad been treated with ccry consideration consid-eration and that all care had b-en taken ta-ken not to inflict unnecessary menUl anguish upon the parents, he felt leniency leni-ency might be asked for with pro prlety. Both Boyle and his wife collapsed completely upon hearing their sentences sen-tences pronounced. When they were started back to Hie jail frfom the court room, Boyle managed to walk with assistance down the steps, but upon reaclilng the front door, became limp and unable to ttand. He w-as lifted into the old-fashioned omnibus in which the prisoners have been transported trans-ported for several years between the court house and the jail. When he was placed upon the beat inside the vehicle, he was left for a moment unsupported un-supported and fell nearly out of it be- murder in which he implicates the alleged al-leged third party to the abduction. It was committed, he Kays, i 1 Youngs-town; Youngs-town; Ohio, twelve or fourteen years aio. He says a man by the name ot Weigel was with a parly of others on the third floor of a house; that there was some drinking and then a quarrel, quar-rel, during which, Boyle alleges, the third man hurled or pushed Wei gel from a window to tho pavement below. be-low. There was an investigation and a verdict of accidental death was returned. re-turned. W. S. Anderson, counsel for Boyle in the kidnaping case, lived at the lime at Youngstown. and is said to have made an investigation He said accidental death was the only verdict possible on the testimony presented at that time. If Boyle has any new testimony, tes-timony, his counsel iays. he did not disclose it lo them. His counsel states that If Boyle has letters from the third party which would show the payment lo him of hush money in connection con-nection with the murder. It might have had some effect in the kidnaping case, and If they can be produced now they may serve to get him a new trial. That the threats of a double vui-cide vui-cide made by Mrs. Boyle la-st night were not mere idle word was shown today, when it became known that a razor, which had been secreted in his clothing, was taken fronrTtoyle today. fore he was caught He was utteily unable to support himself and had to be held all the way to the jail and carried car-ried to his cell Mrs. Boyle was in even worse condition. con-dition. She was unable to walk down the steps from the court house to the fctrcet and was carried b Sheriff Chess ami Chief of Police Llvermore down thtec flights of stairs to the street. She was lifted into the omnibus and, when the Jail was reached, she was again lifted out by those otllcers aud carried to her cell, w here she wept violently. vio-lently. No handcuffs were placed on either prisoner on the Journey back to their cells and It was considered unnecessary un-necessary to manacle them in the condition con-dition they were in. After Judge Miller of counsel for the Boylcs had completed bis plea for leniency in behalf of his clients. Judge Williams told Boyle to stand up and asUe&ihlm if he had anything to say as to why sentence should not be pronounced Boyle merely said: "I have not," and shook his head. I Judge Williams then addressed tho I prlosner and told him of the heinous nature of the crime of whioh he had been convicted. The court said: "Mr. Boyle, the crime of child-stealing in ancient time was punishable - by death. In Pennsylvania the law is more lenient." The judge said, "It bad been stated by the attorneys you took good care of him because -he was your prize package." pack-age." "You had to treat him well," he continued, con-tinued, "to get what money was demanded, de-manded, Since your arrest we have Investigated your record. We iind von have been convicted in Mercer county court previous to your arrest-for arrest-for kidnaping. You have been charged with larceny, receiving stolen goods, assault and battery and escaping from jail, and many other shady transactions. transac-tions. All these have had their In-lluence In-lluence with this court In making us come to tho decision that we have reached that your punishment shall be the maximum sentence, imprisonment for life." After the sentence had been imposed impos-ed on Boyle,, he arose and said to the court: "Yytir Honor, you are wrong about my icord." "I uilnk not. It is a matter of court record," iepli.d the judge. When Mrs. Boyle was ordered to stand uy, lo ie- ana inai irs. uoj"-- imu wmh um. she says was "enough morphine to kill two people." The morphine was taken between midnight and daylight but had little effect on the woman. .In tho cell adjoining ad-joining Mrs. Boyle's, there was a woman wo-man who was said to be addicted to the use of morphine, and who has j been supplied with it during her im- prisonment. Mrs. Boyle is said to have secured several tablets from th!s woman and t." have swallowed them. She was rendered partly unconscious during the night, and was very sick this morning. It is believed the effect of the morphine caused her to col lanse In the court room. J Fearing au attempt to carry out 1 their threats, Sheriff Chess had Boyle , carefully searched before taking him iuto court today. A razor was found secreted in his necktie. As a further precaution, Sheriff Chess today took from Mrs. Bole three hat pins and removed all ihe glasses sho had in her cell Sheriff Chess is of the opinion, In view of tho day's developments, that it was Boyle's intention last night to kill I1L3 wife and then himself. Lasi night Boyle made a request that he be allowed to visit his wife in her cell that they might talk over some private pri-vate affairs and arrange the details of their appeal. The sheriff was suspicious, suspic-ious, and, without refusing the request, re-quest, put off granting it Mrs. Boyle became anxlou3 and inquired why he had not been allowed to visit her. A mau imprisoned on a vagrancy charge today admitted ownership of the razor and faid he lent it to Boyle because he said he wanted to shave. A special guard has been placed over Boyle and his wife. Youngstown, Ohio, May 10. No known murder recalled hero which resembles the one Boyle had hinted at, but the time and the manner of death corresponded strangely to the invbtcrlouB death of Daniel Reebel, Jr., which was supposed at that time to have been accidental. Reebc-l was found Monday. June 10. 1S95. lying on the sidewalk directly underneath the window of tho fourth story room of the Mauser Block on East Federal street where ho lived. . j At the tliue, Boyle was a plumber's |