Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1908 — CHILD STEALERS SENTENCED [ARTICLE]

CHILD STEALERS SENTENCED

End of the Case in Which liilltan Wnlff, a Chicago Child, Waa Victim of Kidnapers. William .Tones, also known as William Birmingham, and his wife, Alzina Jones, were found guilty, at Chicago, Wednesday bya juryin JudgeKersten’s court of having kidna{>ed Lillian Wnlff, a twelve-year-old girl, from her home at Chicago last December. The punishment of Jones was fixed at thirty years, aud that of his wife at twen-ty-five years in the penitentiary. The Wnlff girl was enticed from her home in the southern portion of the city by Alzina Joues early In December of last year, and forced to enter a covered wagon in which Jones was waiting. A week later the couple was found near Momence, 111., with the child in thenpossession.