Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1936 — Page 3

U. $. TO ASK DEATH PENALTY FOR STOLL KIDNAP SUSPECT; INSANITY PLEA HELD LIKELY

Robinson Nabbed in West, Rushed to Louisville by Plane. I Continued From Page One)

Simons. After his experience in the drug store, he had grown a moustache, apparently to prevent any one suspecting him of being the female impersonator. Berry Stoll Is ‘Glad’ A half hour after his capture, J. Edgar Hoover. G-Men chief, called reported to his Washington office and announced that the last of the “public rats" had been taken. Berry Stoll was told of the capture of the kidnaper of his wife by the United Press. "That's fine,” he said, "that’s great. I'm certainly glad to hear it.” Mrs. Stoll would not comment. In Nashville Mr and Mrs Thomas Robinson Sr. expressed thanks for their son’s safety when informed that he was captured. "Our boy, our son—he's living;, he's safe," the father said. “It's a relief to know he’s alive. It ends a long period of anxiety for us. I don't know what steps will be taken hut, I will try to provide counsel for him merely to see that his legal rights are protected." Wife Is ‘ln Country’ The elder Robinson said that Mrs. Frances Robinson, his son's wife, who with her father-in-law was acquitted of complicity in the crime, is out in "the country” with her mother and her boy. Mrs. Robinson .Jr. had been forced to stay ’n her husband's Indianapolis lair with his victim, and accompanied Mrs. Stoll to Louisville after her release. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson were tried in Louisville Federal Court for complicity in the kidnaping and were acquitted on Oct. 13, 1935. The jury decided that they had been unwittingly and innocently involved in the crime. Young Robinson had been in several minor scrapes with police in his home town, Nashville, and had been sent to an asylum for the insane for observation. He had been appraised as possessing a brilliant but twisted mind. Slugged His Victim Leaving Nashville, he worked for j a while in one of the filling stations here owned by the Stoli Oil So . of ; which Berry Stoll is an executive. | In October, 1934, a man in work- j man's garb presented himself at the Stoll home in an exclusive Louisville section, saying he had been sent to inspect the telephone. He went upstairs where Mrs Stoll was confined to her room with a cold. Informed she was about to be kidnaped. Mrs. Stoll resisted and was slugged. In nightdress and negligee, the kidnaper bound her hands, threw a coat over her shoulders and half pushed, half carried her to his waiting car. The house maid telephoned Stoll. He found a neatly typewritten ransome note on his wife's bed. The kidnaper had first intended to kidnap C. C. Stoll, Berry Stoll’s father, hecause his name was used throughout the note as that of the victim. The kidnaper had first intended to ask $20,000. That figure had been scratched out and $50,000 substituted. Father Named Intermediary Soon after Mrs. Stoll was carried off, her husband received a communication telling him that Thomas H. Robinson Sr. of Nashville was the kidnaper’s intermediary. Robinson Sr. refused to serve, but finally was induced by the frantic Stolls to do so. The kidnaper then instructed the Stolls to send the $50,000 ransom to the elder Robinson by express. Later Mrs. Robinson took the ransom from Nashville to Indianapolis, where Robinson was hiding his victim in an apartment. Though free to leave, Mrs. Robinson stayed with the victim even after Robinson fled with the ransom, and accompanied Mrs. Stoll hack to Louisville in an automobile. G-mdn intercepted the car and arrested her. though Mrs. Stoll insisted that Mrs. Robinson had befriended her and had had nothing to do with the kidnaping. She and her father-in-law were indicted for complicity under the Lindbergh law. After an extradition fight and many postponements, they were brought to trial in the fall of 1935 and acquitted..

WOMAN FOUND IN ROBINSON HIDEOUT Pretty Companion Released by Federal Agents. By Vnltrd Pres* GLENDALE, Cal., May 12. Thomas H. Robinson Jr., accused kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Stoll, was seized in a house he was occupying with a pretty young woman. Federal agents revealed here today. While refusing to release all details of the capture, agents admitted that a woman was with Robinson when they forced their wav into a bungalow where he was hiding. The woman was not held, but will he kept under close surveillance, it was said. Agents said their information indicated she played no part in the abduction and had joined Robinson later, coming here from the East. Investigators declined to specify the address of the hideout but said the bungalow is situated in “the heart of Glendale” within 10 miles of downtown Los Angeles. Mr*. Martha Van Noy Dies Mrs. Martha Van Noy, 85, of 3503 E. 25th-st. died last night in City Hospital where she had been confined since Peb. 14 with a broken right leg.

Local Building Was Hideout Site in Mystery Case. (Continued From Page One)

| parallel windows of other apartments. lYeavy pedestrian traffic passed back and forth because of a delicatessen and tavern in the basement of the apartment building. Robinson received deliveries, police believed, from several nearby business establishments without i arousing suspicion. Mrs. Stoll said after her release that she was afraid to give an alarm because of Robini son’s threats. Describing the kidnaping, she. said he struck her on the head with a length of pipe, and carried her from a sick bed in her exclusive home on Lime Kiln-rd, near Louisville, Oct. 10, 1934. She was then driven immediately to the Indianapolis hideout. Mrs. Stoll was released by Robinson on Oct. 16, 1934, after he was alleged to have received the $50,000 ransom brought from Nashville, Tenn., by his wife. Before he left the apartment, he bound Mrs. Stoll and locked her# in a clothes closet. Throwing SSOO- on the table for the two women, he calmly walked out of the building with the remaining $49,500. Following delivery of the ransom in Indianapolis, Mrs. Stoll, accompanied by Robinson’s wife, walked j to the home of Mrs. E. Arnold Clegg, 2956 N. Capitol-av, Mr. Stoll s cou- ! sin. The two women persuaded Mrs. Clegg ard her husband, the Rev. E. Arnold Clegg, pastor of the Capitol ■ Avenue M. E. Church, to motor them to Louisville. Federal agents intercepted their car at Scottsburg. Federal agents released the Cleggs. Mrs. Robinson and Robinson’s father, Thomas H. Robinson Sr., later went to trial in connection vyith the case, but were acquitted Oct. 13, 1935. When Mrs. Stoll was in the Clegg home she refused to divulge anything about her kidnaping. Later she said Mrs. Robinson had been promised immunity from prosecution. Following the trial Mr. and Mrs. Stoll said, "We don't think justice was done.” 7 RIVERS SUSPECTS' HEARINGS CONTINUED Cases Are to Be Resumed Next Tuesday. Cases of seven persons allegedly connected with the Brady gang, alleged to have murdered Sergt. Richard Rivers here, were continued until next Tuesday in .Municipal Court today. | Vagrancy charges against Charles Northern, Urban Pope and William Roll were dismissed on a motion by the state. Cases continued are those of Alfred Brady, alias Barton, charged with murder; Mrs. Margaret Rawson, his sweetheart; Chester Hart, local mechanic, and Teddy Deeb T*te latter three were charged with receiving stolen goods. George Whitley, 38, of 4724 W. Washington-st, suspected of being u gang member, is to be reslated today of a charge of accessory to the murder of Sergt. Rivers, Lieut. Roy Pope, homicide squad head, announced. _

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Having sold the most cookies in Girl Scout Troop 16, Mary Lou McManus (left above) and Lois Fordice prepare to cut the victory cake. Troop 16 was awarded the cake for having sold the largest number of cookies per girl during the recent cookie sale.

PEACE GROUP URGES CHAILLAUX INQUIRY

Telegram Sent La Follette, Civil Rights Prober. Miss Frances Allen, secretary of the Indianapolis branch. American League Against War and Fascism, announced today that the organization had urged a congressional investigation of the activities of Homer L. Chaillaux, American Legion Americanism director. A telegram sent by the League to Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. state; “We urge investigation by proposed civil rights committee of red-baiting activities of Homer Chaillaux, director American Legion Americanism Commission. "Chaillaux's recent attacks on free speech policy of Y. W. C. A. and American League Against War and Fascism have aroused public protest in Indianapolis and other localities.” Miss Allen was a member of a delegation of local citizens who protested to Mr. Chaillaux recently on his attitude toward the Indianapolis Y. w. C. A. and the Indianapolis branch of the League. ADMITS ROBBERY, GETS 25-YEAR PRISON TERM Two Other Youths Await Sentencing Following Attack on Coroner. By United. Press WABASH, Ind., May 12.—Pleading guilty to robbery charges in Wabash Circuit Court, Harold Tolle, 25, of Kokomo, today was under sentence of 25 years in the state prison. He was arrested following the kidnaping, beating and robbery of Toda Eender, county coroner, last week. Dean Miller. 16, and Louis Trimble, 16. also of Kokomo, pleaded guilty to similar charges and were scheduled to be sentenced today. Bender was kidnaped at the Wabash Country Club, beaten, robbed of $l7O and left unclad in a field near Andrews. The three youths were captured near Brazil by State Police. RUSSE SPENDS $279.95 Democratic Candidate First to File Expense Account Paul Russe, candidate lor the Democratic nomination for County Commission, today was the first primary candidate to file his itemized statement of campaign expenses. Mr. Russe’s statement showed that he had received $279.95. Townsend Club to Meet The Towsend Harmony Club 37 is to meet at 7:30 tonight in the Central Universalist Church. 15th and New Jersev-sts.'

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CLUB WOMEN OPEN ANNUAL STATE IPARLEY Advancing Intelligent Public Opinion Is Keynote of Session Here. (Continued From Page One) superintendent, on “Indiana’s Program for Rural Education”; Miss Catherine Bailey, “The Library’s Part in Educatiqp for Living,” and Dean Matthews on “Fads and Frills.” Today’s political scene is to be reviewed by two women speaking on "Trends in the Two Great Parties, As Seen Through Women’s Eyes” during a forum at 10:50 Thursday morning. Miss Izetta J. Miller, regional director of the PWA women’s division, is to represent the Democratic Party, and Mrs. j. w. Macauley, Menominee, Wis.. the Republican! Indiana s part in social planning is to be discussed by Mrs. John W. Thornburgh, legislative department chairman, in a talk on "Indiana Plans for Social Security,” at 11:45 Thursday morning. This afternoon, the conservation department of the Seventh District is to plant a grove of redbud and dogwood trees in Memory Lane at City Hospital in honor of the late Mrs. J. F. Edwards, former district president. Luncheons on Thursday Mrs. R. C. Alexander, retiring Woman’s Department Club president, is to read a tribute to Mrs. Edwards, and Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter is to give the address. Reports of the public welfare department headed by Mrs. Florence Riddick Boys, Plymouth; American home department, Mrs. Fred Bell, Rushville, and co-operation for the blind department, Mrs. C. M. Fish, South Bend, are to be given at luncheons tomorrow. Thursday’s luncheons are to be those of the international relations department, Mrs. L. L. Porter, Greencastle, presiding; rural cooperation department, Mrs. Raymond McNeal, Russiaville, and Epsilon Sigma Omicron, Alpha chapter, Mrs. W. H. Polk, Indianapolis. Banquet Tomorrow Night Tomorrow night the "Education for Living Banquet” is to be held. Speakers are to be Dr. Edward C. Elliott, Purdue University president, who is to talk on “The Liability of Ability.” and Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, Purdue University, considered the best-known woman engineer in the United States, wno is to speak on “The Challenge of Today’s Problems.” Donald F. Stiver, state safety director, is to outline the slat? safety program for convention delegates Thursday afternoon. Lieut. A. J. Perrott is to talk on “Finger Printing—Why?” Dr, Charles Emerson is to speak Thursday afternoon on “Habits for Living at Our Best.” Reports of district presidents are to be made at the afternoon sessions today and tomorrow. The resolutions and nominating committees are to report tomorrow afternoon, and the elections committee is to report at the president’s dinner Thursday night. Mrs. Balz to Be Honored Mrs. George Jaqua, Winchester, is the only candidate named for the office of first vice president. The present first vice president is Mrs. Alfred Putnam. Valparaiso. Mrs. Oscar Ahlgren, Whiting, is the only candidate for treasurer. The present treasurer, Miss Louise Klinger, Brazil, is a candidate for trustee. Mrs. Balz is to be honor guest at the breakfast Thursday givyn by the Seventh District Federation, of which Mrs. C. J. Finch, general arrangements chairman for the convention, is president. Other guests are to be Mrs. Jaqua and Mrs. Ahlgren. Mrs. Finch is to preside, and Mrs. Balz is to respond with a short address, “Reputation Travels.”

Truck Rate Cuts Flayed by Association President ‘Chiseling Must Be Stopped,’ Committee of National Group Told at Meeting.

A national committee representing the trucking industry heard Ted V. Rogers, president of American Truckers’ Association, attack rate cutting when he spoke today at the Lincoln.

Members of the national committee on rates and classifications appointed at a regional meeting in Chicago are expected to reach some rate agreement for the industry which must now operate under the Motor Vehicle Act, a “tittle NRA" for truckers. The meeting is being attended by truck operators from practically every state. Deadline for filing tariff rates with the Interstate Commerce Commission was set April 1, after Eastern floods forced a delay. Discrepancies in the rates filed showed truckers, that some action must be taken, association officials sail. "This business of price chiseling must be straightened out if we are to remain in the industry,” said Mr. Rogers. "Many operators are doing business below cost. Individual action is no solution to this problem of rate leveling. We are at the lowest rate level now through this kind of practice.” There is no reason, Mr. Rogers said, for the trucking industry to become panic stricken. The problem can be solved by a collective adjustment of the rates. John L. Rogers, representing the Interstate Commerce Commission, warned that some action must be taken immediately. FLOWER SHOP LOOTED Burglars Get $7 on Third Visit to Local Firm. For the third time in the past few months, burglars entered the Smith & Young wholesale florists, 229 W. New York-st, by a rear window, early today. This time the loot was $7. Burglars took $125 from the Maco Cleaners, 3205 N. Illinois-st, last night, police were informed today.

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CLUBS TO PUSH TROLLEY FIGHT South Side May Carry Its Battle on Connection to Indiana P. S. C. J. Ed Burk, member of the Central Committee of the South Side Civic Clubs, today said that his committee would carry its fight against the proposed connection of the Lincoln-st and Minnesota-st trolley lines to* the city council and the Public Service Commission. The opposed connection was incorporated in a franchise proposed by the Works Board and accepted by Indianapolis Railways, Inc., yesterday. Mr. Burk said the Central Committee represents nine South Side clubs, one West Side club and two business organizations. He said that the committee decided to have a representative at every City Council meeting to object if the issue arises. Residents living near East-st still are opposed to the connection of the lines by way of East, Minnesota and Ringgold, South Side clubs’ representatives said. A petition presented to Works Board members last Friday showed that 75 of 78 signers opposed routing the trolley lines between Ringgoldst and East-st. Hoosicr, 80, Is Car Victim NEW ALBANY, Ind., May 12. William Wells, 80, Galena, was killed instantly today when he stepped into the path of an automobile in front of his home.

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GUARANTEES OF LIFE INSURANCE r ARE EXPLAINED

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